Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCSF
General Surgery
Dr. Andrew M. Posselt, MD
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Andrew M. Posselt, MD is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to medical school at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Super Doctor". Dr. Andrew M. Posselt is also a published MD. He has 65 paper published. The most recent paper is: Promotion of rat cardiac allograft survival by intrathymic inoculation of donor splenocytes. He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Changes in vertebral bone marrow fat and bone mass after gastric bypass surgery: A pilot study.
- Islet transplantation for Type 1 diabetes: where are we now?
- Intestinal Calcium Absorption Decreases Dramatically After Gastric Bypass Surgery Despite Optimization of Vitamin D Status.
- Autologous Islet Transplantation With Remote Islet Isolation After Pancreas Resection for Chronic Pancreatitis.
- Islet Product Characteristics and Factors Related to Successful Human Islet Transplantation From the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR) 1999-2010.
- Predictors of hospital stay following laparoscopic gastric bypass: analysis of 9,593 patients from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
- Combined pancreatic islet and kidney transplantation in a child with unstable type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease.
- Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is safe and efficacious for pretransplant candidates.
- Safety and feasibility of sleeve gastrectomy in morbidly obese patients following liver transplantation.
- Experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy among more than 1000 cases: low complication rates, despite more challenging cases.
- Islet transplantation in type 1 diabetic patients using calcineurin inhibitor-free immunosuppressive protocols based on T-cell adhesion or costimulation blockade.
- Clinical islet transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Successful clinical islet isolation using a GMP-manufactured collagenase and neutral protease.
- Long-term renal function and cardiovascular disease risk in obese kidney donors.
- Portomesenteric venous thrombosis after laparoscopic surgery: a systematic literature review.
- A clinical scoring system for predicting nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in morbidly obese patients.
- Laparoscopic bariatric surgery improves candidacy in morbidly obese patients awaiting transplantation.
- The impact of roux limb length on weight loss after gastric bypass.
- Spectrum and risk factors of complications after gastric bypass.
- Laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: a large single-center experience.
- Congenital cleft spleen with CT scan appearance of high-grade splenic laceration after blunt abdominal trauma.
- CD69 expression on peripheral CD8 T cells correlates with acute rejection in renal transplant recipients.
- More than 500 consecutive laparoscopic donor nephrectomies without conversion or repeated surgery.
- Pretransplant islet culture: a comparison of four serum-free media using a murine model of islet transplantation.
- Longevity of 2328 chairside Cerec inlays and onlays.
- Experience with steroid-free maintenance immunosuppression in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
- Propylthiouracil-associated liver failure presenting as probable autoimmune hepatitis in a child with Graves'' disease.
- Human albumin preserves islet mass and function better than whole serum during pretransplantation islet culture.
- Early and late abdominal bleeding after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: sources and tailored therapeutic strategies.
- Factors associated with weight loss after gastric bypass.
- Islet transplantation in type 1 diabetics using an immunosuppressive protocol based on the anti-LFA-1 antibody efalizumab.
- Catheter-directed therapy for DVT after pancreas transplantation.
- Antibody-mediated rejection of a pancreas allograft.
- Routine upper GI series after gastric bypass does not reliably identify anastomotic leaks or predict stricture formation.
- Predictors, treatment, and outcomes of gastrojejunostomy stricture after gastric bypass for morbid obesity.
- BKV in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients: a leading cause of renal graft loss in first 2 years post-transplant.
- Laparoscopic procurement of kidneys with multiple renal arteries is associated with increased ureteral complications in the recipient.
- Prolongation of survival of donor-strain islet xenografts (rat-->mouse) by intrathymic inoculation of xenogeneic islet and bone marrow cells.
- The failure of intrathymic transplantation of nonimmunogenic islet allografts to promote induction of donor-specific unresponsiveness.
- Intrathymic transplantation promotes survival of islet xenografts (rat-->mouse).
- Examination of the mechanisms responsible for tolerance induction after intrathymic inoculation of allogeneic bone marrow.
- Intrathymic transplantation as a model for tolerance.
- Prolonged survival of rat cardiac allografts after intrathymic inoculation of donor thymocytes.
- Intrathymic inoculation of islets at birth prevents autoimmune diabetes and pancreatic insulitis in the BB rat.
- Intrathymic inoculation of donor cells promotes survival of rat orthotopic liver allografts.
- Prolonged survival of rat orthotopic liver allografts after intrathymic inoculation of donor-strain cells.
- Promotion of rat cardiac allograft survival by intrathymic inoculation of donor splenocytes.
- Microchimerism of the thymus and graft acceptance.
- Prolongation of rat pancreatic islet allograft survival by anti-CD2 monoclonal antibody treatment.
- Successful islet transplantation in the thymus of spontaneously diabetic BB rats.
- Pioneering work in immune tolerance.
- Promotion of pancreatic islet allograft survival by intrathymic transplantation of bone marrow.
- Prevention of autoimmune diabetes in the BB rat by intrathymic islet transplantation at birth.
- Induction of donor-specific tolerance to rat cardiac allografts by intrathymic inoculation of bone marrow.
- Intrathymic islet transplantation in the spontaneously diabetic BB rat.
- Studies of privileged sites and islet transplantation.
- Selective T-cell depletion of recipients in allogeneic small bowel transplantation (SBT) in the rat.
- Major-histocompatibility-complex restricted and nonrestricted autoimmune effector mechanisms in BB rats.
- The effect of islet cell culture in vitro at 24 degrees C on graft survival and MHC antigen expression.
- Immunologic consequences of islet MHC antigen modulation in autoimmune diabetes.
- Induction of donor-specific unresponsiveness by intrathymic islet transplantation.
- Intraportal delivery of immunosuppression to intrahepatic islet allograft recipients.
- Intraportal FK 506 improves intrahepatic islet allograft survival.
- A Comparative Analysis of the Safety, Efficacy, and Cost of Islet Versus Pancreas Transplantation in Nonuremic Patients With Type 1 Diabetes.
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
University Ca Sf School Of Med
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
Education
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UCSF -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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UCSF Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1235193616 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | POSSELT | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ANDREW | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 941432202 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 296.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1235193616 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | POSSELT |
| First Name Of The Provider | ANDREW |
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