Dr. Andrew Hoffman
General Surgery
Rockford, IL
37 years experience male
Locations
Perryville Surgical Associates, SC
Rockford, IL
About
Bio
My practice involves all general surgery, acute care surgery and Trauma and critical care management. I perform Breast, thyroid, abdominal, robotic, laparoscopic and cancer surgery. I am also a wound care specialist. My practice is in Rockford, IL with 3 other general surgeons.
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
General Surgery
Critical Care
Surgery - Trauma
Wound care
Licenses
United States: Illinois
Doctor Q&A
378 Answers
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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General Surgery 37 years experience
Chronic Constipation: Pressure from passing hard stools puts pressure on the veins in the rectum. The veins dilate and become varicose (like on legs) with risk of forming ... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Surgery is painful: For patients who have not ever had severe pain at the site of the hemorrhoids, i've found they don't do well with the surgery option. If you have had... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Possibly: A 'cold' is caused by a viral infection. As your body mobilizes an immune response to that infection, it might decrease the response it is giving the ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Especially: Especially during pregnancy, hold off on any surgery until after your delivery, unless it's emergent.
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Open vs closed: If a bone breaks, it can be repaired with surgery (an open procedure to fix a bone) or with manipulation to realign the broken bone and casting to kee... Read More
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A 50-year-old male asked:
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Avoid constipation: Constipation and forced bowel movements are the root cause behind formation of the fissure. It is a tear in the skin inside the rectum that occurs wh... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:
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Consider Melatonin: With your doctor. Only means to getting regular sleep will be with a considered/ balanced approach with all of your medicines. Your doctor should hel... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: Repetitions for arms should be 12-15 before increasing weight or resistance.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Maybe: Find out from your surgeon if any of the colon remains. If there is still some of this large intestine, blood may have gotten into it during the oper... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Avoid constipation: Hemorrhoids result from constipation and are best avoided by using fiber in your diet with plenty of water. You can also add natural products like fru... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Little contribution: Amount of gas is most often related to what you eat. Not likely to be related to activity.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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A Large list: Any illness that causes inflammed stomach and intestine can do this. From alcohol induced inflammation to ulcers to viruses or bacteria to inflamator... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Diverticulitis: Is inflammation and will cause pain. If there is no inflammation around the colon, there should not be pain. Seems more likely this is still some fo... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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I'm Guessing: The best way to be sure would be to see and feel this lump, but, it sounds like you scratched the skin open and you have either an inflamed lymph node... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Likely benign: At your age, the finding of a mass suggests it is a benign condition. Risks like your mom and grandmom having breast cancer may raise the chance of s... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Fatal?: Cancer that is so aggressive and wide spread is not likely to regress or give up on it's own. Without any chemo it may spread rapidly through the lung... Read More
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Need more info: Lower abdominal pain is not specific. Neither is a ct scan. A ct can miss polyps and other things inside the intestine. If pain persists, you ; your d... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Can't help: what pain? Where? What was done at the laparoscopic procedure? More details are needed to be able to help.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Doubtful: Unless the person in question is taking some form of blood thinner it is extremely unlikely. If the "tap" as you call it did not cause a loss of consc... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Give it some time...: The body has to adapt to the gall bladder missing and it may result in loose stools for 1-2 months. There is no longer a place to store bile, so it al... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Don't wear...: Unless you are moving ted hose increase your risks of clots. Remove them when you are at rest. Feeling tired is common for 7-10 days. You gradually r... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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No. Makes it show up: Strenuous activity like lifting, pushing pulling are all things that "push" on a hernia. If a small hernia existed, these activities will make it beco... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Recurs? : Any hernia can recur. If it does, there is benefit to seeing a surgeon to repair it again. Without repair, hernias tend to grow, become symptomatic an... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Yes, but not likely: Men do have breast glands and they may fill out during puberty. They can also enlarge if you take certain medicines. If you do not see it shrink in th... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Not normally: If done right, by breaking open the top of a whitehead and creating a way to drain, some pimples can be evacuated by squeezing. The problem, if you do... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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US image had echos : The echos happen when the sound waves transition through solid to liquid or liquid to solid. They mean there was a fluid filled object seen ie a cyst... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Its Surgery.: There is no such thing as minor surgery if it's done on you! you should know why the surgery is advised, what happens if you do not choose to go throu... