Physician

General Surgery

Aimen Shaaban works in the field of General Surgery. He attended University of Illinois College of Medicine. He received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Aimen F. Shaaban is a published doctor and has 48 publications published. The lastest was: 'The role of ultrasonography in fetal surgery and invasive fetal procedures.'

Publications

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• Cross-Generational Reproductive Fitness Enforced by Microchimeric Maternal Cells.
• Expanded intrathoracic space in fetal cases of isolated congenital diaphragmatic Hernia contributes to disparity between percent predicted lung volume (PPLV) and obser...
• Fetal lung growth represented by longitudinal changes in MRI-derived fetal lung volume parameters predicts survival in isolated left-sided congenital diaphragmatic her...
• Sacrococcygeal teratoma growth rate predicts adverse outcomes.
• Adenoviral-mediated gene transfer of insulin-like growth factor 1 enhances wound healing and induces angiogenesis.
• Comparison of interleukin 10 homologs on dermal wound healing using a novel human skin ex vivo organ culture model.
• Immunosuppressive CD71(+) erythroid cells compromise neonatal host defence against infection.
• Trogocytosis as a mechanistic link between chimerism and prenatal tolerance.
• Interleukin-10 regulates the fetal hyaluronan-rich extracellular matrix via a STAT3-dependent mechanism.
• Pseudotyped adeno-associated viral vectors for gene transfer in dermal fibroblasts: implications for wound-healing applications.
• The pediatric surgeon's road to research independence: utility of mentor-based National Institutes of Health grants.
• Outcomes of plastic closure in gastroschisis.
• KIR receptor-ligand incompatibility predicts killing of osteosarcoma cell lines by allogeneic NK cells.
• Regulation of the earliest immune response to in utero hematopoietic cellular transplantation.
• Early chimerism threshold predicts sustained engraftment and NK-cell tolerance in prenatal allogeneic chimeras.
• Early laparoscopic fundoplication and gastrostomy in infants with spinal muscular atrophy type I.
• Recent advances and controversies in pediatric laparoscopic surgery.
• Donor major histocompatibility complex class I expression determines the outcome of prenatal transplantation.
• Age-related differences in diagnosis and morbidity of Intestinal malrotation.
• Recurrent pneumonia caused by transdiaphragmatic erosion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt into the lung. Case report.
• Thoracoscopic aortopexy for primary tracheomalacia in a 12-year-old.
• Differential requirements for hematopoietic commitment between human and rhesus embryonic stem cells.
• High-level allogeneic chimerism achieved by prenatal tolerance induction and postnatal nonmyeloablative bone marrow transplantation.
• Complete allogeneic hematopoietic chimerism achieved by a combined strategy of in utero hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and postnatal donor lymphocyte infusion.
• Engraftment of bone marrow and fetal liver cells after in utero transplantation in MDX mice.
• Surgical treatment and long-term neurodevelopmental outcome for infants with idiopathic aqueductal stenosis.
• Impact of donor age on living related donor kidney transplantation.
• Cardiovascular risk assessment among potential kidney transplant candidates and perioperative outcome: analysis of 75 consecutive Middle Eastern patients.
• Resources and rewards for clerkship directors: how surgery compares.
• Multimedia article. Posterior sagittal anorectoplasty for congenital rectovaginal malformations in the adult.
• Ultrasound of a torsed ovary: characteristic gray-scale appearance despite normal arterial and venous flow on Doppler.
• Reduction mammaplasty: the results of avoiding nipple-areolar amputation in cases of extreme hypertrophy.
• The role of ultrasonography in fetal surgery and invasive fetal procedures.
• Commonly encountered surgical problems in the fetus and neonate.
• Bone marrow tissue engineering.
• Survival of a profoundly hydropic fetus with a sacrococcygeal teratoma delivered at 27 weeks of gestation for maternal mirror syndrome.
• Fetal hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
• Postnatal booster injections increase engraftment after in utero stem cell transplantation.
• Microchimerism and tolerance after in utero bone marrow transplantation in mice.
• Selection, enrichment, and culture expansion of murine mesenchymal progenitor cells by retroviral transduction of cycling adherent bone marrow cells.
• Human mesenchymal stem cells engraft and demonstrate site-specific differentiation after in utero transplantation in sheep.
• A kinetic model for the homing and migration of prenatally transplanted marrow.
• Persistent postnatal transgene expression in both muscle and liver after fetal injection of recombinant adenovirus.
• In utero bone marrow transplantation induces donor-specific tolerance by a combination of clonal deletion and clonal anergy.
• Prenatal transplantation of cytokine-stimulated marrow improves early chimerism in a resistant strain combination but results in poor long-term engraftment.
• Multicistronic lentiviral vectors containing the FMDV 2A cleavage factor demonstrate robust expression of encoded genes at limiting MOI.
• In utero hematopoietic cell transplantation: what are the important questions?

Schools

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• University of Illinois At Chicago College of Medicine

• Children39s Hospital Philadelphia

• University Iowa Hosps and Clinics

Procedures Preformed

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• Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
• Colectomy
• Decortication and Pleurectomy
• Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open
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Conditions Treated

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• Anorectal Abscess
• Appendicitis
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Inguinal Hernia
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Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)
• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• University of Illinois College of Medicine

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