Physician
Plastic Surgery
Dr. Richard J. Restifo, MD
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Richard Restifo is an expert in the field of Plastic Surgery. He attended Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical university. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received 3 awards: "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area", "Top MD" and "Fellow (FACS)". Richard Restifo is also a published physician. He has 31 publication published. The most recent publication is: The preconditioned TRAM flap: preliminary clinical experience.
Publications
- Surface area measurement of the female breast: phase I. Validation of a novel optical technique.
- TRAM Revisions and Contralateral Mammaplasties: The Role of "Mirror Image" Skin Patterns.
- Prostacyclin production at the human microvascular anastomosis: its effect on initial platelet deposition.
- An economical axial-pattern flap necrosis model.
- Aesthetic management of the breast following explantation: evaluation and mastopexy options.
- Heating pad burn of a reconstructed breast.
- Treatment of difficult TRAM flap hernias using intraperitoneal synthetic mesh application.
- The "aesthetic subunit" principle in late TRAM flap breast reconstruction.
- Secondary use of the rectus muscle pedicle for TRAM flap volume deficiencies.
- Frequent clones of p53-mutated keratinocytes in normal human skin.
- The natural history of pressure sores in a community hospital environment.
- Use of the operating microscope and loupes for head and neck free microvascular tissue transfer: a retrospective comparison.
- Endothelial cell growth factor enhances musculocutaneous flap survival through the process of neovascularization.
- Surgical delay in TRAM flap breast reconstruction: a comparison of 7- and 14-day delay periods.
- Breast reconstruction in previously irradiated patients using tissue expanders and implants: a potentially unfavorable result.
- Vertical mammaplasty: technique and complications.
- Arterial coupling for microvascular free tissue transfer in head and neck reconstruction.
- Timing, magnitude, and utility of surgical delay in the TRAM flap: II. Clinical studies.
- Transferring vascular territories from one axial pattern flap to another: a comparison of delay procedures.
- The preconditioned TRAM flap: preliminary clinical experience.
- The effect of prolonged clamping and vascular stasis on the patency of arterial and venous microanastomoses.
- Ischemic preconditioning of musculocutaneous flaps: effects of ischemia cycle length and number of cycles.
- Comparison of the effects of ischemic preconditioning and surgical delay on pedicled musculocutaneous flap survival in a rat model.
- Distal dorsal forearm flap.
- The extended lateral arm free flap for head and neck reconstruction: the Yale experience.
- A new experimental model: the vascular pedicled cutaneous flap over the mid-dorsum of the rat.
- Microsurgery for cranial base tumors.
- Ischemic preconditioning improves the survival of skin and myocutaneous flaps in a rat model.
- TRAM flap perforator ligation and the delay phenomenon: development of an endoscopic/laparoscopic delay procedure.
- Timing, magnitude, and utility of surgical delay in the TRAM flap: I. Animal studies.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Georgetown University Hospital
University Of Pittsburgh
Procedures Preformed
- Abdominoplasty
- Breast Lift Surgery
- Breast Reconstruction
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Gynecomastia
Doctors Specialties
- Plastic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors: New York Metro Area
- Top MD
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Georgetown University Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Yale-New Haven Hospital