Miguel S. West, M.D., FACS, Surgeon

Dr. West has vast experience in advanced laparoscopic surgery and performs laparoscopic living kidney donations. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and completed general surgery residencies at the University of Illinois, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and Mount Sinai Hospital/The Chicago Medical School. He also completed a fellowship in transplantation and immunology at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics. He is currently an associate professor of surgery at Wayne State University.

Selected Publications:

• West M , Stevens RB, Metrakos P, Foshager MC, Jessurum J, Sutherland DER, Gruessner RWG: Renal pedicle torsion after simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation. J Am Coll Surg 187: 80-87, 1998.
• West M, Gruessner AC, Metrakos P, Sutherland DER, Gruessner RWG: Conversion from bladder to enteric drainage after pancreaticoduodenal transplantations. Surgery 124: 883-893, 1998.
• West M , Zhang K, Gohman K, Gruessner AC, Troppmann C, Gruessner RWG: New combination therapy prolongs functional survival of discordant xenoislet transplants. Diabetologica 34: 108, 1997.
• West M, Sutherland DER, Matas AJ: Kidney transplant recipients who die with functioning grafts: serum creatinine and cause of death. Transplantation 62: 1029-1030, 1996.
• West M , Gruessner RWG: Laparoscopic biopsy in pancreaticoduodenal transplantation-a first report. Transplantation 62: 1684-1687, 1996.

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