Dr. Joseph A Dearani M.D.
Surgeon
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Joseph Dearani is a general surgeon practicing in Rochester, MN. Dr. Dearani specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Dearani provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS- Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Isolated tricuspid valve surgery for severe tricuspid regurgitation following prior left heart valve surgery: analysis of outcome in 34 patients.
- Operation for partial atrioventricular septal defect: a forty-year review.
- Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature and Database Project: Ebstein's anomaly and tricuspid valve disease.
- Entrapment of subvalvular mitral tissue causing intermittent failure of a St Jude mitral prosthesis.
- Ventricular septal hamartoma mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a 41-year-old woman presenting with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
- Septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- A tribute to Giancarlo Rastelli.
- Surgical management of Ebstein's anomaly in the adult.
- Successful use of Thoratec biventricular support in a small child awaiting cardiac transplantation.
- Ebstein's anomaly.
- Recurrent cardiac calcific amorphous tumor: the CAT had a kitten.
- Surgical treatment of Ebstein's malformation: state of the art in 2006.
- Surgical management of Ebstein's anomaly.
- Extracardiac Fontan with direct cavopulmonary connections.
- Myths about surgical myectomy: rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
Treatments
- Surgical Procedures, Arrhythmias (irregular Heartbeats), Heart Transplant And More
Professional Memberships
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
Fellowships
- Research Fellowship - Surgery: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Fellow - Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation: Loma Linda University Medical Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Research Fellowship, Surgery 1988
- Loma Linda University Medical Center, Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation 1997
Experience & Accolades
- Chair2010 - 2014Workforce on Adult Congenital Heart Surgery, Society for Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Joseph A Dearani M.D.'s Practice location
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