Dr. William Roy Smythe M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
328 W Main Lewisville TX, 75057About
Dr. William Smythe is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Lewisville, TX. Dr. Smythe specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Smythe 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
Tx A & M Univ Coll Of Med- College Station Tx 1989
Texas A&M Health Science Center College Of Medicine 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mineral metabolism in uremia.
- Outpatient management of malignant pleural effusion by a chronic indwelling pleural catheter.
- Benjamin Rush's death.
- Prodrug/drug sensitivity gene therapy: current status.
- Treatment of stage I and II non-small-cell lung cancer.
- Significant augmentation of pro-apoptotic gene therapy by pharmacologic bcl-xl down-regulation in mesothelioma.
- Trace element analysis of tissue and resin from the egyptian mummy Pum-II.
- Histone deacetylase inhibitor downregulation of bcl-xl gene expression leads to apoptotic cell death in mesothelioma.
- Gene therapy for thoracic disease: practice, promise, and pragmatism.
- Phosphatase and tensin analog gene overexpression engenders cellular death in human malignant mesothelioma cells via inhibition of AKT phosphorylation.
- Current therapy for malignant mesothelioma.
- Antisense therapy for malignant mesothelioma with oligonucleotides targeting the bcl-xl gene product.
- Treatment of stage I non-small cell lung carcinoma.
- The American surgical spirit.
- Adenoviral transfer of mda-7 leads to BAX up-regulation and apoptosis in mesothelioma cells, and is abrogated by over-expression of BCL-XL.
Awards
- Texas Super Doctors 2009
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