Dr. Kurt Frederick Heiss MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1975 Century Center Suite #6 Atlanta GA, 30345Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Kurt Heiss practices Pediatric Surgery in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Heiss treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Heissdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
University of Michigan Medical School 1983
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laparoscopy for the impalpable testes: experience with 53 testes.
- Left-sided gastroschisis.
- Risk factors for early peritoneal dialysis catheter failure in children.
- Single-Incision Total Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch Anal Anastomosis in Pediatric Patients: Lessons Learned.
- The "omega" jejunostomy tube: A preferred alternative for postpyloric feeding access.
- Thoracoscopy in the management of pediatric empyema.
- Prediction of mortality in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
- Preferential use of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia in 1994: a hard look at the need for 'emergency surgery'.
- Massive ovarian edema in the pediatric patient: a rare solid tumor.
- Malignant risk in juvenile polyposis coli: increasing documentation in the
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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