April 17, 2017
"We have the option for 100% effective treatment." An Interview with Beth Pearce, DPM
May 2, 2017
We were fortunate enough to be able to sit down with Javad Parvizi recently for an interview. Javad Parvizi, MD is a professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University. He has been in practice for over 15 years, doing mostly hip and knee replacement with an interest in periprosthetic joint infection. “We are in desperate need of innovation that will help us to do better for these patients,” Dr. Parvizi told us. “But what we also face is diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection is very difficult. It is difficult for two reasons.
May 2, 2017
We were recently fortunate to talk with Michael Waters, DO, a urologist practicing in the coastal Alabama region about his success using MicroGen DX for his clinical decision-making. “I have number of patients who’ve come to me who I’m certain have an infection,” he told us. “They’re symptomatic. In my practice, average of 30-35% of cultures have returned no growth when I’m actually certain the patient does have an infection. What was most surprising for me is the results I got back. How eye opening it was, especially patients with chronic illness, chronic infections.
May 10, 2017
We sat down recently to talk to Dr. Laurence O’Halloran, an otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon in Northern Virginia. He shared with us a story about a patient named Cathy who had previously suffered for many years with chronic sinus issues. After using Next Generation DNA sequencing to determine the root cause of her chronic condition with MicroGen DX*, Dr. O’Halloran was able to provide targeted treatment for Cathy which has lead to her experiencing great improvement. “I see a lot of patients with chronic sinusitis,” Dr. O’Halloran told us. “Cathy is a patient of mine. She had chronic sinusitis, approximately […]
May 10, 2017
Dr. Matthew Regulski was kind enough to sit down and discus his experience with MicroGen DX*. Dr. Matthew Regulski can be found at Ocean County Foot and Ankle Surgical Associates in Toms River New Jersey (contact information below). “I run all the clinical research, wound healing program that we do here,” Dr. Regulski told us. “Mainly do a lot of limb salvage, diabetic foot reconstruction, wound healing. Been doing it for 12 years.” We asked Dr. Regulski to recall his first impressions when he heard about what MicroGen DX could do for his patients. “When somebody comes to you and […]
May 17, 2017
More than 50 million Americans suffer from infections every year, including Wound, Nail, Urinary, Joint and Sinus Infections. Research has shown infections that are not cleared can move to a biofilm phenotype creating a barrier to healing and lead to a chronic infection disease state. These chronic infections are not caused by “single pathogens” but rather “Biofilms” or “Collaborative Communities” of multiple species of bacteria and fungi. We now know there are over 50,000 species of microbes and 99% of them can not be identified using the traditional culture method. Next Generation DNA Sequencing is the gold standard in […]
May 18, 2017
Doctor Michael McDonald sat down with us recently to share his experience evaluating Next Generation DNA sequencing when compared to traditional cultures. Dr. McDonald is a urologist, board certified at Florida Hospital Celebration in Florida. He is associate professor of Urology at University of Central Florida. “When we were first introduced to the Next-Gen Sequencing,” Dr. McDonald told us, “we thought we need some criteria to evaluate its efficacy of diagnosis in the realm of urinary tract infections and other opportunities. I wanted to look at a head to head study, comparing Next-Gen Sequencing and urine cultures for patients with UTI […]
June 27, 2017
Infectious Disease doctor Andrew Pugliese, M.D. is a pioneer in the non-surgical treatment of acute and chronic sinusitis. He has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years and is triple board certified in infectious disease, sleep and internal medicine. He recently sat down to share with us some of his experience in using next Generation DNA sequencing in the care of his patients. Specifically, Dr. Pugliese explained how the ability to identify multiple different species of pathogen is vital to the care of certain wounds, especially when the infection has developed into a biofilm state. “I had heard […]
June 27, 2017
Infectious Disease doctor, Andrew Pugliese, M.D., is a pioneer in the non-surgical treatment of acute and chronic sinusitis. He has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years and is triple board certified in infectious disease, sleep, and internal medicine. In recent years he has been able to explore the new technology available through MicroGen DX where in DNA is used to identify the pathogens causing an infection. Dr. Pugliese shared with us his experience in utilizing next generation DNA sequencing for the care of his patients and explained how this tool is offering better, clearer data than previous culture […]
April 20, 2018
After 23 years in private practice as a general surgeon, Dr. Michael Lavor retired from active practice as a surgeon in July 2014, although he remains with Saguaro Surgical, the practice he founded, as Medical Director. In addition to his work at Saguaro Surgical, Dr. Lavor will continue as Medical Director at The Wound Center where, through state-of-the-art treatments, he remains available to provide specialized therapy for chronic or non-healing wounds. One of the tools Dr. Lavor utilizes in the care of patients is diagnostics from MicroGen DX. MicroGen DX uses Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) and rapid PCR screening […]
April 20, 2018
We sat down for a brief interview with Margarita Johnson, MD, who practices at Urology Clinics of North Texas. She talked with us about the frustrations faced when an infection causes symptoms in a patient, yet the cultures return no information about the causative microbes. “You do miss a lot of the bacteria,” she said about her experience with traditional cultures. “The patient’s frustrated because sometimes they think they’re crazy because they have the symptoms and nothing is coming back. I’m frustrated because I have this patient that thinks she has a urinary tract infection. I have no answers for her.” […]
April 20, 2018
Nabeel Syed, MD, graduated from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio in 1989, and today practices at the Urology Clinics of North Texas. He shared with us the experience he has had in using MicroGen DX to help his patients. “We use MicroGen DX in patients basically to try and pinpoint the exact type of infection that they’re having,” he told us. “We have a range of thousands of different bacteria that it can detect for. Using the next-gen sequencing, it really helps to identify the appropriate antibiotic.”