Dr. Andrew M. Posselt MD
Surgeon
400 Parnassus Ave 405 Irving Street San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Andrew Posselt, a bariatric and transplant surgeon, is co-director of the Pancreatic Islet Transplantation Program at UCSF Medical Center. He specializes in adult and pediatric kidney, liver and pancreas ...
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- CD69 expression on peripheral CD8 T cells correlates with acute rejection in renal transplant recipients.
- Microchimerism of the thymus and graft acceptance.
- Pioneering work in immune tolerance.
- Laparoscopic procurement of kidneys with multiple renal arteries is associated with increased ureteral complications in the recipient.
- Prevention of autoimmune diabetes in the BB rat by intrathymic islet transplantation at birth.
- Induction of donor-specific tolerance to rat cardiac allografts by intrathymic inoculation of bone marrow.
- Antibody-mediated rejection of a pancreas allograft.
- Routine upper GI series after gastric bypass does not reliably identify anastomotic leaks or predict stricture formation.
- The impact of roux limb length on weight loss after gastric bypass.
- Laparoscopic bariatric surgery improves candidacy in morbidly obese patients awaiting transplantation.
- Studies of privileged sites and islet transplantation.
- Selective T-cell depletion of recipients in allogeneic small bowel transplantation (SBT) in the rat.
- Long-term renal function and cardiovascular disease risk in obese kidney donors.
- Portomesenteric venous thrombosis after laparoscopic surgery: a systematic literature review.
- Successful clinical islet isolation using a GMP-manufactured collagenase and neutral protease.
Awards
- 2012 San Francisco Super Doctors
Treatments
- General Care, Acute Pancreatitis, Weight Loss Surgery (bariatric Surgery) And More
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