WABC-TV, ABC's local television affiliate in New York City, hosts an online series called "Medical Marvels." The series highlights the stories of patients who underwent extraordinary medical procedures at NewYork-Presbyterian. Below are the stories featured in the series.
COVID-19, pneumonia, heart failure & a newborn - a birthday like no other
Queens resident Primkumarie Bahadur was pregnant and feeling very ill. She tested positive for COVID-19 which soon developed into severe COVID-19 pneumonia and went by ambulance to a hospital close to her home. Her condition declined rapidly and she started going into heart failure. Primkumarie was too unstable to transport without ECMO, so the hospital called the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) team to see if she would be a candidate for transfer. NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia promptly deployed their award-winning and nationally recognized ECMO team, including a surgeon, surgical fellow, perfusionist and critical care paramedics.
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![COVID-19, pneumonia, heart failure & a newborn - a birthday like no other]( "COVID-19, pneumonia, heart failure & a newborn - a birthday like no other")
4:01Queens resident Primkumarie Bahadur was pregnant and feeling very ill. She tested positive for COVID-19 which soon developed into severe COVID-19 pneumonia and went by ambulance to a hospital close to her home. Her condition declined rapidly and she started going into heart failure. Primkumarie was too unstable to transport without ECMO, so the hospital called the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) team to see if she would be a candidate for transfer. NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia promptly deployed their award-winning and nationally recognized ECMO team, including a surgeon, surgical fellow, perfusionist and critical care paramedics.
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![A life-saver for patients at risk of heart failure]( "A life-saver for patients at risk of heart failure")
4:05In 2020, Reverend R.E. Paris was hospitalized with COVID-19. After being discharged he thought he was fully recovered, but something else was wrong. A nuclear stress test revealed residual heart failure, possibly from the virus. Reverend Paris then met with Dr. Sahil Parikh and Dr. Kelly Axsom at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center who enrolled him in their Centralized Heart Failure Management Program.
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![Eve McDavid]( "Eve McDavid")
4:20Eve McDavid, 34, and her husband, Matt, began the year 2020 like many of us: full of hope, unaware that the viral outbreak that was taking hold across the world would change history. They were preparing for a joyous arrival: the impending birth of their second child. At 35 weeks of pregnancy, however, Eve received a surprising diagnosis. She learned she had stage 2B cervical cancer. And it was growing very fast. Thanks to the team of experts at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, today Eve is in remission, and their now one-year-old son, Arthur, happily plays with his 3-year-old sister, Ruby Ann, at their home on Long Island
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![Oswald Peterson]( "Oswald Peterson")
3:47Oswald Peterson, a resident of Brooklyn, woke up on New Year's Day of 2017 with debilitating back pain and could hardly breathe. He visited a local urgent care center, where he was treated with antibiotics. When his symptoms persisted a week later, he traveled to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. What was initially thought to be pneumonia turned out to be stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer in both of his lungs as well as his spine. He also had fluid around his heart. Dr. Catherine Shu, a medical oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, said Oswald was so sick he probably could not have tolerated chemotherapy.
Additional footage provided by the Cancer Research Institute.
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![Jorge Vicente Lopez]( "Jorge Vicente Lopez")
At first, Jorge Vicente Lopez thought he had a cold as he was tired and short of breath. After a week of feeling ill, he became unable to work anymore and went to the Emergency Department at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.
Doctors quickly discovered that he had two major problems with his heart and his life was in serious danger. Jorge had a unique case of aortic coarctation (narrowing of his aorta), a condition usually present at birth that had gone undiagnosed till now.
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![Robert Lynn]( "Robert Lynn")
3:51Doctors found a fairly large aneurysm in the artery feeding 69-year-old Robert Lynn's kidney. If left untreated, the aneurysm - a bulging of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall - could rupture, but because of the location, the doctors knew fixing it would be very challenging.
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![Taylor Brown]( "Taylor Brown")
Taylor Brown is an online fitness content creator on Instagram and leads a busy and productive life in Canarsie Brooklyn. One day she woke up experiencing some nausea and shortness of breath that led her to the ER NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. A work-up revealed significantly decreased heart function and she deteriorated rapidly with dropping blood pressure and cardiac failure. She was intubated and a temporary ventricular assist device was placed to support her heart.
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![Patrick Hellen]( "Patrick Hellen")
Patrick Hellen is an avid golfer who was in good health when he underwent a routine colonoscopy. The procedure revealed a polyp in the cecum — the first section of the large intestine. His gastroenterologist attempted twice to remove it, but was unsuccessful due to its large size and location. At that point, Dr. Parul Shukla , the Vice Chief of Colon & Rectal Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, got involved.
