Professor, Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Southwestern Medical School

General Surgery

Doctor Robert P. Foglia, MD is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He researched medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Georgetown University School of Medicine is ranked 49/84 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 4 awards: "Fellow", "America's Top Doctors", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Robert P. Foglia is also a published doctor. He has 66 paper published. The most recent paper is: Serine acetyltransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana can functionally complement the cysteine requirement of a cysE mutant strain of Escherichia coli.

Publications

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• Improving perioperative performance: the use of operations management and the electronic health record.
• Treatment of giant omphalocele with intraabdominal tissue expansion.
• Treatment of toxic epidermal necrolysis in a pediatric patient with a nanocrystalline silver dressing.
• Complications associated with an implantable vascular access device.
• Unsafe at any speed--kids riding all-terrain vehicles.
• Evaluation of angioarchitecture of pulmonary sequestration in pediatric patients using 3D MDCT angiography.
• Neutropenic enterocolitis as a presenting complication of acute lymphoblastic leukemia: an unusual case marked by delayed perforation of the descending colon.
• Trauma stat and trauma minor: are we making the call appropriately?
• Evolving treatment in a decade of pediatric burn care.
• An analysis of pediatric gunshot wounds treated at a Level I pediatric trauma center.
• Management of late-stage parapneumonic empyema.
• Management of giant omphalocele with rapid creation of abdominal domain.
• Trauma activation: are we making the right call? A 3-year experience at a Level I pediatric trauma center.
• Laparoscopic versus open abdominal surgery in children with sickle cell disease is associated with a shorter hospital stay.
• Incidence and Diversity of Double-Stranded RNAs Occurring in the Chestnut Blight Fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, in China and Japan.
• Surgical management of ulcerative colitis in childhood.
• Real-time ultrasound measure of the fetal eye (vitreous body) for prediction of parturition date in small ponies.
• Advantages of intermittent blood cardioplegia over intermittent ischemia during prolonged hypothermic aortic clamping.
• Crypt1, an active Ac-like transposon from the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica.
• Satellite and defective RNAs of Cryphonectria hypovirus 3-grand haven 2, a virus species in the family Hypoviridae with a single open reading frame.
• Omphalocele associated with intrapericardial diaphragmatic Hernia.
• Superiority of blood cardioplegia over asanguinous cardioplegia--an experimental and clinical study.
• Cryphonectria hypovirus 3, a virus species in the family hypoviridae with a single open reading frame.
• "Antral dysmotility". An unrecognized cause of chronic vomiting during infancy.
• Effects of pulsatile assistance and nonpulsatile flow on subendocardial perfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Serine acetyltransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana can functionally complement the cysteine requirement of a cysE mutant strain of Escherichia coli.
• One-stage versus two-stage Soave pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease in the first year of life.
• Recognition and management of nonpenetrating cardiac trauma in children.
• Fetus in fetu: molecular analysis of a fetiform mass.
• MR imaging of annular pancreas.
• Esophageal disease in the pediatric age group.
• Gastroesophageal fundoplication for the management of chronic pulmonary disease in children.
• Reduction of postischemic myocardial damage by maintaining arrest during initial reperfusion.
• Creation and avoidance of myocardial edema by potassium cardioplegia.
• Reversal of ischemic damage with secondary blood cardioplegia.
• Iatrogenic myocardial edema with potassium cardioplegia.
• Detrimental effects of premature use of inotropic drugs to discontinue cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Iatrogenic myocardial edema with crystalloid primes: effects on left ventricular compliance, performance, and perfusion.
• Reducing reperfusion injury with hypocalcemic, hyperkalemic, alkalotic blood during reoxygenation.
• An unusual variant of a jejunoileal atresia.
• Current indications for decortication in the treatment of empyema in children.
• Complications of vaginal atresia in association with a duplicated mullerian duct.
• Surgical treatment of the gastroesophageal reflux syndrome in infants and children.
• Fetal allograft survival in immunocompetent recipients is age dependent and organ specific.
• Can fetal and newborn allografts survive in an immunocompetent host?
• Retrograde colostomy and ileostomy enemas in neonates and infants: a simple combination of techniques.
• Fetal and postnatal testis shows immunoprivilege as donor tissue.
• CT in the evaluation of pleural versus pulmonary disease in children.
• Iatrogenic myocardial edema with crystalloid primes. Effects on left ventricular compliance, performance, and perfusion.
• Emergency lung biopsy in immunocompromised pediatric patients.
• Operative treatment for the gastroesophageal reflux syndrome in children.
• Accuracy of diagnostic imaging as determined by delayed operative intervention for advanced neuroblastoma.
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the treatment of neonatal respiratory failure.
• Surgical correction of hydrothorax from diaphragmatic eventration in children on peritoneal dialysis.
• Pulmonary edema and fluid mobilization as determinants of the duration of ECMO support.
• Intestinal obstruction after lung transplantation in children with cystic fibrosis.
• Experience with procedural sedation in a pediatric burn center.
• Reducing postischemic damage by temporary modification of reperfusate calcium, potassium, pH, and osmolarity.
• Neonatal survival during a 2,500-mile flight.
• Decreasing transfusion exposure risk during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
• Treatment of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum. A comparison of local segmental resection and left hemicolectomy.
• Surgical correction of complete atrioventricular canal.
• Routine insertion of a silastic spring-loaded silo for infants with gastroschisis.
• A pediatric acute wound service: a novel approach in wound management.
• Impact of wait time on outcome for Inguinal hernia repair in infants.

Schools

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• Georgetown Univ Sch Of Med

• University Of California Los Angeles

• Chldns Hospital National Med Center

Procedures Preformed

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• Excision of Breast Tumor
• Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
• Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open

Conditions Treated

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• Inguinal Hernia
• Pyloric Stenosis
• Umbilical Hernia
• Ventral Hernia

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• Pediatric Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow
• America's Top Doctors
• Fellow (FACS)
• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• Children's National Medical Center - George Washington University
• UCLA Medical Center
• Georgetown University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Children's Health System of Texas

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