Contents
MAY-JUNE 2012
ON THE COVER
Advancing Heart Care at Aultman Hospital
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IN YOUR AREA:
FEATURES
ADVANCING HEART CARE 12
Aultman Heart Center's survival rates for coronary care, coronary interventions and heart surgery are among the best in the nation according to HealthGrades. And no one could be more pleased about that than Drs. Roberto Novoa and Giovanni Ciuffo and the rest of the Heart Center's team.
UH OPENS NEW JOINT REPLACEMENT CENTER 19
A $3 million dollar dedicated Joint Replacement Center will soon open at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Read all about it.
TORS: INNOVATIVE SURGERY FOR THE HEAD AND NECK 28
Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is the newest minimally invasive option for benign and select malignant tumors of the pharynx and larynx. And it's available at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
DEPARTMENTS
LOCAL DOCS IN NATIONAL NEWS 8
RECENT RESEARCH 32
BUSINESS SECTION 34
HOSPITAL ROUNDS 44
SPECIAL SECTION
ORTHOPAEDICS 24
ON THE COVER
Roberto Novoa, MD, medical director, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Giovanni Ciuffo, MD, director, Minimally Invasive and Bloodless Heart Surgery, at Aultman Hospital
