Dr. Thomas X Aufiero M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
1176 N. 16th Street Lafayette IN, 47904About
Dr. Thomas Aufiero is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Lafayette, IN. Dr. Aufiero specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Aufiero 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.
Education and Training
Pa State Univ Coll Of Med- Hershey Pa 1983
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical trials of an intravenous oxygenator in patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome.
- Early surgery for native left-sided endocarditis.
- Hemodynamic performance of carotid artery shunts.
- Aprotinin therapy for insertion of ventricular assist devices for staged heart transplantation.
- Case 1--1993. Emergency use of cardiopulmonary bypass for resuscitation from CPR-resistant cardiac arrest.
- Bridging to transplant. Equal extended survival for patients undergoing LVAD support when compared with long-term medical management.
- Pulmonary hypertension after operations for congenital heart disease: analysis of risk factors and management.
- Conduits in the pulmonary circulation.
- Transthoracic echocardiographic power motion tissue imaging of an intracardiac tumor that could not be seen with conventional transthoracic echocardiographic recordings.
- Monocusp valve and transannular patch reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract: an experimental study.
- Establishment of a clinically correlated human pericardial fluid bank: evaluation of intrapericardial diagnostic potential.
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