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The ‘miraculous’
work at UHN
Emergency
Departments
Six-year-old donates
birthday money to
Parkinson’s research
Learning together:
developing a
treatment plan for a
‘first case’
Getting to a state-of-the-art
David and Susan Roberts
stage of minimally invasive
vascular surgery
Dr. Thomas Lindsay performed a percutaneous
thoraco-abdominal aneurysm repair, which
is believed to be a first in Canada, inserting a
customized graft through three small incisions
of less than one centimetre each.
The graft is custom-made for each patient,
designed in the United States and produced in
Australia. In the OR, you have a highly-specialized
team of surgeons, anaesthetists, radiologists,
nurses, radiologist technicians, spinal cord
technicians – all trained to do a very precise job.
“My generation, we were trained to do repairs
for this type of aneurysm in open surgery,”
says Dr. Lindsay. “Something like this was a
pipe dream when I was training.”
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