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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You have choices: Either your pain is from some other source or the diverticulitis is still active. You could ask your doc for more investigation and testing or get fur... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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Doesn't fit...: Symptoms seem to be related to nerve impingement. Facial nerves are different than neck nerves, though, which are the nerve supply to the arm. If the... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Not likely: Although the cyst may be there, it does not mandate further care either. If there is growth or symptoms like pain or pressure, see a podiatrist or ort... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Normal for your age: Likel a place building up to form a cyst and ovulate. Could also be scar from recent cyst. If you don't have normal menses or if you have symptoms, se... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Blackout? Dizzy?: If either happened, then, yes go to the er for an exam. Also if you have a continuing headache or nausea. If you are not sure, go to be most careful. ... Read More
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A 43-year-old male asked:
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Remove cyst: You could see if another drainage attempt might work, but, it sounds like there is pressure on a nerve and removal of the cyst may be necessary to pre... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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See your doctor: Does this happen with all foods, or certain ones? Does pain happen right away with eating or does it take a few hours to occur? Any other symptoms su... Read More
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A 16-year-old male asked:
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Maybe...: Rule of thumb- if pain lessens and is tolerable after a few minute warm up, you should be able to play with it using support. If pain worsens with th... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Can't tell: Without an exam i can't tell. Usually, if you lift your breast , or if you check out the same spot while lying down, the mass disappears if it's natur... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Spider angioma?: Without seeing a lesion, it's hard to say. If you have concerns see your doctor or dermatologist. At your age, most likely, it's something benign.
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Follow up with surgn: Since the endometriosis was treated and shrunk surgically, it may now need some medication to control small spots that were not visible at time of sur... Read More
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A 37-year-old female asked:
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Normal Mammogram?: Although you are a little young to start getting mammograms annually, you have a symptom that makes getting one important. If it is normal as well as... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Between muscles?: Lipomas can arise almost anywhere. If there is a mass you feel and the studies don't clearly show it, it may arise in the muscle or between the muscle... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
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Speed of rise varies: When a sudden jump occurs in the white count, it suggests acute inflammation like appendicitis. There will be a higher than normal lymphocyte count an... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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See Physical Therapy: Perform rehab to strengthen the finger, joints and muscles again.
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May be something new: If your symptoms were checked to rule out a clot in the legs or lung and no other surgical problem is seen, there may be another issue to work out. Su... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: Sports injuries most often are sprains/strains. Rest for 1-2 weeks with stretching usually heals.
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Confused: The stoma functions by emptying stool or it doesn't. No need of test for that. A barium enema or colonoscopy might be used to check for other illness ... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Hard to say: Different machines used. Different resolution of images. Different technicians also perform similar but not exactly the same test.
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A 40-year-old female asked:
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Yes.: No signs of any long term effects. Proceed with any surgery you agree to be needed.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Hormones: In the pregnant women, her ovaries and other organs will produce hormones to support the uterus and the pregnancy. These also tend to cause breast gl... Read More
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Lots of poss answers: The possibility of cancer exists, but, so does a mild infection. My main suggestion-based on the 2 week history alone- is to see a doc to get an appro... Read More
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Circumstance depends: walking/hiking outdoors with hypothermia can make you slow and sleepy, with risk of more damage as you cool down further. Frostbite results when parts... Read More
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Dr. Hoffman is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Dr appt on Fri anyway- I didn't kniw if it was a lymph node but don't think so- its ON trachea yet attached to thyroid just above collarbone- left side..size of a grape....Read More
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Thank you, your quick reply made me feel good! Thanks I was quiet worried I was collapsing or something! Feel better!
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you Dr. Hoffman! This sort of information is extremely important to have.
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Hahnemann Medical College, PA
Graduated 1986MD
Residency
Allentown Affiliated Hospitals
Residency
St. Joseph's Hospital Houston, TX
Awards
Top Doctor, Second Place, Rockford Region, IL - Summer
2013
Most Influential, Third Place, Rockford Region, IL - Summer
2013
Thought Leader, Second Place, Rockford Region, IL - Summer
2013
Affiliations
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Society. of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
DaVinci Robotic Surgeons
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