Physician

Thoracic Surgery

Litwin works in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He attended Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. Litwin is a published MD as well. He has 59 publications published. The latest was: Advances in the care of children with heart disease.

Publications

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• Aortic Aneurysms Remain a Significant Source of Morbidity and Mortality After Use of Dacron(®) Patch Aortoplasty to Repair Coarctation of the Aorta: Results from a Sin...
• Unobstructive total anomalous pulmonary venous return: impact of early elective repair on the need for prolonged mechanical ventilatory support.
• Complex atrioventricular canal.
• The double patch repair for complete atrioventricularis communis.
• Complex aortic valve repair as a durable and effective alternative to valve replacement in children with aortic valve disease.
• Aortic valve repair.
• Surgical therapy for sudden cardiac death in children.
• Home surveillance program prevents interstage mortality after the Norwood procedure.
• Cellular redistribution of inducible Hsp70 protein in the human and rabbit heart in response to the stress of chronic hypoxia: role of protein kinases,.
• 25-year follow-up of homograft aortic conduits for coarctation repair.
• Improved survival of patients undergoing palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome: lessons learned from 115 consecutive patients.
• Safety of aprotinin use and re-use in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery.
• Activation of protein kinases in chronically hypoxic infant human and rabbit hearts: role in cardioprotection.
• Successful resuscitation of a child after exsanguination due to aortoesophageal fistula from undiagnosed foreign body.
• Factors related to pleural effusions after Fontan procedure in the era of fenestration.
• Factors affecting longevity of homograft valves used in right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction for congenital heart disease.
• Venous saturation and the anaerobic threshold in neonates after the Norwood procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
• Patients at risk for low systemic oxygen delivery after the Norwood procedure.
• Recent advances in the surgical management of the single ventricle pediatric patient.
• Phenoxybenzamine improves systemic oxygen delivery after the Norwood procedure.
• Advances in the care of children with heart disease.
• Aprotinin improves outcome of single-ventricle palliation.
• Twenty-year experience with repair of complete atrioventricular septal defects.
• Anomalous coronary artery in tetralogy.
• Does an additional source of pulmonary blood flow alter outcome after a bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt?
• Mixed venous oxygen saturation monitoring after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
• Ascending aorta-right pulmonary artery shunt in infants and older patients with certain types of cyanotic congenital heart disease.
• Hypoxemia and pulmonary hyperperfusion due to systemic collateral arteries after total repair of transposition of the great arteries.
• Pulmonary artery plication: a new surgical procedure for small infants with type I truncus arteriosus.
• Left ventricular aneurysmectomy in a child. Treatment of anomalous left coronary artery.
• The medical and surgical management of patients with congenital heart disease. A survey of current knowledge and practices.
• Cor triatriatum.
• Closure of Potts anastomoses in the total repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
• The Senning procedure for repair of d-transposition of the great arteries.
• Progress and problems in the surgical management of congenital aortic stenosis.
• Appraisal of surgical atrial septectomy for transposition of the great arteries.
• Bilateral semilunar valvotomies using inflow occlusion in a neonate.
• Results of Mustard''s repair for dextro-transposition of the great arteries.
• A palliative operation for certain infants with aortic arch interruption.
• Atrial septectomy in patients with D-transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and severe pulmonary vascular obstructive disease.
• Critical pulmonary stenosis with a diminutive right ventricle in neonates.
• Surgical management of young infants with tetralogy of Fallot, absence of the pulmonary valve, and respiratory distress.
• Systemic to pulmonary arterial shunts for patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease: current status.
• The spectrum of clinical manifestation of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery and surgical management.
• Management of arterial injuries related to cardiac catheterization in children and young adults.
• Surgical resection of coarctation of the aorta in infancy.
• Lymphoscintigraphy. Pulmonary lymphangiectasia.
• Persistent reactivity of patent ductus with a review of the mechanism of spontaneous closure.
• Phase II study of paclitaxel, carboplatin, and cetuximab as first line treatment, for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): results of OPN-017.
• Anomalous systemic arterial supply to the lung causing pulmonary-artery hypertension.
• An animal model for the study of chronic hypoxemia including long-term follow-up results.
• Recent results of cardiovascular surgery in infants in the first year of life.
• Observations on the development of subaortic stenosis following pulmonary artery banding.
• Critical pulmonary stenosis in infants: a surgical emergency.
• Long-term studies of hemoglobin-oxygen affinity in hypoxemic dogs with a right-to-left cardiac shunt.
• Effect of sodium ortho-iodobenzoate on oxygen transport and erythropoiesis in hypoxemic dogs with a right-to-left cardiac shunt.
• Effects of chronic right-to-left cardiac shunt on hypoxic sensitivity of mongrel dogs.
• Radionuclide cardioangiographic demonstration of a coronary artery fistula.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Cincinnati Genl Hospital

• Chldns Hospital Med Center

• Massachusetts General Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Boston Children's Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• University Hospital - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School

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