Dr. Ira J Fox MD
Transplant Surgeon
988095 Nebraska Medical Ctr Omaha NE, 68198Rating
2/5
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Dr. Ira Fox is a transplant surgeon practicing in Omaha, NE. Dr. Fox 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. Fox 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. Fox works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1976
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hepatocyte transplantation improves liver function and prolongs survival in rats with decompensated liver cirrhosis.
- Transplanted hepatocytes infected with a complement receptor type 1 (CR1)-containing recombinant adenovirus are resistant to hyperacute rejection.
- Extracorporeal support with a cadaver liver as a bridge to transplantation.
- Immunochemical properties of anti-Gal alpha 1-3Gal antibodies after sensitization with xenogeneic tissues.
- Hepatocyte transplantation for the treatment of human disease.
- Prevention of acute liver failure in rats with reversibly immortalized human hepatocytes.
- Establishment of a tightly regulated human cell line for the development of hepatocyte transplantation.
- Construction of a non-tumorigenic rat hepatocyte cell line for transplantation: reversal of hepatocyte immortalization by site-specific excision of the SV40 T antigen.
- Extracorporeal liver perfusion using human and pig livers for acute liver failure.
- The role of hepatocyte transplantation to treat chronic liver failure.
- Treatment of carbon tetrachloride and phenobarbital-induced chronic liver failure with intrasplenic hepatocyte transplantation.
- Transplantation into and inside the liver.
- Treatment of liver failure in rats with end-stage cirrhosis by transplantation of immortalized hepatocytes.
- Treatment of cirrhosis and liver failure in rats by hepatocyte xenotransplantation.
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