Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital

General Surgery

Dr. Nahel Elias, MD

Nahel Elias is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He has 2 awards "Member" and "Fellow (FACS)". Doctor Nahel Elias, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 36 publications published. The latest was: A Bridge to Somewhere: 25-day Survival After Pig-to-Baboon Liver Xenotransplantation. Nahel Elias accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.

Publications

A Bridge to Somewhere: 25-day Survival After Pig-to-Baboon Liver Xenotransplantation.
Hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula as first option not necessary in elderly patients.
Clinical trials for inDuction of renal allograft tolerance.
Socioeconomic status and ethnicity of deceased donor kidney recipients compared to their donors.
Increased transfusion-free survival following auxiliary pig Liver xenotransplantation.
Pretransplant IgG Reactivity to Apoptotic Cells Correlates With Late kidney Allograft Loss.
Expansion and Somatic Hypermutation of B-cell Clones in Rejected Human Kidney Grafts.
Auxiliary Liver Transplant is an Effective and Safe Treatment of Primary Hyperoxaluria.
Increased levels of anti-non-Gal IgG following pig-to-baboon bone marrow transplantation correlate with failure of engraftment.
Liver Environment and HCV Replication Affect Human T-Cell Phenotype and Expression of Inhibitory Receptors.
Elevated creatinine after kidney transplantation.
Native Portal Vein Embolization for Persistent Hyperoxaluria Following Kidney and Auxiliary Partial Liver Transplantation.
Transitional Cell Carcinoma Arising Within a Pediatric Donor Renal Transplant in Association With BK Nephropathy.
Up to 9-day survival and control of thrombocytopenia following alpha1,3-galactosyl transferase knockout swine Liver xenotransplantation in baboons.
Urinary reconstruction after kidney transplantation: Pyeloureterostomy or ureteroneocystostomy.
Liver transplantation results in complete neurologic recovery from malignant hypertension secondary to fulminant hepatic failure: a case report.
Image of the month. Portal vein gas associated with pneumatosis Intestinalis.
Protein S deficiency in a living Liver donor.
Hyperlipidemia due to Biliary Stricture After Living-Donor Liver Transplantation.
A prospective, randomized comparison of bovine carotid artery and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene for permanent hemodialysis Vascular access.
Renal allograft rupture: a strategy for graft preservation.
Long-term experience with Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
Partial Abdominal evisceration and intestinal autotransplantation to resect a mesenteric carcinoid tumor.
Biliary reconstruction and complications after living-donor liver transplantation.
Living donor kidney transplantation with multiple arteries: recent increase in modern era of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 15-2009. A 25-year-old man with coma after cardiac arrest.
Long-term outcome of a cuffed expanded PTFE graft for hemodialysis Vascular access.
Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 8-2008. A 33-year-old man with fever, Abdominal pain, and pancytopenia after renal transplantation.
High level of PD-1 expression on hepatitis C virus (HCV)-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T cells during acute HCV infection, irrespective of clinical outcome.
Liver transplantation for the Abernathy malformation.
Semiautomated MIP images created directly on 16-section multidetector CT console for evaluation of living renal donors.
Monitoring antidonor alloantibodies as a predictive assay for renal allograft tolerance/long-term observations in nonhuman primates.
Coccidioidal meningitis after Liver transplantation in a nonendemic region: a case report.
Is completion lymphadenectomy after a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy for cutaneous melanoma always necessary?
Aberrations in hemostasis and coagulation in untreated discordant hepatic xenotransplantation: studies in the dog-to-pig model.

Schools

University Of Damascus Faculty Of Medicine
North Oakland Med Center Wayne State University
Ma Genl Hospital Harvard Med School

Procedures Preformed

Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
Arteriovenous Fistula Repair
Arteriovenous Shunt Creation
Colectomy
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Conditions Treated

Abdominal Pain
Anorectal Abscess
Appendicitis
Atelectasis
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Doctors Specialties

General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

Aetna HMO
Choice Plus POS II
Blue Card PPO
BlueConnect HMO
Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
Preferred Blue PPO
Cigna HMO
Cigna PPO
Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
Open Access Plus
Commercial Insurance Company
GHI PPO
Fallon Community Health Plan
First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
Choice Care PPO
Medicare MCR
MultiPlan PPO
PHCS Network PPO
Network Health
Tufts PPO
Choice Plus POS
Navigate HMO
Navigate POS
Options PPO
United Healthcare

Awards

Member
Fellow (FACS)

Education

Massachusetts General Hospital
Damascus University Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

Drug Facts

NPI NUMBER		1992780084
NPPES Provider LastName		ELIAS
NPPES Provider FirstName		NAHEL
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		021142696
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		General Surgery
Total Claim Count		889.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1992780084
Last Name Of The Provider	ELIAS
First Name Of The Provider	NAHEL
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