Patients

Intestinal failure, whether occurring as a sudden catastrophe or more insidiously over years of symptoms and surgeries, can be devastating for patients and difficult to manage for physicians. “For both adults and children with the diagnosis, treatment can be complex, often requiring intensive nutritional support, management of wounds and central lines, surgical intervention and assistance [...]

The Nebraska Medical Center is the first in the region to offer LARIAT   Marc Leger lived under the constant threat of having a stroke. His heart has atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat. Because of another medical condition, the 62-year-old Plattsmouth, Neb man cannot take blood thinners, which is how doctors typically deal with the [...]

New guidelines published in the Journal of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommend that certain high-risk groups can benefit from lung cancer screening with low-dose CAT scan. The guidelines were developed after a study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicated that screening can reduce lung [...]

by Nicole Lindquist The lime-green one is for Bailey, a 16-year-old girl. The light-purple one is for Diane, a go-getter from Seattle. And the orange one is for her, Lenice Hogan, a 47-year-old from Omaha. It simply reads “Hope After Stroke.” The bracelets that take up most of Hogan’s left forearm each carry a special [...]

New Pancreas Disease Clinic Gives Patients New Hope The only clinic of its kind in the region. Katie Eastman was afraid her pain was just part of living. For five years, the young mother suffered with crippling pain in her midsection. “Horrible pain, debilitating pain, severe nausea,” she says. “It was constant all day long. [...]

Clinic is the only one of its kind in the Midwest Charlene Stehlik had accepted the pain as part of her life. For more than 20 years, the pain was a constant, daily fight. “I had a bleeding ulcer 26 years ago,” Stehlik says. “I just figured it was part of that.” She describes it [...]

Jenna Zeorian September 20, 2012    She typed the words “leading lymphoma treatment center” into the Google search box and pressed enter.    It was September 2004 and Chris Pilcher-Huerter of Omaha, was now seeking treatment advice for her newly diagnosed Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  The search results that appeared on her computer screen matched what she [...]

A little more than half of the people in Nebraska who should be getting colonoscopies actually do. “There are things we know we can do something about early: prostate cancer, breast cancer, blood sugar control, and colon cancer,” said Grant Hutchins, MD, gastroenterologist at The Nebraska Medical Center. “These are things in which we know [...]

Twitter helped connect donor and recipient Kansas pastor Mike Bronson knew for years that a kidney transplant might be necessary. In 2009, it became a reality. His doctors said he was in end stage renal disease and needed a transplant. “Once news became public, I was overwhelmed with the number of people offering to donate [...]

Marcia Shanahan’s regular mammogram didn’t show anything. But during a routine check-up, her doctor felt something. “I really believed at the time it was going to be nothing,” Shanahan says. “But after the biopsy when they said the word ‘cancer,’ it got scary.” Shanahan felt like she needed a second opinion. On the advice of [...]