Dr. Gus J Vlahakes MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Massachusetts General Hospital Cox652 Boston MA, 02114Rating
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Dr. Gus Vlahakes is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Vlahakes specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Vlahakes 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1975
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- Catheter-based treatment of aortic dissection.
- Myocardial perfusion and right ventricular function.
- Hemoglobin solutions come of age.
- Mechanism of ischemic mitral regurgitation with segmental left ventricular dysfunction: three-dimensional echocardiographic studies in models of acute and chronic progressive regurgitation.
- Haemoglobin solutions in surgery.
- Determinants of maximal right ventricular function: role of septal shift.
- Management of congenital tracheal stenosis by means of slide tracheoplasty or resection and reconstruction, with long-term follow-up of growth after slide tracheoplasty.
- Mechanistic insights into functional mitral regurgitation.
- Right ventricular performance during left ventricular unloading conditions: the contribution of the right ventricular free wall.
- Polymerized bovine hemoglobin solution as a replacement for allogeneic red blood cell transfusion after cardiac surgery: results of a randomized, double-blind trial.
- Autologous blood sequestration using a double venous reservoir bypass circuit and polymerized hemoglobin prime.
- A novel technique for en bloc, vascularized, composite thymic, and cardiac co-transplantation1.
- Angioplasty versus minimally invasive bypass surgery.
- Observatios on myocardial oxygen consumption in the hypoxic and ischemic canine heart.
- Efficacy of chordal cutting to relieve chronic persistent ischemic mitral regurgitation.
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