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HeadWay - Winter 2013
Explore in this issue:
- A Resounding End to Otosclerosis: By removing diseased bone and replacing it with a prosthesis, Dr. Matthew Stewart restored his patient's hearing.
- Giving Salivary Gland Stones a New Look: Dr. David Eisele is one of few surgeons across the country to offer sialendoscopy, a minimally invasive approach to treat salivary stones and other salivary gland conditions.
- Rethinking the Beauty Standard: Dr. Kofi Boahene's awareness of multi-racial beauty standards helps him achieve more natural plastic surgery results.
- Wired for Sound with Hearing Loops: For hearing impaired patients, a new look at an old technology shaves stress during clinic visits.
- For Thyroidectomies, Leave No Scar Behind: Drs. Ralph Tufano, Jeremy Richmon and their colleagues are now performing thyroidectomies using an approach similar to the one used for facelifts.
HeadWay - Spring 2012
Learn more about the latest happenings in our department:
- After a harrowing surgery, incredible success: A patient with a large paraganglioma makes great strides in recovery after surgery at Hopkins.
- For special needs children, more than meets the eye: For children with special needs, including those with Down syndrome or short-stature skeletal dysplasia, medical issues may extend far beyond obvious ones.
- From twanging to talking: The mouth harp may provide a low-tech but viable way for patients with total laryngectomies to speak again.
- Saving appearance, and quality of life: A patient whose ameloblastoma necessitated removal of half her jaw has only small scars to show for it.
- Solving eye problems through the nose: A Hopkins' expert in transnasal surgeries shares duties with ophthalmologists when cases involve both the eye and the nose.
HeadWay - Winter 2012
Discover in this issue
- Listening in on language: Caregivers in the Johns Hopkins Listening Center are using a new device to evaluate how well children with cochlear implants are learning language.
- A new window to the skull base: A technique developed by a Johns Hopkins head and neck surgeon offers a new way to access the skull base through a window behind the molars, above the jawbone and below the cheekbone.
- Experts for all things nasal: The nasal team offers combined expertise to treat inflammatory, mechanical or cosmetic nasal problems, or any combination of them.
- A permanent solution for spasmodic dysphonia: A surgery offered at Johns Hopkins, but largely unavailable elsewhere, can return speech permanently to patients with spasmodic dysphonia.
- Antioxidants: A fix for chronic sinusitis?: New research suggests that oxidative stress could play a major role in causing many cases of chronic sinusitis and that antioxidants could potentially treat this condition.
HeadWay - Spring 2011
In this issue of HeadWay, explore:
- Sounding the alarm on hearing loss in the elderly: A Johns Hopkins otologist reports an unexpected correlation between poor hearing and dementia.
- Toward an artificial trachea: How a biosynthetic material could provide new options for people with airway narrowing due to frequent intubations, Wegener's disease or other causes.
- Putting sleep apnea, and depression, to rest: Effective treatment for sleep apnea may dissolve depression symptoms as well.
- Bringing falls down with a new clinic: Otologists, vestibular specialists, ophthalmologists, geriatricians and occupations therapists join forces to help people at risk of falling.
- When reflux is more than reflux: A rare and often easy-to-miss opening between the larynx, the trachea and the esophagus can be easily mistaken for aspiration reflux.
View the PDF of the Spring 2011 issue of HeadWay
Archived issues of HeadWay
- Fall 2010 issue
- Spring 2010 issue
- Fall 2009 issue
- Spring 2009 issue
- Fall 2008 issue
- Summer 2008 issue
- Fall 2007 issue
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