Dr. Lloyd Hey, Author at Hey Clinic

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Hey Clinic Sep 11 2007 Afternoon Surgery: Degenerative scoliosis and stenosis.

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This afternoon we helped a 67 yo woman who had previous lumbar laminectomies who developed collapsing kyphoscoliosis with severe stenosis, including a big free fragment disc hernniation at L23. She had a L2-Iliac wing reconstruction this afternoon with 4 level...

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Hey Clinic Tue Sep 11 2007 AM Surgery

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This morning we helped a 56 yo gentleman who had previous lumbar laminectomies who had severe low back and radiating leg pain, and progressive trouble walking. His CT scan showed multilevel severe stenosis. He had multilevel discograms performed elsewhere which...

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Hey Clinic Postop Surgery Visit: “Crooked Iona” becomes the “Miracle Woman” standing up straight 6 weeks postop

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We saw Iona and her husband at Hey Clinic mid-day today. She is six weeks status post a complex T3-Iliac wing spinal reconstruction with L5S1 TLIF, and multilevel lumbar laminectomy for a severe collapsing kyphoscoliosis. Her husband said that she...

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Hey Clinic Surgery Sep 6 2007: L5S1 microdiscectomy for huge free fragment disc herniation

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Thursday afternoon after our five hour anterior/posterior spinal reconstruction, I performed a 45 minute microsurgery to remove a huge free fragment disc from a young gentleman who was in absolute agony for 3 weeks with radiating leg pain, trouble standing...

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Hey Clinic: Arthrogryposis and Scoliosis in a Six-Year Old Boy.

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Last week I saw a 6 yo boy with arthrogryposis who was adopted from India by a wonderful couple in Durham, NC. He has a severe R thoracic scoliosis and also severe clubfoot deformity, which has been operated on once...