Dr. Michael T Jaklitsch MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
75 Francis Street Brigham & Womens Hos Boston MA, 02115Rating
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About
Dr. Michael Jaklitsch is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Jaklitsch specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Jaklitsch 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
Univ of Md Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1986
University of Maryland School of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Thymoma encasing last patent vein graft to the heart.
- Esophagectomy after induction chemoradiation.
- Gastropericardial fistula after laparoscopic surgery for reflux disease.
- Unusual problems in breast cancer and a rare lung cancer case. Case 4. Primary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the lung.
- Section IV: selective use of neoadjuvant therapy.
- Endovascular stent-graft repair of a pulmonary artery-bronchial fistula.
- A prognostic test for adenocarcinoma of the lung from gene expression profiling data.
- Thoracoscopic surgery in elderly lung cancer patients.
- Integrin-dependent protein tyrosine phosphorylation is a key regulatory event in collagen-IV-mediated adhesion and proliferation of human lung tumor cell line, Calu-1.
- Preoperative assessment and therapeutic options for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.
- Choices in the management of asymptomatic lung nodules in the elderly.
- Radiofrequency ablation of thoracic lesions: part 1, experiments in the normal porcine thorax.
- Activation of focal adhesion kinase in human lung cancer cells involves multiple and potentially parallel signaling events.
- Similar long-term survival of elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with lobectomy or wedge resection within the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database.
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Awards
- 2001 Alfred Soffer Research Award- The Chest Foundation
- 2008 F.G Pearson Teaching Award
Treatments
- Lung Cancer, Thymic Tumors, Lung Transplant And More
- Lung Cancer
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Practice At 75 Francis Street Brigham & Womens Hospital Division Of Thoracic Sur
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