Dr. Ducksoo Kim

Interview with Dr. Baer and Dr. Kim
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Gynecologist Dr. Stephen Baer, and interventional radiologist Dr. Ducksoo Kim of New England Fibroid Center in Boston, to learn about revolutionary technology they offer, called uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE.
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Ducksoo Kim, MD: Uterine fibroid embolization is not an operation, it is a procedure.

Dr. Ducksoo Kim and Dr. Stephen Baer: A Team Approach to Treating Fibroids
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Recently, Fibroids1 had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Ducksoo Kim and Dr. Stephen Baer, two accomplished physicians in their own right who have joined up to form a uniquely effective team.
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Six years ago, Dr. Kim and Dr. Baer began working together to perform a treatment for fibroids known as uterine fibroid embolization.
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Fibroids1: Dr. Kim, how did you get started in interventional radiology?

Dr. Kim: I did a residency in diagnostic radiology â€"chest x-rays, CT scans, MRIs â€" but I wanted to be more involved in patient care, and interventional radiology is the only subspecialty in which I could be a clinician and be taking care of patients.
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I decided that I would try to find someone in the area to do the procedure, and came up with a colleague of mine, Dr. Ducksoo Kim, who is a superb interventional radiologist originally from the West Coast. At that time, he was Chief of Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel hospital. He agreed that we would treat this patient together, and the patient agreed. We performed the procedure and it was very successful. The patient's symptoms abated and her bleeding stopped, and we decided this was something we were going to make available to patients in this region. From that point on we worked together as a team. I've received the benefits of tremendous training with Dr. Kim, and as far as I know we are the only truly hybrid team of a radiologist and an ob-gyn performing this procedure.

Fibroids1: Dr. Kim, can you tell us more about this first case?

Dr. Kim: Yes. She was a very interesting woman. Gynecologists recommend hysterectomies, but she didn't want a hysterectomy; so she went to the Internet.
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Dr. Kim: Sometimes we get patients from New Hampshire, Connecticut, almost the entire state of Massachusetts.
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Dr. Kim: A fibroid is a benign tumor, not cancerous at all.
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Dr. Kim: Hysterectomy is taking the whole uterus out. Myomectomy, another type of surgery, means taking only the tumor, and then sewing back the uterus.
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Dr. Kim: With hysterectomy or myomectomy you have to stay in the hospital for three days, you need general anesthesia, and the hospitalization is longer: three days, versus less than 24 hours for embolization. The recuperation for uterine fibroid embolization is only five days or so. With either hysterectomy or myomectomy, recuperation takes about six weeks. The patient has to stay at home, she will have a big scar, and once the uterus is removed, there is a big space.
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Fibroids1: Dr. Kim, how good do think patient awareness is of this treatment?

Dr. Kim: Not many people know about it because many primary care physicians don't know much about this procedure as an alternative to hysterectomy or myomectomy.
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They talk when they go back to work â€" and then their friends say "Oh, I want that, I have the same problems, I might have to go see Dr. Kim or Dr. Baer."
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Dr. Kim: Gynecologists are slowly becoming more open-minded.
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Dr. Kim: Yes.
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Dr. Baer: One of the things that Dr. Kim and I hope we can accomplish in the near future is to encourage other ob-gyns and interventional radiologists to form teams.
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Dr. Kim: Physicians can be like tigers, they can be independent.

Ducksoo Kim, MD brings innovative interventional radiology procedures to BMC

BMC's newly appointed chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and professor of Radiology, Ducksoo Kim, MD, has expanded the range of services offered to patients by providing procedures previously unavailable at BMC and, in some cases, New England.

Kim had previously served for seven years as director of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology and professor of radiology and surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Prior to that, he was chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School for 16 years.

In 1977, Kim pioneered the nonsurgical treatment of uterine fibroid tumors along with Dr. Stephen Baer, an ob/gyn physician at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.
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Kim has successfully treated more than 1,200 women over the past nine years.

Dr. Kim's clinical focus is diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease using imaging modalities. Procedures include angioplasty or stenting of blockages in blood vessels such as carotid, renal, mesenteric, femoral and aortoiliac arteries; failing hemodialysis fistula/graft; and, embolization of various tumors and hemorrhagic conditions. He also has extensive experience in the treatment of obstructive urinary and biliary disorders with percutaneous catheter placement; vertebral compression fractures with vetebroplasty/kyphoplasty; varicose veins with endovenous laser; and, outpatient embolization procedures of ovarian varices for chronic pelvic congestion syndrome as well as testicular veins for varicocele.

"Dr. Kim is a recognized national and international expert," said Alexander Norbash, MD, chief of the Division of Radiology at BMC and professor of radiology at BUSM.
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Kim received his medical degree at Catholic University Medical College in South Korea. He interned at McKeesport Hospital in McKeesport, Penn., and performed his residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, N.J. He completed a National Institutes of Health fellowship in cardiovascular and interventional radiology at Stanford University Medical Center.

For more information, or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Kim, call (617) 638-6642, or contact him via email at ducksoo.kim@bmc.org.

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Practice Location

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Ducksoo Kim Chief of Cardiovascular and

Ducksoo Kim, MDThis procedure is provided at UMass Memorial Medical Center under the direction of Ducksoo Kim, MD, a board certified radiologist with more than 20 years of practice experience in the Boston and Worcester areas.He is chief of cardiovascular and interventional radiology at UMass Memorial - University Campus and professor of radiology and surgery at UMass Medical School.

Dr. Kim performed the first UAE in the New England region in 1997.Since then, he has performed UAE for more than 400 patients.Approximately 95 percent of the patients have reported marked improvement in their symptoms.