Back from SRS today, and helped this woman get her scoli straightened up. Did well. Surgical time 6 hour 10 min. Complic. None. EBL: 1200 cc. Its good to be back!! Dr. Lloyd Hey Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine...

Had a really blessed evening last night  w Dr. Wayne Cheng, one of my Duke Spine Fellows. He has been on faculty at Loma Linda in California now for 8 years serving as a spine surgeon including deformity/scoliosis surgery. He...

I just arrived for our annual SRS meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Will be here for the next several days. SRS has been around since 1966, and is a wonderful community of scoliosis / spinal deformity surgeons from around the...

I stopped by to see Erik and his wife from Kentucky this afternoon in their private hospital room here at Duke Raleigh Hospital, where he has been since being transferred from PACU yesterday afternoon (no ICU needed).   Yesterday,  I performed...

Procedure: anterior L45, L5S1 ALIF instrumentation and fusion, then posterior Smith Peterson osteotomies w extension instrumentation and fusion down to ilium. Surgical time:  90 minutes anterior, then 5 hour ad 10 min posterior. Lordosis flat back correction: excellent. EBL: 2100...