Dr. Mark D Pescovitz M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
550 University Blvd. #uh 4601 Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Mark Pescovitz is a transplant surgeon practicing in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Pescovitz 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. Pescovitz 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. Pescovitz works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Northwestern Uniiversity 1979
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bacillary angiomatosis in a renal transplant recipient.
- Daclizumab rapidly saturates interleukin-2 receptor-alpha (CD25) on lymph node lymphocytes in children.
- New usage paradigms in antibody therapy: safety of the new agents.
- Absence of teratogenicity of oral ganciclovir used during early pregnancy in a liver transplant recipient.
- Cytomegalovirus infections after treatment with daclizumab, an anti IL-2 receptor antibody, for prevention of renal allograft rejection. Roche Study Group.
- Sirolimus reduces the incidence of acute rejection episodes despite lower cyclosporine doses in caucasian recipients of mismatched primary renal allografts: a phase II trial. Rapamune Study Group.
- Solid-phase HLA antibody detection methods and risk of renal allograft rejection in children.
- Effect of mycophenolate mofetil on the Anti-CMV serologic response after renal transplantation.
- Overview of the Third International Workshop on Swine Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens.
- Analysis of monoclonal antibodies reacting with molecules expressed on gammadelta T-cells.
- Oral ganciclovir and pharmacokinetics of valganciclovir in liver transplant recipients.
- Results of 3-year phase III clinical trials with daclizumab prophylaxis for prevention of acute rejection after renal transplantation.
- Sirolimus and mycophenolate mofetil for calcineurin-free immunosuppression in renal transplant recipients.
- Basiliximab versus antithymocyte globulin for prevention of acute renal allograft rejection.
- Immunosuppressive therapy and post-transplantation diarrhea.
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