December 10, 2020
Consultative Medicine Clinic — The front door for adult patients with complex & serious illnesses
By Advancing the Science contributor
Every day the door to the Division of General Internal Medicine’s Consultative Medicine Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester opens, and patients from around the country with complex and serious illnesses enter. More than 8,000 of them per year are seen for unexplained masses and weight loss, undiagnosed rheumatologic and neurologic disorders, and medical mysteries […]
Tags: Caroline Davidge-Pitts, collaboration, diagnostic odyssey, Elizabeth Windgassen, endocrinology, Giuseppe Lanzino, hereditary diseases, I. Darin Carabenciov, Nancy Dawson, Nerissa Collins, neurology, research
March 12, 2019
Patients are helping researchers crack the code on cavernous malformations
By Advancing the Science contributor
Blood vessels in Kandie Nelson’s brain had become abnormally tangled and twisted around themselves. But for years, she didn’t know it. Until one day when she picked up the phone at work. “I was working at the front desk of a hotel, and I went to answer the phone, and it came out, ‘Blah, blah, […]
Tags: cavernous malformations, Giuseppe Lanzino, Kandie Nelson, Kayla Nelson, Kelly Flemming, neurology