After semitrailer crash, a trucker receives life-changing brain tumor diagnosis and 'awake' operation
After Donald Schwartz's semitrailer crashed, doctors performed brain surgery on him while he was awake to remove a cancerous tumor.
Understanding seizure mapping and laser ablation surgery
Neurosurgeon Peter Warnke, MD, and neurologist Naoum Issa, MD, PhD, explain how mapping where seizures start in the brain and performing laser ablation surgery can effectively treat some medication-resistant seizures and epilepsy.
California man travels to UChicago Medicine for life-saving bloodless heart transplant from the nation’s most experienced team
When no West Coast hospital would accept him as a patient, Lane Jenkins found UChicago Medicine for his complex, bloodless heart transplant that respected his religious views as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.