Dr. Dai H Chung M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
5323 HARRY HINES BLVD DALLAS TX, 75390Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Dai Chung practices Pediatric Surgery in Nashville, TN. Dr. Chung treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Chungdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Univ of Tx Med Branch Galveston, Galveston Tx 1988
The University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio 1988
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delayed cardiac tamponade after blunt chest trauma in a child.
- Gastrin-releasing peptide is a growth factor for human neuroblastomas.
- Geldanamycin decreases Raf-1 and Akt levels and induces apoptosis in neuroblastomas.
- Interferon-gamma induces caspase-8 in neuroblastomas without affecting methylation of caspase-8 promoter.
- Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibition down-regulates survivin and facilitates TRAIL-mediated apoptosis in neuroblastomas.
- Ets transcriptional regulation of gastrin-releasing peptide receptor in neuroblastomas.
- Role of gastrointestinal hormones in neuroblastoma.
- Gastrin-releasing peptide-induced down-regulation of tumor suppressor protein PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten) in neuroblastomas.
- Caudal anesthesia for vascular access procedures in two extremely small premature neonates.
- A survey for pain and sedation medications in pediatric patients during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
- Signal transduction pathways involved in oxidative stress-induced intestinal epithelial cell apoptosis.
- Simple method of gastric insufflation for pediatric laparoscopic gastrostomy placement.
- Ischemic preconditioning at a distance: altered gene expression in mouse heart and other organs following brief occlusion of the mesenteric artery.
- Inhibition of transforming growth factor-beta/Smad signaling by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway.
- Protein kinase D protects against oxidative stress-induced intestinal epithelial cell injury via Rho/ROK/PKC-delta pathway activation.
Treatments
- Acid Reflux
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Pain
- Hernia
- Cellulitis
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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