{"id":50311,"date":"2011-11-15T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=50311"},"modified":"2011-11-18T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:30:13","slug":"health-center%e2%80%99s-bone-infectionteam-handles-toughest-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/health-center%e2%80%99s-bone-infectionteam-handles-toughest-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center\u2019s Bone Infection Team Handles Toughest Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HWB9rznNiyE&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>An active mother of three young children, Kathleen Hobin suffered devastating injuries when an elderly driver struck her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen was hospitalized for months before she was referred to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nemsi.uchc.edu\/\">New England Musculoskeletal Institute<\/a> at the UConn Health Center which has the region\u2019s only bone infection clinic. Orthopaedic surgeon <a href=\"http:\/\/nemsi.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/browner.html\">Dr. Bruce Browner<\/a> and infectious disease expert <a href=\"http:\/\/nemsi.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/pesanti.html\">Dr. Edward Pesanti<\/a>, have been working together for nearly 20 years. They lead a team of specialists who treat patients with the most challenging and difficult problems.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the teams\u2019 \u201cnever give up\u201d attitude &#8211; they saved Kathleen\u2019s leg and prevented her from becoming a double amputee.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An active mother of three young children, Kathleen Hobin suffered devastating injuries when an elderly driver struck her vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":50314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-50311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 06:09:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50388,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50311\/revisions\/50388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/50314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50311"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=50311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}