Dr. Barry R Cofer M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
4499 Medical Dr Suite 347 San Antonio TX, 78229About
Dr. Barry Cofer practices Pediatric Surgery in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Cofer 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. Coferdiagnoses, 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
Baylor College of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spontaneous postnatal resolution of a cystic lung mass: A case report.
- The induction of immunologic hyporesponsiveness by preoperative donor-specific transfusions and cyclosporine in human cadaveric transplants. A preliminary trial.
- Effects of donor-specific transfusion, cyclosporine A and FK 506 on rat cardiac allograft survival.
- The effect of mid-thoracic VEPTR opening wedge thoracostomy on cervical tilt associated with congenital thoracic scoliosis in patients with thoracic insufficiency syndrome.
- Penetrating injury of a duplicated ureter: case report.
- Partial T-cell depletion with monoclonal antibody improves the enhancing effect of donor-specific transfusion plus cyclosporine.
- Reduced cardiac myofibrillar Mg-ATPase activity without changes in myosin isozymes in patients with end-stage heart failure.
- Indefinite allograft survival induced by the combination of multiple donor-specific transfusions, cyclosporine, and an anti-T cell monoclonal antibody in a protocol relevant to cadaveric organ transplantation. The importance of prolonged posttranspla
- Single pretransplant donor-specific transfusion in cadaver and living related donor renal transplantation.
- Effect of a short course of rapamycin, cyclosporin A, and donor-specific transfusion on rat cardiac allograft survival.
Treatments
- Burns
- Acid Reflux
- Venous Insufficiency
- Constipation
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
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