Dr. Thomas L Spray M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
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Dr. Thomas L. Spray is chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, director of the Hospital's Thoracic Organ Transplantation Program and Alice Langdon W ...
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS- Congenital Cardiac Surgery
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease- 2004
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS- 1985
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pericardial heart disease: a study of its causes, consequences, and morphologic features.
- Long-term outcome of infants with single ventricle and total anomalous pulmonary venous connection.
- Caval contribution to flow in the branch pulmonary arteries of Fontan patients with a novel application of magnetic resonance presaturation pulse.
- Usefulness of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in predicting the degree of mitral regurgitation secondary to atrioventricular defect in children.
- Successful use of alternate waste nitrogen agents and hemodialysis in a patient with hyperammonemic coma after heart-lung transplantation.
- Management of exsanguinating hemoptysis during cardiopulmonary bypass.
- Outcome after repair of tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve.
- The hypoplastic left heart syndrome with intact atrial septum: atrial morphology, pulmonary vascular histopathology and outcome.
- Early results of the Ross procedure in simple and complex left heart disease.
- Early survival of infants weighing 2.5 kilograms or less undergoing first-stage reconstruction for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Membranous subpulmonic stenosis associated with ventricular septal defect and aortic insufficiency.
- Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature and Database Project: systemic venous anomalies.
- Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature and Database Project: end-stage lung disease.
- Aortopulmonary window associated with complete atrioventricular septal defect.
- Tension on coronary bypass conduits. A neglected cause of real or potential obstruction of saphenous vein grafts.
Awards
- Philadelphia Super Doctors 2012
Fellowships
- Research Fellow in Surgery - Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
- Duke University Hospital - Durham, NC - Research
- Duke University Medical Center, Surgery, NC, USA (1981) -- Research Fellow
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