Professor of Surgery, Indiana University
General Surgery
Dr. Karen S. West, MD
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Karen West practices General Surgery. He graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine. Indiana University School of Medicine has a rank of 45 in research and a 47 in primary care He received awards:"Indianapolis Monthly" and "Fellow (FACS)". Karen West is also a published MD. He has 98 publication published. The most recent publication is: Saccharomyces cerevisiae infections in children.
Publications
- A Single Histrelin Implant Is Effective for 2 Years for Treatment of Central Precocious Puberty.
- Choledochoceles: are they choledochal Cysts?
- Influence of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation on subsequent surgeries after congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair.
- Laparoscopic splenic procedures in children: experience in 231 children.
- Oophorectomy in McCune-Albright syndrome: a case of mistaken identity.
- Incidence of persistent left superior vena cava in esophageal atresia.
- Long-term outcomes in patients With stage IV neuroblastoma.
- Effect of corticosteroid therapy on outcomes in biliary atresia after Kasai portoenterostomy.
- Surgical considerations in cystic fibrosis: a 32-year evaluation of outcomes.
- Long-term outcomes in total colonic aganglionosis: a 32-year experience.
- Supraumbilical pyloromyotomy: a unique indication for antimicrobial prophylaxis.
- Appendicitis in childhood Hematologic malignancies: analysis and comparison with typhilitis.
- Duodenal atresia and stenosis: long-term follow-up over 30 years.
- Surgical management of duodenal injuries in children.
- Laparoscopic splenectomy has become the gold standard in children.
- CT cholangiography of a choledochocele.
- Neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
- Right-to-left shunt from systemic venous to pulmonary venous system developing after SVC obstruction.
- Mortality prediction and interval until death in near-term and term neonates With respiratory failure.
- Transient right-left interatrial shunt During emergence from anesthesia: demonstration by color flow Doppler mapping.
- Massive hemangioma in infants: therapeutic considerations.
- Colonic strictures in children With cystic fibrosis.
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Infections in children.
- Intravesical phallus in cloacal exstrophy.
- Outcome of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation survivors at age two years: relationship to status at one year.
- Efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging in 139 children With tumors.
- Broviac central venous catheterization in infants and children.
- The role of second-look procedures in the management of retroperitoneal tumors in children.
- Neurodevelopmental outcome and respiratory morbidity for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation survivors at 1 year of age.
- Synergistic effect of hyperthermia, papaverine, and chemotherapy in murine neuroblastoma.
- Significance of portal vein air in necrotizing entercolitis: analysis of 53 cases.
- Bronchoscopy for aspirated foreign bodies in children. Experience in 131 cases.
- Haemophilus parainfluenzae Infections in children, with the report of a unique case.
- Vitelline duct anomalies. Experience With 217 childhood cases.
- Generalized juvenile polyposis coli. Clinical management based on long-term observations.
- Complications and reoperation after Nissen fundoplication in childhood.
- Postsplenectomy sepsis: historical Background and current concepts.
- Short bowel syndrome in infancy and childhood. Analysis of survival in 60 patients.
- Mediastinal tumors in children: experience With 196 cases.
- Delayed presentation of a right-sided diaphragmatic hernia and group B streptococcal sepsis. Two case reports and a review of the literature.
- Second-look laparotomy for Wilms' tumor: indications and results in 19 patients.
- Necrotizing enterocolitis: factors affecting mortality in 101 surgical cases.
- The anatomic pattern of biliary atresia identified at time of Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy and early postoperative clearance of jaundice are significant predictors of ...
- Esophageal replacement in children: experience With thirty-one cases.
- Ventricular gallbladder shunts: an alternative procedure in hydrocephalus.
- Neuroblastoma in the first year of life: clinical and biologic factors influencing outcome.
- Peritoneal dialysis in the first 60 days of life.
- Changing trends in necrotizing enterocolitis. Experience With 302 cases in two decades.
- Gastroschisis: a plea for risk categorization.
- Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-secreting ganglioneuromatosis affecting the entire colon and rectum.
- Staphylococcus epidermidis sepsis in pediatric patients: clinical and therapeutic considerations.
