When vascular surgeon Nathaniel T. Liu, M.D., sees patients, one of his goals is to communicate and help them understand their treatment options. Hearing a doctor explain arterial blockages or how damaged veins are responsible for leg pain can be a bit confusing and even scary to a worried patient. But knowledge, as they say,…
Gregory Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., neurologist and accomplished memory disorders researcher, has joined Norton Healthcare as medical director of the new Norton Neuroscience Institute Memory Center. Dr. Cooper was most recently medical director of memory care for Baptist Health in Lexington, Kentucky, his hometown. He is a faculty member at the University of Kentucky College of…
UK HealthCare (UKHC) and Norton Heart & Vascular Institute are announcing a collaboration to expand advanced heart failure, ventricular assist device (VAD) placement and heart transplant services to Kentuckians. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Kentucky, and the commonwealth has one of the highest rates of heart disease in the country. Norton…
Sexual health is important for any adult’s well-being, but patients with cancer face a new set of challenges when it comes to sexuality. Laila S. Agrawal, M.D., breast cancer oncologist with Norton Cancer Institute, is spearheading efforts to develop a sexual health clinic at Norton Healthcare. “The World Health Organization says that sexual health is…
Starting on April 5, 2021, patients will have immediate access to most test results and progress notes through their MyNortonChart accounts. New federal laws taking effect that day require health care organizations to give patients immediate access to progress notes and test results as soon as they are completed. (These new laws do not replace…
Alexis Garrett, PA-C Urogynecology Olivia N. Benzing, APRN Hospital Medicine Claire Cornett, LCSW Behavioral Medicine Amanda D. Bliss, APRN Urgent Care Amanda J. Wade, APRN Urgent Care
The decision whether or not to take hormone therapy (HT) after menopause is not made in a vacuum. Breast cancer risk is influenced by lifetime estrogen exposure and genetic risk factors. HT is just one part of the equation, along with factors like age of menopause onset, obesity and whether or not the patient breastfed….
As a natural phase of life, menopause offers a perfect opportunity to reflect with a patient on heart health and potential lifestyle changes — before she loses the “protective” effect of estrogen. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer for both women and men, and the risk of heart disease for women rises significantly eight…
After menopause, a woman who presents with a burning sensation like a urinary tract infection (UTI) may well have genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), formally called vulvovaginal atrophy or atrophic vaginitis. Women often will tell their doctors they have a UTI because that what it feels like, and they are often treated for a UTI…
Omar S. Elbita, M.D. Hospital Medicine Rosemarie O. Serrone, M.D. Cardiothoracic Surgery Kelsey Arnold, PA-C Orthopedics Tricia A. Cortas, PA-C Cardiology Damian Morriston, PA-C Hospital Medicine LaToma J. Barnett, APRN Emergency Medicine Candice Y. Gray-Cunningham, APRN Infectious Diseases
For knee replacement patients who want to return to a more active lifestyle, robot-assisted arthroplasty offers another level of precision to fine-tune the alignment of the new joint. “Not every patient is going to select to have a robot-assisted procedure done, because the standard instrumentation can produce a fantastic result,” said Jeffrey Stimac, M.D. “But…
Time saved is brain saved, and in recent years we’ve gotten some more time to save more brain. In 2018, the American Heart and American Stroke associations updated their guidelines to say perfusion scanning can make more patients with ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusion eligible for treatment up to 24 hours after symptoms first…