Assistant Professor of Surgery, University Pennsylvania
Plastic Surgery
Dr. Liza C. Wu, MD
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Liza practices Plastic Surgery. She graduated from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked 10 in research and 19 in primary care medicine She has 2 awards "Regional Top Doctor" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Liza is also published. She has 81 publications published. The lastest publication: "The Timing of Breast Irradiation in Two-Stage Expander/Implant Breast Reconstruction.' Liza accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Bilateral Free Flap Breast Reconstruction After Unilateral Radiation: Comparing Intraoperative Vascular Complications and Postoperative Outcomes in Radiated Versus Non...
- The Timing of Breast Irradiation in Two-Stage Expander/Implant Breast Reconstruction.
- Non-Invasive Imaging of Preoperative Mapping of Superficial Veins in Free Flap Breast Reconstruction.
- An analysis of early oncologic head and neck free flap reoperations from the 2005-2012 ACS-NSQIP dataset.
- Loupes-Only Microsurgery is a Safe Alternative to the Operating Microscope: An Analysis of 1,649 Consecutive Free Flap Breast Reconstructions.
- Racial and age disparities persist in immediate breast reconstruction: an updated analysis of 48,564 patients from the 2005 to 2011 American College of Surgeons Nation...
- Tamoxifen (Selective Estrogen-Receptor Modulators) and Aromatase Inhibitors as Potential Perioperative Thrombotic Risk Factors in Free Flap Breast Reconstruction.
- African-American women have equivalent outcomes following autologous free flap breast reconstruction despite greater preoperative risk factors.
- Vein grafting your way out of trouble: Examining the utility and efficacy of vein grafts in microsurgery.
- The certificate of added qualifications in microsurgery: consideration for subspecialty certification in microvascular surgery in the United States.
- Predicting and managing donor-site wound complications in abdominally based free flap breast reconstruction: improved outcomes with early reoperative closure.
- Wound healing complications after autologous breast reconstruction: A model to predict risk.
- Intraoperative perfusion management impacts postoperative outcomes: An analysis of 682 autologous breast reconstruction patients.
- Assessing Surgical and Medical Complications in Bilateral Abdomen-Based Free Flap Breast Reconstructions Compared With Unilateral Free Flap Breast Reconstructions.
- Reply: operative treatment of peripheral lymphedema: a systematic meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of lymphovenous microsurgery and tissue transplant.
- Mastectomy with or without immediate implant reconstruction has similar 30-day perioperative outcomes.
- Reexamining Free Flap Breast Reconstruction in the Community and University Setting: Is There a Difference?
- Does Breast Reconstruction Impact the Decision of Patients to Pursue Cosmetic Surgery?
- Medicinal leeches for surgically uncorrectable venous congestion after free flap breast reconstruction.
- Abstract 36: Risk Assessment of Immediate Breast Reconstruction Relative to Mastectomy Alone: Analysis of 30-day Complications Using the ACS-NSQIP.
- Propensity-Matched, Longitudinal Outcomes Analysis of Complications and Cost: Comparing Abdominal Free Flaps and Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction.
- Direct-to-implant breast reconstruction: An analysis of 1612 cases from the ACS-NSQIP surgical outcomes database.
- Outcomes and Cost Analysis in High-Risk Patients Undergoing Simultaneous Free Flap Breast Reconstruction and Gynecologic Procedures.
- Do Prior Abdominal Surgeries Increase Complications in Abdominally Based Breast Reconstructions?
- The Patient's Perspective on the Effect of Autologous Breast Reconstruction on Lymphedema.
- Venous thromboembolism risk in mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction: analysis of the 2005 to 2011 american college of surgeons national surgical quality impr...
- The impact of complications on function, health, and satisfaction following abdominally based autologous breast reconstruction: A prospective evaluation.
- Preoperative anemia impacts early postoperative recovery following autologous breast reconstruction.
- Patterns of preoperative laboratory testing in patients undergoing outpatient plastic surgery procedures.
- The impact of perforator number on deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction.
- "Operative Treatment of Peripheral Lymphedema: a Systematic Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy and Safety of Lymphovenous Microsurgery and Tissue Transplant"
- Risk analysis of early implant loss after immediate breast reconstruction: a review of 14,585 patients.
- The impact of obesity on abdominal wall function after free autologous breast reconstruction.
- The impact of anemia on microsurgical breast reconstruction complications and outcomes.
- Optimizing the fascial closure: an analysis of 1261 abdominally based free flap reconstructions.
- Risk Analysis and Stratification of Surgical Morbidity after Immediate Breast Reconstruction.
- Chronic pain following abdominal free flap breast reconstruction: a prospective pilot analysis.
- Complications and morbidity following breast reconstruction - a review of 16,063 cases from the 2005-2010 NSQIP datasets.
