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KCTV: Saint Luke’s Patient Avoids Third Open Heart Surgery Thanks to Minimally Invasive Procedure
Born with congenital heart disease, 41-year-old Christin Murphy has undergone three heart surgeries to repair pulmonary valves. They have been tough to get through, but Murphy says this latest one at Saint Luke’s changed her outlook.
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Health News You Can Use: Advances in Transplant & Organ Donation
Dr. Matthew Wilkinson, a transplant surgeon at Saint Luke’s talks about the advances in organ donation and the importance of living organ donation.
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KSHB: Missouri Woman Diagnosed with Heart Disease Through New Testing at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
KSHB talked to Dr. Dany Jacob about new diagnostic testing that's giving patients suffering from unexplained chest pain answers.
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Health News You Can Use: Living Organ Donation
More than 100,000 people are on the wait list for a life-saving transplant—and more than 85% of those can be helped by a living donor.
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Break a Leg - Not a Heart: Local Stage Manager Shares His Gratitude for Saint Luke's Heart Program
Jim Mitchell faced a dilemma — miss rehearsal for a play he was producing during crunch time, or risk having a heart attack. Read his story.
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New Device Helps Musician’s Congestive Heart Failure
Trial device helps Seabrun “Candy” Hunter’s worn heart valve pump at a steady beat.
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The Perfect Kidney Transplant Match
Emery Stone was in total kidney failure. And that’s when everything changed. Not only for Emery, but for the entire Stone family.
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Did You Know? Debridement and Pressure Ulcers
The Clinical Documentation Excellence Program hopes this information will be valuable to you as you document, assure the accuracy of severity of illness and risk of mortality, and substantiate the correct DRG assignment for reimbursement.
Incision and Debridement