Archive for October 2023

Halloween is when kids wear their favorite costumes and go trick-or-treating for candy. Kids might bring home a bucketful of sugary treats, but it doesn’t mean they must eat it all.   Dr. Angela Mattke, a pediatrician with Mayo Clinic Children’s Center,, says there are ways to reduce the sugar without removing the fun. She offers strategies…

Megan Wasson, a Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgeon at Mayo Clinic – Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in endometriosis. She is performing surgery on a 36-year-old female that presented to clinic with pain during her menstrual cycles, that had been going on during most of life. Upon examination, her uterus was very fixed in her pelvis, which was…

Most lumps or nodules in the thyroid, which is a gland in your neck, are not harmful and don’t need treatment. But sometimes, they can grow bigger and cause problems like trouble swallowing. In those cases, doctors might need to do surgery to remove them.  There’s also a treatment called radiofrequency ablation (RFA), which uses heat to…

Please be advised that this video contains graphic footage of surgery. On 11-13-2023, the Case Records of the Mayo Clinic Florida Neurosurgery featured an endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for a pituitary tumor resection.

Please be advised that this video contains graphic footage of surgery. On 01-13-2023, the Case Records of the Mayo Clinic Florida Neurosurgery featured an endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for a pituitary tumor resection.

Please be advised that this video contains graphic footage of surgery. On 05-20-2022, the Case Records of the Mayo Clinic Florida Neurosurgery featured an endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for a pituitary tumor resection.

Please be advised that this video contains graphic footage of surgery. On 05-20-2022, the Case Records of the Mayo Clinic Florida Neurosurgery featured an endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for a pilocytic astrocytoma tumor resection.

Mayo Clinic surgeons successfully performed Minnesota’s first robotic-assisted kidney transplant earlier this month. This minimally invasive procedure may be beneficial for patients with a higher body mass index and may reduce the risk of incisional complications, such as hernia or infection. Mayo Clinic’s first robotic-assisted kidney transplant was successfully performed on Oct. 4 on a…