The UF Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy is pleased to announce its outstanding score in the 2018 VQI Participation Awards. The Vascular Quality Initiative, or VQI, is a multidisciplinary group of physicians, data managers and quality professionals who collect clinical data on vascular patients to improve care. Participating…
UF Health’s stature as one of the nation’s leading lung transplant centers continued to grow in 2018 as its surgeons and supporting personnel performed a Florida-record 70 transplants, surpassing the previous mark of 58 by Tampa General Hospital in 2010, figures by the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network show.
UF Health has been using the Florida Sleeve procedure and recently published encouraging short- and mid-term results from a cohort of patients with this problem.
Survival, 30-day readmission, complications of device support and prolonged implant length of stay, or LOS, were among the outcomes unaffected by SES.
University of Florida Health physicians are involved in leading-edge clinical care and research that are moving forward the boundaries of cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis and care.
A review of endovascular repair of an ascending aorta pseudoaneurysm in a patient with contraindications to traditional approaches.
A study led by cardiothoracic surgeons at the University of Florida College of Medicine has shown that, when compared with two-stage repair of the aortic arch, the frozen elephant trunk procedure, or single-stage hybrid aortic arch replacement, was associated with comparable risks of 30-day mortality and postoperative adverse events, such…
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the UF Department of Surgery’s Woodward Society Spring Meeting! We had a fantastic day of presentations and networking with fellow surgeons from across the United States. Topics ranged from the role of the microbiome in pancreatic carcinogenesis to liver disease and transplantation.
The UF Department of Surgery is pleased to have been represented by Miles Cameron, class of 2021, at the UF College of Medicine Celebration of Research poster event on February 19. Miles is one of nine semifinalists recognized for his poster on “A muscular index predicts treatment response and failure…
We are proud to announce that Crystal Johnson-Mann, M.D., has had an article accepted to be published to Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, SOARD, the official journal of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. This international journal is dedicated to the publication of high-quality, peer-reviewed manuscripts…
