Physician
General Surgery
Dr. Namir Katkhouda, MD
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Namir Katkhouda works in the field of General Surgery. He over the years received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Top Doctors:LA Area", "Fellow" and "Super Doctor". Namir Katkhouda is also a published physician. He has 89 paper published. The most recent paper is: Laparoscopic splenectomy: outcome and efficacy in 103 consecutive patients. Namir Katkhouda, MD accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Charges, outcomes, and complications: a comparison of magnetic sphincter augmentation versus laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for the treatment of GERD.
- Requesting Patient Characteristics for Readmissions Noted in "Single-Site Robotic Cholecystectomy in a Broadly Inclusive Patient Population: A Prospective Study"
- Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation with the LINX Device for GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease after U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approval.
- Percutaneous Cholecystostomy Versus Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Patients With Acute Cholecystitis and Failed Conservative Management: A Matched-Pair Analysis.
- Outcomes following laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy for esophageal Cancer.
- Biologic Versus Nonbiologic Mesh in Ventral Hernia Repair: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
- Totally laparoscopic Abdominal wall reconstruction: lessons learned and results of a short-term follow-up.
- Thirty-day outcomes of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy in elderly using ACS/NSQIP database.
- Laparoscopic vs Open Appendectomy in Obese Patients: Outcomes Using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database.
- Minimally invasive surgical approach for the treatment of gastroparesis.
- Meta-Analysis of randomized trials comparing antibiotic therapy with appendectomy for acute uncomplicated (no abscess or phlegmon) appendicitis.
- André Toupet: surgeon technician par excellence.
- Internal Hernia as a complication of laparoscopic nissen fundoplication.
- Laparoscopic management of the perforated viscus.
- Severe trauma is not an excuse for prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis.
- Wound management after colon injury: open or closed? A prospective randomized trial.
- A new technique for laparoscopic Hernia repair using fibrin sealant.
- New hemostatic agents in general open and laparoscopic surgery.
- Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy: a prospective randomized double-blind study.
- Early ductal decompression versus conservative management for gallstone pancreatitis with ampullary Obstruction: a prospective randomized clinical trial.
- A new and standardized approach for trocar placement in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
- Prospective assessment of axial back Pain symptoms before and after bariatric weight reduction surgery.
- In the era of routine use of CT scan for acute Abdominal pain, should all adults with small bowel intussusception undergo surgery?
- Single-port-access (SPA) cholecystectomy: a multi-institutional report of the first 297 cases.
- Establishing an acute care surgery service: lessons learned from the epidemiology of emergent non-trauma patients and increasing utilization of laparoscopy.
- Fibrin glue for intraperitoneal laparoscopic mesh fixation: a comparative study in a swine model.
- Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy for the obese patient: a subset Analysis from a prospective, randomized, double-blind study.
- A new technique for minimally invasive Abdominal wall reconstruction of complex incisional hernias: totally laparoscopic component separation and incisional hernia rep...
- Malpractice, standards and surgical journals.
- Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study.
- Application of fibrin glue after hepatectomy might still be justified.
- Laparoscopic appendectomy: new concepts.
- Significant reduction of wound infections with daily probing of contaminated wounds: a prospective randomized clinical trial.
- Laparoscopic Versus Open Anterior Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair: 30-Day Morbidity and Mortality using ACS-NSQIP Database.
- Obesity should not influence the management of appendicitis.
- Laparoscopic surgery of the Liver.
- Laparoscopic rossetti fundoplication.
- Laparoscopic treatment of peptic ulcer Disease and its complications.
- Laparoscopic management of complications of peptic ulcer Disease.
- Laparoscopic appendectomy significantly reduces length of stay for perforated appendicitis.
- Endolaparoscopic palliation of pancreatic Cancer.
- Laser resection of a Liver hydatid cyst under videolaparoscopy.
- Laparoscopic fenestration of Biliary cysts.
- A new technique of surgical treatment of chronic duodenal ulcer without laparotomy by videocoelioscopy.
