Journal of Clinical and Experimental Transplantation
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Giuliano Testa

Chief of Abdominal Transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.

Biography

Dr. Testa is Chief of Abdominal Transplant at Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health and Chairman of the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute.

He specializes in living donor liver transplantation and is the principal investigator of the Uterine Transplant Clinical Trial that resulted in the first U.S. birth of a baby following uterine transplant. Dr. Testa was honored in 2018 as one of TIME Magazine's Top 100 for leading the medical team that performed the first successful uterus transplants in the nation.

Publications

Calculating Additional Risk of Concomitant Laparoscopic Surgery in Living Kidney Donors: Cholecystectomy in Combination with Living Donor Nephrectomy

Background: During the evaluation of a donor candidate for living kidney donation, occasionally a concomitant benign abdominal disease is diagnosed. Combining organ donation and surgical treatment of that disease could be beneficial to the donor. This paper quantified the additional risk to the donor if the two operations were combined. Study desig... Read More»

William F Parker, Mark Siegler, Peter Angelos, Hoylan Fernandez, Sofia Medvedev and Giuliano Testa

Research Article: J Clin Exp Transplant 2016, 1: 102

DOI: 10.4172/2475-7640.1000102

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