Physician
General Surgery
Dr. Tom R. Demeester, MD
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Demeester works in the field of General Surgery. He went to University of Michigan Medical School. He over the years received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FACG)". Demeester is also published. He has 90 publications published. The lastest publication: "Regarding "Two-year results of intermittent electrical stimulation of the lower esophageal sphincter treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease".'
Publications
- Regarding "Two-year results of intermittent electrical stimulation of the lower Esophageal sphincter treatment of gastroEsophageal reflux disease".
- Rat Reflux Model of Esophageal Cancer and Its Implication in Human Disease.
- The State of Surgical Treatment of GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease after Five Decades.
- Long-Term Quality of Life and Alimentary Satisfaction After Esophagectomy With Colon Interposition.
- Intraoperative Assessment of Perfusion of the Gastric Graft and Correlation With Anastomotic Leaks After Esophagectomy.
- The University of Chicago Contribution to the Treatment of GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease and Its Complications: A Tribute to David B. Skinner 1935-2003.
- Safety Analysis of first 1000 patients treated with magnetic sphincter augmentation for gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- Laparoscopic Wedge Fundectomy for Collis Gastroplasty Creation in Patients With a Foreshortened Esophagus.
- Ineffective Surveillance Does Not Improve Survival in Patients With Barrett's Who Progress to Adenocarcinoma.
- Alimentary satisfaction, gastroIntestinal symptoms, and quality of life 10 or more years after esophagectomy with gastric pull-up.
- Utilization of wireless pH monitoring technologies: a summary of the proceedings from the Esophageal Diagnostic Working Group.
- Preoperative Diagnostic Workup before Antireflux Surgery: An Evidence and Experience-Based Consensus of the Esophageal Diagnostic Advisory Panel.
- Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus in the Young.
- Home self-dilatation for Esophageal strictures.
- Effect of Barrett's esophagus surveillance on Esophageal preservation, tumor stage, and survival with Esophageal adenocarcinoma.
- The LINX(®) reflux management system: confirmed safety and efficacy now at 4 years.
- Intraluminal pH and Goblet Cell Density in Barrett's Esophagus.
- Laparoscopic versus Open Repair of Paraesophageal Hernia: The Second Decade.
- Thoraco-Abdominal Pressure Gradients During the Phases of Respiration Contribute to Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.
- Day-to-day discrepancy in Bravo pH monitoring is related to the degree of deterioration of the lower Esophageal sphincter and severity of reflux disease.
- The prevalence of lymph node metastases in patients with T1 Esophageal adenocarcinoma a retrospective review of esophagectomy specimens.
- Endoscopic resection and ablation versus esophagectomy for high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal adenocarcinoma.
- Loss of alkalization in proximal esophagus: a new diagnostic paradigm for patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux.
- The histologic squamo-oxyntic gap: an accurate and reproducible diagnostic marker of gastroEsophageal reflux disease.
- Long-term follow-up after anti-reflux surgery in patients with Barrett's esophagus.
- The impact of gastric distension on the lower Esophageal sphincter and its exposure to acid gastric juice.
- Genetic variations in angiogenesis pathway genes predict tumor recurrence in localized adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
- Progressive mucosal injury in patients with gastroEsophageal reflux disease and increasing peripheral blood eosinophil counts.
- Recurrence after esophagectomy for adenocarcinoma: defining optimal follow-up intervals and testing.
- Esophageal intraepithelial eosinophils in dysphagic patients with gastroEsophageal reflux disease.
- Proximal Esophageal pH monitoring: improved definition of normal values and determination of a composite pH score.
- The value of high-resolution manometry in the assessment of the resting characteristics of the lower Esophageal sphincter.
- Clinical characteristics, biologic behavior, and survival after esophagectomy are similar for adenocarcinoma of the gastroEsophageal junction and the distal esophagus.
- Obesity and gastroEsophageal reflux: quantifying the association between body mass index, Esophageal acid exposure, and lower Esophageal sphincter status in a large se...
- Delayed esophagogastrostomy: a safe strategy for management of patients with ischemic gastric conduit at time of esophagectomy.
- Survival in lymph node negative adenocarcinoma of the esophagus after R0 resection with and without neoadjuvant therapy: evidence for downstaging of N status.
- Hiatal hernia, lower esophageal sphincter incompetence, and effectiveness of Nissen fundoplication in the spectrum of gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- Bravo catheter-free pH monitoring: normal values, concordance, optimal diagnostic thresholds, and accuracy.
- An improved method of assessing Esophageal emptying using the timed barium study following surgical myotomy for achalasia.
- Predicting systemic disease in patients with esophageal Cancer after esophagectomy: a multinational study on the significance of the number of involved lymph nodes.
- The number of lymph nodes removed predicts survival in esophageal Cancer: an international study on the impact of extent of surgical resection.
