Dr. Walter J Chwals MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
11100 Euclid Ave Cleveland OH, 44106About
Dr. Walter Chwals practices Pediatric Surgery in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Chwals treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Chwalsdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Coll Med- Univ Jagiellonski- Krakow- Poland 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anabolic recovery relative to degree of prematurity after acute injury in neonates.
- Salivary gland choristoma of the anterior chest wall.
- Intraventricular pressure dynamics in ventriculocholecystic shunting: a telemetric study.
- Bile decompression in children with histopathological evidence of pre-existing liver cirrhosis.
- Minimally invasive surgery for pediatric solid neoplasms.
- Metabolism and nutritional frontiers in pediatric surgical patients.
- Thoracoscopic thymectomy in children with myasthenia gravis.
- Serum visceral protein levels reflect protein-calorie repletion in neonates
- Hirschsprung's disease: a possible cause of anastomotic failure following repair of intestinal atresia.
- The management of overweight and obese children.
- Dexamethasone treatment during ventilator dependency: possible life threatening gastrointestinal complications.
- Regulation of the cellular and physiological effects of glutamine.
- C-Reactive protein-determined injury severity: length of stay predictor in surgical infants.
- A comparison of total body water measurements using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging versus tritium dilution in primates.
- Broad line quantitative chemical shift spectroscopy.
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