Progressnotes Spring Issue

Surgeon performing facial paralysis surgery

A Smile Is Born

Surgeons at MUSC use multiple techniques to help children with congenital facial paralysis show their feelings.

Illustration of the brain with electrical impulses running through it.

Surge Detection

Physicians use artificial intelligence and new wearable technology to locate, predict and prevent seizures in epilepsy patients.

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Expanding Horizons Virtually

Researchers and physicians study the brain using virtual reality.

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Mending a Broken Heart

MUSC has several innovative strategies to help patients quickly address and manage their heart conditions.

Illustration of a bronchoscope in a lung nodule

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The Big Reveal

New technologies at MUSC are poised to detect and diagnose lung cancer earlier and less invasively.

$Evert Eriksson, M.D., performs SSRF procedures on patients with fractured and dislocated ribs to decrease complications and improve comfort during recovery.$

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Bend and Snap

By stabilizing fractured and partially dislocated ribs, physicians can improve patient quality of life.

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Nanoparticle Drug Delivery

Researchers hope drugs targeting transplanted organ will allow the rest of the immune system to continue to guard against infection and disease.

MUSC researcher Kevin Gray, M.D., examined the effectiveness of a common smoking cessation drug on adolescents in a recent study.

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Smoking Cessation Adolescents

Researchers seek smoking cessation treatments designed for adolescents rather than adapted from adults.

Bohuslav “Bob” Humplik serves as a pilot for the MEDUCARE Flight Team, which transfers patients by ambulance and helicopter 24/7.

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Fragile: Handle With Care

Risk of death remains higher for interhospital transfer patients than for patients admitted via emergency departments.

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EyeStat Cleared by FDA

Portable device to monitor the blink reflex cleared by FDA.

Stained tibiae from germ-free (left) and SFB-mono- associated (right) mice.

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Bad to the Bone

Specific gut bacterium impairs normal skeletal growth and maturation.

Welcome

Interview

Get to know David Marshall, M.D., the new chair of the MUSC Department of Radiation Oncology.

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New Physicians

Welcome to all the new physicians at MUSC.

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