Todd J Pillen PA -C/SA, MPAS, DFAAPA

PubMed

• 33 citations
  Incidence, impact, and treatment of portal and hepatic venous complications following pediatric liver transplantation: a single-center 12 year experience
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory Smallwood, Stuart Henry, Sundari Sekar
  Pediatric Transplantation. 2010-09-01
• 13 citations
  Liver retransplantation in children: the Atlanta experience.
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory Smallwood, Stuart Henry, Sundari Sekar
  Pediatric Transplantation. 2010-05-01
• 16 citations
  Pediatric liver transplantation for acute liver failure at a single center: A 10‐yr experience
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory Smallwood, John Rodriguez, Sundari Sekar
  Pediatric Transplantation. 2010-03-01

Journal Articles

• Pediatric Liver Transplantation Without The Use of Microsurgical Techniques  
  Fasola CG, Pillen T, Welch D, Smallwood G, Romero R, Heffron T, Transplantation, 1/1/2004
• Outcomes in children who underwent transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis  
  Martin SR, Alvarez F, Anand R, Song C, Yin W; SPLIT Research Group, J Pediatr, 1/1/2011
• Medical and surgical treatment of neonatal hemachromatosis: Single center experience  
  Heffron T, Pillen T, Welch D, Asolati M, Smallwood G, Hagedorn P, Fasola C, Solis D, Rodrigues J, Depaolo J, Spivey J, Martinez E, Henry S, Romero R, Pediatr Transplant, 1/1/2007
• Hepatopulmonary syndrome in pediatric liver transplant patients is associated with polysplenia/interrupted inferior vena cava and does not require the presence of cirr...  
  Gupta N, Abramowsky C, Pillen T, Redd D, Fasola C, Heffron T, Romero R, Liver Transpl, 1/1/2007
• Low Incidence of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis After Liver Transplantation Without Systemic Anticoagulation or Microsurgery  
  Thomas G. Heffron, David Welch, Todd Pillen, Carlos Fasola, Doug Redd, Gregory A. Smallwood, Enrique Martinez, George Atkinson, Rene Romero, Pediatr Transplant, 1/1/2005
• Drug-resistance Mutation in Human Cytomegalovirus Isolated from Patients After a Liver Transplantation  
  Smallwood G, Lu L, Hagedorn C, Fasola CG, Pillen T, Heffron T, Transplantation, 1/1/2004
• Successful ABO Incompatible Pediatric Liver Transplantation Utilizing Selective Plasmapheresis  
  Heffron T, Pillen T, Welch D, Fasola C, Smallwood, G, Romero R, Transplantation, 1/1/2004
• Pediatric Liver Transplantation in Living Donors: Single Center Experience  
  Heffron T, Fasola CG, Pillen T, Smallwood G, Welch D, Henry S, Romero R, Transplantation, 1/1/2004
• Preemptive Famcyclovir for Epstein-Barr Virus and Incidence of Lympho-proliferative Disease in Pediatric Liver Transplantation  
  Pillen T, Romero R, Welch D, Fasola CG, Smallwood GA, Heffron TG, Hepatology, 1/1/2004
• Successful ABO Incompatible Pediatric Liver Transplantation Utilizing Selective Plasmapheresis  
  Heffron T, Pillen T, Welch D, Fasola C, Smallwood G, Romero R, Hepatology, 1/1/2004
• Pediatric Liver Transplantation with Daclizumab Induction Therapy  
  Thomas G Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory A Smallwood, David Welch, Brad Oakley, Rene Romero, Transplantation, 1/1/2003
• Does donor age and gender influence hepatic allograft outcome? Analysis of 407 hepatic allografts  
  Sindhi R, Shaw BW Jr., Langnas AN, Mundy D, Pillen TJ, Fox IJ, Heffron TG, Zetterman RK, Markin RS, Sorrell MF, Transplantation, 1/1/1996
• Segmental volume in living related liver transplantation (LRT: Correlation regarding donor: recipient ration as a means of expanding the donor pool for the small pedia...  
