W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital

General Surgery

Doctor Tom Jaksic, MD works in the field of General Surgery. He received awards:"Fellow (FAAP)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Jaksic is a published doctor. He published 101 publications, including: 'Tracheobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in childhood and adolescence: case report and review of the literature.'

Publications

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• Nutritional outcomes in survivors of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)-factors associated with growth at one year.
• Magnitude of surgical burden associated with pediatric intestinal failure: A multicenter cohort analysis.
• Factors Affecting Spontaneous Closure of Gastrocutaneous Fistulae After Removal of Gastrostomy Tubes in Children With Intestinal Failure.
• First STEPs: serial transverse enteroplasty as a primary procedure in neonates with congenital short bowel.
• Variability of Resting Energy Expenditure in Infants and Young Children With Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease.
• Going With the Flow or Swimming Against the Tide: Should Children With Central Venous Catheters Swim?
• AST to Platelet Index Correlates with Hepatic Cirrhosis But Not with Fibrosis in Pediatric Patients with Intestinal Failure.
• Report of 111 Consecutive Patients Enrolled in the International Serial Transverse Enteroplasty (STEP) Data Registry: A Retrospective Observational Study.
• Risk factors for small bowel bacterial overgrowth and diagnostic yield of duodenal aspirates in children with intestinal failure: a retrospective review.
• Pediatric intestinal failure and vascular access.
• Surgery-associated complications in necrotizing enterocolitis: A multiinstitutional study.
• Nutritional morbidity in survivors of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
• Nutritional and other postoperative management of neonates with short bowel syndrome correlates with clinical outcomes.
• Primary peritoneal drainage for increasing ventilatory requirements in critically ill neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis.
• Pulmonary morbidity in 100 survivors of congenital diaphragmatic hernia monitored in a multidisciplinary clinic.
• Do critically ill surgical neonates have increased energy expenditure?
• Ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus under fentanyl anesthesia improves protein metabolism in premature neonates.
• Crohn's disease presenting as chronic constipation: a case report.
• Validation of a [13C]bicarbonate tracer technique to measure neonatal energy expenditure.
• American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Nutrition. Calcium requirements of infants, children, and adolescents.
• The metabolic needs of critically ill children and neonates.
• The determinants of protein catabolism in neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Postoperative ad lib feeding for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
• Treatment of acute neonatal vascular injuries--the utility of multiple interventions.
• Tracheobronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma in childhood and adolescence: case report and review of the literature.
• Utility of daily head ultrasonography for infants on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Current surgical management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a report from the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Study Group.
• Laparoscopic evaluation of the pediatric inguinal hernia--a meta-analysis.
• Meta-analysis of the risk of metachronous hernia in infants and children.
• Integration of amino acid and carbon intermediary metabolism: studies with uniformly labeled tracers and mass isotopomer analysis.
• Stable isotopic quantitation of protein metabolism and energy expenditure in neonates on- and post-extracorporeal life support.
• Does extracorporeal membrane oxygenation benefit neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia? Application of a predictive equation.
• Importance of diarrhea as a presenting symptom of Appendicitis in very young children.
• Glucose production and gluconeogenesis are negatively related to body weight in mechanically ventilated, very low birth weight neonates.
• Is surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus the preferred initial approach for the neonate with extremely low birth weight?
• Survival after aberrant right subclavian artery-Esophageal fistula: case report and literature review.
• Compartmentation of endogenously synthesized amino acids in neonates.
• A new stable isotope tracer technique to assess human neonatal amino acid synthesis.
• Thrombosis of the portal venous system after splenectomy for pediatric hematologic disease.
• Decreased cysteine and proline synthesis in parenterally fed, premature infants.
• Acupuncture in phantom limb pain.
• Plasma proline kinetics and the regulation of proline synthesis in man.
• The use of "artificial skin" for burns.
• Resting energy expenditure in the critically ill: estimations versus measurement.
• Advances in hospital nutrition.
• Plasma proline kinetics and concentrations in young men in response to dietary proline deprivation.
• Proline metabolism in adult male burned patients and healthy control subjects.
• Management of papillary carcinoma arising in thyroglossal-duct anlage.
• A 20-year review of pediatric pancreatic tumors.
• Clinical parameters do not adequately predict outcome in necrotizing enterocolitis: a multi-institutional study.
• Cisapride improves enteral tolerance in pediatric short-bowel syndrome with dysmotility.
• Risk factors for parenteral nutrition–associated liver disease following surgical therapy for necrotizing enterocolitis: A Glaser Pediatric Research Network Study [cor...
• Neonatal short bowel syndrome.
