Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Carl L. Backer, MD
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Carl L. Backer is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He studied medicine at Mayo Medical School. Mayo Medical School is ranked 27/42 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 8 awards "President-Elect", "Vice President", "Vice Chairman", "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "Super Doctor", "Fellow (FACC)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Carl Backer is a published doctor. He has 24 papers published. The most current publication "Sustainability of protocolized handover of pediatric cardiac surgery patients to the intensive care unit."
Publications
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Outcomes and Quality.
- Intermediate-Term Outcome of 140 Consecutive Fontan Conversions With Arrhythmia Operations.
- Fontan conversion: guidelines from Down Under.
- Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Growth in Infants With Palliated Tetralogy of Fallot.
- Prophylactic Atrial Arrhythmia Surgical Procedures With Congenital Heart Operations: Review and Recommendations.
- Modified TandemHeart Ventricular Assist Device for Infant and Pediatric Circulatory Support.
- Linking the Congenital heart surgery databases of the society of thoracic surgeons and the Congenital heart surgeons' society: part 2--lessons learned and implications.
- Linking the Congenital heart surgery databases of the society of thoracic surgeons and the Congenital heart surgeons' society: part 1--rationale and methodology.
- Doubly Committed and Juxtaarterial Ventricular Septal Defect: Outcomes of the Aortic and Pulmonary Valves.
- A multicenter study of primary graft failure after infant Heart transplantation: Impact of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation on outcomes.
- Revisiting the baffes operation: its role in transposition of the great arteries.
- Infant Congenital aortic valve stenosis: the pendulum swings.
- Role for immune monitoring to tailor induction prophylaxis in pediatric Heart recipients.
- Heart Transplantation for the Failing Fontan.
- Outcomes of Surgical Therapy for Infective Endocarditis in a Pediatric Population: A 21-Year Review.
- An aspirin a day?….
- Long-term follow-up after truncal Valve repair.
- Truncus and transposition: the Chicago approach.
- The role of tricuspid Valve surgery in the late management of tetralogy of fallot: collective review.
- Exercises in anatomy: tetralogy of Fallot.
- Exercises in anatomy: the normal Heart.
- Discontinuous Pulmonary Artery: Utility of Computed Tomographic Angiography and Lung Perfusion Scan in Management.
- Sustainability of protocolized handover of pediatric cardiac surgery patients to the intensive care unit.
Schools
Mayo Medical School
Northwestern University
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
- Cardiac Shunting Procedures With or Without Aortic Repair or Coronary Anomaly Repair
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
- Cardiomegaly
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Endocarditis
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- President-Elect
- Vice President
- Vice Chairman
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACC)
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University -
Mayo Medical School
Hospital
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Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago -
Northwestern Memorial Hospital -
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital -
University of Chicago Medical Center -
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children?
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