  Heffron TG, Matamoros AJ, Anderson JC, Mack DR, Kaufman, SS, Dhawan A, Pillen TJ, Fox IJ, Sudan DL, Jerius J, Vanderhoof JA, Shaw BW JR., Langnas AN, Transplantation, 1/1/1996
• Preoperative estimation in living related transplantation (LRT): Clinical correlation and donor; recipient ratio  
  Heffron TG, Langnas AL, Matamoros AJ, Anderson JC, Mack DR, McCashland TM, Dhawan A, Kaufman S, Zetterman RK, Pillen TJ, Sudan D. Jerius J, Donovan JP, Sorrell MF, Van..., Transplant Proc, 1/1/1996
• Living related liver transplantation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (1996)  
  Heffron TG, Langnas AL, Fox IJ, Mack D, Dhawan A, Kaufman S, Antonsen D, Pillen T, Sudan D., Jerius J, Vanderhoof J, Donovan JP, Shaw BW JR, Transplant Proc, 1/1/1996
• Morbidity in patients with post-transplant diabetes mellitus following Orthotopic liver transplantation  
  Trail KC, McCashland TM, Larsen JL, Heffron TG, Stratta RJ, Langnas AN, Fox IJ, Donovan JP, Sorrell MF, Pillen TJ, Ruby EL, Shaw B Jr, Liver Transpl Surg, 1/1/1996
• Risk factors in the development of diabetes mellitus after liver transplantation  
  Trail KC, Larsen JL, McCashland TM, Heffron TG, Stratta RJ, Langnas AN, Fox IJ, Donovan JP, Sorrell MF, Pillen TJ, Ruby EI, Shaw BW Jr, Liver Transpl Surg, 1/1/1996
• Experience with protocol biopsies after solitary pancreas transplantation  
  Stratta RJ, Taylor RJ, Grune MT, Sindhi R, Sudan D, Castaldo P, Cushing KA, Radio SJ, Wisecarver JL, Matarnoros A, Nelson NL, Hapke MR, Pillen TJ, Markin RS, Transplantation, 1/1/1995
• Preoperative evaluation of the living related donor in pediatric living related liver transplantation How accurate is it?  
  Heffron T, Langnas A, Fox I, Antonson D, Mack D, Zetterman R, Donovan J, McCashland T, Schafer D, Matamoros A Jr, Anderson J, Lowell J, Pillen T, Sorrell M, Shaw B Jr, Transplant Proc, 1/1/1994
• Hepatopulmonary syndrome and pediatric liver transplantation  
  Bynon JS, Langnas AN, Stratta RJ, Vanderhoof JA, Antonson DL, Mack DR, Fox IJ, Heffron TG, Pillen TJ, Huffaker S, Shaw BW Jr, Transplant Proc, 1/1/1993
• A percutaneous method for veno-venous bypass in liver transplantation  
  Ozaki CF, Bynon JS, Pillen TJ, Langnas AN, J, Vogel JE, Shaw BW Jr, Transplantation, 1/1/1993
• Cytomegalovirus infection and disease after liver transplantation: An overview  
  Stratta RJ, Shaefer MS, Markin RS, Wood RP, Langnas AN, Reed EC, Donovan JP, Woods GL, Bradshaw KA, Pillen TJ, Shaw BW Jr, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1/1/1992
• A randomized prospective trial of acyclovir and immunoglobulin prophylaxis in liver transplant recipients receiving OKT3 therapy  
  Stratta RJ, Shaefer MS, Cushing KA, Markin RS, Reed EC, Langnas AN, Pillen TJ, Shaw BW Jr, Arch Surg, 1/1/1992
• Cytomegalovirus infection and disease after liver transplantation An overview Review  
  Stratta RJ, Shaeffer MS, Markin RS, Wood RP, Langnas AN, Reed EC, Donovan JP, Woods GL, Bradshaw KA, Pillen TJ, et al, Dig Dis Sci, 1/1/1992
• Successful Prophylaxis of Cytomegalovirus (CMB) Disease After Primary CMV Exposure in Liver Transplant Recipients  
  Stratta RJ, Shaefer MS, Cushing KA, Markin RS, Wood RP, Langnas AN, Reed EC, Woods GL, Donovan JP, Pillen TJ, Li S, Duckworth RM, Shaw BW Jr, Transplantation, 1/1/1991
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Books/Book Chapters

• Living Donor Organ Transplantation 
  Chapter: Liver Transplantation 25.3.2 Adult Donor to Pediatric Recipient: The Donor Procedure: Technical Aspects. 
