Associate Professor, Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School
General Surgery
Raja Kandaswamy, MB
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Raja Kandaswamy works in the field of General Surgery. He went to medical school at Kilpauk Medical College. He over the years received 2 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Raja Kandaswamy is also published. He has 96 publications published. The lastest publication: "Report from IPITA-TTS Opinion Leaders Meeting on the Future of -Cell Replacement.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Report from IPITA-TTS Opinion Leaders Meeting on the Future of β-Cell Replacement.
- Impact of early Biliary complications on long-term outcomes in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant recipients.
- Outcomes of pancreas retransplantation.
- OPTN/SRTR 2013 Annual Data Report: pancreas.
- OPTN/SRTR 2012 Annual Data Report: Pancreas.
- A Composite Risk Model for Predicting Technical Failure in Pancreas Transplantation.
- Prospective Randomized Trial of Maintenance Immunosuppression With Rapid Discontinuation of Prednisone in Adult Kidney Transplantation.
- Optimizing the program-specific reporting of pancreas transplant outcomes.
- OPTN/SRTR 2011 Annual Data Report: pancreas.
- Kidney, pancreas and Liver allocation and distribution in the United States.
- Comparison of rate of canine retraction with conventional molar anchorage and titanium implant anchorage.
- Steroid-free immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients: the University of Minnesota experience.
- Do inherited hypercoagulable states play a role in thrombotic events affecting kidney/pancreas transplant recipients?
- Stable kidney function in the second decade after kidney transplantation while on cyclosporine-based immunosuppression.
- Living or deceased donor kidney transplants for candidates with significant extrarenal morbidity.
- International trial of the Edmonton protocol for islet transplantation.
- Risk factors for rising creatinine in renal allografts with 1 and 3 yr survival.
- Steroid minimization in Liver transplant recipients: impact on hepatitis C recurrence and post-transplant diabetes.
- Over 500 solitary pancreas transplants in nonuremic patients with brittle diabetes mellitus.
- Technical failure of the pancreas after SPK transplant: are these patients good candidates for later pancreas retransplant?
- Posttransplant diabetes mellitus and acute rejection: impact on kidney transplant outcome.
- Pancreas allotransplants in patients with a previous total pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis.
- What happens to the kidney in an SPK transplant when the pancreas fails due to a technical complication?
- Diabetic gastroparesis-associated bezoar resolution via "cola-lysis".
- Five preventable causes of kidney graft loss in the 1990s: a single-center Analysis.
- Calcineurin inhibitor- and steroid-free immunosuppression in pancreas-kidney and solitary pancreas transplantation.
- A prospective randomized trial of steroid-free maintenance regimens in kidney transplant recipients--an interim Analysis.
- Laparoscopic donor distal pancreatectomy for living donor pancreas and pancreas-kidney transplantation.
- Prednisone-free maintenance immunosuppression-a 5-year experience.
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder in pancreas transplantation: a single-center experience.
- Outcomes of pancreas transplants for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Impact of two-layer pancreas preservation on islet isolation and transplantation.
- Predicting long-term kidney graft survival: can new trials be performed?
- Pancreas transplantation in crossmatch-positive recipients.
- Chronic rejection: the next major challenge for pancreas transplant recipients.
- Transplantation of cultured islets from two-layer preserved pancreases in type 1 diabetes with anti-CD3 antibody.
- The impact of donor obesity on outcomes after cadaver pancreas transplants.
- Risk factors and impact of delayed graft function after pancreas transplants.
- Outcome at 3 years with a prednisone-free maintenance regimen: a single-center experience with 349 kidney transplant recipients.
- Long-term immunosuppression, without maintenance prednisone, after kidney transplantation.
- Improvement in islet yield from obese donors for human islet transplants.
- Technical failures after pancreas transplants: why grafts fail and the risk factors--a multivariate Analysis.
- Rapid discontinuation of prednisone in higher-risk kidney transplant recipients.
- Single-donor, marginal-dose islet transplantation in patients with type 1 diabetes.
- Late anastomotic leaks in pancreas transplant recipients - clinical characteristics and predisposing factors.
- A comparison of surgical outcomes and quality of life surveys in right lobe vs. left lateral segment Liver donors.
- Whole liver versus split liver versus living donor in the adult recipient: an Analysis of outcomes by graft type.
- Kidney transplant half-life (t[1/2]) after rapid discontinuation of prednisone.
