Dr. Alan Christopher Farney MD
Surgeon | Surgical Critical Care
MEDICAL CENTER BLVD WINSTON SALEM NC, 27157About
Dr. Alan Farney is a general surgeon practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Farney specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Farney provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1987
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Recurrent autoimmunity accelerates destruction of minor and major histoincompatible islet grafts in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice.
- Pulsatile pump perfusion of pancreata before human islet cell isolation.
- Mycoplasma hominis septic arthritis in a pediatric renal transplant recipient: case report and review of the literature.
- Import pancreas allografts: good from far or far from good?
- Short-term renal outcomes in African American and Caucasian donors following live kidney donation.
- Microencapsulation of pancreatic islets for use in a bioartificial pancreas.
- Immunosuppression for pancreas transplantation with an emphasis on antibody induction strategies: review and perspective.
- Similar results with solitary pancreas transplantation compared with simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation in the new millennium.
- 5-year results of a prospective, randomized, single-center study of alemtuzumab compared with rabbit antithymocyte globulin induction in simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation.
- Depleting antibody induction in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: a prospective single-center comparison of alemtuzumab versus rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin.
- A Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Flexible-Design Randomized Multicenter Trial: Early Safety of Single- Versus Divided-Dose Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction in Renal Transplantation.
- Single-Center Experience with Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in 114 Individuals Aged 70 and Older in the New Millennium.
- IL-1 beta-induced inhibition of beta-cell function is mediated through nitric oxide.
- Pregnancy after total pancreatectomy and autologous islet transplantation.
- Effect of reexposure to mismatched major histocompatibility complex antigens on renal retransplant allograft survival.
Treatments
- Kidney Transplant, Pancreatic Transplant
Professional Memberships
- Member International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association
- Member International Pediatric Transplantation Association
- Member International Transplantation Society
- Member American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Fellowships
- University of Minnesota Medica 1993
- U Minnesota Hosps & Clins 1991
- U Minnesota Hosps & Clins 1997
- University of Minnesota, Transplantation Surgery, MN, USA 1997
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