  Thomas Heffron, Todd Pillen, Carlos FasolaMcGraw-Hill Publishing Company2005
• Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls, 
  Chapter: Patient 53: A 4-Year-Old boy with Fulminant Hepatitis Whose “Terminal” Course is Altered by Liver Transplantation. 
  Thomas G Heffron, Todd PillenHanley & Belfus, Inc., Philadelphia, PA2002
• Clinical Transplants 1992. 
  Chapter: Liver Transplantation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 1985 to 1992. Chapter 15 
  Page 167 - 177Langnas AN, Donovan JP, Sorrell MF, Zetterman RK, Antonson DL, Stratta RJ, Fox IJ, Heffron TG, Markin RS, Pillen TJ, Shaw BW JrEditors: Terasaki PI, Cecka JM.UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA1993
• Recent Advances and Current practice in Organ Transplantation. 
  Chapter: An overview of liver transplantation therapy for children. Chapter 34. 
  Wood RP, Shaw BW Jr, Stratta RJ, Langnas AN, Pillen TJEditors: Abouna GM.Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands1991
• Recent Advances and Current Practice in Organ Transplantation. 
  Chapter: Risk factors in adult liver transplant recipients. Chapter 36. 
  Wood RP, Shaw BW Jr, Stratta RJ, Langnas AN, Pillen TJEditors: Abouna GM.Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands1991
• Recent Advances and Current Practice in Organ Transplantation. 
  Chapter: Transplantation for hepatobiliary malignancies. Chapter 39. 
  Wood RP, Shaw BW JR, Stratta RJ, Langnas AN, Pillen TJEditors: Abouna GM.Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands1991
• Surgical Treatment of Digestive Disease. 
  Chapter: Liver Transplantation. 
  Page 423 - 454Shaw BW Jr, Wood RP, Stratta RJ, Pillen TJ, Markin RS, Langnas ANEditors: Moody FJ, et al.Yearbook Medical Publishers, Chicago, ILEdition 2nd,1980
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Abstracts/Posters

• Pediatric acute hepatic failure and transplantation.
  T. Heffron, T. Pillen, G. Smallwood, R. Romero, Transplantation, 1/1/2008
• Outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma that are treated versus untreated waiting for liver transplant.
  T. Heffron, T. Pillen, G. Smallwood, C. Fasola, A. Stieber, Transplantation, 1/1/2008
• Surgical technique to avoid hepatic venous obstruction in partial and full pediatric liver transplantation.
  T. Heffron, D. Solis, T. Pillen, G. Smallwood, R. Romero, Transplantation, 1/1/2008
• Ten year experience with preemptive approach to CMV infection in pediatric liver transplantation.
  G. Smallwood, T. Pillen, R. Romero, T. Heffron, Transplantation, 1/1/2008
• Excellent Outcome After Early Combined Liver-Kidney Transplant in an 11 Month Old Infant with Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1: First Case Report.
  Thomas G. Heffron, John H. Rodriguez, Greg Smallwood, Carlos G. Fasola, Todd Pillen, David Solis, Rochelle Schmidt, Rene Romero, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for a preemptive approach to CMV infection in pediatric liver transplantation.
