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UAMS/ACH Centers for Children Opens in Northwest Arkansas MAY 11, 2007 | The Centers for Children in Lowell celebrated its grand opening today as part of a collaborative project of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH). The new facility provides developmental and subspecialty medical care to children in northwest Arkansas, provided by physicians from UAMS and ACH. The center, located in a 40,000-square-foot, two-story building at 519 Latham Drive, houses the Schmieding Developmental Center, the Schmieding KIDS FIRST program and various regional clinics, all previously located in Fayetteville and Springdale. UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.; ACH President and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Bates, M.D.; and Gov. Mike Beebe helped cut the ribbon with supporters and four children who are served by the center. “We are very pleased to be able to make subspecialty and developmental care available in one location that will be more convenient for parents,” said Wilson. “With this new, shared outreach, thousands of families will not have to make the long trip to Little Rock for their child’s initial evaluation or clinic visits for follow-up medical attention,” said Bates. |
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UAMS Links Gastric Bypass, Neurological Conditions MAY 23, 2007 | A decade-long study by neurologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between the increasingly popular weight-loss surgery known as gastric bypass and several serious neurological conditions. Katalin Juhasz Pocsine, M.D., associate professor in the UAMS Department of Neurology, is lead author of the study, which was published online May 22 in the medical journal Neurology. The study concludes that patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, are at risk for long-term vitamin and mineral deficiencies and may develop a variety of neurological symptoms. “The frequency of operations for treatment of obesity is rapidly growing in the United States,” Juhasz Pocsine said. “These procedures are usually successful in reducing weight, but they are not without risk. Many of the complications patients experience affect the nervous system, and they are often disabling and irreversible.” More than 150 patients who came to the UAMS Neurology Clinic following gastric bypass were included in the report. In 26 of these patients, a link between the surgery and their neurological condition was found. All of the patients involved in the study had previously undergone the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure in which a small stomach pouch is created by stapling part of the stomach together and bypassing part of the small bowel, resulting in reduced food intake and a decreased ability to absorb the nutrients in food. The interval between surgery and onset of neurological symptoms ranged from 4 weeks to 18 years. |
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