Clinical Briefings™: Clinical Reports from Penn Medicine

The Abramson Cancer Center Researchers at Penn Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center are participating in a multi-center study to compare double umbilical cord blood (dUCB) transplantation and...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2016/02/enrolling-clinical-trials-umbilical.html

Department of Radiation Oncology • Mesothelioma and Pleural Program Researchers at Penn Medicine are investigating the addition of photodynamic therapy (PDT) to lung-sparing radical pleure...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2016/01/enrolling-clinical-trials-photodynamic.html

Radiation oncologists at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center and the Abramson Cancer Center are conducting a clinical trial to investigate the use of preoperative carboplatin/paclitaxel in comb...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/05/enrolling-clinical-trials-dose.html

Penn Plastic Surgery  Plastic surgeons at Penn Medicine are performing microsurgical neurotization to enhance sensation in the reconstructed breast. The lateral and anterior intercostal nerve...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/12/microsurgical-nerve-conduit.html

Hematology/Oncology • Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia • Abramson Cancer Center Researchers with the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Penn Medicine are investigating novel combinati...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/11/enrolling-clinical-trials-novel.html

Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery • Center for Temporomandibular Joint Disease Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons at the Penn Center for Temporomandibular Joint Disease are performing pr...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/11/management-of-recurrent-dislocation-of.html

Under the direction of Francis Marchlinski, MD , researchers with the Electrophysiology (EP) Program at Penn Medicine have been at the forefront of clinical research in the treatment of atrial fi...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2010/04/electrophysiology-research-update-2010.html

DEPARTMENT OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY Interventional radiologists at Penn Medicine are performing endovascular revascularization procedures to advance wound care in patients with critical limb...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/10/endovascular-revascularization-for.html

The Orthopaedic Oncology Service at Penn Medicine is devoted to the management of patients with benign and malignant tumors of bone and soft tissues. The most common bone lesions include osteosar...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/10/surgical-and-medical-management-of.html

DIVISION OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY Interventional radiologists at Penn Medicine are performing pharmacomechanical thrombolysis in conjunction with catheter-directed thrombolytic therapy to man...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/08/pharmacomechanical-thrombolysis-of.html

Division of Gastroenterology • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Gastrointestinal and transplant surgeons, gastroenterologists, and endocrinologists at Penn Medicine are perform...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/07/total-pancreatectomy-with-islet-auto.html

Colorectal surgeons and surgical oncologists at Penn Medicine are now performing staged or combined laparoscopic resections of colorectal cancers with liver metastases (CLM). Many patients with c...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/07/advanced-approaches-to-management-of.html

 Penn Radiation Oncology • Roberts Proton Therapy Center Radiation oncologists at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center are conducting a Phase II clinical trial to ascertain the feasibility ...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/06/enrolling-clinical-trials-proton-beam.html

Surgeons at Penn Medicine are performing continent urinary diversion and orthotopic neobladder procedures following cystectomy for invasive bladder cancer. Surgery for high risk bladder cancer (...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/05/continent-urinary-diversion-and.html

Gastroenterological endoscopists at Penn Medicine are now performing incisionless Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) to treat esophageal achalasia. Achalasia is a rare idiopathic motility disord...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/04/peroral-endoscopic-myotomy-poem-for.html

PENN EPILEPSY CENTER Epileptologists from the departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Penn Medicine have recently introduced a collection of innovative technologies to better treat patient...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/04/surgical-management-of-drug-resistant.html

PENN DRY EYE & OCULAR SURFACE CENTER Ophthalmologists at the Penn Dry Eye & Ocular Surface Center are applying recent advances in diagnostic technology to diagnose the primary causes of kerato...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/04/diagnosis-and-treatment-of-dry-eye.html

 DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY  •  DIVISION OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY Interventional radiologists at Penn Medicine are performing retrieval of tip-embedded inferior vena cava (IVC) filters usin...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/04/complex-retrieval-of-embedded-inferior.html

DIVISION OF COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY Colorectal surgeons at Penn Medicine are performing total proctocolectomy with J-pouch reconstruction/intestinal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) for patients w...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/03/total-proctocolectomy-with-j-pouch.html

 DEPARTMENT OF THORACIC SURGERY • DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY A multidisciplinary Myasthenia and Thymoma Program at Penn Medicine has been established to coordinate and expedite the management of...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/01/medical-and-surgical-management-of.html

VASCULAR SURGERY AND ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY Researchers with the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Penn Medicine are conducting clinical trials to evaluate investigational s...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2015/01/current-aortic-aneurysm-stent-device.html

The Penn Transplant Institute is a leading center for paired kidney exchange for kidney transplantation, a practice that depends largely upon the benevolence of anonymous, altruistic donors. ...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2014/12/paired-kidney-exchange-for-kidney.html

DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY  •  CENTER FOR HIP PRESERVATION Orthopaedic surgeons at Penn Medicine are performing periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) surgeries for native hip preservation in...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2014/11/periacetabular-osteotomy-for-complex.html

Surgeons with Penn Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery are performing novel high-tech diagnostic and interventional sialendoscopy procedures to treat patients with diseases of the parotid ...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2014/10/sialendoscopic-management-of-salivary.html

PENN TRANSPLANT INSTITUTE Transplant surgeons and hepatologists at Penn Medicine are performing living donor liver transplantation for patients with end-stage liver disease. In the United S...

http://penn-medicine-clinical-reports.blogspot.com/2014/07/living-donor-liver-transplantation-at.html