Physician

General Surgery

Alexander is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at University Hospital - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He has 1 awards "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Alexander is also published. He has 101 publications published. The lastest publication: "Influence of EPA and DHA intravenous fat emulsions on nitrogen retention and protein kinetics in burned rats.'

Publications

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• Response to a Letter to the Editor, Annals of Surgery.
• Role of Arginine and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Wound Healing and Infection.
• Des-acyl-ghrelin (DAG) normalizes hyperlactacidemia and improves survival in a lethal rat model of burn trauma.
• Surveillance of bacterial colonization in operating rooms.
• Updated recommendations for control of surgical site infections.
• Regulatory effect of histamine on the barrier function of intestinal mucosal.
• Banded sleeve gastrectomy--initial experience.
• History of the medical use of silver.
• When should prophylactic antibiotics be given?
• Improvement and stabilization of chronic kidney disease after gastric bypass.
• Prevention of surgical site infections by an infusion of topical antibiotics in morbidly obese patients.
• Bisphenol A at environmentally relevant doses inhibits adiponectin release from human adipose tissue explants and adipocytes.
• The impact of medicaid status on outcome after gastric bypass.
• Gastric bypass in chronic renal failure and renal transplant.
• Corticosteroid elimination: the Cincinnati experience.
• Body weight alterations under early corticosteroid withdrawal and chronic corticosteroid therapy with modern immunosuppression.
• Corticosteroid avoidance ameliorates lymphocele formation and wound healing complications associated with sirolimus therapy.
• A prospective, pilot study of early corticosteroid cessation in high-immunologic-risk patients: the Cincinnati experience.
• Histocompatibility testing predicts acute rejection risk in early corticosteroid withdrawal regimens.
• Global cardiovascular risk under early corticosteroid cessation decreases progressively in the first year following renal transplantation.
• African American renal transplant recipients benefit from early corticosteroid withdrawal under modern immunosuppression.
• The influence of immunomodulatory diets on transplant success and complications.
• Gastric bypass in morbidly obese patients with chronic renal failure and kidney transplant.
• Influence of glutamine-supplemented Caco-2 cells on cytokine production of mononuclear cells.
• Transplantation without steroids.
• Nutritional pharmacology in surgical patients.
• Changes in bone marrow-derived myeloid cells from thermally injured rats reflect changes in the progenitor cell population.
• The ability of endotoxin-stimulated enterocytes to produce bactericidal factors.
• Effect of in vivo infusion of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on immune function.
• HLA-identical renal transplant recipients: immunosuppression, long-term complications, and survival.
• Comparison of translocation of different types of microorganisms from the intestinal tract of burned mice.
• Oral arginine improves blood pressure in renal transplant and hemodialysis patients.
• Community Health Nursing Outcomes Inventory.
• Immediate allograft dysfunction due to atheroembolic disease.
• Nutritional immunomodulation leads to enhanced allograft survival in combination with cyclosporine A and rapamycin, but not FK506.
• Role of immunonutrition in reducing complications following organ transplantation.
• Sodium arsenite induces the stress response in the gut and decreases bacterial translocation in a burned mouse model with gut-derived sepsis.
• Evaluation of pre- and posttransplant donor-specific transfusion/cyclosporine A in non-HLA identical living donor kidney transplant recipients. Cooperative Clinical Tr...
• Use of percutaneous transpedicular external fixation pins to measure intervertebral motion.
• Quantitative assessment of the midcarpal shift test.
• Nitric oxide promotes the internalization and passage of viable bacteria through cultured Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells.
• The effect of nutritional immunomodulation on cardiac allograft survival in rats receiving mycophenolate mofetil, cyclosporine A, and donor-specific transfusion.
• Dietary amino acids as new and novel agents to enhance allograft survival.
• Influence of EPA and DHA intravenous fat emulsions on nitrogen retention and protein kinetics in burned rats.
• The cost-effectiveness of transplantation with expanded donor kidneys.
• Is early enteral feeding of benefit?
• The effect of sennosides on bacterial translocation and survival in a model of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
• Effect of pentoxifylline on survival and intestinal cytokine messenger RNA transcription in a rat model of ongoing peritoneal sepsis.
• Cost effectiveness of a high-risk pregnancy program.
• Characteristics of long-term renal transplant survivors.
• Immunonutrition: the role of omega-3 fatty acids.
• Primary therapy with OKT3 for biopsy-proven acute renal allograft rejection.
• Long-term kidney and pancreas function with tacrolimus immunosuppression following simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation.
