Yoogoo Kang, MD

Contact Dr. Kang

5480 Gibbon Building
111 S. 11th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-2765
(215) 503-3456 (fax)

Medical School
Seoul National University, Korea , 1971

Internship
Hospital of St. Raphael

Residency
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Fellowship
Magee Women's Hospital - University of Pittsburgh

Board Certification
Anesthesiology

Hospital Appointment
Director, Liver Transplantation

University Appointment
Professor, 2000

Research and Clinical Interests
Liver Transplantation Anesthesiology
Blood Coagulation

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Noninvasive monitoring of cerebral perfusion pressure in patients with acute liver failure using transcranial doppler ultrasonography
2. Acute hypotensive transfusion reaction during liver transplantation in a patient on angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors from low aminopeptidase P activity
3. Anti-IL2 Induction in Liver Transplantation with 93% Rejection-Free Patient and Graft Survival at 18 Months
4. Basiliximab Induction in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients With 93% Rejection-Free Patient and Graft Survival at 24 Months
5. Coagulation and liver transplantation
6. Cerebral hemodynamic and metabolic profiles in fulminant hepatic failure: Relationship to outcome
7. Reply to role of echocardiography in detecting portopulmonary hypertension in liver transplant candidates [4]
8. Rapid transfusion devices for hemorrhagic cardiothoracic trauma
9. Intracardiac thrombus formation and pulmonary thromboembolism immediately after graft reperfusion in 7 patients undergoing liver transplantation
10. Coagulopathies in hepatic disease
11. Is there occult tissue ischemia in chronic end-stage liver disease?
12. The hepatopulmonary syndrome
13. Hemodynamic effects of inhaled nitric oxide in four patients with severe liver disease and pulmonary hypertension
14. Transfusion based on clinical coagulation monitoring does reduce hemorrhage during liver transplantation.
15. Coagulation and liver transplantation: Current concepts
16. Venous-right atrial bypass for superior vena cava thrombosis during orthotopic liver transplantation
17. Update on anesthesia for orthotopic liver transplantation
18. Morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation
19. Ionized hypomagnesemia in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation: A complication of citrate intoxication
20. Altered endothelin homeostasis in patients undergoing liver transplantation

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