Dr. A Alfred Chahine MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
111 Michigan Ave NW Washington DC, 20010Rating
5/5
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Dr. A Chahine practices Pediatric Surgery in Washington, DC. Dr. Chahine 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. Chahinediagnoses, 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
St Louis Univ Sch of Med, St Louis Mo 1989
Saint Louis University School of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of the aortic homograft in the reconstruction of complex tracheobronchial tree injuries.
- Resuscitation of the surgical neonate.
- Esophageal atresia in infants with very low birth weight.
- Development of a model for prediction of survival in pediatric trauma patients: comparison of artificial neural networks and logistic regression.
- Nonoperative management of neonatal splenic rupture.
- Forceful evacuation of retained pneumoperitoneum mimics an acute recurrent inguinal hernia.
- Transperineal thoracic impalement without diaphragmatic injury.
- Laparoscopic drainage of postappendectomy- retained fecalith and intra-abdominal abscess in the pediatric population.
- A case of small intestinal cast causing SBO in complicated intestinal graft-versus-host disease.
- Laparoscopic Excision of Congenital Hepatic Cysts in the Pediatric Population: A Case Series and Literature Review.
- Indications and outcomes for tunneled central venous line placement via the axillary vein in children.
- Local immunomodulation to promote co-stimulatory blockade.
- Immunomodulation of pancreatic islet allografts in mice with CTLA4Ig secreting muscle cells.
- Local CTLA4Ig synergizes with one-dose anti-LFA-1 to achieve long-term acceptance of pancreatic islet allografts.
- A modification of the Bianchi intestinal lengthening procedure with a single anastomosis.
Treatments
- Burns
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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