• Dietary omega-3 and omega-9 fatty acids uniquely enhance allograft survival in cyclosporine-treated and donor-specific transfusion-treated rats.
• Arginine, fish oil, and donor-specific transfusions independently improve cardiac allograft survival in rats given subtherapeutic doses of cyclosporin.
• The relationship of job satisfaction with organizational variables in public health nursing.
• Optimal location of a single distal interlocking screw in intramedullary nailing of distal third femoral shaft fractures.
• Tacrolimus eliminates acute rejection as a major complication following simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation.
• Diets and infection: composition and consequences.
• Rapid and prolonged impairment of gut barrier function after thermal injury in mice.
• Immunobiology of renal transplantation.
• Economic costs of expanded criteria donors in renal transplantation.
• The detection of microbial DNA in the blood: a sensitive method for diagnosing bacteremia and/or bacterial translocation in surgical patients.
• Lack of disease transmission using donors with fatal encephalitis.
• Long-term outcome of kidney transplantation from expanded criteria donors: a single center experience.
• Clinical and economic outcomes of expanded criteria donors in renal transplantation.
• The effect of blood transfusion on susceptibility to bacterial infection in genetically defined mouse models.
• Thermal injury induces the development of inflammatory macrophages from nonadherent bone marrow cells.
• Efficacy of OKT3 as primary therapy for histologically confirmed acute renal allograft rejection.
• Immunoblastic malignant lymphoma in dolphins: histologic, ultrastructural, and immunohistochemical features.
• Glutamine and infections.
• Bone marrow and splenocyte coculture-generated cells enhance allograft survival.
• Arginine, glutamine, and dehydroepiandrosterone reverse the immunosuppressive effect of prednisone during gut-derived sepsis.
• Neutrophils from burn patients are unable to increase the expression of CD11b/CD18 in response to inflammatory stimuli.
• The relationship of blood transfusion and immunosuppression to the Th1/Th2 paradigm.
• Efficacy and safety of tacrolimus versus cyclosporine in kidney and pancreas transplant recipients.
• Long-term renal and pancreas function with tacrolimus rescue therapy following kidney/pancreas transplantation.
• Does certification mean better performance?
• National Delphi study to determine competencies for nursing leadership in public health.
• Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor enhances killing of translocated bacteria but does not affect barrier function in a burn mouse model.
• Production of cytokines and prostaglandin E2 by subpopulations of guinea pig enterocytes: effect of endotoxin and thermal injury.
• Effects of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril on bacterial translocation after thermal injury and bacterial challenge.
• The significance of timing of additional short-term immunosuppression in the donor-specific transfusion/cyclosporine-treated rat.
• Detection of intestinal bacterial translocation using PCR.
• Rescue therapy with tacrolimus after combined kidney/pancreas and isolated pancreas transplantation in patients with severe cyclosporine nephrotoxicity.
• Steroid therapy can modulate gut barrier function, host defense, and survival in thermally injured mice.
• High protein diets are associated with increased bacterial translocation in septic guinea pigs.
• The effects of blood transfusion on cytokine production by TH1 and TH2 lymphocytes in the mouse.
• Effects of hyperoxia on bacterial translocation and mortality during gut-derived sepsis.
• Organizational development strategies on nursing units.
• Differential expression of intestinal and splenic cytokines after parenteral nutrition.
• Anti-interleukin-6 antibody treatment improves survival during gut-derived sepsis in a time-dependent manner by enhancing host defense.
• Comparison between methylprednisolone and OKT3 treatment for the first acute rejection episode in combined kidney and pancreas transplant recipients.
• Conversion from cyclosporine to tacrolimus after pancreas transplantation.
• Nutritional immunomodulation enhances cardiac allograft survival in rats treated with donor-specific transfusion and cyclosporine.
• Administration of intragraft interleukin-4 prolongs cardiac allograft survival in rats treated with donor-specific transfusion/cyclosporine.
• The effect of aging on the shape of the proximal femur.
• Effect of different combinations of dietary additives on bacterial translocation and survival in gut-derived sepsis.
• Bacterial translocation-related mortality may be associated with neutrophil-mediated organ damage.
• Indefinite allograft survival induced by the combination of multiple donor-specific transfusions, cyclosporine, and an anti-T cell monoclonal antibody in a protocol re...

Schools

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• University of Texas At Galveston Medical Branch

• Cinn Genl Hospital

• Cin Genl Hospital

• University Of Minnesota

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Education

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• University Hospital - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• University of Texas Medical Branch

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