
Dr. James R Thistlethwaite MD
Transplant Surgeon
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. James Thistlethwaite is a transplant surgeon practicing in Willowbrook, IL. Dr. Thistlethwaite 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. Thistlethwaite 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. Thistlethwaite 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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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Indications for liver transplantation in pediatric patients.
- Smooth muscle-specific actin levels in the urine of renal transplant recipients: correlation with cyclosporine or tacrolimus nephrotoxicity.
- Cutting edge: blockade of the CD28/B7 costimulatory pathway inhibits intestinal allograft rejection mediated by CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells.
- Drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis in renal allografts: histopathologic features and clinical course in six patients.
- Phase I trial of a humanized, Fc receptor nonbinding OKT3 antibody, huOKT3gamma1(Ala-Ala) in the treatment of acute renal allograft rejection.
- Absence of host B7 expression is sufficient for long-term murine vascularized heart allograft survival.
- Primary living-donor liver transplantation at the University of Chicago: technical aspects of the first 104 recipients.
- Combined liver and kidney transplantation in children.
- Reduced acute rejection and superior 1-year renal allograft survival with basiliximab in patients with diabetes mellitus. The Global Simulect Study Group.
- Role of STAT4 and STAT6 signaling in allograft rejection and CTLA4-Ig-mediated tolerance.
- The clinical and pathologic implications of plasmacytic infiltrates in percutaneous renal allograft biopsies.
- Living related liver transplantation in children: a report of the first 58 recipients at the University of Chicago.
- CD8 T cell-mediated rejection of intestinal allografts is resistant to inhibition of the CD40/CD154 costimulatory pathway.
- Cutting edge: membrane lymphotoxin regulates CD8(+) T cell-mediated intestinal allograft rejection.
- Different mechanisms of cardiac allograft rejection in wildtype and CD28-deficient mice.
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