Physician
General Surgery
Dr. Stephen J. Kovach III, MD
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Stephen Kovach works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine. George Washington University School of Medicine is ranked 67 in research and 0 in primary care medicine He has 1 awards "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Stephen J. Kovach III, MD is a published physician. He published 94 publications, including: 'Surgically Treated Hernia following Abdominally Based Autologous Breast Reconstruction: Prevalence, Outcomes, and Expenditures.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Surgically Treated Hernia following Abdominally Based Autologous Breast Reconstruction: Prevalence, Outcomes, and Expenditures.
- The Timing of Breast Irradiation in Two-Stage Expander/Implant Breast Reconstruction.
- Acute kidney injury after open ventral hernia repair: an analysis of the 2005-2012 ACS-NSQIP datasets.
- Geographic Variation in Access to Plastic Surgeons.
- Striving for Normalcy after Lower Extremity Reconstruction with Free Tissue: The Role of Secondary Esthetic Refinements.
- Reply: Venous Thromboembolism in Body Contouring: An Analysis of 17,774 Patients from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Databases.
- A Cost-Utility Assessment of Mesh Selection in Clean-Contaminated Ventral Hernia Repair.
- Creation and validation of a condition-specific venous thromboembolism risk assessment tool for ventral hernia repair.
- Loupes-Only Microsurgery is a Safe Alternative to the Operating Microscope: An Analysis of 1,649 Consecutive Free Flap Breast Reconstructions.
- A simplified approach to reconstruction of hemipelvectomy defects with lower extremity free fillet flaps to minimize ischemia time.
- Cost-utility analysis of the use of prophylactic mesh augmentation compared with primary fascial suture repair in patients at high risk for incisional hernia.
- Incisional Hernia: Daily Cases.
- Abdominal Wall Miscellaneous.
- Trial & Guidelines.
- Topic: Abdominal Wall Hernia - Epigastric hernia: choice of approach, repair, results, follow up.
- Incisional Hernia: Plastic Aspects, Component Separation, Technical Details & Pediatrics.
- Complex Cases in Abdominal Wall Repair and Prophilactic Mesh.
- Incisional Hernia: Difficult Cases 2.
- Use of Intercostal Perforating Veins and Long Arterial Grafts for Latissimus Myocutaneous Free Flap Reconstruction of Radiated Low Back Wounds.
- Vein grafting your way out of trouble: Examining the utility and efficacy of vein grafts in microsurgery.
- Predicting and managing donor-site wound complications in abdominally based free flap breast reconstruction: improved outcomes with early reoperative closure.
- Readmission following ventral hernia repair: a model derived from the ACS-NSQIP datasets.
- The thoracoplastic approach to chest wall reconstruction: preliminary results of a multidisciplinary approach to minimize morbidity.
- Wound risk assessment in ventral hernia repair: generation and internal validation of a risk stratification system using the ACS-NSQIP.
- Complex Wound Management in Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Patients: The Role of Aggressive Debridement and Vascularized Soft Tissue Coverage.
- Assessing Surgical and Medical Complications in Bilateral Abdomen-Based Free Flap Breast Reconstructions Compared With Unilateral Free Flap Breast Reconstructions.
- A Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal and Vascular Trauma Protocol in a Children's Hospital May Improve Treatment Response Times and Appropriate Microvascular Coverage.
- Reply: Assessing Risk Factors of Respiratory Complications following Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.
- Predictive risk model of 30-day mortality in plastic and reconstructive surgery patients.
- Mastectomy with or without immediate implant reconstruction has similar 30-day perioperative outcomes.
- The Limited Incision Harvest of the Rectus Femoris Flap for Complex Groin Wound Management.
- Low Wound Complication Rates for the Lateral Extensile Approach for Calcaneal ORIF When the Lateral Calcaneal Artery Is Patent.
- Analysis of perioperative factors associated with increased cost following abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR).
- Assessing complications and cost-utilization in ventral hernia repair utilizing biologic mesh in a bridged underlay technique.
- Does Breast Reconstruction Impact the Decision of Patients to Pursue Cosmetic Surgery?
- Medicinal leeches for surgically uncorrectable venous congestion after free flap breast reconstruction.
- Risk factors associated with early failure in complex abdominal wall reconstruction: A 5 year single surgeon experience.
- Abstract 48: An Internally Validated Risk Model of Deep Sternal Wound Infection (DSWI): A Review of 5,179 Patients Undergoing Index Median Sternotomy Procedures.
- Abstract 36: Risk Assessment of Immediate Breast Reconstruction Relative to Mastectomy Alone: Analysis of 30-day Complications Using the ACS-NSQIP.
- Propensity-Matched, Longitudinal Outcomes Analysis of Complications and Cost: Comparing Abdominal Free Flaps and Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction.
- A Population-Level Analysis of Bilateral Breast Reduction: Does Age Affect Early Complications?
- Free Flap Lower Extremity Reconstruction in the Obese Population: Does Weight Matter?
- Do Prior Abdominal Surgeries Increase Complications in Abdominally Based Breast Reconstructions?
