Physician

Thoracic Surgery

James R. Edgerton, MD is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He went to medical school at University of Illinois College of Medicine. He received awards:"Super Doctor", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FACC)". James Edgerton is also a published doctor. He has 39 publication published. The most recent publication is: Temporary pacemaker wire insertion: a simple, safe, and effective technique.

Publications

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• Risk of Not Being Discharged Home After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Operations.
• Long-Term Fate of Patients Discharged to Extended Care Facilities After Cardiovascular Surgery.
• Totally Thoracoscopic Surgical Ablation or Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Preliminary Meta-Analysis.
• A review of current surgical treatment of patients with Atrial fibrillation.
• Surgical therapy for Atrial fibrillation.
• Preoperative Beta-Blocker Usage: Is It Really Worthy of Being a Quality Indicator?
• Long-term monitoring after surgical ablation for Atrial fibrillation: How much is enough?
• Pulmonary vein isolation and autonomic denervation for the management of paroxysmal Atrial fibrillation by a minimally invasive surgical approach.
• History of surgery for Atrial fibrillation.
• Linear left Atrial lesions in minimally invasive surgical ablation of persistent Atrial fibrillation: techniques for assessing conduction block across surgical lesions.
• Totally thorascopic surgical ablation of persistent AF and long-standing persistent Atrial fibrillation using the "Dallas" lesion set.
• Minimally invasive surgical ablation of Atrial fibrillation: six-month results.
• Minimally invasive pulmonary vein isolation and partial autonomic denervation for surgical treatment of Atrial fibrillation.
• Does reporting of Coronary artery bypass grafting from administrative databases accurately reflect actual clinical outcomes?
• First-year outcomes of beating Heart coronary artery bypass grafting using proximal mechanical connectors.
• On-Pump Beating Heart Surgery Offers an Alternative for Unstable Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
• Avoidance of Cardiopulmonary Bypass Improves Early Survival in Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Patients with Poor Ventricular Function.
• Conversion in off-pump Coronary artery bypass grafting: an analysis of predictors and outcomes.
• Initial experience with proximal anastomoses performed with a mechanical connector.
• Complications related to off-pump bypass grafting.
• Beating Heart coronary artery bypass: operative strategy and technique.
• Obliteration of femoral artery pseudoAneurysm by thrombin injection.
• Elimination of cardiopulmonary bypass improves early survival for multivessel Coronary artery bypass patients.
• Temporary pacemaker wire insertion: a simple, safe, and effective technique.
• Off-pump multivessel Coronary artery bypass utilizing the Octopus tissue stabilization system: initial experience in 374 patients from three separate centers.
• A review of 1,582 consecutive Octopus off-pump Coronary bypass patients.
• Initial prospective multicenter clinical trial of robotically-assisted Coronary artery bypass grafting.
• Beating Heart surgery reduces mortality in the reoperative bypass patient.
• Left mini-thoracotomy for beating Heart bypass grafting: a safe alternative to high-risk intervention for selected grafting of the circumflex artery distribution.
• Improved outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting with beating-Heart techniques.
• Off-pump bypass grafting is safe in patients with left main Coronary disease.
• Influence of diabetes on mortality and morbidity: off-pump Coronary artery bypass grafting versus Coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Analysis of hemodynamic changes during beating Heart surgical procedures.
• Atrial fibrillation after Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: development of a predictive risk algorithm.
• Ventricular epicardial lead placement for resynchronization by determination of paced depolarization intervals: technique and rationale.
• Reduced atrial fibrillation in patients immediately extubated after off-pump Coronary artery bypass grafting.
• Current clinical outcomes of percutaneous Coronary intervention and Coronary artery bypass grafting.
• A new epicardial lesion set for minimal access left Atrial maze: the Dallas lesion set.

Schools

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• University Of Florida College Of Medicine

• University Of Florida Shands Medical Center

• Medical University Of South Carolina Medical Ctr

Procedures Preformed

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• Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
• Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
• Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Conditions Treated

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• Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
• Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Aortic Aneurysm
• Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Super Doctor
• Fellow (FACS)
• Fellow (FACC)

Education

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• University of Florida
• University of Illinois College of Medicine

Hospital

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• Medical City Dallas Hospital

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