Dr. Robert G. Sawyer M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
Uva Hospital W Hospital Drive Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Robert Sawyer is a transplant surgeon practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Sawyer 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. Sawyer 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. Sawyer works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effect of changes in surgical practice on the rate and detection of nosocomial infections: a prospective analysis.
- Blood transfusions correlate with infections in trauma patients in a dose-dependent manner.
- Preexposure of murine macrophages to CpG-containing oligonucleotides results in nuclear factor kappaB p50 homodimer-associated hyporesponsiveness.
- [Strategy to reduce antibiotic resistance in nosocomial infection. Possibility and practice of cycling therapy. Discussion].
- Improved specificity and sensitivity when using pronase-digested lymphocytes to perform flow-cytometric crossmatch prior to renal transplantation.
- Outcome analysis of intraabdominal infection with resistant gram-positive organisms.
- Impact of antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacilli infections on outcome in hospitalized patients.
- Preventing antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections in surgical patients.
- Contact isolation in surgical patients: a barrier to care?
- Cycling chemotherapy: a promising approach to reducing the morbidity and mortality of nosocomial infections.
- Effect of an intensive care unit rotating empiric antibiotic schedule on the development of hospital-acquired infections on the non-intensive care unit ward.
- Does prior transfusion worsen outcomes from infection in surgical patients?
- Impact of immunomodulatory oligodeoxynucleotides on cytokine production in the lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human whole blood model.
- Ethnic disparities in outcome from posttransplant infections.
- Comparison of fungal and nonfungal infections in a broad-based surgical patient population.
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