Dr. Ben Louis Zarzaur M.D.
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
1910 Nonconnah Blvd Suite 120 Memphis TN, 38132About
Dr. Ben Zarzaur is a trauma surgeon practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Zarzaur specializes in both operative and non-operative management to treat life threatening, traumatic injuries. Some commonly operated areas include the stomach, colon, spleen and pancreas and trauma surgeons also work with other surgeons to stabilize patients in critical condition. Typically, trauma surgeons work in the emergency care area of a hospital.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Glutamine-enriched total parenteral nutrition maintains intestinal interleukin-4 and mucosal immunoglobulin A levels.
- Modulation of organ ICAM-1 expression during IV-TPN with glutamine and bombesin.
- TPN decreases IL-4 and IL-10 mRNA expression in lipopolysaccharide stimulated intestinal lamina propria cells but glutamine supplementation preserves the expression.
- Route of nutrition influences generation of antibody-forming cells and initial defense to an active viral infection in the upper respiratory tract.
- Enteral feeding preserves mucosal immunity despite in vivo MAdCAM-1 blockade of lymphocyte homing.
- Routine follow-up imaging is unnecessary in the management of blunt hepatic injury.
- Reduction in inadequate empiric antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia: impact of a unit-specific treatment pathway.
- Intra-abdominal sepsis following pancreatic resection: incidence, risk factors, diagnosis, microbiology, management, and outcome.
- Blunt cerebrovascular injury screening with 32-channel multidetector computed tomography: more slices still don't cut it.
- Large animal-related injury requiring hospital admission: injury pattern disparities.
- The microbiology of secondary and postoperative pancreatic infections: implications for antimicrobial management.
- Improving the screening criteria for blunt cerebrovascular injury: the appropriate role for computed tomography angiography.
- Functional outcomes following blunt cerebrovascular injury.
- Insurance status is a predictor of failure to rescue in trauma patients at both safety net and non-safety net hospitals.
- Blunt cerebrovascular injury screening with 64-channel multidetector computed tomography: more slices finally cut it.
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