Chair

General Surgery

Michael Ishitani is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Michael Ishitani is a published doctor. He published 42 publications, including: 'Laparoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia in children: A review.'

Publications

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• Pretransfer computed tomography delays arrival to definitive care without affecting pediatric trauma outcomes.
• Laparoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia in children: A review.
• The rising incidence of pediatric empyema with Fistula.
• Compensatory hypertrophy of the remaining kidney in medically complex living kidney donors over the long term.
• Granular cell tumors and congenital granular cell epulis in children: Similar entities.
• Safety and yield of muscle biopsy in pediatric patients in the modern era.
• Youth Ice Hockey Injuries Over 16 Years at a Pediatric Trauma Center.
• Synchronous splenectomy during cholecystectomy for hereditary spherocytosis: Is it really necessary?
• Autologous blood patch for persistent air leak in children.
• Childhood motocross truncal injuries: high-velocity, focal force to the chest and abdomen.
• Fifty-three-year experience with pediatric umbilical Hernia repairs.
• Early-onset coronary artery disease after pediatric kidney transplantation: implicating the angiogenesis inhibitor, endostatin.
• Pediatric DermatofibroSarcoma Protuberans: Multi-Institutional Outcomes.
• Pyogenic liver abscess secondary to Streptococcus anginosus in an adolescent.
• Patterns of accidental genital trauma in young girls and indications for operative management.
• Successful thoracoscopic staged repair of bilateral congenital diaphragmatic Hernia.
• Post-ERCP pancreatitis in pediatric patients.
• Kidney transplantation for primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: outcomes and response to therapy for recurrence.
• Perspectives on pediatric bariatric surgery: identifying barriers to referral.
• Management of chronic pancreatitis in the pediatric patient: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography vs operative therapy.
• Significance of central perivenulitis in pediatric liver transplantation.
• Liver transplantation for pulmonary vascular complications of pediatric end-stage liver disease.
• Pediatric endoscopic injuries: incidence, management, and outcomes.
• Vascular complications after orthotopic liver transplantation after neoadjuvant therapy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma.
• Decreased incidence of acute rejection in adolescent kidney transplant recipients using antithymocyte induction and triple immunosuppression.
• Outcomes of primary liver cancer in children: an appraisal of experience.
• Predictors of disease recurrence following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and liver transplantation for unresectable perihilar cholangiocarcinoma.
• Video-assisted resection of bilateral intralobar pulmonary sequestrations.
• Management and outcome of neonatal-onset ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency following liver transplantation at 60 days of life.
• Living donor liver transplantation using a right lobe graft in an adult with situs inversus.
• Transplantation for hilar cholangiocarcinoma.
• Patient and graft outcomes from older living kidney donors are similar to those from younger donors despite lower GFR.
• Outcome of liver transplantation for hepatitis B in the United States.
• Wound-healing complications after kidney transplantation: a prospective, randomized comparison of sirolimus and tacrolimus.
• Liver transplantation for unresectable perihilar cholangiocarcinoma.
• The decreasing incidence of diaphragmatic dysfunction in liver transplantation: a probable advantage of the piggy-back liver transplant technique.
• Recent advances in liver transplantation.
• Unsuspected primary hepatic angioSarcoma associated with portal vein thrombosis complicating cirrhosis.
• Wound infection with Neisseria weaveri and a novel subspecies of pasteurella multocida in a child who sustained a tiger bite.
• Preliminary results: outcome of liver transplantation for hepatitis B virus varies by hepatitis B virus genotype.
• Gastric diverticulum: a series of four pediatric patients.

Schools

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• Vanderbilt University School Of Medicine

• University Of Virginia

• Chldns Hospital Los Angeles

• University Va Health Scis Center

Procedures Preformed

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• Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
• Inguinal Hernia Repair, Open
• Lymph Node Biopsy or Excision
• Port Placements or Replacements
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Conditions Treated

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• Anal Fistula
• Inguinal Hernia
• OsteoSarcoma
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• Pediatric Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
• Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
• Blue Preferred Plus POS
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
• Blue Cross Accord
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Choice Care PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO

Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
• University of Virginia
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota

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