Chair of Surgery and Attending Surgeon University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center
General Surgery
Dr. Demetrius E. Litwin, MD
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Demetrius E. Litwin practices General Surgery. He went to medical school at University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He has 3 awards "FRCSC", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow". Demetrius E. Litwin, MD is a published MD. He published 67 publications, including: 'Laparoscopic gastrectomy in the porcine model: our initial experience with a new hand-assist device.' Demetrius Litwin accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy using a modified dome-down approach with conventional laparoscopic instruments.
- Evaluation of serum cytokine release in response to hand-assisted, laparoscopic, and open surgery in a porcine model.
- Massachusetts health insurance mandate: effects on neurosurgical practice.
- Perioperative mortality for pancreatectomy: a national perspective.
- National outcomes after gastric resection for neoplasm.
- Transforming the culture of surgical education: promoting teacher identity through human factors training.
- Use of cholecystostomy tubes in the management of patients with primary diagnosis of acute Cholecystitis.
- Athletic pubalgia (sports Hernia).
- Trends in Adrenalectomy: a recent national review.
- Surgical management of acute Cholecystitis at a tertiary care center in the modern era.
- Use of laparoscopy in evaluation and treatment of penetrating and blunt Abdominal injuries.
- Metabolic characterization of nondiabetic severely obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: preoperative classification predicts the effects of gastric bypa...
- Advantages of laparoscopic transAbdominal preperitoneal herniorrhaphy in the evaluation and management of inguinal hernias.
- Optimizing laparoscopic task efficiency: the role of camera and monitor positions.
- Is the use of a bougie necessary for laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication?
- Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: initial 70 cases at a U.S. university medical center.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic aortobifemoral bypass versus open bypass for occlusive Disease.
- Feasibility of laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for large Adrenal masses.
- Predictors of complication and suboptimal weight loss after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a series of 188 patients.
- Watermelon stomach: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery.
- Staple line bleeding following laparoscopic splenectomy: intraoperative prevention and postoperative management with splenic artery embolization.
- Laparoscopic curative resection of pheochromocytomas.
- Preoperative computed tomography-guided hookwire needle localization of a peritoneal multilocular inclusion cyst.
- Immunologic effects of hand-assisted surgery on peritoneal macrophages: comparison to open and standard laparoscopic approaches.
- Advantages of mini-laparoscopic vs conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy: results of a prospective randomized trial.
- Benefits of laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: a 10-year single institution experience.
- Canadian Association of General Surgeons and American College of Surgeons evidence-based reviews in surgery. 26. Watchful waiting versus repair of inguinal Hernia in m...
- Human Emotion and Response in Surgery (HEARS): a simulation-based curriculum for communication skills, systems-based practice, and professionalism in surgical residenc...
- A human factors curriculum for surgical clerkship students.
- Training for advanced laparoscopic surgical skills: suturing, knotting, and anastomosis techniques.
- New device for hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery.
- Laparoscopic repair of acute surgical Diseases in the 21st century.
- Elevated intrahepatic pressures and decreased hepatic tissue blood flow prevent gas embolus during limited laparoscopic liver resections.
- Severely disordered Esophageal peristalsis is not a contraindication to laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.
- Anatomic thoracoscopic lobectomy (ATL) without minithoracotomy: preliminary experience.
- Laparoscopic groin hernia surgery: the TAPP procedure. TransAbdominal preperitoneal hernia repair.
- Reducing the deleterious effects of intrauterine CO2 during fetoscopic surgery.
- Use of a laparoscopic hand-assist device for accessory splenectomy.
- Molecular, forensic and haplotypic inconsistencies regarding the identity of the Ekaterinburg remains.
- The net immunologic advantage of laparoscopic surgery.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy in the setting of splenomegaly.
- History of laparoscopic surgery.
- Laparoscopic surgery--basic armamentarium.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: strategy and concerns.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: trans-Canada experience with 2201 cases.
- Nonparasitic cysts of the liver. The case for conservative surgical management.
- Technetium 99m pentavalent dimercaptosuccinic acid and thallium 201 in detecting recurrent medullary carcinoma of the thyroid.
- Outpatient laparoscopic surgery.
- Laparoscopic gastrectomy in the porcine model: our initial experience with a new hand-assist device.
- Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute Cholecystitis: a safe procedure.
- A meta-analysis of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy in patients suspected of having acute appendicitis.
- Transperitoneal laparoscopic exposure for lumbar interbody fusion.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) with the HandPort system: initial experience with 68 patients.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic aortobifemoral bypass grafting.
- The feasibility and accuracy of diagnostic laparoscopy in the septic ICU patient.
- Suturing and knotting techniques for thoracoscopic cardiac surgery.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery in the United States: an overview.
- Hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy minimizes warm ischemia.
- Laparoscopic cryosurgery for hepatic tumors. Experimental observations and a case report.
- Laparoscopic groin Hernia repair.
- Laparoscopic approaches to the lumbar vertebrae. An anatomic study using a porcine model.
- Postoperative respiratory function after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- Of balloon axilloscopy and avoidance of iatrogenic injury to the long thoracic nerve.
- Laparoscopic management of intussusception caused by colonic lipomata: a case report and review of the literature.
- Asthma: current controversies and emerging therapies.
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Esophagomyotomy
- Excision, Shaving, or Destruction of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue (incl. Mohs Micrographic Surgery), Tissue Transfer
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Atelectasis
- Breast Lump
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- FRCSC
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow
Education
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University of Tennessee -
University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine
Hospital
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1144204272 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LITWIN |
| First Name Of The Provider | DEMETRIUS |
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