Dr. Federico G. Seifarth, MD, FACS, FAAP
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1 Medical Center Dr Morgantown WV, 26506Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Federico Seifarth practices Pediatric Surgery in Morgantown, WVU. Dr. Seifarth is specialized in minimally invasive techniques and 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. Seifarth diagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, chestwall corrections, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Universitat Zurich, Medizinische Fakultat 1999
Provider Details
Dr. Federico G. Seifarth, MD, FACS, FAAP's Expert Contributions
What is a good position to sleep after hernia surgery?
It depends what type of hernia surgery you had and old you are. A child can sleep in any position after inguinal hernia repair. READ MORE
What are the side effects of colon resection surgery?
The effects of a colon resection heavily depend on the amount of colon removed and the technique. Total colonic removal will frequently lead to loose stools. READ MORE
How long do you need pain medications after hernia surgery?
It depends how old you are and what type of hernia repair you are having. Need for pain medication can be as short as 24 hours for a baby, and up to 5 to 7 days for adults. Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse brevity and typos. Federico Seifarth READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hindsight judgement on ambiguous episodes of suspected infection in critically ill children: poor consensus amongst experts?
- Chronic constipation due to delayed diagnosis of a congenital anal web.
- Temporary Retrograde Occlusion of High-Flow Tracheo-Esophageal Fistula.
- Laparoscopic excision of a ciliated hepatic foregut cyst in a child: A case report and review of the literature.
- Asymmetric Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis with Concurrent Pancreatic Rest Presenting as Gastric Outlet Obstruction.
- Laparoscopic Extracorporeal Appendectomy in Overweight and Obese Children.
- Choledochal Cyst Disease in a Western Center: A 30-Year Experience.
- Comparison of Transumbilical Laparoscopically Assisted Appendectomy to Conventional Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Children.
- Transumbilical laparoscopically assisted extracorporeal appendectomy in children and young adults: A retrospective cohort study.
- Intracorporeal hybrid single port vs conventional laparoscopic appendectomy in children.
- Effect of collection and preprocessing methods on neutrophil elastase plasma concentrations.
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