- [Treatment of duodenal ulcer by posterior trunk vagotomy and anterior fundic seromyotomy under video-laparoscopy. Preliminary note with presentation of a film].
- Pancreatic Cancer in mother and daughter.
- [Hydatid cyst of the pancreas responsible for chronic recurrent pancreatitis].
- [Complications of Biliary lithiasis. Etiology, diagnosis, principles of drug therapy and surgery].
- Laparoscopic treatment of gastroEsophageal reflux disease--defining a gold standard.
- [Diagnostic laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery--their development and outlook].
- Management of problems in laparoscopic surgery of the Biliary tract.
- Laparoscopic surgery: surgical education in the People's Republic of China.
- Laparoscopic treatment of inguinal Hernias. A personal approach.
- Peptic ulcer surgery in 1994.
- Laparoscopic posterior vagotomy and anterior seromyotomy.
- Laparoscopy-assisted aortobifemoral bypass.
- Laparoscopic vagotomy for chronic duodenal ulcer Disease.
- [Dissection of the Calot''s triangle by the celioscopic approach].
- Laparoscopic resection of solid Liver tumours.
- Laparoscopic evaluation of penetrating thoracoAbdominal traumatic injuries.
- Totally extraperitoneal laparoscopic lumbar sympathectomy: an initial case report.
- Unresolved issues in laparoscopic splenectomy.
- [Elective treatment of duodenal ulcer by laparoscopic posterior troncular vagotomy and anterior seromyotomy].
- Long-term results of a prospective randomized comparison of total fundic wrap (Nissen-Rossetti) or semifundoplication (Toupet) for gastro-oEsophageal reflux.
- Laparoscopic Liver surgery. A report on 28 patients.
- An improved technique for laparoscopic highly selective vagotomy using harmonic shears.
- Laparoscopic splenectomy: outcome and efficacy in 103 consecutive patients.
- Orthotopic Liver transplantation with and without peritoneal drainage: a comparative study.
- Laparoscopic management of benign solid and cystic lesions of the Liver.
- Laparoscopic finger-assisted technique (fingeroscopy) for treatment of complicated appendicitis.
- A new form of access for endo-organ surgery. The initial experience with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
- Laparoscopic repair of perforated duodenal ulcers: outcome and efficacy in 30 consecutive patients.
- Laparoscopic splenectomy for hematologic Disease.
- Laparoscopic extraperitoneal inguinal Hernia repair. A safe approach based on the understanding of rectus sheath anatomy.
- Visual identification of the cystic duct-CBD junction during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (visual cholangiography): an additional step for prevention of CBD injuries.
- Is laparoscopic approach to lumbar spine fusion worthwhile?
- Management of duodenal perforation after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and sphincterotomy.
- Possibilities of laparoscopic Liver resection.
- Laparoscopic management of benign cystic lesions of the Liver.
- Laparoscopic management of benign Liver disease.
- Laparoscopic repair of chronic intrathoracic gastric volvulus.
- Images of interest. GastroIntestinal: complications of fundoplication.
- Once more, with feeling: handoscopy or the rediscovery of the virtues of the surgeon''s hand.
- Use of fibrin sealant for prosthetic mesh fixation in laparoscopic extraperitoneal inguinal Hernia repair.
- IntraAbdominal abscess rate after laparoscopic appendectomy.
- Predictors of response after laparoscopic splenectomy for immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
- Selective nonoperative management in 1,856 patients with Abdominal gunshot wounds: should routine laparotomy still be the standard of care?
- Healing of traumatic diaphragm injuries: comparison of laparoscopic versus open techniques in an animal model.
Schools
Universite De Nice SophiaAntipolis Ufr De Medecine
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Biopsy of Breast
- Colectomy
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Atelectasis
- Carcinoma in Situ
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Top Doctors:LA Area
- Fellow
- Super Doctor
Hospital
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Keck Hospital of USC
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1164450714 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KATKHOUDA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | NAMIR | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 900335324 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 67.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 14.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 20.9 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1164450714 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KATKHOUDA |
| First Name Of The Provider | NAMIR |
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