General Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital

Thoracic Surgery

Ashok Muniappan practices Thoracic Surgery. He studied medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine is ranked 49/52 in Research/PrimaryCare. Ashok Muniappan is a published MD. He has 22 papers published. The most current publication "Adenovirus-mediated expression of a dominant negative mutant of p65/RelA inhibits proinflammatory gene expression in endothelial cells without sensitizing to apoptosis." He accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Outcomes With Open and Minimally Invasive Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy After Neoadjuvant Therapy.
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the treatment of anastomotic complications after tracheal resection and reconstruction.
• Surgical Therapy of Pulmonary Aspergillomas: A 30-Year North American Experience.
• Surgical treatment of nonmalignant tracheoEsophageal fistula: a thirty-five year experience.
• Short And Long-Term Outcomes After Esophagectomy For Cancer In Elderly Patients.
• Postradiofrequency ablation inflammatory pseudotumor associated with pulmonary venoocclusive Disease: case report and review of the literature.
• New strategies for the treatment of chronic rejection.
• Indirect recognition of MHC class I allopeptides accelerates Lung allograft rejection in miniature swine.
• Heart and en-bloc thymus transplantation in miniature swine.
• Effects of mycophenolate mofetil on cardiac allograft survival and cardiac allograft vasculopathy in miniature swine.
• Cardiac allograft vasculopathy: real or a normal morphologic variant?
• Operational tolerance to class I disparate Lungs can be induced despite pretransplant immunization with class I allopeptides.
• The effects of tolerance on allograft damage caused by the innate immune system.
• Surgical resection of an intravascular superior vena cava primary lipoma.
• Implementing multiplexed genotyping of non-small-cell lung Cancers into routine clinical practice.
• Effects of tolerance induction on the actions of interferon-gamma on porcine cardiac allografts.
• The role of indirect recognition of MHC class I and II allopeptides in a fully mismatched miniature swine model of Lung transplantation.
• An MHC class II disparity raises the threshold for tolerance induction in Pulmonary allografts in miniature swine.
• Long-term acceptance of porcine Pulmonary allografts without chronic rejection.
• Adenovirus-mediated expression of a dominant negative mutant of p65/RelA inhibits proinflammatory gene expression in endothelial cells without sensitizing to apoptosis.
• Ligand-mediated cytolysis of tumor cells: use of heregulin-zeta chimeras to redirect cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

Schools

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• Tufts University

• Mass Gen Hospital

Procedures Preformed

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• Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
• Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
• Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
• Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
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Conditions Treated

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• Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Aortic Aneurysm
• Aortic Valve Disease
• Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiac Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Tufts University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Emerson Hospital
• Newton-Wellesley Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1871575159
NPPES Provider LastName		MUNIAPPAN
NPPES Provider FirstName		ASHOK
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		021142621
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		Thoracic Surgery
Total Claim Count		13.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1871575159
Last Name Of The Provider	MUNIAPPAN
First Name Of The Provider	ASHOK
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