Dr. Alex W Cantafio MD
Transplant Surgeon
1940 Alcoa Hwy Suite E140 Knoxville TN, 37920About
Dr. Alex Cantafio is a transplant surgeon practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Cantafio 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. Cantafio 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. Cantafio works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 2004
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fermented whey--an inexpensive feed source for a laboratory-scale selenium-bioremediation reactor system inoculated with Thauera selenatis.
- Successful rescue therapy with plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin for acute humoral renal transplant rejection.
- Use of the PD-1 Pathway Inhibitor Nivolumab in a Renal Transplant Patient With Malignancy.
Treatments
- Liver Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Lymphoma
- Immunodeficiency
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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