Dr. Donavon John Hess MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
University Of Minnesota Physicians 516 Delaware St Se, Minneapolis MN, 55455Rating
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Dr. Donavon Hess practices Pediatric Surgery in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Hess 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. Hessdiagnoses, 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.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adherence of yeast and filamentous forms of Candida albicans to cultured enterocytes.
- Comparative virulence of Candida albicans yeast and filamentous forms in orally and intravenously inoculated mice.
- Role of heparan sulfate in interactions of Listeria monocytogenes with enterocytes.
- Effect of lipopolysaccharide on virulence of intestinal candida albicans.
- Impact of the indigenous flora in animal models of shock and sepsis.
- Escherichia coli modulates extraintestinal spread of Staphylococcus aureus.
- Ability of the heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-1 to participate in bacterial translocation across the intestinal epithelial barrier.
- Heparan sulfate proteoglycans mediate Staphylococcus aureus interactions with intestinal epithelium.
- Comprehensive review of procedures for total colonic aganglionosis.
- Not every bulb is a rose: a functional comparison of bulb suction devices.
- Importance of colonization site in the current epidemic of staphylococcal skin abscesses.
- Selected factors affecting Staphylococcus aureus within silastic catheters.
- Echocardiographic assessment of ductal anatomy in premature infants-lessons for device design.
- Role of Staphylococcus aureus protein A in adherence to silastic catheters.
- Gentamicin promotes Staphylococcus aureus biofilms on silk suture.
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