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Stephen J. Kovach, III, M.D.
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Research in Peer Reviewed Publications
Alessio Baccarani, MD, Koji Yasui, MD, Kevin C. Olbrich, PhD, Ahmed El-Sabbagh, MD, Stephen Kovach, MD, Keith E. Follmar, BA, Detlev Erdmann, MD, L. Scott Levin, MD, Jonathan S. Stamler, MD1, Bruce Klitzman, PhD, and Michael R. Zenn, MD: Efficacy of Ethyl Nitrite in Reversing Surgical Vasospasm. J Recon Microsurgery, in press, 2007.

Kovach SJ, Koger KE, Klitzmann B, Germann, G, Levin LS: Advantages of Minimally Invasive, Balloon Dissector Assisted Tissue Expander Placement: A Clinical and Experimental Study. Ann Plast Surg, in press 2007.

Kovach SJ, Georgiade GS. The “Banked” TRAM: A method for insuring mastectomy flap survival. Ann Plasc Surg. 57(4):366-9, 2006 Oct.

Scheufler O., Farhadi J., Kovach S.J., Kukies S., Pierer G., Levin L.S., Erdmann D.: Anatomical Basis and Clinical Application of the Infragluteal Perforator Flap. Plas Recon Surg. 118(6):1389-400, 2006 Nov..

SJ Kovach, AC Fischer, PJ Katzman, R Salloum, SE Ettinghausen, and LG Koniaris. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors. J Surg Oncol. 2006 Sep 11;94(5):385-391.

D Erdmann, SJ Kovach, RD Lawson. A modification of the ipsilateral reversed free fibula transfer for segmental femoral shaft defect reconstruction. Ann Plast Surg, Feb; 56(2):216-9, 2006.

Kovach SJ, Price JA, Shaw CM, Theodorakis NG, McKillop IH. Role of cyclic-AMP responsive element binding (CREB) proteins in cell proliferation in rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma. J Cell Physiol, 18;206(2):411-419, 2005.

Tan HP. Madeb R. Kovach SJ. Orloff M. Mieles L. Johnson LA. Bozorgzadeh A. Marcos A. Hypophosphatemia after 95 right-lobe living-donor hepatectomies for liver transplantation is not a significant source of morbidity. Transplantation. 76(7):1085-8, 2003 Oct 15.

Galaria II. Marcos A. Orloff M. Mieles L. Bozorgadeh A. Kovach S. Tan HP. Pulmonary actinomycosis in solid organ transplantation. Transplantation. 75(11):1914-5, 2003 Jun 15.

Koniaris LG. Schoeniger LO. Kovach S. Sitzmann JV. The quick, no-twist, no-kink portal confluence reconstruction. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 196(3):490-4, 2003 Mar.

Price JA, Kovach SJ, Johnson T, Koniaris LG, Cahill PA, Sitzmann JV, McKillop IH. Insulin-like growth factor I is a comitogen for hepatocyte growth factor in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma.Hepatology 2002 Nov;36(5):1089-97

Sayeed S, Koniaris LG, Kovach SJ, Hirokawa T. Torsion of a wandering spleen. Surgery 2002 Sep;132(3):535-6.

Hendrickson RJ, Koniaris LG, Kovach SJ, Johnson JA. Gamma probe-confirmed laparoscopic accessory splenectomy. Surg Endosc 2002 Sep;16(9):1364

Kovach SJ, Hendrickson RJ, Cappadona CR, Schmidt CM, Groen K, Koniaris LG, Sitzmann JV. Cryoablation of unresectable pancreatic cancer. Surgery 2002 Apr;131(4):463-4.

Kovach SJ, Sitzmann JV, McKillop IH. Inhibition of alcohol dehydrogenase blocks enhanced Gi-protein expression following ethanol treatment in experimental hepatocellular carcinoma in vitro. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2001 Oct;13(10):1209-16.

Textbooks and Book Chapters
Stephen J. Kovach, and L. Scott Levin. “Treatment of Venous and Combined Ulcers with Free Tissue Transfer for Limb Salvage “ in Venous Ulcers, Elsevier, Ltd., editors: Cynthia Shortell, John Bergan, in press, 2007.

Abstracts (last 5 years)
SJ Kovach, AC Fischer, PJ Katzman, R Salloum, SE Ettinghausen, LO Schoeniger, LG Koniaris. Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 11(2), supplement 120, 2004.

JA Price, SJ Kovach, JV Sitzmann, IH McKillop. Insulin-like growth factor-I stimulates proto-oncogene expression in experimental HCC. Hepatology, AASLD Proceedings, 34(4) 493A, 2001.

SJ Kovach, JA Price, NG Theodorakis, JV Sitzmann, and IH McKillop. Regulation of c-AMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) expression and activity in experimental hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatology, AASLD Proceedings, 34(4) 262A, 2001.

SJ Kovach, IH McKillop, JV Sitzmann. Regulation of cyclic-AMP (cAMP) responsive elements (CRE's) in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), American College of Surgeons Surgical Forum, Owen Wangenstein Surgical Forum, 2001.

SJ Kovach, RJ Hendrickson, CR Cappadona, CM Schmidt, K Groen, and JV Sitzmann. Safety and Efficacy of Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) Guided Cryoablation for Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer. American Society of Clinical Oncology Proceedings, 2001.

Presentations (last 3 years)
American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Puerto Rico, 2006: SJ Kovach, A Baccarani: Efficacy of Ethyl Nitrite in Reversing Surgical Vasospasm.

North Carolina Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Charleston, SC, 2005: SJ Kovach, GS Georgiade. The “Banked TRAM”: A method of insuring mastectomy skin flap survival.

SSO, New York, 2004: SJ Kovach, AC Fischer, PJ Katzman, R Salloum, SE Ettinghausen, LO Schoeniger, LG Koniaris. Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors.

 


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