This morning we straightened up Grace, a delightful 13 yo young lady from eastern North Carolina who had a 51 degree right thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). T5-L1 instrumentation and fusion with evoked potential monitoring. Surgical time: 2 hrs 20 minutes. EBL 375 cc Correction: excellent. Complications: none. Wow — what a difference from the […]
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Carly’s Postop X-Ray from 105 degree Preop scoliosis
Yesterday we straightened up Carly, the 11 Yo w 105 degree Preop curve. Carly is doing well today and got extubated right after surgery. Dr. Lloyd HeyHey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery
Today’s challenge: 105 degree scoliosis in 11 YO girl
Surgery went great at WakeMed (for Carly with a C).Notice the lung compression on MRI. Her pulmonary function tests were abnormal.Nice correction.Surgical time: 5 hrs 8 min.Complications: none.Ebl: 500Blood transfused: none.Great day! Our 14 Yo scoliosis young lady from Monday (Karly with a K) was wandering halls w her parents looking quite straight an happy. […]
14 yo young lady w 44 degree thoracolumbar adolescent idiopathic scoliosis fixed this morning
I am back after a nice one week break, including a wonderful family reunion. This morning I was "back in the saddle" and stopped in to see Karly and her family. Karly is obviously well loved: she had over a dozen people here, who all squeezed into her Preop room forming a circle of prayer […]
75 up woman from Fort Walton Florida w 67 degree curve fixed today
She had severe progressive back and leg pain w trouble walking and progressive deformity. T4-iliac wing instrumentation and fusion, laminectomies an osteotomies. Ebl: 1800 cc. Surgical time: 4 hr 30 min. Complications: none. Dr. Lloyd HeyHey Clinic