Dr. John Abram Powelson M.D.
Transplant Surgeon
550 University Blvd Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. John Powelson is a transplant surgeon practicing in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Powelson specializes in organ transplants, and may perform surgeries involved with the transplant of organs such as the kidneys, liver, pancreas, intestines, heart, lungs, tracheal tissue and more. As a transplant surgeon, Dr. Powelson performs long, complex surgeries that might take many hours to complete. Transplant surgeons remove the organ from the donor as well as transplant the organ in the recipient. Dr. Powelson works with transplant physicians, nurses and surgical residents, and is responsible for and complications which may arise during or after surgery.
Education and Training
Boston University School of Medicine 1986
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Monoclonal antibodies in organ transplantation.
- Complete reversal of glycogen hepatopathy with pancreas transplantation: two cases.
- Complex arterial reconstruction for pancreas transplantation in recipients with advanced arteriosclerosis.
- Simultaneous bilateral lung and pancreas transplantation in recipient with cystic fibrosis.
- The case for pancreas after kidney transplantation.
- No difference in transplant outcomes for local and import pancreas allografts.
- Histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate for pancreas allograft preservation: the Indiana University experience.
- Early steroid withdrawal in repeat kidney transplantation.
- Organ preservation solutions for whole organ pancreas transplantation.
- Early reexploration for suspected thrombosis after pancreas transplantation.
- Growth of a nation part I: impact of organ donor obesity on whole-organ pancreas
- Growth of a nation part II: impact of recipient obesity on whole-organ pancreas transplantation.
- Vascular catastrophes following pancreas transplantation: an evolution in
- Late pancreas retransplantation.
- Pancreas after kidney transplantation: why is the most logical option the least popular?
Treatments
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Ventral Hernia
- Vascular Disease
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