Physician
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Donald E. Low, MD
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Donald is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He over the years received 4 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor", "Top MD" and "Fellow (FACS)". Donald E. Low, MD is also published. He has 99 publications published. The lastest publication: "Survival in Patients With Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Undergoing Trimodality Therapy Is Independent of Regional Lymph Node Location.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Survival in Patients With Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Undergoing Trimodality Therapy Is Independent of Regional Lymph Node Location.
- Multidisciplinary treatment of T1a adenocarcinoma in Barrett's Esophagus: contemporary comparison of endoscopic and surgical treatment in physiologically fit patients.
- Functional Conduit Disorder Complicating Esophagectomy.
- Thoracic Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Routinely Impacts Therapeutic Plans in Patients With Lung and Esophageal Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study.
- International Consensus on Standardization of Data Collection for Complications Associated With Esophagectomy: Esophagectomy Complications Consensus Group (ECCG).
- Successful airway management in a patient with severe proximal achalasia requires interdisciplinary cooperation.
- Is It Time to Centralize High-Risk Cancer Care in the United States? Comparison of Outcomes of Esophagectomy Between England and the United States.
- Enhanced recovery pathways lead to an improvement in postoperative outcomes following esophagectomy: systematic review and pooled analysis.
- Lung Resection Outcomes and Costs in Washington State: A Case for Regional Quality Improvement.
- Evolution of Standardized Clinical Pathways: Refining Multidisciplinary Care and Process to Improve Outcomes of the Surgical Treatment of Esophageal Cancer.
- Evolutionary pathway to increased virulence and epidemic group A Streptococcus Disease derived from 3,615 genome sequences.
- Genomic analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA96, the host of carbapenem resistance plasmid pOZ176.
- Occurrence of invasive Cancer after endoscopic treatment of Barrett's esophagus with high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal Cancer in physiologically fit patients: time...
- Update on clinical impact, documentation, and management of complications associated with esophagectomy.
- Assessment of Short-Term Clinical Outcomes following Salvage Esophagectomy for the Treatment of Esophageal Malignancy: Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis.
- The society of thoracic surgeons guidelines on the diagnosis and staging of patients with esophageal Cancer.
- The Impact of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy on Perioperative Outcomes, Tumor Pathology, and Survival in Clinical Stage II and III Esophageal Cancer.
- Homologous Recombination Drives both Sequence Diversity and Gene Content Variation in Neisseria meningitidis.
- Systematic review and pooled analysis assessing the association between elderly age and outcome following surgical resection of Esophageal malignancy.
- Physiology, not chronology, dictates outcomes after esophagectomy for esophageal Cancer: outcomes in patients 80 years and older.
- Iron-Deficiency Anemia Is a Common Presenting Issue with Giant Paraesophageal Hernia and Resolves Following Repair.
- The Clinical and Economic Costs of Delirium After Surgical Resection for Esophageal Malignancy.
- Partially versus fully covered self-expanding metal stents for benign and malignant Esophageal conditions: a single center experience.
- Outcomes assessment of the surgical management of esophageal Cancer in younger and older patients.
- Clinical Ramifications of Giant Paraesophageal Hernias Are Underappreciated: Making the Case for Routine Surgical Repair.
- Polymorphisms in Regulator of Protease B (RopB) Alter Disease Phenotype and Strain Virulence of Serotype M3 Group A Streptococcus.
- MupB, a New High-Level Mupirocin Resistance Mechanism in Staphylococcus aureus.
- Repair of giant paraesophageal Hernias routinely produces improvement in respiratory function.
- Volume-Outcome Relationship in Surgery for Esophageal malignancy: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 2000-2011.
- Extensive Genomic Variation within Clonal Complexes of Neisseria meningitidis.
- Advances in the management of Esophageal perforation.
- Group A Streptococcus emm Gene Types in Pharyngeal Isolates, Ontario, Canada, 2002-2010.
- Whole-Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae Isolate IS7493.
- Pertussis Resurgence in Toronto, Canada: A Population-Based Study including Test-Incidence Feedback Modeling.
- Identification of Sexual Networks Through Molecular Typing of Quinolone-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Ontario, Canada.
- Multidrug-Resistant Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Infection in Immunocompetent Child.
- Evaluation and Verification of the Seeplex(R) Diarrhea-V ACE Assay for the Simultaneous Detection of Adenovirus, Rotavirus and Norovirus Genogroups I and II in Clinica...
- New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1: local acquisition in Ontario, Canada, and challenges in detection.
- Open Versus Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: What Is the Best Approach? Frame the Issue.
- Diagnosis and Management of Anastomotic Leaks after Esophagectomy.
- Modified Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis for Rapid Identification and Typing of Clostridium difficile during Institutional Outbreaks.
- Update on staging and surgical treatment options for esophageal Cancer.
- Comparative evaluation of a chromogenic agar medium, the modified hodge test, and a battery of meropenem-inhibitor discs for detection of carbapenemase activity in ent...
- Respiratory illnesses in Canadian health care workers: a pilot study of influenza vaccine and oseltamivir prophylaxis during the 2007/2008 influenza season.
- Systemic dysregulation of angiopoietin-1/2 in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
- Polymerase chain reaction detection of Leishmania kDNA from the urine of Peruvian patients with cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Distinct signatures of diversifying selection revealed by genome analysis of respiratory tract and invasive bacterial populations.
- Evolving management strategies in Esophageal perforation: surgeons using nonoperative techniques to improve outcomes.
