Professor, Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He studied medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is one of the top medical schools in the US. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is ranked 13 in research and 7 in primary care medicine He received awards:"First Emerson Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery", "Regional Top Doctor", "Young Investigator Abstract Award", ""Best Poster" Competition", "Young Investigator Award", "1st Place, Basic Sciences Young Investigator Award", "Vincent L. Gott Award", "John Henry Smith Award", "Fellow (FACC)", "Fellow (FACS)", "Alumni Achievement Award", "Mandel Scholarship", "Teaching Recognition Award", "NIH Tumor Immunology Fellowship Award", "NIH M.S.T.P. Fellowship Award", "Departmental Scholar Medal (Biochemistry)", "Departmental Honors (Chemistry and /Biochemistry)", "College Honors Research Award" and "Alumni Association Achievement Award". Pirooz Eghtesady, MD is also a published MD. He has 58 paper published. The most recent paper is: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia associated with aortic coarctation.

Publications

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• Recommendations for utilization of the paracorporeal lung assist device in neonates and young children with Pulmonary hypertension.
• Potts Shunt and Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: What We Have Learned.
• Current approaches to device implantation in pediatric and congenital heart Disease patients.
• Successful bridge through transplantation with berlin heart ventricular assist device in a child with failing fontan.
• Application of the Aviation Black Box Principle in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Tracking All Failures in the Pediatric Cardiac Operating Room.
• The surgical prebrief as part of a five-point comprehensive approach to improving pediatric cardiac surgical team communication.
• B-type natriuretic peptide trends after pediatric heart transplantation.
• Congenital Heart Disease Linked to Maternal Autoimmunity against Cardiac Myosin.
• Two deletions overlapping a distant FOXF1 enhancer unravel the role of lncRNA LINC01081 in etiology of alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of Pulmonary veins.
• Liver cirrhosis in Fontan patients does not affect 1-year post-heart transplant mortality or markers of liver function.
• Improved outcomes with peritoneal dialysis catheter placement after cardioPulmonary bypass in infants.
• Defining the best practice patterns for the neonatal systemic-to-Pulmonary artery shunt procedure.
• Prime oxygen concentration has no effect on placental vascular resistance for fetal cardiac bypass.
• Association of Pulmonary conduit type and size with durability in infants and young children.
• Paracorporeal lung assist devices as a bridge to recovery or lung transplantation in neonates and young children.
• Paracorporeal lung assist device: An innovative surgical strategy for bridging to lung transplant in an infant with severe Pulmonary hypertension caused by alveolar ca...
• Anesthetic techniques for fetal surgery: effects of maternal anesthesia on intraoperative fetal outcomes in a sheep model.
• Prioritizing quality improvement in pediatric cardiac surgery.
• Neonatal paracorporeal lung assist device for respiratory failure.
• Studies of fetal cardiac bypass.
• Harmful effects of fentanyl on the fetus and placenta?
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Rheumatic heart Disease of the fetus?
• Vacuum-assisted venous drainage during fetal cardioPulmonary bypass.
• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia complicating support by the Berlin Heart.
• Maternal-fetal interactions in fetal cardiac surgery.
• Use of a ventricular assist device in a single-ventricle patient.
• CardioPulmonary bypass in the immature fetus through novel use of a mini-centrifugal pump.
• Revisiting animal models of aortic stenosis in the early gestation fetus.
• Fetal aortic stenosis and changes in amniotic fluid natriuretic peptides.
• Infant arch reconstruction during total system perfusion.
• Role of nitric oxide pathway in placental dysfunction following fetal bypass.
• A simple solution is "prime" for fetal cardioPulmonary bypass.
• Factors affecting long-term risk of aortic arch recoarctation after the Norwood procedure.
• Fetal stress response to fetal cardiac surgery.
• Role of natriuretic peptides in cGMP production in fetal cardiac bypass.
• Dynamic fluid shifts induced by fetal bypass.
• Lower weight-for-age z score adversely affects hospital length of stay after the bidirectional Glenn procedure in 100 infants with a single ventricle.
• Outcomes of the bidirectional Glenn procedure in patients less than 3 months of age.
• Application of near-infrared spectroscopy during fetal cardiac surgery.
• Predictors of poor weight gain in infants with a single ventricle.
• Fetal surgical management of congenital heart block in a hydropic fetus: lessons learned from a clinical experience.
• Seasonality of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in the United States: a 10-year time-series analysis.
• Fetal right ventricular myocardial function is better preserved by fibrillatory arrest during fetal cardiac bypass.
• Myocardial function after fetal cardiac bypass in an ovine model.
• Low weight-for-age z-score and infection risk after the Fontan procedure.
• Tracheal Dehiscence Following Slide Tracheoplasty: Use of ECMO, Prolonged Extubation and Lung Recruitment Maneuvers to Optimize Patient Outcomes.
• Changes in fetal ovine metabolism and oxygen delivery with fetal bypass.
• Risk factors for mortality and morbidity after the neonatal Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure.
• Expression of mouse Tla region class I genes in tissues enriched for gamma delta cells.
• Analysis of MHC class I gene expression in adult bone marrow and fetal liver of the BALB/c mouse.
• Expression of the thymus leukemia antigen in mouse intestinal epithelium.
• Structure and function of H-2 T (Tla) region class I MHC molecules.
• Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes are activated and cytolytic but do not proliferate as well as other T cells in response to mitogenic signals.
• The cost-benefit of a randomized trial to a health care organization.
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia associated with aortic coarctation.
• Maternal β-Hemolytic Streptococcal Pharyngeal Exposure and Colonization in Pregnancy.
• Outcomes of children implanted with ventricular assist devices in the United States: First analysis of the Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Su...

Schools

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• University Of California Los Angeles School Of Medicine

• Stanford Hospital

• Johns Hopkins Hospital

• Stanford

Procedures Preformed

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• Maze Procedure
• Valve Repair or Replacement (Aortic, Mitral, Tricuspid, and Pulmonary)

Conditions Treated

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• Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
• Mitral Valve Disease
• Pulmonary Valve Disease

Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiac Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• First Emerson Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Regional Top Doctor
• Young Investigator Abstract Award
• "Best Poster" Competition
• Young Investigator Award
• 1st Place, Basic Sciences – Young Investigator Award
• Vincent L. Gott Award
• John Henry Smith Award
• Fellow (FACC)
• Fellow (FACS)
• Alumni Achievement Award
• Mandel Scholarship
• Teaching Recognition Award
• NIH Tumor Immunology Fellowship Award
• NIH M.S.T.P. Fellowship Award
• Departmental Scholar Medal (Biochemistry)
• Departmental Honors (Chemistry and /Biochemistry)
• College Honors Research Award
• Alumni Association Achievement Award

Education

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• Johns Hopkins University
• Stanford University
• David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Hospital

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• St. Louis Children's Hospital
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital

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