Pediatric Surgeon Carolinas Health System - Levine Children's Hospital

General Surgery

Michael Goretsky is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He attended Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Michael J. Goretsky, MD is a published physician. He has 39 papers published. The most current publication "Utility of daily head ultrasonography for infants on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation."

Publications

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• Risk factors and management of Nuss bar infections in 1717 patients over 25years.
• High rates of metal allergy amongst Nuss procedure patients dictate broader pre-operative testing.
• Multicenter study of pectus excavatum, final report: complications, static/exercise pulmonary function, and anatomic outcomes.
• Chest wall deformities in pediatric surgery.
• The effects of irrigation on outcomes in cases of perforated Appendicitis in children.
• One hundred patients with recurrent pectus excavatum repaired via the minimally invasive Nuss technique-effective in most regardless of initial operative approach.
• Increasing Severity of Pectus Excavatum Is Associated with Reduced Pulmonary Function.
• A design for simulating and validating the nuss procedure for the minimally invasive correction of pectus excavatum.
• Twenty-one years of experience with minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum by the Nuss procedure in 1215 patients.
• Minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum in patients with Marfan syndrome and marfanoid features.
• Surgical repair of pectus excavatum markedly improves body image and perceived ability for physical activity: multicenter study.
• Prospective multicenter study of surgical correction of pectus excavatum: design, perioperative complications, pain, and baseline pulmonary function facilitated by int...
• When it is not an infection: metal allergy after the Nuss procedure for repair of pectus excavatum.
• Infectious complications after the Nuss repair in a series of 863 patients.
• Family study of the inheritance of pectus excavatum.
• Classification of the dysmorphology of pectus excavatum.
• Reliability of a standardized protocol to calculate cross-sectional chest area and severity indices to evaluate pectus excavatum.
• The minimally invasive Nuss technique for recurrent or failed pectus excavatum repair in 50 patients.
• Impact of pectus excavatum on pulmonary function before and after repair with the Nuss procedure.
• Chest wall anomalies: pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum.
• A pilot study of the impact of surgical repair on disease-specific quality of life among patients with pectus excavatum.
• Anterior bridging bronchus.
• Experience and modification update for the minimally invasive Nuss technique for pectus excavatum repair in 303 patients.
• Bile duct size does not predict success of portoenterostomy for biliary Atresia.
• Optoelectronic plethysmography demonstrates abrogation of regional chest wall motion dysfunction in patients with pectus excavatum after Nuss repair.
• Regional chest wall motion dysfunction in patients with pectus excavatum demonstrated via optoelectronic plethysmography.
• Pediatric burn patients with respiratory failure: predictors of outcome with the use of extracorporeal life support.
• Utility of daily head ultrasonography for infants on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Laparoscopic splenectomy by the lateral approach: a safe and effective alternative to open splenectomy for hematologic diseases.
• Pulmonary hemorrhage: a novel complication after extracorporeal life support.
• Expression of interleukin-1alpha, interleukin-6, and basic fibroblast growth factor by cultured skin substitutes before and after grafting to full-thickness wounds in ...
• Comparative assessment of cultured skin substitutes and native skin autograft for treatment of full-thickness burns.
• The use of extracorporeal life support in pediatric burn patients with respiratory failure.
• Capillary morphogenesis during healing of full-thickness skin grafts: an ultrastructural study.
• Surface electrical capacitance as an index of epidermal barrier properties of composite skin substitutes and skin autografts.
• Variable number of tandem repeat polymorphisms (VNTRs) in the ACAN gene associated with pectus excavatum.
• Usefulness of surveillance cultures in neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Review and discussion of the complications of minimally invasive pectus excavatum repair.

Schools

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• State University of New York Health Science Center At Stony Brook

• University Cincinnati

• Children39s Hospital Of Michigan

Procedures Preformed

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• Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
• Decortication and Pleurectomy
• Excision of Testicular Lesion
• Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
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Conditions Treated

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• Anal Fissure
• Anal Fistula
• Anorectal Abscess
• Appendicitis
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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)

Education

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• Stony Brook University School of Medicine

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