After completing his residency training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai more than two decades ago, renowned surgeon Ron Shapiro, MD, has returned to the Mount Sinai Health System as Surgical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI). (more…)
Seminal research led by James Ferrara, MD, DSc, Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Medicine, has produced a promising approach to treating patients with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)—a sometimes fatal complication of bone marrow transplantation in which the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body. Bone marrow transplants are often used to treat patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood diseases. (more…)
The Mount Sinai Hospital became the first institution in the United States to use a U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration-approved drug-coated balloon to reopen arteries in a patient’s leg. The new device was approved last October to treat arteries above the knee that have been narrowed or blocked by peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a potentially life-threatening condition that may cause leg pain, skin ulcers, and gangrene, and can result in amputation if left untreated. (more…)
A procedure developed at Mount Sinai Roosevelt’s CV Starr Hand Surgery Center has proven to be a highly successful, long-term treatment for chronic, degenerative arthritis of the wrist. The results of a 20-year study on the effectiveness of the procedure, distal scaphoid resection, were published as the lead article in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of Hand Surgery. (more…)
For the first time in its 47-year history, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America has awarded all three of its 2014 annual scientific achievement awards to research and academic luminaries at the Mount Sinai Health System. (more…)
In the summer of 1998, Shavanne McCurchin noticed something odd about her 2-month-old son’s right eye. “The entire eye looked white,” she says, remembering that she thought she had accidentally sprinkled powder in his eye while changing his diaper.