Dr. Craig W Lillehei MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
300 Longwood Ave Fegan 3 Boston MA, 02115Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Craig Lillehei is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Lillehei specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Lillehei 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1976
Harvard Medical School 1976
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Quality-of-life assessment after ileoanal pull-through for ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis.
- Congenital microgastria: treatment with transient jejunal feedings.
- Lung growth after reduced size transplantation in a sheep model.
- Use of a gracilis muscle flap to facilitate delayed ileal pouch-anal anastomosis.
- Nutritional and other postoperative management of neonates with short bowel syndrome correlates with clinical outcomes.
- Anaesthetic management of Cat Eye Syndrome.
- Subtle hyperkalemia detected through monitor "artifact".
- Epidural analgesia for patients undergoing hepatic portoenterostomy (Kasai procedure).
- Life threatening tension pneumoperitoneum from intestinal perforation during air reduction of intussusception.
- Iatrogenic pleuropulmonary charcoal instillation in a teenager.
- Certain physiologic, pathologic, and surgical features of complete transposition of the great vessels.
- Experimental bacterial endocarditis and proliferative glomerulonephritis; description of method of production utilizing bilateral lower extremity or single aorta-vena cava arteriovenous fistulas.
- The tolerance of the canine heart to temporary complete vena caval occlusion.
- A quantitative study of the azygos factor during vena caval occlusion in the dog.
- Physiologic and metabolic changes during autogenous lobe oxygeneration with total cardiac by-pass employing the azygos flow principle.
Awards
- **Additional Specialties:Surgical Critical Care
- General Surgery**
- **Additional Board Certification:General Surgery**
- Robert P Masland, Jr. Faculty Award of Excellence in Medical Student 2011
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Peripheral Artery Disease (pad)
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- Boston Children's Hospital - Boston, MA 1986
- Mass General Hospital, Research Fellow:Surgery 1980
- Children's Hospital, Boston, Fellow:Pediatric Surgery 1984
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