Special Shows How SLUCare Physicians are Shaping Medicine Today. In this episode, Dr. Kraemer uses a new material to not only regrow digits for his patients, but he has found a way to save limbs. These advancements will change the way doctors around the world practice medicine.
SLUCare radiologists and surgeons are working with engineers at Saint Louis University to give medical imaging new depth, breadth and meaning. 3D printing allows surgeons to hold a heart, a bone or an aneurysm in their hands long before an incision is made to correct the problem. 3D printing: This technology changes the game.
Special Shows How SLUCare Geriatric Medicine Specialists are Shaping Care Internationally. Watch to see how Dr. John Morley and the SLUCare Geriatric Medicine team are working to slow the aging process and create tools for the care and assessment of older patients.
Showcases the Work of SLUCare Movement Specialists, Including a Neurologist, Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist. See how SLUCare doctors are advancing surgical tools and techniques to treat patients with Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia and obsessive compulsive disorder. Deep brain stimulation offers patients the opportunity to regain control and take back their lives.
SLUCare OB/GYN Team helps three couples have successful pregnancies. Maternal-fetal medicine specialists help mother overcome complications to deliver twin girls born at 25 weeks. Surgeons operate on twins still in the womb, halting the potentially devastating effects of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Innovative surgery for endometriosis led to a long-awaited pregnancy for one young couple.
KMOV Special Highlights the Life-Changing Work of SLUCare Liver Specialists. A dream team of SLUCare doctors is engaged in groundbreaking liver research. Hear how these specialists already saved Naomi Judd's life and how they are now tackling a new liver virus that's sweeping the country.
An infant kept alive by a machine, a woman desperate for a new kidney, and a man with a rare liver disease... Three very unique patients with life-threatening illnesses are connected by the hope of science. Watch The Science of Healing and witness how SLUCare transplant doctors at SSM Health hospitals were able to restore lives.
This episode shows how SLUCare surgeons can "stand" inside a patient's body and see, with remarkable 3D detail, the operation site before ever lifting a scalpel. Sound like science fiction? This innovative concept is reality and the technology was developed here in St. Louis by a team of SLUCare radiologists and members of Saint Louis University's IT department.
A SLUCare physician who's found a way to regrow fingers is now using the same technology to do much more. See how Dr. Bruce Kraemer is giving patients their lives back.
See how SLUCare Physicians restore hearing in babies who might otherwise be profoundly deaf using cochlear implants, restore sight in children who are losing their vision due to cataracts and help children walk normally that were born with a club foot.
In the latest installment of our original series, The Science of Healing follows SLUCare orthopedic surgeons as they offer renewed life to patients with extreme spinal conditions, correcting severe spinal deformities and giving a paralyzed patient the ability to walk again. Episode aired on KMOV-TV 4, April 23, 2019.
In the latest installment of our original series, The Science of Healing follows SLUCare physicians as they travel the globe to provide health care to underserved parts of the world.
Watch as Dr. Lin uses the power of 3D printing to rebuild a child's face after an accident by moving the bones around her eyes and forehead. See how he expands a fused skull to allow a young boy's brain room to grow, and repairs a teenager's jaw as the final step in a series of cleft palate surgeries.
The prognosis for lymphedema patients was once grim, but now there's hope from microsurgical procedures that repair vessels thinner than a human hair. we follow Dr. Kyle Xu, SLUCare plastic surgeon, who is among the first in the Midwest to offer microsurgery options for patients with lymphedema.