Dr. Lloyd E. Ratner MD
Transplant Surgeon
622 W 168th St Ph14-C New York NY, 10032About
Dr. Lloyd Ratner is a transplant surgeon practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Ratner 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. Ratner 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. Ratner works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
MCP HAHNEMANN UNIV (FORMERLY ALLEGHENY UNIV) 1983
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy.
- Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: pro.
- Chronic effect of pneumoperitoneum on renal histology.
- Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: the four year Johns Hopkins University experience.
- Solid organ transplantation.
- Technical considerations in the delivery of the kidney during laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy.
- Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: standard of care or unnecessary risk of organ
- Laparoscopic nephrectomy for autotransplantation.
- Expanded criteria donors: attempts to increase the renal transplant donor pool.
- Complications of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: the first 175 cases.
- Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: debating the benefits. Pro: similar costs to traditional surgery and procedure wins donors.
- Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: pre-operative assessment of technical difficulty.
- Plasmapheresis and intravenous immune globulin provides effective rescue therapy for refractory humoral rejection and allows kidneys to be successfully transplanted into cross-match-positive recipients.
- Renal transplantation: laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy.
- Retroaortic left renal vein.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Immunodeficiency
- Hernia
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Mo 1990
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