A D.C. nurse at MedStar Washington Hospital Center has spent his career caring for patients but now he’s fighting for his own life, battling brain cancer.
But Hogeboon started to feel sick in December 2019.
“Even giving reports to other nurses, I would get short of breath,” Hogeboon said. “My heart rate was going up, I was losing weight, I wasn’t eating as much.”
Doctors discovered a large tumor in Jay Hogeboon’s brain. He was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer, as it’s spread to other parts of his body, too.
Hogeboon underwent brain surgery and is currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiation.
D.C. health care workers have made sure he hasn’t gone through the process alone.
“There are days that I feel really crappy,” Hogeboon said. “But, you know, I’m managing pretty well, I think. It’s something I have to get past and I have plenty of people helping me get through it.”
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WASHINGTON - The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) presented its Master Interventionalists of SCAI (MSCAI) designations during the SCAI 2020 Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference MSCAI recognition ceremony.
The MSCAI designation is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in invasive/interventional cardiology over the course of their career and for their commitment to the highest levels of clinical care, innovation, publication, and teaching.
This year s MSCAI designations were awarded to the following group of outstanding interventionalists:
Ian C. Gilchrist, MD, MSCAI
Dr. Ian C. Gilchrist is a professor of medicine for Penn State University s College of Medicine at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA. Dr. Gilchrist graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and then obtained his medical degree from Columbia University. He received his residency and cardiology fellowship training at the St. Luke s/Roosevelt Hospi
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) was rare after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in low-risk patients, but when it did occur, the complication was associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, according to investigators from the Low Risk TAVR (LRT) study.
Incidence of PVE was 1.5% within 1 year (zero within 30 days) and 2.8% after 1 year based on an analysis of 396 low-risk TAVR recipients.
Survival was 100% in early endocarditis, but only 67% in late endocarditis, reported Giorgio Medranda, MD, of MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., during the virtual meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).
Of the 11 patients with PVE, the three who underwent surgical aortic valve reintervention survived. Six patients suffered embolic strokes, two of whom died after antibiotic treatment alone. These two deaths were associated with valve endocarditis, both occurring after day 500, caused by meth