Assistant Professor, Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

General Surgery

Megan Durham is an expert in the field of General Surgery. She went to Tulane University School of Medicine. She has 1 awards "Fellow (FACS)". Dr. Megan M. Durham is a published MD. She has 38 papers published. The most current publication "Presacral neuroenteric fistula presenting with meningitis and vaginal fistula: a case report."

Publications

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• Heterotaxy syndrome and malrotation: Does isomerism influence risk and decision to treat.
• Noniatrogenic neonatal gastric perforation: the role of interstitial cells of cajal.
• Successful treatment of an adolescent with locally advanced cervicovaginal clear cell adenocarcinoma using definitive chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
• Hepatic Pulmonary Fusion: Two Cases with Diaphragmatic Hernia and One Case with Pentalogy of Cantrell.
• An alternative approach for management of the congenital giant Inguinal hernia in neonates.
• Management of cryptorchidism and gastroschisis.
• Ciliated hepatic foregut cyst: four case reports with a review of the literature.
• Hereditary multiple Intestinal atresias: 2 new cases and review of the literature.
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy in the pediatric population.
• Congenital spigelian Hernias and cryptorchidism.
• Obesity in the United States: is there a quick fix? Pros and cons of bariatric surgery from the pediatric perspective.
• Development of a chimeric anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody that synergizes with LEA29Y to prolong islet allograft survival.
• GastroIntestinal stromal tumors arising from the stomach: a report of three children.
• Thirty-year experience with repair of pectus deformities in adults.
• Heterologous immunity provides a potent barrier to transplantation tolerance.
• Cutting edge: persistent viral infection prevents tolerance induction and escapes immune control following CD28/CD40 blockade-based regimen.
• Prevention of chronic rejection in murine cardiac allografts: a comparison of chimerism- and nonchimerism-inducing costimulation blockade-based tolerance induction reg...
• A cure for murine sickle cell Disease through stable mixed chimerism and tolerance induction after nonmyeloablative conditioning and major histocompatibility complex-m...
• The role of the IL-2 pathway in costimulation blockade-resistant rejection of allografts.
• Calcineurin inhibitor-free CD28 blockade-based protocol protects allogeneic islets in nonhuman primates.
• Treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients coinfected with HIV in the HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS), 1999-2007.
• Endotoxin priming improves clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in wild-type and interleukin-10 knockout mice.
• Genetic characterization of strain differences in the ability to mediate CD40/CD28-independent rejection of skin allografts.
• Aggressive skin allograft rejection in CD28-/- mice independent of the CD40/CD40L costimulatory pathway.
• Presacral neuroenteric fistula presenting with meningitis and vaginal fistula: a case report.
• Characterization of virus-mediated inhibition of mixed chimerism and allospecific tolerance.
• Costimulation blockade, busulfan, and bone marrow promote titratable macrochimerism, induce transplantation tolerance, and correct genetic hemoglobinopathies with mini...
• Neonatal gastric perforation and necrosis with Hunt-Lawrence pouch reconstruction.
• Utility of lymph node assessment for atypical spitzoid melanocytic neoplasms.
• Vigorous allograft rejection in the absence of danger.
• Analysis of the CD40 and CD28 pathways on alloimmune responses by CD4+ T cells in vivo.
• SVR angiosarcomas can be rejected by CD4 costimulation dependent and CD8 costimulation independent pathways.
• Induction of chimerism in rhesus macaques through stem cell transplant and costimulation blockade-based immunosuppression.
• Cutting edge: administration of anti-CD40 ligand and donor bone marrow leads to hemopoietic chimerism and donor-specific tolerance without cytoreductive conditioning.
• Asialo GM1(+) CD8(+) T cells play a critical role in costimulation blockade-resistant allograft rejection.
• Conventional immunosuppression is compatible with costimulation blockade-based, mixed chimerism tolerance induction.
• Allogeneic parenchymal and hematopoietic tissues differ in their ability to induce deletion of donor-reactive T cells.

Schools

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• Tulane University School Of Medicine

• Emory University School Of Med

Procedures Preformed

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• Excision of Breast Tumor
• Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open
• Lymph Node Biopsy or Excision
• Port Placements or Replacements

Conditions Treated

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• Hodgkin's Disease
• Inguinal Hernia
• Intestinal Atresia
• Pyloric Stenosis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Emory University
• Tulane University School of Medicine

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