Professor, Surgery, Tufts Medical Center
General Surgery
Dr. Walter J. Chwals, MD
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Walter Chwals works in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from Jagiellonian University Medical College. He over the years received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "Fellow (FCCM)", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Super Doctor". Walter Chwals is also published. He has 67 publications published. The lastest publication: "Pediatric wound infections: a prospective multicenter study.'
Publications
- A Unique Case of Mediastinal Teratoma with Mature Pancreatic Tissue, Nesidioblastosis, and Aberrant Islet Differentiation: a Case Report and Literature Review.
- Paediatric torsed extralobar sequestration containing calcification: Imaging findings with pathological correlation.
- Prevention of inappropriate caloric repletion in critically ill children.
- Spontaneous hemothorax in multiple exostoses: a case report and review of literature.
- Long-term outcome after partial external biliary diversion for progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis.
- Relationship of serum C-reactive protein and blood glucose levels with Injury severity and patient morbidity in a pediatric trauma population.
- Effect of ambient temperature on physical compatibility of neonatal total parenteral nutrition admixtures.
- Computed tomography before transfer to a level I pediatric trauma center risks duplication with associated increased radiation exposure.
- Hyperglycemia management strategy in the pediatric intensive care setting.
- Appendiceal fecalith is associated with early perforation in pediatric patients.
- Energy expenditure in critically ill infants.
- Total parenteral nutrition-associated hyperglycemia correlates with prolonged mechanical ventilation and hospital stay in septic infants.
- Vascular access for home intravenous therapy in children.
- C-Reactive protein-determined Injury severity: length of stay predictor in surgical infants.
- The management of overweight and obese children.
- Thoracoscopic thymectomy in children with myasthenia gravis.
- Primary insertion of a silastic spring-loaded silo for gastroschisis.
- Minimally invasive surgery for pediatric solid Neoplasms.
- Bile decompression in children with histopathological evidence of pre-existing liver cirrhosis.
- The role of insulin-like growth factor I, growth hormone, and plasma proteins in surgical outcome of children with congenital heart Disease.
- Sedation and fiberoptic intubation of a neonate with a cystic hygroma.
- Metabolism and nutritional frontiers in pediatric surgical patients.
- Serum visceral protein levels reflect protein-calorie repletion in neonates recovering from major surgery.
- Hirschsprung's Disease: a possible cause of anastomotic failure following repair of intestinal atresia.
- Dexamethasone treatment during ventilator dependency: possible life threatening gastroIntestinal complications.
- A comparison of total body water measurements using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging versus tritium dilution in primates.
- Indirect calorimetry in mechanically ventilated infants and children: measurement accuracy with absence of audible airleak.
- Broad line quantitative chemical shift spectroscopy.
- Role of exogenous growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor I in malnutrition and acute metabolic stress: a hypothesis.
- TransAnal mucosal sleeve resection for the treatment of rectal prolapse in children.
- Long-term follow-up of brachial artery ligation in children.
- Use of magnetic resonance imaging in planning the separation of omphalopagus conjoined twins.
- Percutaneous insertion of subclavian venous catheters in infants and children.
- Perioperative nutritional support in the cancer patient.
- Parenteral nutrition in the surgical patient.
- Bedside assessment of the work of breathing.
- Measured energy expenditure in critically ill infants and young children.
- Complications after use of the Angelchik antireflux prosthesis.
- Early postoperative alterations in infant energy use increase the risk of overfeeding.
- Stratification of Injury severity using energy expenditure response in surgical infants.
- Overfeeding the critically ill child: fact or fantasy?
- The metabolic response to surgery in neonates.
- Patterns of power mower injuries in children compared with adults and the elderly.
- Detection of postoperative sepsis in infants with the use of metabolic stress monitoring.
- Hamartomas of the chest wall in infants.
- Treatment of complicated congenital splenic cysts.
- Relationship of metabolic indexes to postoperative mortality in surgical infants.
- Hormonal response of the premature primate to operative stress.
- Neonatal lipid utilization increases with Injury severity: recombinant human growth hormone versus placebo.
- Credentialing of research surgeons: can computers help in the process?
- Nutritional support of the pediatric oncology patient.
- Pediatric wound infections: a prospective multicenter study.
- Anabolic recovery relative to degree of prematurity after acute Injury in neonates.
- Intussusception of the appendix: another poorly recognized cause of rectal bleeding.
- Predicted energy expenditure in critically ill children: problems associated with increased variability.
- Salivary gland choristoma of the anterior chest wall.
- Institutional Review Board approval for prospective experimental studies on infants and children.
- Intraventricular pressure dynamics in ventriculocholecystic shunting: a telemetric study.
- Surgery-associated complications in necrotizing enterocolitis: A multiinstitutional study.
- A single-incision laparoscopic technique for retrieval and replacement of disconnected ventriculoperitoneal shunt tubing found in the peritoneum.
- Postoperative outcomes of extremely low birth-weight infants with necrotizing enterocolitis or isolated Intestinal perforation: a prospective cohort study by the NICHD...
- Body piercing/tattooing and trauma diagnostic imaging: medical myths vs realities.
- Regulation of the cellular and physiological effects of glutamine.
- Early experience with single-port laparoscopic surgery in children.
- The endoscopic U-stitch technique for primary button placement: an institution''s experience.
- Management of patients with combined tracheoesophageal Fistula, esophageal atresia, and duodenal atresia.
Schools
Jagiellonian University Medical College Faculty Of Medicine
University Mass Med Center
Children39s Hospital Los Angeles
New Eng Deaconess Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
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Conditions Treated
- Anal Fissure
- Anal Fistula
- Anorectal Abscess
- Appendicitis
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Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston Magazine
- Fellow (FCCM)
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
Education
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Children's Hospital of Los Angeles -
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
University of Massachusetts -
Jagiellonian University Medical College
Hospital
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MetroWest Medical Center -
Tufts Medical Center
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