• Low serum citrulline concentration correlates with catheter-related bloodstream infections in children with intestinal failure.
• High prevalence of multiple micronutrient deficiencies in children with intestinal failure: a longitudinal study.
• Use of a continuous glucose sensor in an extracorporeal life support circuit.
• Compilation of recommendations from summit on increasing physician nutrition experts.
• Defining the roles and responsibilities of medical, surgical, and nutrition societies for conducting research and providing medical education in nutrition.
• Efficacy of ethanol locks in reducing central venous catheter infections in pediatric patients with intestinal failure.
• [13C]Methionine breath test to assess intestinal failure-associated liver disease.
• A.S.P.E.N. Clinical guidelines: nutrition support of neonates supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Risk factors for intestinal failure in infants with necrotizing enterocolitis: a Glaser Pediatric Research Network study.
• Intestinal failure. Preface.
• Relationship between biopsy-proven parenteralnutrition-associated liver fibrosis and biochemical cholestasis in children with short bowel syndrome.
• Outcomes after the Ladd procedure in patients with heterotaxy syndrome, congenital heart disease, and intestinal malrotation.
• Persistent alanine aminotransferase elevations in children with parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease.
• Mortality of necrotizing enterocolitis expressed by birth weight categories.
• Long-term nutritional and clinical outcomes after serial transverse enteroplasty at a single institution.
• Relationship between serum citrulline levels and progression to parenteral nutrition independence in children with short bowel syndrome.
• Thoracoscopic aortopexy for treatment of tracheomalacia in infants and children.
• Novel intravenous (13)C-methionine breath test as a measure of liver function in children with short bowel syndrome.
• Preservation of intestinal motility after the serial transverse enteroplasty procedure in a large animal model of short bowel syndrome.
• Intestinal atresias: factors affecting clinical outcomes.
• Is scalping the spleen enough? Laparoscopic splenic cyst unroofing and recurrence rates.
• High diagnostic yield of gastrointestinal endoscopy in children with intestinal failure.
• Multiple micronutrient deficiencies in a child with short bowel syndrome and normal somatic growth.
• Improved survival in a multidisciplinary short bowel syndrome program.
• Pediatric intestinal failure: nutrition, pharmacologic, and surgical approaches.
• Defect size determines survival in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
• First report of the international serial transverse enteroplasty data registry: indications, efficacy, and complications.
• The second STEP: the feasibility of repeat serial transverse enteroplasty.
• The effect of insulin infusion upon protein metabolism in neonates on extracorporeal life support.
• Serial transverse enteroplasty for management of refractory D-lactic acidosis in short-bowel syndrome.
• Real-time continuous glucose monitoring in pediatric patients during and after cardiac surgery.
• Growth and nutritional status in infants with short-bowel syndrome after the serial transverse enteroplasty procedure.
• The impact of prenatal bowel dilation on clinical outcomes in neonates with gastroschisis.
• Serial transverse enteroplasty enhances intestinal function in a model of short bowel syndrome.
• The route of lipid administration affects parenteral nutrition-induced hepatic steatosis in a mouse model.
• Anesthesia and analgesia during and after surgery in neonates.
• Serial transverse enteroplasty is associated with successful short-term outcomes in infants with short bowel syndrome.
• The role of enteral nutrition in the reversal of parenteral nutrition-associated liver dysfunction in infants.
• The first use of live continuous glucose monitoring in patients on extracorporeal life support.
• Assessment of cysteine synthesis in very low-birth weight neonates using a [13C6]glucose tracer.
• Intravenous insulin decreases protein breakdown in infants on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Survival rate in congenital diaphragmatic hernia: the experience of the Canadian Neonatal Network.
• Critically low hormone and catecholamine concentrations in the primed extracorporeal life support circuit.
• Serial transverse enteroplasty for short bowel syndrome: a case report.
• Trophic enteral nutrition increases hepatic glutathione and protects against peroxidative damage after exposure to endotoxin.
• Analysis of an improved survival rate for congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
• Bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Schools

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• Queen39s University Faculty Of Health Sciences

• University Toronto

• Hospital For Sick Chldn

• Harvard Med School

Procedures Preformed

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• Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
• Port Placements or Replacements

Conditions Treated

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• Appendicitis
• Esophageal Fistula

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• Pediatric Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• Blue Card PPO
• BlueConnect HMO
• Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
• Preferred Blue PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• LocalPlus
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Tufts PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Fellow (FAAP)
• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Queen's University at Kingston

Hospital

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• Boston Children's Hospital
• South Shore Hospital

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