Dr. Christine Lynn Lau MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Lee Street 2nd Floor Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Christine Lau is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Virginia. She specializes in all aspects of general thoracic surgery in ...
Education and Training
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 1995
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- Two thousand transhiatal esophagectomies: changing trends, lessons learned.
- Measuring the quality of surgical outcomes in general thoracic surgery: should surgical volume be used to direct patient referrals?
- Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and tumor marker expression in non-small cell lung cancer.
- Successful treatment of pulmonary zygomycosis in two transplant recipients with liposomal amphotericin B and partial surgical resection followed by posaconazole.
- Rosai-Dorfman disease presenting as a pulmonary artery mass.
- Transplant pneumonectomy in a patient with an acutely thrombosed allograft.
- Donor factors are associated with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation.
- Size matters: a comparison of T1 and T2 peripheral non-small-cell lung cancers treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).
- Donor age is associated with chronic allograft vasculopathy after adult heart transplantation: implications for donor allocation.
- Adenosine signaling via the adenosine 2B receptor is involved in bronchiolitis obliterans development.
- Bronchoscopic removal of a large endobronchial fibrolipoma using an endoloop.
- The incidence of pulmonary neoplasms discovered by serial computed tomography scanning after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
- Seasonal variation influences outcomes following lung cancer resections.
- Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome occurs earlier in the post-lung allocation score era.
- Depletion of tissue plasminogen activator attenuates lung ischemia-reperfusion
Awards
- See CV 2007
Treatments
- Hiatal Hernia
- Lung Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Hernia
Fellowships
- Lung Transplantation Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA 2003
- Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA 2005
- Washington Univ, Lung Transplant, MO, USA 2003
- Washinston Univ, Cardiothoracic Surgery, MO, USA 2005
- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
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