Professor of Surgery, University Pennsylvania
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Thomas L. Spray, MD
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Thomas L. Spray, MD practices Thoracic Surgery. He attended Duke University School of Medicine. Duke University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Duke University School of Medicine is ranked 8/29 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 6 awards "Philadelphia Magazine", "America's Top Doctors", "Super Doctor", "Fellow (FACS)", "Fellow (FACC)" and "Top MD". Doctor Thomas L. Spray, MD is also published. He has 91 publications published. The lastest publication: "Experience with biventricular intervention for neonates with mitral valve abnormalities in the setting of critical left-side heart obstruction.'
Publications
- Experience with biventricular intervention for neonates with mitral Valve abnormalities in the setting of critical left-side heart obstruction.
- Comparison by magnetic resonance phase contrast imagingof pulse-wave velocity in patients with single ventricle who have reconstructed Aortas versus those without.
- Lung transplant waitlist mortality: Height as a predictor of poor outcomes.
- Patient Genotypes Impact Survival After Surgery for Isolated Congenital Heart Disease.
- Risk factors for preoperative periventricular leukomalacia in term neonates with hypoplastic left Heart syndrome are patient related.
- Management of early Fontan failure: a single-institution experience.
- Use of Administrative Data for Surgical Site Infection Surveillance After Congenital Cardiac Surgery Results in Inaccurate Reporting of Surgical Site Infection Rates.
- Hypoplastic left ventricle and scimitar syndrome.
- Postoperative electroencephalographic seizures are associated with deficits in executive function and social behaviors at 4 years of age following cardiac surgery in i...
- Haemodynamic comparison of a novel flow-divider Optiflo geometry and a traditional total cavoPulmonary connection.
- Contemporary outcomes of surgical ventricular Septal defect closure.
- Sodium bicarbonate causes dose-dependent increases in cerebral blood flow in infants and children with single ventricle physiology.
- Early postoperative changes in cerebral oxygen metabolism following neonatal cardiac surgery: Effects of surgical duration.
- Coronary Ostioplasty for Congenital Atresia of the Left Main Coronary Artery Ostium.
- 18 Years of the Fontan Operation at a Single Institution: Results From 771 Consecutive Patients.
- Individualized computer-based surgical planning to address Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in patients with a single ventricle with an interrupted inferior vena ...
- Troponin I levels from donors accepted for pediatric Heart transplantation do not predict recipient graft survival.
- Agreement Between Long-Term Neonatal Background Classification by Conventional and Amplitude-Integrated EEG.
- Usefulness of left ventricular inflow index to predict successful biventricular repair in right-dominant unbalanced atrioventricular canal.
- A contemporary comparison of the effect of shunt type in hypoplastic left Heart syndrome on the hemodynamics and outcome at Fontan completion.
- Reintervention for arch obstruction after stage 1 reconstruction does not adversely affect survival or outcome at Fontan completion.
- Optical measurement of cerebral hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism in neonates with Congenital heart defects.
- Stratification of complexity improves the utility and accuracy of outcomes analysis in a Multi-Institutional Congenital Heart Surgery Database: Application of the Risk...
- The quality conundrum.
- Correction of Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation using image-based surgical planning.
- Brain maturation is delayed in infants with complex Congenital heart defects.
- Exercise performance and quality of life following surgical repair of anomalous Aortic origin of a coronary artery in the pediatric population.
- How I manage Mitral stenosis in the neonate and infant.
- Mission critical: thoracic surgery education reform.
- Risk factors for interstage death after stage 1 reconstruction of hypoplastic left Heart syndrome and variants.
- Prevalence and risk factors for tricuspid Valve regurgitation after pediatric heart transplantation.
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes after staged palliation for hypoplastic left Heart syndrome.
- Critical heart Disease in the neonate: presentation and outcome at a tertiary care center.
- Genetic factors are important determinants of neurodevelopmental outcome after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
- Accuracy of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in the prediction of future neo-Aortic valve function after the Ross procedure in children and young adults.
- Evaluation of myocardial ischemia after surgical repair of anomalous Aortic origin of a coronary artery in a series of pediatric patients.
- A contemporary comparison of the effect of shunt type in hypoplastic left Heart syndrome on the hemodynamics and outcome at stage 2 reconstruction.
- Atrioventricular Valve morphology and dynamics in congenital heart disease as imaged with real-time 3-dimensional matrix-array echocardiography: comparison with 2-dime...
- Late cardioPulmonary and musculoskeletal exercise performance after repair for total anomalous Pulmonary venous connection during infancy.
- The relationship between neo-Aortic root dilation, insufficiency, and reintervention following the Ross procedure in infants, children, and young adults.
- Patient characteristics are important determinants of neurodevelopmental outcome at one year of age after neonatal and infant cardiac surgery.