- The utility of lung biopsy in recipients of stem cell transplantation.
- Hirschsprung's disease. Evaluation of mortality and long-term function in 260 cases.
- Steroids and poor nutrition are Associated with infectious wound complications in children undergoing first stage procedures for ulcerative colitis.
- Gastrointestinal tumors in children: an analysis of 39 cases.
- Pectus excavatum repair: experience With standard and minimal invasive techniques.
- Increased incidence of delayed gastric emptying in children With gastroesophageal reflux. A prospective evaluation.
- Pulmonary Hypertension in neonatal cystic lung disease: survival following lobectomy and ECMO in two cases.
- Intra-abdominal complications of cystic fibrosis.
- Neuropathy and vasculopathy in colonic strictures from children With cystic fibrosis.
- Increased risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants With patent ductus arteriosus treated With indomethacin.
- Analysis of morbidity and mortality in 227 cases of esophageal atresia and/or tracheoesophageal fistula over two decades.
- Improved survival in children With esophageal perforation.
- The use of pleuroperitoneal shunts in the management of persistent chylothorax in infants.
- Intestinal atresia and stenosis: a 25-year experience With 277 cases.
- The spectrum of biliary Tract disorders in infants and children. Experience with 300 cases.
- Long-term follow-up after surgical management of necrotizing enterocolitis: sixty-three cases.
- Delayed onset of intestinal obstruction in children after unrecognized seat belt injury.
- Intussusception: current management in infants and children.
- An analysis of pediatric trauma deaths in Indiana.
- Long-term analysis of children With esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula.
- Failure of percutaneous drainage in children With traumatic pancreatic pseudocysts.
- The efficacy of early ERCP in pediatric pancreatic trauma.
- Pancreatic tumors in childhood: analysis of 13 cases.
- Chest wall resection and reconstruction for malignant conditions in childhood.
- Pneumatosis intestinalis in children beyond the neonatal period.
- Inguinal hernia in children: factors affecting recurrence in 62 cases.
- Gastrointestinal injuries in childhood: analysis of 53 patients.
- Acquired aganglionosis: a rare occurrence following pull-through procedures for Hirschsprung's disease.
- Anomalies of intestinal rotation in childhood: analysis of 447 cases.
- Favorable outcome in children With BeckWith-Wiedemann syndrome and intraabdominal malignant tumors.
- Pancreatic disorders in infancy and childhood: experience With 92 cases.
- Postoperative intussusception: experience With 36 cases in children.
- Diagnosis and treatment of symptomatic breast masses in the pediatric population.
- Efficacy of primary and secondary video-assisted thoracic surgery in children.
- The "other side" of pediatric hernias: the role of laparoscopy.
- The complex nature of type A (long-gap) esophageal atresia.
- The efficacy of hepatoportoenterostomy in biliary atresia.
- Gastrointestinal perforation and peritonitis in infants and children: experience With 179 cases over ten years.
- Inflammatory pseudotumor of the alimentary Tract: clinical and surgical experience.
- Portal venous air: the poor prognosis persists.
- Risk factors for acute chest syndrome in children With sickle cell disease undergoing abdominal surgery.
- The development of gastroesophageal reflux after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
- Reoperation after Nissen fundoplication in children With gastroesophageal reflux: experience With 130 patients.
- Delayed surgical repair and ECMO improves survival in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- A case controlled comparison of open and laparoscopic splenectomy in children.
- Long-term follow-up after bowel resection for necrotizing enterocolitis: factors affecting outcome.
Schools
Indiana University School of Medicine
In University School Of Med
Procedures Preformed
- C-Section
- Colpopexy
- Colporrhaphy
- Colposcopy
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Conditions Treated
- Breech Position
- Cervicitis
- Chlamydia Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Infections
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- MHS HIX
- Pathway X Bronze Direct CACA IN HIX
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- CHAMPVA
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Emblem Health
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- GEHA
- Group Health Cooperative
- Medicare Advantage PFFS
- HealthSmart
- Choice Care PPO
- MagnaCare
- Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
- Medicaid
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Principal Life
- Sagamore Plus
- Tricare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Indianapolis Monthly
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Indiana University School of Medicine
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