Adam W. Beck
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Adam W. Beck
@AWBeckMD
Professor and Division Director @UABVascular @UABSurgery I Husband and Father of 3 Boys I #Aortic Surgeon I #Quality/Outcomes Researcher
- Not sure this is twitter worthy, but almost 19 years after finishing Med School I have made my final student loan payment! Best investment I’ve ever made!
- Contrast shortage…today I cancelled almost 30 CTAs in my next few clinics. I’m cancelling cases and it’s safe to say the entire practice of medicine just changed overnight! How is this not more prominent in the national news? @elonmusk needs to open a Tesla contrast factory!
- Excellent and timely article @katie_thomas, @AnnieWaldman, @AndrewFordNews and @ikeswetlizt, thank you. If I were a patient with #PAD, this would scare the hell out of me, and probably should. A few important takeaways from this if you're a patient: -Doctors do get paid forMeet Kelly Hanna. Over 18 months, a doctor who calls himself "the leg saver" performed 18 artery-opening procedures in what she believed was an effort to prevent amputation. In July 2020, after her foot turned cold, she lost her leg. nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…
- Beautiful David V with antegrade frozen elephant trunk by my Cardiac colleague @KyleEudaileyMD for a Marfan patient. #bamaaorticsurgery @UABSurgery @UABVascular @Bamamd98
00:00 - One of the most transformative technologies I've seen in my career thus far is non-fluoroscopic imaging #FORS. Thank you @uabmedicine for investing in this innovative technology, and congratulations for being one of the first in the world! @UABVascular @UABSurgery @PhilipsHealth
- 60yo s/p ascending dissection repair, EF 30%, symptomatic arch/prox descending aneurysm. Successful endo arch repair using the Nexus DUO device (w/ left carotid to LSA transposition). One of the first in the US! Congratulations @KyleEudaileyMD @UABVascular @UABSurgery #AortaEd
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- Here is the result. RP approach, supraceliac clamp. Beveled behind the SMA and renals a bit and thrombectomized the paravisceral aorta. Distal to both femorals. The yellow excluder device made me worry about an AD fistula but we mobilized the duodenum and found nothing.
00:3461yo s/p...a lot of things...two for ruptured AAA, starting in 2012. Now with bilateral rest pain. Thoughts? #AortaEd #Medtwitter @farkomd @cfbechara @RKTvascular - Young patient, acute onset abdominal pain --> CTA. Curious to know everyone's approach. #AortaEd @UABVascular @farkomd @westleyohman @MCWVascSurg @FotehMazinMD
00:00 - Congrats team! @KyleEudaileyMD @UABVascular UAB performs first endovascular aortic arch repair in Alabama uab.edu/news/health/it… #aorta
- Doing a #NAIS brings back some of my best memories of residency @UTSW_Surgery shucking vein with the team for Dr. Clagett. #AortaEd
