Dr. W.G. Schenk, MD
Surgeon
1300 Jefferson Park Ave 4th Floor Charlottesville VA, 22903Rating
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Worthington G. Schenk III, MD, is a well-versed general surgeon who diagnoses and treats patients at UVAHealth in Charlottesville, VA. Furthermore, he has staff memberships at several local hospitals and is a Professor of Surgery at UVA School of Medicine. “Dr. Schenk serves as one of our best and certainly our most inspirational teachers for our residents and students”, says one of his colleagues. As a general surgeon, Dr. Sandy Schenk as he is known to his patients and general surgery residents focuses on surgical procedures for the abdominal contents. Dr. Schenk has an impressive professional journey that spans more than sixteen years and, in addition to general surgery, he is an expert in vascular surgery.
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Education and Training
Duke University School of Medicine 1974 0
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Carnitine levels in severe infection and starvation: a possible key to the prolonged catabolic state.
- Subclavian steal syndrome from high-output brachiocephalic arteriovenous fistula: a previously undescribed complication of dialysis access.
- Experimental chemical sympathectomy. Regional and systemic effects of intraarterial injection of 6-OH dopamine.
- Influence of blood viscosity on extremity blood flow: a therapeutic modality?
- Fibrin sealant facilitates hemostasis in arteriovenous polytetrafluoroethylene grafts for renal dialysis access.
- Improvement in blood flow through a critical arterial stenosis by defibrination with ancrod.
- Aspergillus flavus wound infection following repair of a ruptured duodenum in a non-immunocompromised host.
- The experimental production of portal hypertension.
- Biophysical methods for the assay of the life span of red blood cells.
- The fracture hip; a major surgical and sociologic problem.
- Initial treatment of burn casualties.
- Hemodynamic changes resulting from blood vessel grafts and prostheses.
- Hemodynamic alterations resulting from blood vessel grafts and prostheses.
- The coagulation defect after hepatectomy.
- The regional hemodynamics of experimental acute arteriovenous fistulas.
Fellowships
- Duke University Trauma Research
Fellowships
- Duke UniversityTrauma Research
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