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11 SPINE SURGEONS Ohio Bethesda North Hospital (Cincinnati) Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center (Akron) Oklahoma Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital Oregon Adventist Health Portland Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center (Medford) Mckenzie-Willamette Medical Center (Springfield) St. Charles Bend Pennsylvania Heritage Valley Sewickley Holy Redeemer Hospital (Meadowbrook) Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest (Allentown) South Carolina Grand Strand Medical Center (Myrtle Beach) Self Regional Healthcare (Greenwood) St. Francis Downtown (Greenville) South Dakota Dunes Surgical Hospital (Dakota Dunes) Sanford USD Medical Center and Hospital (Sioux Falls) Tennessee Saint omas Hospital for Specialty Surgery (Nashville) Texas Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Memorial Hendrick Medical Center (Abilene) Medical City Fort Worth Methodist Dallas Medical Center North Central Surgical Center (Dallas) South Texas Spine and Surgical Hospital (San Antonio) Valley Baptist Medical Center - Harlingen Utah Dixie Regional Medical Center - River Road (St. George) Mckay Dee Hospital (Ogden) Utah Valley Hospital (Provo) Virginia Henrico Doctors' Hospital (Richmond) Lewisgale Medical Center (Salem) Washington Lourdes Medical Center (Pasco) Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital (Spokane) Wisconsin Ascension Northeast Wisconsin St. Elizabeth (Appleton) n US woman travels to India for spine surgery that her insurance refused to pay for By Alan Condon A 42-year-old American woman suffering from idiopath- ic scoliosis traveled to India to undergo a fusionless scoliosis surgery at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, The Hindu reported April 28. Daniel Fry was 11 when she was diagnosed with the condition, which recently became increasingly debilitating, and thera- peutic care did not provide sufficient relief. Ms. Fry did not want to have a spinal fusion, which could re- strict her movement, according to the report. "I got to know about fusionless scoliosis surgery and found out that only three surgeons in the U.S. were performing that for adults," she said. The minimally invasive procedure uses a flexible cord to correct the curve of the spine over time, while maintaining flexibility and growth of the spine. After her insurance refused to pay for the surgery, she con- nected with Dr. Sajan Hegde, chief spine surgeon and clinical director of the Institute of Robotic and Complex Spine Sur- gery at Apollo Hospitals, who successfully performed one of the first adult fusionless scoliosis cases in India, according to the report. AR paired with robot in milestone spine surgery By Alan Condon T he first spine case combining augmented reality and a surgical robot was recently per- formed by Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD, direc- tor of The Robotic Spine Institute of Silicon Valley in Los Gatos, Calif. Four notes: 1. The posterior lumbar fusion was performed using Medtronic's Mazor X robot and Augmedics' Xvision augmented reality system. 2. The surgery was completed in under two hours, com- pared to up to seven hours for similar cases performed without this combination of technology, according to a May 10 news release. 3. Xvision allows surgeons to "see" into the anatomy using augmented reality in real time while looking directly at the patient instead of a screen, which can significantly reduce operative time, according to the company. 4. Dr. Poelstra has performed more than 1,000 com- plex robotic spine procedures. n