Taufiek Konrad Rajab

ORCID: 0000-0001-8885-2758
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Research Areas
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Hernia repair and management
  • Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Xenotransplantation and immune response
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Coronary Artery Anomalies
  • Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion
  • Vascular anomalies and interventions
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques
  • Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
  • Trauma Management and Diagnosis
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Arkansas Children's Hospital
2023-2025

University of Missouri
2025

Medical University of South Carolina
2020-2024

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
2024

Duke Medical Center
2024

Castle Hill Hospital
2023

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2018-2020

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
2020

Massachusetts General Hospital
2017-2019

Brigham and Women's Hospital
2010-2019

Importance The treatment of neonates with irreparable heart valve dysfunction remains an unsolved problem because there are no implants that grow. Therefore, committed to recurrent implant exchanges until adult-sized can fit. Objective To deliver the first grows. Design, Setting, and Participants Case report from a pediatric referral center, follow-up for more than 1 year. were recipient neonate persistent truncus arteriosus truncal donor hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Intervention...

10.1001/jama.2023.23823 article EN JAMA 2024-01-02

Bioengineering of viable, functional, and implantable human lung grafts on porcine matrix.Implantable bioartificial organ could revolutionize transplant surgery. To date, several milestones toward that goal have been achieved in rodent models. make bioengineered clinically relevant, scaling to cells graft size are the next steps.We seeded decellularized scaffolds with airway epithelial progenitor derived from rejected donor lungs, banked umbilical vein endothelial cells. We subsequently...

10.1097/sla.0000000000002129 article EN Annals of Surgery 2017-01-13

There is a scarcity of externally valid data that investigate the utility operative time, common clinical parameter, as predictor free flap failures. Our aim was to assess whether prolonged time correlates with early failure following tissue transfer in acute care setting using American College Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.The 2005-2011 databases were reviewed for encounters entailed via CPT algorithm. Patients identified having loss compared people who did...

10.1002/micr.22387 article EN Microsurgery 2015-03-06

Abstract Introduction Partial heart transplants are a new type of pediatric transplant that replace defective valves with the parts matched donor hearts containing necessary valves. Short‐term outcomes partial excellent, but long‐term unknown. In order to predict transplants, we evaluated growth and function semilunar transplanted in infancy as part transplant. Methods All children who underwent infant transplantation at single center from 1997 2014 were included this study. Children whom...

10.1111/petr.14746 article EN Pediatric Transplantation 2024-04-02

ABSTRACT Background Partial heart transplantation (PHT) is a new type of transplant that delivers growing valve implants for children. However, the acceptable ischemia time PHTs remains unexplored. Therefore, empirically limited to orthotopic (OHT) 4–6 h because valves contained in OHTs are known grow. This limits distance from where PHT grafts can be procured. Without longer procurement distances, children who need must wait long suitable donor hearts. We previously demonstrated remain...

10.1111/petr.70063 article EN Pediatric Transplantation 2025-03-18

Animal models for adhesion induction are heterogeneous and often poorly described. We compare discuss different to induce peritoneal adhesions in a randomized, experimental vivo animal study with 72 female Wistar rats. Six standardized techniques trauma were used: brushing of sidewall uterine horns (group 1), parietal peritoneum only 2), sharp excision closed interrupted sutures 3), ischemic buttons by grasping the ligating base Vicryl suture 4), bipolar electrocoagulation 5), traumatisation...

10.1155/2014/435056 article EN cc-by BioMed Research International 2014-01-01

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth in humans and frequently involve valve dysfunction. The current treatment for unrepairable valves involves replacement with an implant, Ross pulmonary autotransplantation, or conventional orthotopic transplantation. Although these treatments appropriate older children adults, they do not result same efficacy durability infants young several reasons. Heart implants grow the. autotransplants have a high mortality rate neonates feasible...

10.1371/journal.pone.0280163 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2023-02-07

Abstract Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of birth defects worldwide. Valvular are a form CHDs, and, at this time, treatment options for children with unrepairable valve limited. Issues anticoagulation, sizing, and lack growth in replacement can lead to high mortality rates incidence reoperations. Partial transplantation, or transplantation fresh allografts, has recently been described as strategy provide durable non‐thrombogenic alternative conventional...

10.1111/ctr.15060 article EN Clinical Transplantation 2023-06-24

10.1053/j.pcsu.2024.01.002 article EN Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual 2024-01-01
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