Dr. David F Mercer M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
988102 Nebraska Medical Ctr Omaha NE, 68198Rating
5/5
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Dr. David Mercer is a transplant surgeon practicing in Omaha, NE. Dr. Mercer specializes in organ transplants, and may perform surgeries involved with the transplant of organs such as the kidneys, liver, pancreas, intestines, heart, lungs, tracheal tissue and more. As a transplant surgeon, Dr. Mercer performs long, complex surgeries that might take many hours to complete. Transplant surgeons remove the organ from the donor as well as transplant the organ in the recipient. Dr. Mercer works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Extended donor iliac arterial patch for vascular reconstruction during pancreas transplantation.
- Mice with chimeric human livers: who says supermodels have to be tall?
- Anti-HCV therapies in chimeric scid-Alb/uPA mice parallel outcomes in human clinical application.
- HCV796: A selective nonstructural protein 5B polymerase inhibitor with potent anti-hepatitis C virus activity in vitro, in mice with chimeric human livers, and in humans infected with hepatitis C virus.
- Plasma nitrite and nitrate levels as a noninvasive marker of pathology after human small bowel transplantation.
- Left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: small grafts and hemiportocaval shunts in the prevention of small-for-size syndrome.
- Hot topics in postsmall bowel transplantation: noninvasive graft monitoring including stool calprotectin and plasma citrulline.
- Current management of the short bowel syndrome.
- Animal models for studying hepatitis C and alcohol effects on liver.
- Current management of short bowel syndrome.
- Massive small bowel resection during pregnancy causing short bowel syndrome.
- Fish oil emulsions in the management of intestinal failure-associated liver disease.
- Preresection obesity increases the risk of hepatobiliary complications in short bowel syndrome.
- Impact of anti-thymocyte globulin during immunosuppression induction in patients with hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
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