Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
General Surgery
Paulo Fontes works in the field of General Surgery. He over the years received 11 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Recipient of the ACES Award Award for Commitment and Excellence in Service", "Subject of a biographical record on The Global Directory of Whos Who", "Awarded nomination in the Guide to Americas Top Physicians 2007 Edition", "Subject of a biographical record on Whos Who in America", "Subject of a biographical record on Whos Who in Science and Engineer", "Awarded nomination", "Subject of a biographical record on Whos Who in the World ", "Foundation Prize", "Full scholarship for medical education" and "Fellow (FACS)". Paulo Fontes is also a published MD. He has 91 publication published. The most recent publication is: Evidence for engraftment of human bone marrow cells in non-lethally irradiated baboons. He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- A validated model for predicting outcome after liver transplantation: implications on transplanting the extremely sick.
- Objective radiologic assessment of body composition in patients with end-stage liver disease: going beyond the BMI.
- Early treatment of depressive symptoms and long-term survival after liver transplantation.
- Role of Baseline Echocardiography in the Preoperative Management of Liver Transplant Candidates.
- Screening for head and neck cancer in liver transplant candidates: A review of 11 years of experience at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Does simultaneous lung-liver transplantation provide an immunologic advantage compared with isolated lung transplantation?
- Hepatitis C recurrence is not adversely affected by the use of donation after cardiac death liver allografts.
- Extrahepatic factor VIII production in transplant recipient of hemophilia donor liver.
- Extrahepatic portal vein aneurysm--report of six patients and review of the literature.
- Rituximab (chimeric anti-CD20 antibody) for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder after solid organ transplantation in adults: long-term experience from a single...
- Pregnancy after liver transplantation with tacrolimus immunosuppression: a single center's experience update at 13 years.
- Ribavirin dose modification based on renal function is necessary to reduce hemolysis in liver transplant patients with hepatitis C virus infection.
- Combined heart and liver transplantation in a patient with situs ambiguous.
- Simultaneous pancreatectomy and liver transplantation: a single-institution experience.
- Age, model for end-stage liver disease score, and organ functioning predict posttransplant tacrolimus neurotoxicity.
- Use of alemtuzumab and tacrolimus monotherapy for cadaveric liver transplantation: with particular reference to hepatitis C virus.
- One thousand consecutive primary liver transplants under tacrolimus immunosuppression: a 17- to 20-year longitudinal follow-up.
- Posttransplant biliary complications in the pre- and post-model for end-stage liver disease era.
- Immune status of recipients following bone marrow-augmented solid organ transplantation.
- Frequency of kidney rejection in diabetic patients undergoing simultaneous kidney and pancreatic islet cell transplantation.
- Real-time monitoring of acute liver-allograft rejection using the Banff schema.
- Tolerogenic immunosuppression for organ transplantation.
- Three years of follow-up of bone marrow-augmented organ transplant recipients: the impact on donor-specific immune modulation.
- The current status of hepatic transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Recurrent hepatitis C in liver allografts: prospective assessment of diagnostic accuracy, identification of pitfalls, and observations about pathogenesis.
- Augmentation of chimerism with perioperative donor bone marrow infusion in organ transplant recipients: a 44 month follow-up.
- Liver transplantation using donation after cardiac death donors: long-term follow-up from a single center.
- Thrombotic and nonthrombotic hepatic artery complications in adults and children following primary liver transplantation with long-term follow-up in 1000 consecutive p...
- Treatment of hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: a single-institution experience with 25 cases.
- MELD and prediction of post-liver transplantation survival.
- Recurrent disease following liver transplantation for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis.
- Combined kidney/bone marrow transplantation--evidence of augmentation of chimerism.
- Intrahepatic human islet transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh: results in 25 consecutive cases.
- Alcohol consumption patterns and predictors of use following liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease.
- Augmentation of natural chimerism with donor bone marrow in orthotopic liver recipients.
- Early trajectories of depressive symptoms after liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease predicts long-term survival.
- Cryptococcosis in liver and kidney transplant recipients receiving anti-thymocyte globulin or alemtuzumab.
- Outcome after liver transplantation for NASH cirrhosis.
- Combined simultaneous kidney/bone marrow transplantation.
- Combined bone marrow and whole organ transplantation from the same donor.
- Three-dimensional multislice helical computed tomography with the volume rendering technique in the detection of vascular complications after liver transplantation.
- Perioperative donor bone marrow infusion augments chimerism in heart and lung transplant recipients.
- Simultaneous solid organ, bone marrow, and islet allotransplantation in type I diabetic patients.
- Liver transplantation for growing teratoma syndrome: report of a case.
- Pathophysiologic observations and histopathologic recognition of the portal hyperperfusion or small-for-size syndrome.
- An attempt to induce tolerance with infusion of donor bone marrow in organ allograft recipients.
