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Services at Eileen Lecky Clinic, Queen Mary's Hospital, St George's Hospital, St John's Therapy Centre, Tooting Health Centre | Updated 12 Dec 2013
What can I expect? Following your consultation with the surgeon, if surgery is indicated, you will be placed on a waiting list. All surgery will take place within a maximum of 12 weeks. As your time for admission for surgery nears, usually three weeks in advance of your planned surgery, …
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Treatment
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 4 Nov 2013
Surgery on the heart valve involves repair or replacement of the damaged valve or valves. An operation to repair a valve involves reconstruction to ensure that it works well. There are three different types of artificial valves, if a replacement is needed: Bioprosthetic valves are generally known as “pig valves”, …
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Diagnosis
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 12 Dec 2013
To diagnose and determine treatment for your particular valve disease, your doctor will obtain medical history, perform a thorough physical examination and order any or all of the following special diagnostic tests. The tests involved in diagnosing heart valve disease include: ECG Electrocardiogram, which is tracing of the heart, mainly …
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Paediatric orthopaedics service
Services at Queen Mary's Hospital | Updated 15 Sep 2023
Welcome to the Paediatric Orthopaedic Service, your trusted partner in providing exceptional care for children with a wide range of trauma and orthopaedic conditions. From common broken bones to complex musculoskeletal disorders, this dedicated team of specialists is well-equipped to address a diverse array of challenges faced by young patients. …
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Neuro-sciences Intensive Care
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 3 Jan 2019
The Neuro Intensive Care Unit provides a tertiary referral neuroscience acute level of care with physiological monitoring, neurological supportive therapies and complex treatments that necessitate a high staff to patient ratio of a highly skilled, multi-professional team. Care of acutely unwell patients at risk of, or, following the development of, …
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Interventional radiology
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 11 Oct 2022
The Interventional Radiology department is internationally renowned for its expertise and offers a wide range of vascular and non-vascular minimally invasive image guided procedures.
Radiology
Services at Nelson Health Centre, Queen Mary's Hospital, St George's Hospital | Updated 30 Jan 2024
The Radiology Department provides comprehensive and extensive diagnostic and interventional radiological services to St George’s Hospital, PCTs and other referring hospitals. It provides 24/7 emergency services as part of the St George’s Hospital Trauma Centre. It has excellent links with all specialities within the Trust and the full compliment of …
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General Intensive Care
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 3 Dec 2023
The General Intensive Care service cares for the most severely ill patients in the hospital. The service is able care for, diagnose and treat virtually any acute illness. It uses an array of enhanced physiological monitoring systems, organ supportive therapies and complex treatments that necessitate a high staff to patient …
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Aspiration cytology
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 29 Nov 2013
Aspiration biopsy diagnosis by palpation and in conjunction with image guidance of peripheral lumps/swellings including thyroid, lymph nodes, salivary glands, soft tissue (indeterminate), skin and deep organ sites such as lung, liver, pancreas. The department’s specialist consultant staff members have between them over 60 years of hands on clinical aspiration …
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Paediatric Urology
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 9 Sep 2020
St George’s has one of the busiest paediatric urology services in the United Kingdom and London. As well as the regional centre for paediatric urology in south west London we attract complex urology patients from throughout the country and abroad. The team consists of three surgeons and three clinical nurse …
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