Dr. Peter John Horton M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
1265 UNION AVE MEMPHIS TN, 38104About
Dr. Peter Horton is a transplant surgeon practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Horton specializes in organ transplants, and may perform surgeries involved with the transplant of organs such as the kidneys, liver, pancreas, intestines, heart, lungs, tracheal tissue and more. As a transplant surgeon, Dr. Horton performs long, complex surgeries that might take many hours to complete. Transplant surgeons remove the organ from the donor as well as transplant the organ in the recipient. Dr. Horton works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adverse outcome of human islet-allogeneic blood interaction.
- Should trials of liver xenotransplantation proceed in toxic fulminant hepatic failure?
- Malignant transformation of a solitary fibrous tumor of the liver and intractable hypoglycemia.
- Tolerance induction in a large-animal model using total lymphoid irradiation and intrathymic bone marrow.
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