Director of transplantation Presbyterian St Luke's hospital denver
General Surgery
Dr. Thomas G. Heffron, MD
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Thomas G. Heffron, MD practices General Surgery. He went to medical school at University of Nebraska College of Medicine. He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Thomas Heffron is a published doctor and has 93 publications published. The lastest was: 'Biliary atresia-polysplenia syndrome: surgical and clinical relevance in liver transplantation.' Thomas Heffron is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- A randomized multicenter study comparing steroid-free and standard immunosuppression for liver transplant recipients with chronic hepatitis C.
- Aberrant bile ducts, 'remnant surface bile ducts,' and peribiliary glands: Descriptive anatomy, historical nomenclature, and surgical implications.
- Parenchyma-wise technique for the harvest and implantation of hepatic segment 2-3 grafts: Anatomic basis and surgical steps.
- Giant and complicated variants of cystic bile duct hamartomas of the liver: MRI findings and pathological correlations.
- Common hepatic duct with five tributaries: a dangerous anomaly in hepatic resection and living donor liver transplantation.
- Does interferon use prior to liver transplant influence hepatitis C outcomes following transplantation?
- Corticosteroid-free immunosuppression with daclizumab in HCV(+) liver transplant recipients: 1-year interim results of the HCV-3 study.
- A novel three-dose regimen of daclizumab in liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C: a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study.
- Pediatric liver transplantation with daclizumab induction.
- Resection of primary schwannoma of the liver not associated with neurofibromatosis.
- Liver transplantation for controversial indications: alcoholic liver disease, hepatic cancers, and viral hepatitis.
- Secondary carcinoma of the liver from parotid gland tumor.
- Aggressive needle biopsy protocol prevents loss of renal allografts to undetected rejection during early posttransplant dysfunction.
- Effect of discontinuing or restricting cyclosporine on late renal allograft rejection and function.
- Procurement and preparation of human isolated small intestinal grafts for transplantation.
- Preliminary experience with intestinal transplantation in infants and children.
- University of Nebraska Medical Center Liver Transplant Program.
- Intestinal transplantation in children.
- Reconstruction of the hepatic vein in reduced size hepatic transplantation.
- The use of the T-cell flow cytometry crossmatch to evaluate the significance of positive B-cell serologic crossmatches in cadaveric donor renal transplantation.
- Successful application of extracorporeal liver perfusion: a technology whose time has come.
- Transfusion-induced graft-versus-host disease after liver transplantation. Documentation using polymerase chain reaction with HLA-DR sequence-specific primers.
- Proton spectroscopy of brain glutamine in acute liver failure.
- Use of cryopreserved vein allogeneic homografts in liver transplantation.
- Innovative use of organs for liver transplantation.
- Selective OKT3 induction therapy in adult cadaveric-donor renal transplant recipients.
- Liver transplantation in children from living related donors. Surgical techniques and results.
- Developments in segmental and living related liver transplantation.
- Aplastic anemia after liver transplantation for fulminant liver failure.
- Living related liver transplants. A solution to donor shortage in pediatric patients.
- Use of an absorbable suture material in vascular anastomoses in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Surgical and anesthetic management of patients undergoing major hepatectomy using total vascular exclusion.
- Biliary strictures in liver transplant recipients: treatment with metal stents.
- Portopulmonary hypertension: imatinib as a novel treatment and the Emory experience with this condition.
- Biliary atresia-polysplenia syndrome: surgical and clinical relevance in liver transplantation.
- Low incidence of intraspousal transmission of hepatitis C virus after liver transplantation.
- Influenza vaccination following liver transplantation in children.
- Living-related pediatric liver transplantation.
- Pediatric liver transplantation at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
- Preoperative evaluation of the living related donor in pediatric living related liver transplantation.
- Living related liver transplantation.
- Orthotopic auxiliary liver transplantation for Crigler-Najjar syndrome type 1.
- Combined liver/small bowel transplantation using a blood group compatible but nonidentical donor.
- Survival of graft-versus-host disease in a liver transplant recipient.
- Hepatic artery thrombosis in infants. A comparison of whole livers, reduced-size grafts, and grafts from living-related donors.
- Reduced priority MELD score for hepatocellular carcinoma does not adversely impact candidate survival awaiting liver transplantation.
- Biliary complications in pediatric liver transplantation. A comparison of reduced-size and whole grafts.
