LSUHSC neurosurgical team discovers novel therapy for intractable hiccups
New Orleans--Dr. Bryan R. Payne, and Dr. Robert Tiel, neurosurgeons at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have discovered a new approach to treating medically intractable hiccups. They implanted a Vagus Nerve Stimulator in a Texas man to stop the hiccups which have severely disrupted Shane Shafer's life following a stroke he had two years ago. This is the first reported case of its kind. W...New OrleansLouisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans will hold a press conference on Monday, April 26, 2004 at 11:30 a.m. (CDT) to announce that Dr. Kamran Khoobehi, a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, has made medical history by reattaching the right upper eyelid that had been ripped off as...