Dr. Kareem M Abu-elmagd MD
Transplant Surgeon
3459 5th Ave N725 Pittsburgh PA, 15213About
Dr. Kareem Abu-elmagd is a transplant surgeon practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Abu-elmagd 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. Abu-elmagd 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. Abu-elmagd works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Mansoura University, Faculty Of Medicine MD
Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine 1986
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intestinal transplantation in children with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
- Effect of liver transplantation on inflammatory bowel disease in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
- Molecular inflammatory events within the human intestinal muscularis during small
- Evolutionary experience with immunosuppression in pediatric intestinal transplantation.
- Recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis: from an academic illusion to a clinical reality.
- Intestinal transplantation for short bowel syndrome and gastrointestinal failure: current consensus, rewarding outcomes, and practical guidelines.
- Granulomatous amebic encephalitis in a multivisceral transplant recipient.
- Four-hour versus 24-hour intravenous infusion of FK 506 in liver transplantation.
- Correlation of rejection episodes with FK 506 dosage, FK 506 level, and steroids following primary orthotopic liver transplant.
- Acute hemolytic anemia in liver and bone marrow transplant patients under FK 506 therapy.
- Treatment of tardive dyskinesia with levetiracetam in a transplant patient.
- Preservation of the native spleen, duodenum, and pancreas in patients with multivisceral transplantation: nomenclature, dispute of origin, and proof of premise.
- Perioperative glycine treatment attenuates ischemia/reperfusion injury and ameliorates smooth muscle dysfunction in intestinal transplantation.
- Should both schistosomal and nonschistosomal variceal bleeders be disconnected?
- EUS-guided FNA diagnosis of primary splenic lymphoma.
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