Physician
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Joseph E. Okies, MD
Joseph Okies is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He attended Baylor College of Medicine. Joseph Okies is a published doctor and has 53 publications published. The lastest was: 'Mitral valve replacement: a 10-year follow-up of non-cloth-covered vs. cloth-covered caged-ball prostheses.'
Publications
- Age and valve size effect on the long-term durability of the Carpentier-Edwards aortic pericardial bioprosthesis.
- Emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery in abciximab-treated patients.
- Biocompatible circuits: an adjunct to non-cardiac extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support.
- Long-term durability and patient functional status of the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount pericardial bioprosthesis in the aortic position.
- Aprotinin use in patients with dialysis-dependent renal failure undergoing cardiac operations.
- The left internal mammary artery: the graft of choice.
- Diabetes mellitus and coronary artery bypass. Short-term risk and long-term prognosis.
- Early experience with the intraluminal graft prosthesis.
- Prosthetic replacement of cardiac valves. Five and one-half years'' experience.
- Aortic valve replacement. Long-term results.
- Bullet embolus to the right ventricle. Report of three cases.
- Endocarditis after cardiac valvular replacement.
- Surgical management of injuries to the vena cava: changing patterns of injury and newer techniques of repair.
- Early and late thromboembolic complications after mitral valve replacement: a comparative study of various protheses.
- Penetrating wounds of the heart: changing patterns of surgical management.
- Mitral valve replacement with the Björk-Shiley tilting-disc prosthesis.
- Clinical experience with a new discoid prosthesis for mitral valve replacement.
- Letter: Sternal approximation.
- Ten-year experience with cardiac valve replacement: results with a new mitral prosthesis.
- Computer application in clinical medicine--CARE: a practical system for processin clinical data.
- Valve replacement in bacterial endocarditis.
- Aortic valve replacement: two years' experience with the Björk-Shiley tilting-disc prosthesis.
- Pulmonary alterations in the acutely injured patient.
- Emergency thrombectomy for acute coronary bypass graft occlusion.
- Technical consideration in multiple valve and coronary artery surgery.
- Exteriorized primary repair of colon injuries.
- Inexpensive simple monitoring techniques.
- Enterococcal lung abscess: medical and surgical therapy.
- Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. A growing surgical problem.
- Reoperative coronary surgery. Comparative analysis of 6591 patients undergoing primary bypass and 508 patients undergoing reoperative coronary artery bypass.
- Early experience with mitral valve reconstruction for mitral insufficiency.
- Coronary artery bypass grafting in elderly patients. Comparative results in a consecutive series of 469 patients older than 75 years.
- Serial follow-up of an experimental bovine pericardial aortic bioprosthesis. Usefulness of pulsed Doppler echocardiography.
- Complex of secundum atrial septal defect and congestive heart failure in infants.
- Partial anomalous systemic venous return: report of surgical treatment in two cases.
- Surgical considerations in patients undergoing repeat median sternotomy.
- Mediastinal wound infection and aortocoronary graft patency.
- Improvement in forward coronary blood flow by using a reversed saphenous vein with a competent valve.
- "No-vent" technique of coronary artery bypass.
- Mitral valve replacement: a 10-year follow-up of non-cloth-covered vs. cloth-covered caged-ball prostheses.
- Acute aortic dissection from cross-clamp injury.
- Amyloidosis of the stomach: report of an unusual case and review of the literature.
- Myocardial revascularization and carotid endarterectomy: a combined approach.
- Medical versus surgical therapy for acute coronary insufficiency. A randomized study.
- Reoperation in symptomatic patients after direct coronary artery revascularization.
- Late results of mitral cleft closure for ostium primum atrial septal defect in adolescents and adults.
- Medical vs. urgent surgical therapy for acute coronary insufficiency: a randomized study.
- Early and late results of resection of ventricular aneurysm.
- A newly designed arterial monitoring/perfusion cannula for cardiac operations.
- Effects of infusion of cardiotomy suction blood during extracorporeal circulation for coronary artery bypass surgery.
- The impact of electroencephalography, pressure, and pO2 monitoring on the risk of stroke during cardiopulmonary bypass.
- Hemodynamic stability during 17 years of the Carpentier-Edwards aortic pericardial bioprosthesis.
Schools
Baylor University
Baylor University Affil Hospital
University Oreg Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
Education
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Oregon Health & Science University -
Baylor College of Medicine
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