- Impact of Obesity on Outcomes in Breast Reconstruction: Analysis of 15,937 Patients from the ACS-NSQIP Datasets.
- Outcome analysis of 244 consecutive flaps for managing complex groin wounds.
- Peri-operative risk factors associated with early tissue expander (TE) loss following immediate breast reconstruction (IBR): AÂ review of 9305 patients from the 2005-20...
- Delayed autologous breast reconstruction: Factors which influence patient decision making.
- Free tissue transfer in the obese patient: an outcome and cost analysis in 1258 consecutive abdominally based reconstructions.
- Trends in immediate breast reconstruction across insurance groups after enactment of breast Cancer legislation.
- A Retrospective Review of Outcomes and Flap Selection in Free Tissue Transfers for Complex Lower Extremity Reconstruction.
- Management of the ptotic or hypertrophic breast in immediate autologous breast reconstruction: a comparison between the wise and vertical reduction patterns for mastec...
- An Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Immediate Autologous Breast Reconstruction in Patients Undergoing Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy.
- A 15-year Experience of Complex Scalp Reconstruction Using Free Tissue Transfer-Analysis of Risk Factors for Complications.
- Comprehensive outcome and cost analysis of free tissue transfer for breast reconstruction: an experience with 1303 flaps.
- Age and abdominal wall strength: Assessing the aging abdominal wall after autologous breast reconstruction.
- Lower Extremity Free Flap Outcomes Using an Anastomotic Venous Coupler Device.
- Transfusions in Autologous Breast Reconstructions: An Analysis of Risk Factors, Complications, and Cost.
- Breast reconstruction in bilateral prophylactic mastectomy patients: Factors that influence decision making.
- Racial disparities in immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy: impact of state and federal health policy changes.
- Free Flap Take-Back following Postoperative Microvascular Compromise: Predicting Salvage versus Failure.
- Strategies for recognizing and managing intraoperative venous congestion in abdominally based autologous breast reconstruction.
- Late venous thrombosis in free flap breast reconstruction: strategies for salvage after this real entity.
- Prophylactic muscle flaps in vascular surgery.
- Free Tissue Transfer in the Hypercoagulable Patient: A Review of 58 Flaps.
- Closer to an Understanding of Fate - The Role of Vascular Complications in Free Flap Breast Reconstruction.
- Case Report: Coumadin-Induced Skin Necrosis of the Breasts.
- Reconstruction of complex total parotidectomy defects using the free anterolateral thigh flap: a classification system and algorithm.
- Does previous chest wall irradiation increase vascular complications in free autologous breast reconstruction?
- Free transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap for breast reconstruction in patients with prior abdominal contouring procedures.
- A Comparison between DIEP and muscle-sparing free TRAM flaps in breast reconstruction: a single surgeon's recent experience.
- A novel technique for lower extremity limb salvage: the vastus lateralis muscle flap with concurrent use of the vacuum-assisted closure device.
- 1000 consecutive venous anastomoses using the microvascular anastomotic coupler in breast reconstruction.
- The vastus lateralis muscle flap in head and neck reconstruction: an alternative flap for soft tissue defects.
- Breast Cancer screening prior to cosmetic breast surgery: ASPS members' Adherence to American Cancer Society Guidelines.
- Comparison of donor-site morbidity of SIEA, DIEP, and muscle-sparing TRAM flaps for breast reconstruction.
- A head-to-head comparison between the muscle-sparing free TRAM and the SIEA flaps: is the rate of flap loss worth the gain in abdominal wall function?
- Supercharging the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap: breast reconstruction for the overweight and obese population.
- Proximal vascular pedicle preservation for sartorius muscle flap transposition.
- Glabrous dermal grafting: a 12-year experience with the functional and aesthetic restoration of palmar and plantar Skin defects.
- Vacuum-assisted closure for sternal wounds: a first-line therapeutic management approach.
- Salvage of infected cartilage grafts for nasal reconstruction with a through-and-through irrigation system.
- The rectus abdominis musculoperitoneal flap for the immediate reconstruction of partial vaginal defects.
- Sternal nonunion: a review of current treatments and a new method of rigid fixation.
- Rigid-plate fixation for the treatment of sternal nonunion.
- Vacuum assisted closure for the treatment of sternal wounds: the bridge between débridement and definitive closure.
Schools
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med
Procedures Preformed
- Adjacent Tissue Transfer
- Breast Lift Surgery
- Breast Reconstruction
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Benign Skin Lesion
- Gynecomastia
- Skin Cancer
Doctors Specialties
- Plastic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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University of Chicago -
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Pennsylvania Hospital -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1942234018 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | WU | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | LIZA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 191044306 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 25.0 | |
| 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] | 1942234018 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WU |
| First Name Of The Provider | LIZA |
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