- Evidence for engraftment of human bone marrow cells in non-lethally irradiated baboons.
- Perioperative donor bone marrow infusion in recipients of organ allografts.
- Bridging locoregional therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation.
- Trajectories of alcohol consumption following liver transplantation.
- Human islet transplantation: results of the first 37 patients.
- Concomitant infusion of unmodified donor bone marrow into unconditioned recipients of intestinal allografts.
- Human islet allograft follow-up: long-term islet function and over 3 years of insulin independence.
- Long-term survival after liver transplantation in 4,000 consecutive patients at a single center.
- Enhancement of donor cell chimerism in whole organ allograft recipients by adjuvant bone marrow transplantation.
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders in liver transplantation: a 20-year experience.
- Reversal of graft-versus-host disease with infusion of autologous bone marrow.
- Augmentation of chimerism in whole organ recipients by simultaneous infusion of donor bone marrow cells.
- Serial evaluation of immune profiles of simultaneous bone marrow and whole organ transplant recipients.
- Hematopoietic progenitor cell content of vertebral body marrow used for combined solid organ and bone marrow transplantation.
- Effect of intraportal human islet transplantation on kidney graft survival in simultaneous kidney-islet allografts.
- Wound healing in the biliary tree of liver allografts.
- Long-term (> 3-year) insulin independence in a patient with pancreatic islet cell transplantation following upper abdominal exenteration and liver replacement for fibr...
- Clusters of alcohol use disorders diagnostic criteria and predictors of alcohol use after liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease.
- The effect of donor age on the outcome of islets isolated from human pancreata.
- Percutaneous approach for human islet transplantation.
- Spontaneous and iatrogenically augmented leukocyte chimerism in organ transplant recipients.
- Acceleration of chronic failure of intrahepatic canine islet autografts by a short course of prednisone.
- Causes of retransplantation after primary liver transplantation in 4000 consecutive patients: 2 to 19 years follow-up.
- Bone marrow augmentation of donor-cell chimerism in kidney, liver, heart, and pancreas islet transplantation.
- Prognostic models in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and statistical methodologies behind them.
- Hepatobiliary effects of 90yttrium microsphere therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Explanation for loss of the HLA matching effect.
- Re-examination of the lymphocytotoxic crossmatch in liver transplantation: can C4d stains help in monitoring?
- Liver biopsy findings from healthy potential living liver donors: reasons for disqualification, silent diseases and correlation with liver injury tests.
- Liver biopsy interpretation for causes of late liver allograft dysfunction.
- Human islet isolation and transplantation in chronic pancreatitis using the automated method.
- Laparoscopic approach for islet cell transplantation.
- Intrapancreatic islet transplantation as a potential solution to chronic failure of intraportal islet grafts.
- The biological basis of and strategies for clinical xenotransplantation.
- Functional evaluation of isolated islets from baboon pancreata.
- Baboon pancreatic islet isolation and transplantation.
- TGF-beta 1 pretreatment impairs the allostimulatory function of human bone marrow-derived antigen-presenting cells for both naive and primed T cells.
- Causes of death after liver transplantation in 4000 consecutive patients: 2 to 19 year follow-up.
- Microbiologic surveillance as part of human islet transplantation: results of the first 26 patients.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder caused by hallucinations and delusions experienced in delirium.
- Human bone marrow obtained from vertebral bodies: cell isolation, phenotyping, progenitor assay, and transplantation.
- Use of parenteral colistin for the treatment of serious infection due to antimicrobial-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- Short course of prednisone accelerates chronic failure of intrahepatic canine islet autografts.
- Human-to-baboon bone marrow transplantation after conditioning with nonlethal irradiation.
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
- Transplant Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- CHAMPVA
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- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- CoreSource
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- HealthSmart
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- Medicaid
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- National Elevator
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- UPMC PPO
- UPMC Health Plan
- Wells Fargo Insurance
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Recipient of the ACES Award – Award for Commitment and Excellence in Service
- Subject of a biographical record on “The Global Directory of Who’s Whoâ€Â
- Awarded nomination in the “Guide to America’s Top Physicians†2007 Edition
- Subject of a biographical record on “Who’s Who in America
- Subject of a biographical record on “Who’s Who in Science and Engineer
- Awarded nomination
- Subject of a biographical record on “Who’s Who in the World ®
- Foundation Prize
- Full scholarship for medical education
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER |
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1750354866 |
| NPPES Provider LastName |
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FONTES |
| NPPES Provider FirstName |
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PAULO |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode |
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152133236 |
| NPPES Provider State |
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PA |
| Specialty Description |
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General Surgery |
| Total Claim Count |
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422.0 |
| Distinct Opioid Count |
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1.0 |
| Opioid Claim Count |
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19.0 |
| Percent Opioid Claims |
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4.5 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] |
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| Last Name Of The Provider |
FONTES |
| First Name Of The Provider |
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