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Today’s surgery

This morning we did an anterior posterior lumbosacra ALIF instrumentation w exploration of fusion mass and posterior reinstrumentation. She did well. Surgical time 4.5 hrs. EBL 500 cc. No blood transfused. This afternoon I saw one of my former Duke scoliosis surgical patients who drove all the way down from Potsdam NY (789 miles, 13.5 […]

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Yesterday’s Scoliosis Surgery

Yesterday we helped a gentleman from New Bern, NC who had severe collapsing lumbar scoliosis with flat back syndrome and severe multilevel stenosis. I performed an L1-Iliac wing reconstruction with multilevel laminectomy. Surgery time was approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes. He is doing well postoperatively! He has a daughter in California who wanted to […]

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C56, C67 (C5-7) ACDF w plate

This morning we helped this woman w severe clumsiness in both hands due to severe cervical spinal stenosis. We fixed it this morning w 2 level anterior cervical decompression and fusion w allograft and plate. Surgical time was 2 hours. No complications. Home tomorrow. Dr. Lloyd Hey Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery http://www.heyclinic.com

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