Dr. Jeffrey G Gaca MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
2100 Erwin Road Durham NC, 27710About
Dr. Jeffrey Gaca is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Gaca specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Gaca typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1998
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evidence for polyreactive xenoreactive antibodies in the repertoire of human anti-swine antibodies: the 'next' humoral barrier to xenotransplantation?
- Oral feeding with pig peripheral lymphocytes decreases the xenogeneic delayed type hypersensitivity reaction in galactosyltransferase knockout mice.
- Results of proximal arch replacement using deep hypothermia for circulatory arrest: is moderate hypothermia really justifiable?
- Techniques of aortic valve repair.
- Intraoperative use of low-dose recombinant activated factor VII during thoracic aortic operations.
- Arterial bypass grafting of the coronary circulation.
- Anterograde percutaneous coronary-cameral fistula closure employing a guide-in-guide technique.
- Frailty and risk in proximal aortic surgery.
- Outcomes of acute type a dissection repair before and after implementation of a multidisciplinary thoracic aortic surgery program.
- Aortic valve replacement via right minithoracotomy versus median sternotomy: a propensity score analysis.
- Antegrade versus retrograde cerebral perfusion for hemiarch replacement with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest: does it matter? A propensity-matched analysis.
- Practice patterns and clinical outcomes after hybrid coronary revascularization in the United States: an analysis from the society of thoracic surgeons adult cardiac database.
- Assessment of single-bolus contrast administration technique using hybrid dual-source ECG-gated thoracic and dual-source non-ECG-gated high-pitch abdominopelvic CT acquisitions for procedural planning before transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
- CASE 8--2015. Paravertebral Catheter-Based Strategy for Primary Analgesia After Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.
- Multimodal Evaluation of Aortic Regurgitation After Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repairs.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
PO BOX 3814 DUMC ERWIN RD DURHAM NC 27710DUKE REGIONAL HOSPITALl
3643 N ROXBORO ROAD DURHAM NC 27704