The Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Department of Surgery
Jacek Pliszczynski, MD, PhD

Jacek Pliszczynski, MD, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor


Biography

Dr. Pliszczynski graduated from Warsaw Medical School in 1996. Since 1998, he has worked in the Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Child Jesus Hospital Trauma Treatment Center, Warsaw Medical School, under the direction of Professor Wojciech Rowinski. While there, he began his training transplanting abdominal organs. He obtained postgraduate training at the Institute of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Disease in Warsaw from 2000 to 2005 on a postgraduate scholarship from the Medical University of Warsaw. Dr. Pliszczynski earned his PhD in 2005 with a thesis entitled, "Causes of Hemodialysis Vascular Access Failure." Dr. Pliszczynski's interests are organ transplantation, vascular access for hemodialysis, general surgery, and computerization in medicine.

 

  1. Mucha K, Foroncewicz B, Paczek L, Pazik J, Lewandowska D, Krawczyk A, Pliszczynski J, Gradowska L, Durlik M, Walaszewski J, Nazarewski S, Szmidt J. 36-month follow-up of 75 renal allograft recipients treated with steroids, tacrolimus, and azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil. Transplant Proc. 2003 Sep;35(6):2176-8.
  2. Rowinski W, Korczak-Kowalska G, Samsel R, Zderska M, Chmura A, Wlodarczyk Z, Pliszczynski J, Wyzgal J, Cieciura T, Lagiewska B, Walaszewski J, Paczek L, Lao M, Gorski A. Can the immunosuppressive effect of perioperative single high-dose antithymocyte globulin administration in kidney allograft recipients be due to apoptosis of activated lymphocytes? Transplant Proc. 2002 Aug;34(5):1622-4.
  3. Samsel R, Rowinski W, Chmura A, Wlodarczyk Z, Wyzgal J, Cieciura T, Lagiewska B, Pliszczynski J, Korczak G, Paczek L, Walaszewski J, Lao M. Perioperative administration of single, high-dose of ATG-Fresenius-S as an induction immunosuppressive therapy in cadaveric renal transplantation: preliminary results. Transplant Proc. 2001 Sep;33(6):2952-4.
  4. Samsel R, Chmura A, Wlodarczyk Z, Wyzgal J, Cieciura T, Lagiewska B, Pliszczynski J, Korczak G, Lazowski T, Paczek L, Walaszewski J, Lao M, Rowinski W. Perioperative single high dose ATG-Fresenius S administration as induction immunosuppressive therapy in cadaveric renal transplantation--preliminary results. Ann Transplant. 1999;4(2):37-9.

 

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Email: Jacek.Pliszczynski@
uth.tmc.edu