- Pancreas after living donor kidney transplants in diabetic patients: impact on long-term kidney graft function.
- Laparoscopic and da Vinci robot-assisted total pancreaticoduodenectomy and intraportal islet autotransplantation: case report of a definitive minimally invasive treatm...
- Long-term outcome in 42 pediatric Liver transplant patients with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency: a single-center experience.
- Mycophenolic acid in kidney transplant patients with diabetes mellitus: does the formulation matter?
- Pushing the envelope: living donor pancreas transplantation.
- Chylous ascites requiring surgical intervention after donor nephrectomy: case series and single center experience.
- Immunologic factors: the major risk for decreased long-term renal allograft survival.
- Clinical application of the two-layer (University of Wisconsin solution/perfluorochemical plus O2) method of pancreas preservation before transplantation.
- Optimal timing for a pancreas transplant after a successful kidney transplant.
- Risk factors for slow graft function after kidney transplants: a multivariate Analysis.
- Split Liver transplantation for two adult recipients: an initial experience.
- Laparoscopic simultaneous nephrectomy and distal pancreatectomy from a live donor.
- Kidney and pancreas transplantation without a crossmatch in select circumstances--it can be done.
- Steroid avoidance regimens: a comparison of outcomes with maintenance steroids versus continued steroid avoidance in recipients having an acute rejection episode.
- Steroid withdrawal in pancreas transplant recipients.
- Orthotopic placement of a segmental pancreas graft for transplant: a case report.
- Decreased surgical risks of pancreas transplantation in the modern era.
- The current role of calcineurin inhibitors in posttransplant immunosuppression?
- Can we maintain immunosuppression avoiding nephrotoxic agents in pancreas transplantation?
- Pancreas after kidney transplants.
- Pancreas after kidney transplants in posturemic patients with type I diabetes mellitus.
- Pancreas versus islet transplantation in diabetes mellitus: How to allocate deceased donor pancreata?
- Vascular graft Thrombosis after pancreas transplantation: comparison of the FK 506 and cyclosporine eras.
- Surgical complications requiring early relaparotomy after pancreas transplantation: comparison of the cyclosporine and FK 506 eras.
- Anti-CD25 antibody (daclizumab) maintenance therapy in pancreas transplantation.
- Pretransplant immunosuppression for pancreas transplants alone in nonuremic diabetic recipients.
- 5,000 kidney transplants--a single-center experience.
- Comparison of recipient outcomes following transplant from local versus imported pancreas donors.
- 2,500 living donor kidney transplants: a single-center experience.
- MRI is superior to angiography for evaluation of living-related simultaneous pancreas and kidney donors.
- Prolonged preservation increases surgical complications after pancreas transplants.
- Lessons learned from more than 1,000 pancreas transplants at a single institution.
- 2202 kidney transplant recipients with 10 years of graft function: what happens next?
- Rapid discontinuation of steroids in living donor kidney transplantation: a pilot study.
- Prolonged insulin independence after islet allotransplants in recipients with type 1 diabetes.
- Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. The University of Minnesota experience.
- Selective retransplant after graft loss to nonadherence: success with a second chance.
- Surgical risks and outcome of pancreas retransplants.
- Outcomes in clinical pancreas transplantation with the two-layer cold storage method versus simple storage in University of Wisconsin solution.
- Fungal infections in transplant recipients receiving alemtuzumab.
- Risk factors for kidney transplant acute rejection: a multivariate Analysis.
- Administration of OKT3 as a two-hour infusion does not attenuate first-dose side effects.
- Continuous real-time viability assessment of kidneys based on oxygen consumption.
- Transplantation without a final crossmatch-it can be done.
- Telementoring facilitates independent hand-assisted laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy.
- Impact of HLA-ABDR match on chronic rejection in kidney transplants.
- Laparoscopic vs open nephrectomy in 210 consecutive patients: outcomes, cost, and changes in practice patterns.
Schools
Government Kilpauk Medical College
Kilpauk Med College and Hospital
Howard University HospItal
University Toronto
University Mn
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Appendectomy, Open
- Arteriovenous Shunt Creation
- Biliary Drainage
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Appendicitis
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Howard University -
Kilpauk Medical College
Hospital
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University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1710079645 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KANDASWAMY | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | RAJA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 554550356 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MN | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 797.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1710079645 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KANDASWAMY |
| First Name Of The Provider | RAJA |
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