Dr. Edward John Alfrey M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
751 N Rutledge St Room 1700 Springfield IL, 62702About
Dr. Edward Alfrey is a transplant surgeon practicing in Springfield, IL. Dr. Alfrey 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. Alfrey 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. Alfrey 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dual kidney transplantation: older donors for older recipients.
- Excellent outcome in recipients of dual kidney transplants: a report of the first 50 dual kidney transplants at Stanford University.
- Outcome in recipients of dual kidney transplants: an analysis of the dual registry patients.
- The effect of age and prolonged cold ischemia times on the national allocation of cadaveric renal allografts.
- Evaluation of the older cadaveric kidney donor: the impact of donor hypertension and creatinine clearance on graft performance and survival.
- Severe glomerular sclerosis is not associated with poor outcome after kidney transplantation.
- Excellent outcome despite adverse histology after cadaveric renal transplantation.
- Matching does not improve outcome from aged marginal kidney donors.
- The dual kidney transplant registry.
- Dual-kidney transplants: long-term results.
- Randomized trial of tacrolimus + mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine versus cyclosporine + mycophenolate mofetil after cadaveric kidney transplantation: results at three years.
- Excellent outcome in infants and small children with thrombophilias undergoing kidney transplantation.
- Prolongation of skin allograft survival in mice by didemnin B.
- Resident versus no resident: a single institutional study on operative complications, mortality, and cost.
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