The second Mark Pecker Clinical Master Visiting Professorship was held May 1 through May 5. Dr. Daniel Goodenberger, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, an expert in pulmonology and internal medicine, was the guest of honor. He attended rounds, morning report, and conferences. A reception was held in Griffis Faculty Club, where he met with colleagues and residents.
Researchers have pinpointed a biomarker of early-stage emphysema that could provide an advanced new diagnostic tool. Senior author Ronald G. Crystal, M.D., and colleagues published findings that are promising for early detection of emphysema, which affects 2 million people in the United States each year and is irreversible beyond a certain point.
Doctors discovered a pea lodged in a patient's left lung that had sprouted and grown fully half an inch before persistent coughing sent the 75-year-old man to Cape Cod Hospital. The patient, Massachusetts resident Ron Sveden, underwent 10 days of medical tests before the cause of his collapsed lung was pinpointed.