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![Meline Dickson]( "Meline Dickson")
During the winter of 2013, Meline Dickson was on a ski trip out West with her husband and some good friends. She got concerned when she began to have chest pains and decided to get checked out at a local medical center.
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![Eliana Marcia]( "Eliana Marcia")
A well-known singer from Brazil who is a stroke survivor talks about her experience with NewYork-Presbyterian's Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit.
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![Maya Katz]( "Maya Katz")
Maya Katz is a young mother of three and a speech pathologist at a local school in New York City. She was dealing with chronic back pain that seemed to be triggered by her pregnancies and would then resolve after childbirth.
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![Jacqueline Snyder-Allen]( "Jacqueline Snyder-Allen")
Jacqueline Snyder-Allen thought she was just suffering from her yearly cold, but her level of exhaustion was unprecedented. Her husband, Thomas E. Allen, quickly realized something was very wrong and raced her from their home in Cold Spring to NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital.
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![Tom Meyers]( "Tom Meyers")
1:00Tom Myers, an executive chef at one of New York City's top dinner clubs, was riding his motorcycle home when a vehicle that was making a left-hand turn hit him. The collision flung the 56-year-old married father of two children into the air and totaled the bike. Tom was taken to the emergency department of NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, a Level 1 Trauma Center.
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![Sandra Hayes & Robert Ward]( "Sandra Hayes & Robert Ward")
A couple with cancer receives best treatment protocols and personal care right in their home town.
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![Cherie Aimée]( "Cherie Aimée")
A woman in the prime of her life arrived at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in dire condition.
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![Joseph Cappuccilli/Mark Chamberlain]( "Joseph Cappuccilli/Mark Chamberlain")
1:02Policeman donates kidney to save fellow officer.
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![Kelly Rollo]( "Kelly Rollo")
Kelly Rolo had been suffering from torturous headaches, with weird symptoms where the left and right sides of her body would differ dramatically in temperature. Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian embarked on a surgery that was the first of its kind, and now her prognosis is great.
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![Carolyn Dempsey]( "Carolyn Dempsey")
New scalp cooling system prevents hair loss from chemotherapy.
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![Lou Auriemma / Gina Vintalore]( "Lou Auriemma / Gina Vintalore")
Lou Auriemma and his cousin Gina Vintalore have always shared a family bond. Now they share a liver.
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![David Epstein]( "David Epstein")
During a routine physical, David Epstein learned he was living with a ticking time bomb in his chest.
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![Faith Fulginiti]( "Faith Fulginiti")
Faith Fulginiti is recovering from a cutting edge procedure to treat lymphedema and chronic venous disease.
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![Peter Reikes]( "Peter Reikes")
In this edition of Medical Marvels, a look at how the staff at the Perelman Heart Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital saved Peter Reikes with an ECMO machine.
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![Glen Zammit]( "Glen Zammit")
In this edition of Medical Marvels, a look at how heart patient Glen Zammit was helped by a new, non-surgical procedure for replacing heart valves.
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![Kelly Boyle]( "Kelly Boyle")
In this edition of Medical Marvels, doctors at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital are using telemedicine to evaluate and diagnose stroke patients.
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![Denise Buist]( "Denise Buist")
Denise Buist suffered from severe sciatica until neurosurgeon Roger Härtl, MD, performed an innovative, minimally-invasive procedure on her.
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![Abbey Monzietti]( "Abbey Monzietti")
Abbey Monzietti was born with an extremely rare and large tumor. When she was just three days old, NewYork-Presbyterian surgeon Nitsana Spigland, MD, performed lifesaving surgery on her.
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![Jacob Downer]( "Jacob Downer")
Jacob Downer was born with an extremely small jaw and a cleft palate. From his first moment of life he struggled to breathe, and so the decision was made to begin changing Jacob's life when he was just days old.
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![Manuel Greco]( "Manuel Greco")
Manuel Greco battles Von Hippel-Lindau disease, a rare condition that causes tumors to grow in certain parts of the body.
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![Brady Jenkins]( "Brady Jenkins")
Six-year-old Brady Jenkins has a rare genetic syndrome that will cause him to develop thyroid cancer.
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![Susan Koujak]( "Susan Koujak")
Susan Koujak survived two double lung transplants. Now she wants to have a child.
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![Robert & Dianne Kaiser]( "Robert & Dianne Kaiser")
Robert Kaiser was battling end stage kidney disease until his wife, Dianne, stepped in and offered one of her kidneys.
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![Maureen Cavanaugh]( "Maureen Cavanaugh")
Maureen Cavanaugh struggled with her weight for years. A new weight loss surgical procedure helped her.