- Free Tissue Transfer for Complex Reconstruction of the Lower Extremity: Experience of a Young Microsurgeon.
- Among 1,706 cases of abdominal wall reconstruction, what factors influence the occurrence of major operative complications?
- A population-level analysis of abdominal wall reconstruction by component separation in the morbidly obese patient: Can it be performed safely?
- Obesity and early complications following reduction mammaplasty: An analysis of 4545 patients from the 2005-2011 NSQIP datasets.
- Effect of BMI on modality-specific outcomes in immediate breast reconstruction (IBR)-a propensity-matched analysis using the 2005-2011 ACS-NSQIP datasets.
- Analysis of Risk Factors, Morbidity, and Cost Associated with Respiratory Complications following Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.
- Patterns of preoperative laboratory testing in patients undergoing outpatient plastic surgery procedures.
- Concurrent panniculectomy with open ventral hernia repair has added risk versus ventral hernia repair: An analysis of the ACS-NSQIP database.
- The impact of surgical resident participation in breast reduction surgery - Outcome analysis from the 2005-2011 ACS-NSQIP datasets.
- Abdominal wall reconstruction in the obese: an assessment of complications from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program datasets.
- The impact of perforator number on deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction.
- A 30-day risk assessment of mastectomy alone compared to immediate breast reconstruction (IBR).
- Validated model for predicting postoperative respiratory failure: analysis of 1706 abdominal wall reconstructions.
- The use epidurals in abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR): an analysis of outcomes and cost.
- Optimizing the fascial closure: an analysis of 1261 abdominally based free flap reconstructions.
- Complications in Body Contouring Procedures: An Analysis of 1,797 Patients From the 2006-2010 ACS-NSQIP Databases.
- Impact of Obesity on Outcomes in Breast Reconstruction: Analysis of 15,937 Patients from the ACS-NSQIP Datasets.
- Outcome analysis of 244 consecutive flaps for managing complex groin wounds.
- A review of propeller flaps for distal lower extremity soft tissue reconstruction: Is flap loss too high?
- Factors associated with readmission following plastic surgery- a review of 10,669 procedures from 2011 American College of Surgeons Nation Surgery Quality Improvement ...
- Perioperative management of a patient scheduled for bilateral hand transplant.
- Free tissue transfer in the obese patient: an outcome and cost analysis in 1258 consecutive abdominally based reconstructions.
- A Retrospective Review of Outcomes and Flap Selection in Free Tissue Transfers for Complex Lower Extremity Reconstruction.
- A 15-year Experience of Complex Scalp Reconstruction Using Free Tissue Transfer-Analysis of Risk Factors for Complications.
- Comprehensive outcome and cost analysis of free tissue transfer for breast reconstruction: an experience with 1303 flaps.
- Lower Extremity Free Flap Outcomes Using an Anastomotic Venous Coupler Device.
- Transfusions in Autologous Breast Reconstructions: An Analysis of Risk Factors, Complications, and Cost.
- Free Flap Take-Back following Postoperative Microvascular Compromise: Predicting Salvage versus Failure.
- Strategies for recognizing and managing intraoperative venous congestion in abdominally based autologous breast reconstruction.
- Late venous thrombosis in free flap breast reconstruction: strategies for salvage after this real entity.
- Free Tissue Transfer in the Hypercoagulable Patient: A Review of 58 Flaps.
- Acellular dermal matrix: general principles for the plastic surgeon.
- Closer to an Understanding of Fate - The Role of Vascular Complications in Free Flap Breast Reconstruction.
- An evidence-based approach to lower extremity acute trauma.
- Does previous chest wall irradiation increase vascular complications in free autologous breast reconstruction?
- The respective roles of plastic and orthopedic surgery in limb salvage.
- Role for trauma in inducing pencil "lead" granuloma in the Skin.
- 1000 consecutive venous anastomoses using the microvascular anastomotic coupler in breast reconstruction.
- Open tibial shaft fractures: II. Definitive management and limb salvage.
- Open tibial shaft fractures: I. Evaluation and initial wound management.
- Skin banking in autologous breast reconstruction.
- Advantages of minimally invasive, balloon-dissector-assisted tissue expander placement: a clinical and experimental study.
- Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors.
- The "banked" TRAM: a method to insure mastectomy Skin-flap survival.
- Ipsilateral reversed free fibula transfer for femoral shaft reconstruction: a modification of a previously reported technique.
- Role of cyclic-AMP responsive element binding (CREB) proteins in cell proliferation in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Hypophosphatemia after 95 right-lobe living-donor hepatectomies for liver transplantation is not a significant source of morbidity.
- Insulin-like growth factor I is a comitogen for hepatocyte growth factor in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Torsion of a wandering spleen.
- Cryoablation of unresectable pancreatic Cancer.
Schools
George Washington University School of Medicine And Health Sciences
Procedures Preformed
- Adjacent Tissue Transfer
- 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
- Hidradenitis
- Skin Cancer
- Third-Degree Burns
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
- Plastic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Duke University Hospital -
University of Rochester -
Georgetown University Hospital -
George Washington University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Pennsylvania Hospital -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
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