Frank A Pigula M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Cardiac Surgery Children's Hospital Bost 300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Frank Pigula is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Pigula specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Pigula 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
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1988
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regional perfusion of the brain during neonatal aortic arch reconstruction.
- The effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on remifentanil kinetics in children undergoing atrial septal defect repair.
- Regional low-flow perfusion provides cerebral circulatory support during neonatal aortic arch reconstruction.
- Complete surgical repair of aortic atresia with a normal left ventricle.
- Hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass alters oxygen/glucose uptake in the pediatric brain.
- Posttransplant diabetes mellitus in pediatric thoracic organ recipients receiving tacrolimus-based immunosuppression.
- Cardiopulmonary transplantation for congenital heart disease in the adult.
- Regional low-flow perfusion provides somatic circulatory support during neonatal aortic arch surgery.
- Aortopulmonary size discrepancy is not a contraindication to the pediatric Ross operation.
- Successful late reintervention after the arterial switch procedure.
- Arch reconstruction without circulatory arrest: scientific basis for continued use and application to patients with arch anomalies.
- Case report of combined pediatric heart-lung-liver transplantation.
- Competing perfusion strategies: effect on microvascular oxygen tension.
- Intramural left coronary artery associated with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
- Interim mortality in infants with systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts.
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