Professor, Surgery-General, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Santiago R. Vera, MD
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Santiago Vera works in the field of General Surgery. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Santiago Vera is a published doctor as well. He has 54 publications published. The latest was: Biliary, pancreatic, and sphincter of Oddi electrical and mechanical signals recorded during ERCP.
Publications
- A streamlined protocol for extracting RNA and genomic DNA from archived human blood and muscle.
- Score prognosis for the infertile couple based on historical factors and sperm Analysis.
- Cholestatic jaundice after hepatic transplantation. A nonimmunologically mediated event.
- Effect of pretransplant graft irradiation on canine intestinal transplantation.
- Liver transplantation with cyclosporine and low-dose corticosteroids.
- Kidney transplant lymphocele: treatment with laparoscopic drainage and omental packing.
- Portal vein obstruction in patients requiring hepatic resection or transplantation.
- Identification of main risk factors for tubal infertility.
- Survival following hepatic transplantation in the cyclosporine era.
- Serial immunologic studies in recipients of hepatic allografts.
- A technique for safe, frequent biopsy of the liver after hepatic transplantation.
- Identification of the nature of hemostatic failure during transplantation of the liver.
- Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation.
- Results of a prospective, randomized double-blind study comparing standard vs low-dose OKT3 induction therapy.
- Socioeconomic aspects of hepatic transplantation.
- Biliary, pancreatic, and sphincter of Oddi electrical and mechanical signals recorded during ERCP.
- Ruptured hepatic adenoma. A spectrum of presentation and treatment.
- Biopsy-directed immunosuppression following hepatic transplantation in man.
- The effect of donor source on the outcome of living related renal transplantation.
- Conventional immunosuppressive therapy in modern renal transplantation.
- Hepaticopancreaticogastroduodenectomy with transplantation for metastatic islet cell carcinoma in childhood.
- Routine early biopsy of allografts with delayed function: correlation of histopathology and transplant outcome.
- Patterns of expression of endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecules upon reVascularization of transplanted kidneys in correlation with allograft pathology.
- Eighteen years of experience with adult and pediatric liver transplantation at the University of Tennessee, Memphis.
- Renal transplant blood flow on TcDPTA scan predicts recovery from delayed graft function.
- Successful orthotopic liver transplantation in a child with Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
- Successful reversal of hyperacute renal allograft rejection with the anti-CD3 monoclonal OKT3.
- In-situ split-liver transplantation.
- Polyomavirus in kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant recipients.
- Retrospective evaluation of the risk of hepatitis B virus reactivation after transplantation.
- Liver biopsy in the long-term follow-up of liver transplant patients: still the gold standard.
- Randomized double-blind study of standard versus low-dose OKT3 induction therapy in renal allograft recipients.
- Glomerulosclerosis as a determinant of posttransplant function of older donor renal allografts.
- Detection of recurrent hepatitis B after OLT in patients treated with HBIG prophylaxis using graft-biopsy staining, anti-HBs titers and hepatitis B serology.
- Choice of surgical technique influences perioperative outcomes in liver transplantation.
- Duct-to-duct biliary reconstruction in right lobe adult living donor liver transplantation.
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders: single center experience.
- Ten years of chronic immunosuppressive therapy following orthotopic liver transplantation: impact on health and quality of life.
- Renal allograft outcomes in African American versus Caucasian transplant recipients in the tacrolimus era.
- Surgical technique for right lobe adult living donor liver transplantation without venovenous bypass or portocaval shunting and with duct-to-duct biliary reconstruction.
- Clinical observations of metabolic changes occurring in renal transplant recipients receiving ketoconazole.
- Conversion from cyclosporine to tacrolimus in kidney, kidney/pancreas, and pancreas alone transplant recipients: the Memphis experience.
- Evolving experience of hepatitis B virus prophylaxis in liver transplantation.
- Prevention of hepatitis B recurrence with indefinite hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) prophylaxis after liver transplantation.
- Psychiatric complications after liver transplantation.
- The importance of early prevention of renal dysfunction in liver transplant recipients.
- Posttransplant diabetes mellitus in liver transplant recipients.
- Comparison of sirolimus-based calcineurin inhibitor-sparing and calcineurin inhibitor-free regimens in cadaveric renal transplantation.
- Alpha-fetoprotein and tumour size are associated with microVascular invasion in explanted livers of patients undergoing transplantation with hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Liver transplantation for the treatment of nonresectable metastatic duodenal paraganglioma.
- Neuropsychiatric complications after liver transplantation: role of immunosuppression and hepatitis C.
- Impact of long-term immunosuppressive therapy on psychosocial and physical well being in liver transplant recipients.
- Liver transplantation for acute Budd-Chiari syndrome in identical twin sisters with Factor V leiden mutation.
Schools
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL VENEZUELA LUIS RAZETTI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
University Tenn Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Excision, Shaving, or Destruction of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue (incl. Mohs Micrographic Surgery), Tissue Transfer
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open
- Lymph Node Biopsy or Excision
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Conditions Treated
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
- Colorectal Cancer
- Hemorrhoids
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Tennessee -
Central University of Venezuela
Hospital
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University of Tennessee Medical Center
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