- Midterm outcomes and predictors of reintervention after the Ross procedure in infants, children, and young adults.
- Nomenclature and databases - the past, the present, and the future : a primer for the Congenital heart surgeon.
- Long-term noninvasive arrhythmia assessment after total anomalous Pulmonary venous connection repair.
- Early results of single-stage biventricular repair of severe Aortic hypoplasia or atresia with ventricular septal defect and normal left ventricle.
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after stage I reconstruction for hypoplastic left Heart syndrome.
- Population pharmacokinetics of milrinone in neonates with hypoplastic left Heart syndrome undergoing stage I reconstruction.
- Neurodevelopmental outcome after early repair of a ventricular septal defect with or without Aortic arch obstruction.
- Intracardiac temperature monitoring in infants after cardiac surgery.
- Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiographic imaging of congenital heart Disease using matrix-array technology: freehand real-time scanning adds instant morphologic detai...
- Intermediate outcomes after the Fontan procedure in the current era.
- The relationship of postoperative electrographic seizures to neurodevelopmental outcome at 1 year of age after neonatal and infant cardiac surgery.
- Surgical correction of Aortico-left ventricular tunnel.
- Guidelines for the outpatient management of complex congenital heart Disease.
- Effect of congenital heart Disease on neurodevelopmental outcomes within multiple-gestation births.
- Increasing duration of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is associated with an increased incidence of postoperative electroencephalographic seizures.
- Chronic hypoxemia increases myocardial cytochrome oxidase.
- Pediatric cardiology and congenital heart Disease.
- Impact of re-Coarctation following the Norwood operation on survival in the balloon angioplasty era.
- Late neurodevelopmental outcome after repair of total anomalous Pulmonary venous connection.
- Electrographic neonatal seizures after infant Heart surgery.
- Surgical management of unbalanced atrioventricular canal Defect.
- Newborn Heart surgery: reasonable expectations and outcomes.
- Preoperative cerebral blood flow is diminished in neonates with severe Congenital heart defects.
- Severe influenza B myocarditis and myositis.
- Efficacy of prophylactic epicardial pacing leads in children and young adults.
- Risk factors for primary graft failure after pediatric cardiac transplantation: importance of recipient and donor characteristics.
- Thoratec left ventricular assist device as a bridge to recovery in a child weighing 27 kilograms.
- Risk factors for mortality in 137 pediatric cardiac intensive care unit patients managed with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
- Periventricular leukomalacia is common after neonatal cardiac surgery.
- A comparison of on-site and off-site patent ductus arteriosus ligation in premature infants.
- Apolipoprotein E genotype and neurodevelopmental sequelae of infant cardiac surgery.
- Neo-Aortic root dilation and valve regurgitation up to 21 years after staged reconstruction for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Outcomes after the Norwood operation in neonates with critical Aortic stenosis or Aortic valve atresia.
- Risk of seizures in survivors of newborn Heart surgery using deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.
- Efficacy and safety of milrinone in preventing low cardiac output syndrome in infants and children after corrective surgery for congenital heart Disease.
- Postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia in children: incidence, risk factors, and treatment.
- Preoperative Pulmonary venous obstruction affects long-term outcome for survivors of total anomalous Pulmonary venous connection repair.
- An MRI study of neurological injury before and after Congenital heart surgery.
- Influence of congenital heart Disease on survival in children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- Pneumatosis intestinalis after pediatric thoracic organ transplantation.
- Effects of inspired hypoxic and hypercapnic gas mixtures on cerebral oxygen saturation in neonates with univentricular Heart defects.
- Predictors of outcome after the Fontan operation: is hypoplastic left Heart syndrome still a risk factor?
- Altered hemodynamics controls matrix metalloproteinase activity and tenascin-C expression in neonatal pig lung.
- Prophylactic intravenous use of milrinone after cardiac operation in pediatrics (PRIMACORP) study. Prophylactic Intravenous Use of Milrinone After Cardiac Operation in...
- Consensus-based method for risk adjustment for surgery for congenital heart Disease.
- Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric thoracic organ transplantation.
- Strategies to treat protein-losing enteropathy.
- Surgical management of Congenital and acquired pulmonary vein stenosis.
- Technique of pulmonary autograft Aortic valve replacement in children (the Ross procedure).
Schools
Duke University School Of Medicine
Duke University Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Aortic Repair, Open or Repair of Arterial Aneurysm, Open
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
- Cardiac Shunting Procedures With or Without Aortic Repair or Coronary Anomaly Repair
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
- Coarctation of the Aorta
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Philadelphia Magazine
- America's Top Doctors
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FACC)
- Top MD
Education
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Duke University Hospital -
Duke University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Capital Health Regional Medical Center -
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Pennsylvania Hospital
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