Dr. Timothy William Pettitt MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans LA, 70118Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Timothy Pettitt practices Pediatric Surgery in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Pettitt 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. Pettittdiagnoses, 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
Umdnj-Robt W Johnson Med Sch- New Brunswick Nj 1990
Rutgers 1990
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- Repair of coarctation in a right-sided circumflex retroesophageal aortic arch.
- Treatment of persistent chylothorax after Norwood procedure with somatostatin.
- Reimplantation of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery without mitral valve repair.
- Development of the pulmonary arteries after the Norwood procedure: comparison between Blalock-Taussig shunt and right ventricular-pulmonary artery conduit.
- Rapidly growing cardiac papillary fibroelastoma in a teenager with sickle cell disease.
- Double aortic arch and aortopulmonary window: an uncommon presentation in a newborn.
- Two-stage repair of truncus arteriosus associated with interrupted aortic arch in critically ill patients.
- Pierce-Donachy pediatric VAD: progress in development.
Treatments
- Congenital Heart Disease
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