Dr. Joachim M Postel M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
2700 Dolbeer St Eureka CA, 95501About
Dr. Joachim Postel is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Eureka, CA. Dr. Postel specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Postel 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
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ, Med Fak, Frankfurt, Ger 1972
Goethe University of Frankfurt 1971
Universit‰tsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universit‰t Mainz 1970
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [Impact of fatty degeneration of the suparspinatus and infraspinatus msucles on the prognosis of surgical repair of the rotator cuff].
- Ultrasound investigation of the rotator cuff after computed arthrotomography coupled to bursography.
- [Present day place of arthroplasty in surgery of the hip; evolution of indications for acrylic arthroplasty at the orthopedic surgical clinic of the Cochin Hospital].
- Tension-free cuff repairs with excision of macroscopic tendon lesions and muscular advancement: results in a prospective series with limited fatty muscular degeneration.
- [Analysis of the scintigraphic image of bone grafts in reconstruction of total hip prostheses].
- Fatty infiltration of disrupted rotator cuff muscles.
- Fatty muscle degeneration in cuff ruptures. Pre- and postoperative evaluation by CT scan.
- [Intermediate results in Neer's unrestricted total shoulder prosthesis inserted in glenohumeral arthropathies of arthrotic or arthritic origin].
- Isolated subacromial decompression for the treatment of chronic shoulder pain with rotator cuff calcification. A review of twenty-seven shoulders, including eighteen evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging after surgery.
- [A study of the neurologic risk in tendino-muscular advancement of supra-spinatus and infra-spinatus in the repair of large rotator cuff rupture].
- [Report of the 2nd meeting of the Study Group of shoulder and elbow. Paris, 6 November 1995. Traumatic posterior dislocations of the shoulder].
- [Knee joint. Anatomy and biomechanics].
- [Influence of muscular degeneration of the supra- and infra-spinatus on the prognosis of surgical repair of the rotator cuff].
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