- Plasma DNA is more reliable than carcinoembryonic antigen for diagnosis of recurrent esophageal Cancer.
- Use of a magnetic sphincter for the treatment of GERD: a feasibility study.
- High intraepithelial eosinophil counts in Esophageal squamous epithelium are not specific for eosinophilic esophagitis in adults.
- Vagal-sparing esophagectomy.
- Vagal-sparing esophagectomy: the ideal operation for intramucosal adenocarcinoma and barrett with high-grade dysplasia.
- Towards the molecular characterization of disease: comparison of molecular and histological Analysis of esophageal epithelia.
- Reduction of interleukin 8 gene expression in reflux esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus with antireflux surgery.
- Plasma DNA as a molecular marker for completeness of resection and recurrent disease in patients with esophageal Cancer.
- Carcinogenesis in reflux Disease--in search for bile-specific effects.
- Increasing cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) gene expression in the progression of Barrett's esophagus to adenocarcinoma correlates with that of Bcl-2.
- Clinical biology and surgical therapy of intramucosal adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.
- Antireflux surgery normalizes cyclooxygenase-2 expression in squamous epithelium of the distal esophagus.
- The impact of reflux composition on mucosal injury and Esophageal function.
- Response of the lower Esophageal sphincter to gastric distention by carbonated beverages.
- Molecular determinants in targeted therapy for Esophageal adenocarcinoma.
- Modern 5-year survival of resectable Esophageal adenocarcinoma: single institution experience with 263 patients.
- Increased CDX2 and decreased PITX1 homeobox gene expression in Barrett's esophagus and Barrett's-associated adenocarcinoma.
- Survivin, a potential biomarker in the development of Barrett's adenocarcinoma.
- Gastric electrical stimulation: an alternative surgical therapy for patients with gastroparesis.
- Comparison of the clinical and histological characteristics and survival of distal Esophageal-gastroEsophageal junction adenocarcinoma in patients with and without bar...
- Barrett's esophagus in females: a comparative Analysis of risk factors in females and males.
- The mutagenic potential of duodenoEsophageal reflux.
- Quantitative, tissue-specific Analysis of cyclooxygenase gene expression in the pathogenesis of Barrett's adenocarcinoma.
- Omeprazole does not reduce gastroEsophageal reflux: new insights using multichannel intraluminal impedance technology.
- Cardiac mucosa in the remnant esophagus after esophagectomy is an acquired epithelium with Barrett's-like features.
- Increased acid exposure in patients with gastroEsophageal reflux disease influences cyclooxygenase-2 gene expression in the squamous epithelium of the lower esophagus.
- En bloc vs transHiatal esophagectomy for stage T3 N1 adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus.
- Prevalence and risk factors for ischemia, leak, and stricture of Esophageal anastomosis: gastric pull-up versus colon interposition.
- Preoperative lower Esophageal sphincter pressure affects outcome of laparoscopic Esophageal myotomy for achalasia.
- Surgical management of hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter with dysphagia or chest Pain.
- The duodenal switch operation for the treatment of morbid obesity.
- Ambulatory 24-hour Esophageal pH monitoring: why, when, and what to do.
- The hypertensive lower Esophageal sphincter: a motility disorder with manometric features of outflow obstruction.
- Manometry of the lower Esophageal sphincter: inter- and intraindividual variability of slow motorized pull-through versus station pull-through manometry.
- Barrett's esophagus can and does regress after antireflux surgery: a study of prevalence and predictive features.
- Staging of Esophageal carcinoma.
- Editorial comment: The short esophagus: going, going, gone?
- Vascular endothelial growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor expression in Esophageal adenocarcinoma and Barrett esophagus.
- Microvasive gastric stapler: the device, technique, and preclinical results.
- Excellent quality of life after Nissen fundoplication depends on successful elimination of reflux symptoms and not the invasiveness of the surgical approach.
- Cytokeratin and DAS-1 immunostaining reveal similarities among cardiac mucosa, CIM, and Barrett's esophagus.
- Vagal-sparing esophagectomy: a more physiologic alternative.
- A safe and noninvasive test for vagal integrity revisited.
- Controversies in the current therapy of carcinoma of the esophagus.
- Glutathione S-transferase-pi expression is downregulated in patients with Barrett's esophagus and Esophageal adenocarcinoma.
- Physiologic basis for the treatment of epiphrenic diverticulum.
- Physiologic mechanism and preoperative prediction of new-onset dysphagia after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.
- Absence of gastroEsophageal reflux disease in a majority of patients taking acid suppression medications after Nissen fundoplication.
Schools
University Of Michigan Medical School
Johns Hopkins Hospital
University Mich Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Appendicitis
- Breast Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FACG)
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers -
University of Michigan Medical School
Hospital
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Keck Hospital of USC
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