Items Tagged ‘3013’
December 5, 2012
Mother and daughter bond over brain surgery
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist 
Talk about a strong mother-daughter bond — Margie Hartmann and her daughter, Jessica McNeil, had Gamma Knife surgery on the same day.
Tags: 1136, 2869, 3013, 5159, 5231, 5270, 5292, 5294, 5335, 5400, AVM, Dr. Bruce E. Pollock
March 21, 2012
Doubly Rewarding: Weight Loss and Liver Transplant for Rare Disorder
In 2007, Kimmy Lockwood decided to be screened for weight-loss surgery to address a longtime weight problem. Little did she know that decision would be lifesaving and eventually lead to a liver transplant at Mayo Clinic. Tests indicated Lockwood had low iron levels. Her local physicians found the reason — a genetic disorder called hereditary […]
Tags: 3013, 5275, 5324, 5335, Kimmy Lockwood, Liver Transplant
August 21, 2009
Tom Vanderwell’s Mayo Clinic Story
By Lee Aase 
Tom Vanderwell is a Mayo Clinic patient from Grand Rapids, Michigan who has come to Rochester three times since 1978 for evaluation and care relating to an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in his neck. I work with our social media team at Mayo Clinic, and I first connected with Tom virtually through Twitter in March, a […]
Tags: 3013, 5294, 5316, 5335, arteriovenous malformation, AVM, Tom Vanderwell, Twitter