2006 tour de france champion Floyd Landis in chicago to ’shoot from the hip’ with osteoarthritis patients
June 21, 2007
Landis will conduct early morning bike ride with orthopedic surgeons beginning at the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago
Who: 2006 Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis, who suffered for years from osteoarthritis, will discuss his revolutionary hip resurfacing procedure that put him on the road to recovery. Landis will conduct an early morning bike ride with orthopedic surgeons and then tell his amazing medical success story to osteoarthritis patients.
He will be joined by Mitchell Sheinkop, M.D., of the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago (NOHC), who is one of the pioneers of hip resurfacing and one of the most experienced in the country.
When: 6:30 a.m., Wed., July 11: bike ride begins at NOHC
9 -10 a.m., Wed., July 11: Landis meets with hip resurfacing patients at NOHC Read more
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Neurologic & Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago treats first patient with breakthrough stent for aneurysms
June 19, 2007
Chicago -June 19, 2007—Endovasular neurosurgeon Demetrius Lopes, MD and Neurointerventionalist Thomas Grobelny, MD of the Neurologic & Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago introduced another breakthrough procedure for patients with aneurysms. Today, they treat the first patient in Illinois with the Cordis Enterprise Vascular Reconstruction Device and Delivery System.
An intracranial aneurysm is a weakness in the wall of a blood vessel in the brain that balloons out, forming a thin-walled bubble or sac. Approximately 30,000 intracranial aneurysms present annually. Some 15,000 patients are treated and up to 4,000 of these individuals are likely to need vascular reconstruction. Â Read more