- Morbidity in patients with posttransplant diabetes mellitus following orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Pediatric living related transplantation affords optimal donor utilization.
- Preoperative estimation in living related donor transplantation: clinical correlation and donor/recipient ratio.
- Living related donor liver transplantation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (1996).
- Liver transplantation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 1985 to 1992.
- Preoperative evaluation of donor liver volume in pediatric living related liver transplantation: how accurate is it?
- Surgical innovations in the treatment of children with end-stage liver disease.
- Can current technology be integrated to facilitate laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy?
- Improved results of living-related liver transplantation with routine application in a pediatric program.
- Prevalence of depressive symptoms in patients being evaluated for liver transplantation.
- Can patients awaiting liver transplantation elicit an immune response to the hepatitis A vaccine?
- Preemptive ganciclovir for CMV viremia in liver transplantation.
- Relationship between immunosuppression and osteoporosis in an outpatient liver transplant clinic.
- Persistent hyperglycemia in pediatric liver transplant recipients.
- Once-daily tacrolimus extended-release formulation: 1-year post-conversion in stable pediatric liver transplant recipients.
- Sirolimus-based immunosuppressive [correction of immunosuppresive] protocol for calcineurin sparing in liver transplantation.
- Biliary complications after pediatric liver transplantation revisited.
- Nonresponders of interferon/ribavirin treatment for recurrent hepatitis C following liver transplantation.
- Adult and pediatric liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis.
- Duct-to-duct biliary anastomosis for patients with sclerosing cholangitis undergoing liver transplantation.
- Hepatitis C treatment outcomes of African Americans following liver transplantation.
- Autoimmune hepatitis following liver transplantation: relationship to recurrent disease and steroid weaning.
- Hepatic artery thrombosis in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Daclizumab induction in liver transplant recipients.
- Single-dose induction with daclizumab immediately after liver transplantation in pediatric patients.
- Osteoporosis screening in an outpatient liver transplant clinic: impact of primary immunosuppression.
- Mycophenolate's influence in the treatment of recurrent hepatitis c following liver transplantation.
- Renal sparing effects of mycophenolate when used in long-term liver transplant recipients [correction of receipients].
- Liver transplant induction trial of daclizumab to spare calcineurin inhibition.
- Interferon-alpha and ribavirin for the treatment of recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
- Invasive intracranial pressure monitoring is a useful adjunct in the management of severe hepatic encephalopathy associated with pediatric acute liver failure.
- Resistance to combined ganciclovir and foscarnet therapy in a liver transplant recipient with possible dual-strain cytomegalovirus coinfection.
- Gadolinium-enhanced MRI for tumor surveillance before liver transplantation: center-based experience.
- Medical and surgical treatment of neonatal hemochromatosis: single center experience.
- Pediatric hepatopulmonary syndrome is seen with polysplenia/interrupted inferior vena cava and without cirrhosis.
- Successful ABO-incompatible pediatric liver transplantation utilizing standard immunosuppression with selective postoperative plasmapheresis.
- Liver transplant in a four-month-old child with biliary atresia, unilateral pulmonary agenesis, and diaphragmatic hernia: first case report.
- Pathology of noncirrhotic portal hypertension: clinicopathologic study in pediatric patients.
- A refined long RT-PCR technique to amplify complete viral RNA genome sequences from clinical samples: application to a novel hepatitis C virus variant of genotype 6.
- Peripheral eosinophilia and eosinophilic gastroenteritis after pediatric liver transplantation.
- Low incidence of hepatic artery thrombosis after pediatric liver transplantation without the use of intraoperative microscope or parenteral anticoagulation.
- Pediatric liver transplantation for acute liver failure at a single center: a 10-yr experience.
- Successful outcome after early combined liver and en bloc-kidney transplant in an infant with primary hyperoxaluria type 1: a case report.
- Incidence, impact, and treatment of portal and hepatic venous complications following pediatric liver transplantation: a single-center 12 year experience.
- Liver retransplantation in children: the Atlanta experience.
Schools
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Creighton University School Of Medicine
University Of Chicago Hospitals
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Bile Duct Procedure
- Bile Duct Surgery
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
- Transplant Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Creighton University -
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Hospital
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Swedish Medical Center -
Medical Center of Aurora
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1063522423 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | HEFFRON | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | THOMAS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 802105855 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CO | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 64.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1063522423 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | HEFFRON |
| First Name Of The Provider | THOMAS |
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