Dr. Gail E. Besner M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
555 S 18th St Columbus OH, 43205Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Gail Besner practices Pediatric Surgery in Columbus, OH. Dr. Besner treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Besnerdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Univ of Cincinnati Coll of Med, Cincinnati Oh 1982
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bronchopexy for congenital bronchomalacia in the newborn.
- Induction of anchorage independent growth by heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF).
- Herpetic tracheitis and brachial plexus neuropathy in a child with burns.
- Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor protects rat intestine from ischemia/reperfusion injury.
- Focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) in children with blunt abdominal trauma.
- Collision tumors in children: a review of the literature and presentation of a rare case of mesoblastic nephroma and neuroblastoma in an infant.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor decreases apoptosis in intestinal epithelial cells in vitro.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor decreases inducible nitric oxide synthase and nitric oxide production after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury.
- Site-directed mutagenesis of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF): analysis of O-glycosylation sites and properties.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor is present in human amniotic fluid and breast milk.
- Endogenous production of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor during murine partial-thickness burn wound healing.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor down regulates proinflammatory cytokine-induced nitric oxide and inducible nitric oxide synthase production in intestinal epithelial cells.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor preserves crypt cell proliferation and decreases bacterial translocation after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) decreases oxygen free radical production in vitro and in vivo.
- Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor downregulates expression of adhesion molecules and infiltration of inflammatory cells after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Treatments
- Burns
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
Dr. Gail E. Besner M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 555 S 18th St
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