- Lcl of Legionella pneumophila is an immunogenic GAG binding adhesin that promotes interactions with Lung epithelial cells and plays a crucial role in biofilm formation.
- Distribution of antiseptic-resistance genes qacA/B and smr in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Toronto, 2005-2009.
- Novel mutations in a patient isolate of Streptococcus agalactiae with reduced penicillin susceptibility emerging after long term oral suppressive therapy.
- Diagnostic performance of filter paper lesion impression PCR for secondarily infected ulcers and nonulcerative lesions caused by cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Molecular analysis of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from Ontario, Canada.
- New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, Ontario, Canada.
- Analytical and clinical validation of novel real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays for the clinical detection of swine-origin H1N1 influenza ...
- Evaluation of CLSI agar dilution method and Trek Sensititre broth microdilution panel for determining antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- In an era of health reform: defining cost differences in current esophageal Cancer management strategies and assessing the cost of complications.
- Non-invasive cytology brush PCR diagnostic testing in mucosal leishmaniasis: superior performance to conventional biopsy with histopathology.
- Integrated analysis of FOCUS 1 and FOCUS 2: randomized, doubled-blinded, multicenter phase 3 trials of the efficacy and safety of ceftaroline fosamil versus ceftriaxon...
- Epidemic of group A Streptococcus M/emm59 causing invasive Disease in Canada.
- High prevalence of asymptomatic bocavirus in daycare: is otitis media a confounder?
- Comparing complications of esophagectomy and Pancreaticoduodenectomy and potential impact on hospital systems utilizing the accordion severity grading system.
- Severe human rhinovirus outbreak associated with fatalities in a long-term care facility in Ontario, Canada.
- Rhinovirus outbreaks in long-term care facilities, Ontario, Canada.
- Clinical and demographic stratification of test performance: a pooled analysis of five laboratory diagnostic methods for American cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Getting under the skin: the immunopathogenesis of Streptococcus pyogenes deep Tissue infections.
- Surveillance data on outbreaks of Clostridium difficile infection in Ontario, Canada, in 2008-2009.
- Molecular complexity of successive bacterial epidemics deconvoluted by comparative pathogenomics.
- New endemic Legionella pneumophila serogroup I clones, Ontario, Canada.
- Decreased necrotizing fasciitis capacity caused by a single nucleotide mutation that alters a multiple gene virulence axis.
- Detection and species identification of Leishmania DNA from filter paper lesion impressions for patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Respiratory infection in institutions during early stages of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Canada.
- Assessing the impact of intravenous immunoglobulin in the management of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: a noble but difficult quest.
- Assessment of criteria and clinical significance of circumferential resection margins in esophageal Cancer.
- Fluoroquinolones for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and tuberculosis: putting the risk of resistance into perspective.
- Laboratory diagnosis of amoebic keratitis: comparison of four diagnostic methods for different types of clinical specimens.
- A new twist on an old problem. A case of pediatric meningitis caused by multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19 A.
- Going with the flow: legionellosis risk in Toronto, Canada is strongly associated with local watershed hydrology.
- Optimization of microculture and evaluation of miniculture for the isolation of Leishmania parasites from cutaneous lesions in Peru.
- Cathelicidin LL-37 in severe Streptococcus pyogenes Soft tissue infections in humans.
- At the threshold: defining clinically meaningful resistance thresholds for antibiotic choice in community-acquired pneumonia.
- Treatment of Barrett's Esophagus with early neoplasia: a comparison of endoscopic therapy and esophagectomy.
- Use of the Seeplex RV Detection kit for surveillance of respiratory viral outbreaks in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Esophagectomy--it's not just about mortality anymore: standardized perioperative clinical pathways improve outcomes in patients with esophageal Cancer.
- Evaluation of a microculture method for isolation of Leishmania parasites from cutaneous lesions of patients in Peru.
- A chemical approach to the pharmaceutical optimization of an anti-HIV protein.
- High-level telithromycin resistance in a clinical isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Morbidity and mortality of patients with invasive group A streptococcal infections admitted to the ICU.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in veterinary personnel.
- Proton pump inhibitors and hospitalization for Clostridium difficile-associated Disease: a population-based study.
- Triple reassortant H3N2 influenza A viruses, Canada, 2005.
- Outcomes and health-related quality of life after esophagectomy for high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal Cancer.
- Managing acute lower respiratory tract infections in an era of antibacterial resistance.
- Outpatient gatifloxacin therapy and dysglycemia in older adults.
- Viable group A streptococci in macrophages during acute Soft tissue infection.
- Changing trends in antimicrobial-resistant pneumococci: it's not all bad news.
- A review of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection treatment failures associated with fluoroquinolone resistance.
- Mosaic prophages with horizontally acquired genes account for the emergence and diversification of the globally disseminated M1T1 clone of Streptococcus pyogenes.
Schools
Queen39s University Faculty Of Health Sciences
Wellesley Hospital University Toronto
University Of Toronto
East Birmingham Hospital
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Washington University
Procedures Preformed
- Decortication and Pleurectomy
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Enterostomy (Laparoscopic or Open)
- Esophagectomy (Esophagogastrostomy, Esophagojejunostomy)
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Atelectasis
- Breast Cancer
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak (CSF Leak)
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Queen's University at Kingston
Hospital
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Virginia Mason Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1760538672 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | LOW | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DONALD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 981012756 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WA | |
| Specialty Description | Thoracic Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 26.0 | |
| 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] | 1760538672 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LOW |
| First Name Of The Provider | DONALD |
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