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New Treatment for Peripheral Artery Disease Helps Patient Get Back on Her Feet
April 07, 2015
Drug-coated balloon helps keep arteries from becoming blocked again in common, potentially dangerous leg condition.
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Liver transplant patient saved by “smallest heart pump in the world”
March 18, 2015
Motor-driven pump about the diameter of a pencil, threaded to the heart via catheter, can move more than 2.5 liters of blood per minute through the body
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Moms "FaceTime" with Their Babies
January 01, 2015
University Hospital is connecting moms and babies through technology
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UHS to Implement PCCI's Pieces™ All-Cause Readmission Reduction Model
August 14, 2014
PCCI signs a 3-year contract with University Health System in San Antonio, Texas to implement the Pieces™ software platform. "University Health System is a nationally recognized, premier teaching hospital system, and we are thrilled to partner with them around the Pieces™ system," states Ruben Amarasingham, MD, MBA president and chief executive officer of PCCI. Within 24 hours of patients checking into the hospital, Pieces™ tells care providers who is most at risk for...
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Telemedicine Promises to Help Save Preemies' Eyesight at a Lower Cost
July 07, 2014
A UT Kids neonatologist at University Hospital participated in a national study that looked to see if a potentially blinding disease in premature babies could be identified safely and accurately from many miles away. The study showed that telemedicine could effectively monitor vulnerable babies where pediatric ophthalmologists are in short supply — which is pretty much everywhere, said Alice Gong, M.D., professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science...
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New Type of Laser Addresses Glaucoma, Other Eye Conditions
May 07, 2014
BACKGROUND: In addition to glaucoma care, the technique is useful for cataract surgeries and repair of traumatic ocular injuries, Dr. Nagi said. Glaucoma is a blinding disease in which the optic nerve deteriorates, usually because of high pressure in the eye. ECP is a type of laser that gently burns the ciliary body, the muscle that secretes aqueous humor (a liquid) in the eye. This reduces the pressure. ECP uses an endoscopic probe – a camera the size of a pencil lead – to...
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Up on Two Feet Again Thanks to Exoskeleton
April 10, 2014
Bionic suit may help some patients get out of their wheelchairs
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New Defibrillator Prevents Cardiac Arrest Without Placing Leads into the Heart Itself
March 31, 2014
AUT Medicine San Antonio cardiologist, Dr. Manoj Panday, will implant a subcutaneous internal cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) into a patient at University Hospital at noon today (Monday, March 31 ). The patient, who is at high risk for sudden cardiac arrest, will be the first University Health System patient to be treated with this new device. The surgery is expected to last one hour. Dr. Panday performed two S-ICD implantations in the past month at the South Texas Veterans Health Care...
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Germ-Zapping Robots Use Powerful, Pulsed UV Light to Improve Patient Safety at University Hospital
November 15, 2013
San Antonio-based disinfecting technology acquired by University Health System
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Killing Germs Goes High Tech at University Hospital
October 30, 2013
New germ-zapping robots, developed and built in San Antonio, use ultraviolet rays 25,000 times more powerful than sunlight to disinfect
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