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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 week, 4 days ago

    A porcine dermal collagen implant for hernia and abdominal wall repair.

    Reliability is critical

    In soft tissue repair, reliability is critical. Combining the tensile strength of synthetic hernia

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 week, 4 days ago

    FlexHD Structural is the biologic of choice for complex abdominal wall reconstruction, including Grade III and Grade IV contaminated hernias.

    Because it’s derived from human tissue, it is biocompatible for b

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 week, 5 days ago

    Use the Mo.Ma™ Ultra proximal cerebral protection device to contain and remove all sizes of debris that can dislodge during interventional procedures in the carotid arteries. The Mo.Ma Ultra device with d

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 month ago

    Mesh was first introduced in the late 19th century when Witzel first used silver mesh in a groin hernia surgery.  Many other materials were tested but none surfaced as the standard of care until the development o

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 month ago

    Robotic Surgery was first introduced in 1985 when a robotic surgical arm was used in a neurosurgical biopsy. Shortly thereafter, in 1987, the first robotic gallbladder surgery was performed. Over the next three

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 month ago

    Bariatric surgery is the result of approximately 50 years of improvement in surgical practice. The first bariatric operation was a jejunoileal bypass performed in 1956, but due to severe comorbidities such as

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 month ago

    During the first attempts at CAS, the embolic stroke rate was higher than standard CEA. Attempts at reducing this risk were first trialed with distal protecting devices. Initially, a balloon was inflated

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 1 month ago

    Since the advent of CEA in 1953, minimally invasive efforts have been developed using carotid artery stents. Carotid artery stenting (CAS) was initially developed for patients who were at high risk for stroke and

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    Stephen Miller, MD posted a new topic 2 months, 1 week ago

    Carotid Stenosis

    Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, with well over 100,000 deaths annually. Approximately 87% of strokes are caused by a lack of blood flow to the brain, these are termed ischemic

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 2 months, 1 week ago

    The EnRoute Carotid Stenting system is a technology developed by Silk Road Medical which is used in the transcarotid approach to CAS. The Enroute system not only reverses the flow but allows the operator to

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    Stephen Miller, MD posted a new topic 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Obesity

    Obesity is characterized by excess adipose tissue and defined by using the body mass index (BMI) based on world heath organization definitions (BMI > 30). Obesity is classified into mild (30-34.9), moderate

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    The Da Vinci by Intuitive has shown to be a reliable tool in minimally invasive bariatric surgery. It allows the surgeon to operate in patients with large body habitus that can be difficult to perform surgery on

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    The Da Vinci by Intuitive has shown to be a reliable tool in minimally invasive bariatric surgery. It allows the surgeon to operate in patients with large body habitus that can be difficult to perform surgery on

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    Stephen Miller, MD's profile was updated 3 months ago

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    Stephen Miller, MD's profile was updated 3 months ago

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    Stephen Miller, MD posted a new topic 3 months ago

    Umbilical / Ventral / Incisional Hernia

    A hernia is the condition in which an organ is displaced through the wall of a cavity containing it, thus an abdominal hernia is projection of any intra-abdominal structure through the abdominal wall. This can be

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 3 months ago

    STRATTICETM mesh is biologic mesh made from porcine dermis (pig skin) and processed in the lab. Unlike synthetic mesh, which is contraindicated in the setting of infection, STRATTICETM mesh can be used in the

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    Stephen Miller, MD wrote a new item 3 months ago

    STRATTICETM mesh is biologic mesh made from porcine dermis (pig skin) and processed in the lab. Unlike synthetic mesh, which is contraindicated in the setting of infection, STRATTICETM mesh can be used in the

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    Stephen Miller, MD became a registered member 3 months ago

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    Stephen Miller, MD's profile was updated 3 months ago

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