“If the clinician knows your area of injury backwards and forwards, they can quickly assess what’s going on and decide whether you can get back in the game or not.”--James Nepola, MD.
Jim Sandegren’s condition was a potentially fatal ampullary carcinoma. This type of cancer affects an area of the digestive system where the bile duct and pancreatic duct join and empty into the small intestine.
LaDel had an unruptured cerebral aneurysm—a thin spot on a blood vessel in the brain that bulges and fills with blood. David Hasan, MD suggested using the Pipeline Embolization Device as an effective alternative to open surgery.
“When your father and your grandfather have strokes, you become very aware. I knew I had risk factors, but I don’t think you’re ever prepared for a stroke.”--Emma Fox-Gatica
Severe back pain is a major problem for many people like Beth. Luckily, the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics were able to help find her a solution to the pain so she no longer had to live her life in fear of the pain.
After being told by multiple hospitals that he was too sick for a lung transplant, Dennis Nack thought all hope was lost. Luckily, the UI Hospitals & Clinics saw something in Dennis. They too the time to work with him to ensure that he was strong enough for his transplant, so that he was ready whenever they got the call.
After being told to wait until her kidneys failed so she could go into dialysis, Tonia Ellis said no she was going to so whatever she could to get a transplant. That's when she found the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.
Martha's lung disorder led doctors to find blockages in her heart. She was able to get a new pair of lungs and fix her heart here at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.
It is rare that an organ donor also later becomes an organ recipient, but for Jessica this was her reality. After donating one of her kidneys to her sister who suffered from a rare genetic disorder years before, Jessica herself found herself needing a new kidney because of that exact same disease. Read or watch more of her story here.
