Dr. Michel N Ilbawi MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
4440 W 95th St Oak Lawn IL, 60453About
Dr. Michel Ilbawi is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Oak Lawn, IL. Dr. Ilbawi specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Ilbawi typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS- Congenital Cardiac Surgery
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Superiority of magnesium cardioplegia in neonatal myocardial protection.
- Modification of the subclavian patch aortoplasty for repair of aortic coarctation in neonates and infants.
- The role of cardioplegia induction temperature and amino acid enrichment in neonatal myocardial protection.
- Reducing postischemic reperfusion damage in neonates using a terminal warm substrate-enriched blood cardioplegic reperfusate.
- Pediatric myocardial protection: an overview.
- Hypoxia, reoxygenation and the role of systemic leukodepletion in pediatric heart surgery.
- Pericardial tissue valves and Gore-Tex conduits as an alternative for right ventricular outflow tract replacement in children.
- Aortic aneurysm after patch aortoplasty for coarctation: analysis of patch size and wall growth.
- Recent advances in neonatal cardiac surgery.
- Experience with an alternative technique for the management of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
- Repair of symptomatic neoaortic aneurysm after third-stage palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Recent advances in neonatal cardiac surgery.
- Transcription repression and blocks in cell cycle progression in hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Resternotomy in patients with valved conduits adherent to the sternum.
- The Damus-Stansel-Kaye procedure: anatomical determinants and modifications.
Clinical Trials
Awards
- 2012 Chicago Super Doctors
Treatments
- Heart Surgery, Thoracic Surgery
Fellowships
- Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio & Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL - Congenital Cardiac Surgery
- Childrens Memorial Hospital 1978
- Children's Memorial Hospital - Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery
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