  Gregory A. Smallwood, Todd Pillen, Rochelle Schmidt, Carlos Fasola, Massimo Asolati, Rene Romero, Thomas Heffron, American Journal of Transplantation; ATC, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2007
• Outpatient Treatment of Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection (VZVi) in Children after Liver Transplant.
  Todd Pillen, Massimo Asolati, Gregory Smallwood, Rochelle Schmidt, Carlos Fasola, John Rodriguez, Rene Romero, Thomas G. Heffron, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Pediatric acute Hepatic Failure and Transplantation.
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory A. Smallwood, Massimo Asolati, Carlos Fasola, Rene Romero, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Surgical Technique to Avoid Hepatic Venous Obstruction in Partial and Full Size Graft Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
  Thomas G. Heffron, David Solis, Todd Pillen, Greg Smallwood, Stuart Henry, John H. Rodriguez, Rene Romero, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Preemptive Famciclovir for Epstein Barr Virus and Incidence of Lymphoproliferative Disease in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
  Rochelle Schmidt, Todd Pillen, Rene Romero, Carlos Fasola, Gregory Smallwood, Thomas Heffron, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Hepatopulmonary Syndrome is Seen with Polysplenia/Interrupted Inferior Vena Cava and Without Cirrhosis.
  Nitkita Arora Gupta, Carlos Abramowsky, Todd Pillen, Douglass Redd, Carlos Fasola, Thomas Heffron, Rene Romero, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Ten Year Experience with Preemptive Approach to CMV Infection in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
  Gregory A. Smallwood, Todd Pillen, Rochelle Schmidt, Massimo Asolati, Carlos Fasola, Rene Romero, Thomas G. Heffron, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Optimal Graft and Patient Survival in Small Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients with Partial Size Grafts: A Ten Year Single Center Experience.
  Carlos G. Fasola, John H. Rodriguez, Todd Pillen, Greg Smallwood, David Solis, Rochelle Schmidt, Rene Romero, Thomas G. Heffron, Pediatric Transplantation; 4th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association, Cancun, Mexico, 1/1/2007
• Crossing ABO blood groups and utilizing large for size liver grafts in children: Strategies for donor pool expansion in children with fulminant hepatic failure.
  Massimo Asolati, Todd Pillen, Gregory Smallwood, Carlos Fasola, Rene Romero, Thomas Heffron, American Journal of Transplantation; ATC, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2007
• Acute hepatic failure in pediatric liver transplantation – expansion of the donor pool by crossing ABO blood groups and use of living donors.
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory A. Smallwood, Massimo Asolati, Carlos Fasola, Rene Romero, American Journal of Transplantation and Transplantation; WTC, John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 1/1/2006
• Medical and surgical treatment of neonatal hemochromatosis: new optimism for improved outcomes.
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, Gregory A. Smallwood, Carlos Fasola, Massimo Asolati, Rene Romero, American Journal of Transplantation and Transplantation; WTC, John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 1/1/2006
• Is chemoembolization necessary for patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma that are listed for liver transplant?
  Carlos Fasola, Todd Pillen, Gregory A. Smallwood, Massimo Asolati, Doug Redd, George Atkinson, Rene Romero, Thomas G. Heffron, American Journal of Transplantation and Transplantation; WTC, John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 1/1/2006
• Optimal graft and patient survival in small pediatric liver transplant (OLT) recipients with partial-size grafts: a ten-year single center experience.
  Carlos Fasola, Todd Pillen, Gregory A. Smallwood, Massimo Asolati, Doug Redd, George Atkinson, Rene Romero, Thomas G. Heffron, American Journal of Transplantation and Transplantation; WTC, John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 1/1/2006
• Outpatient treatment of varicella-zoster virus infection (VZVI)in children after liver transplant.
  Massimo Asolati, Gregory A. Smallwood, Todd Pillen, Carlos Fasola, Rene Romero, Thomas G. Heffron, American Journal of Transplantation and Transplantation; WTC, John B. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 1/1/2006
• Drug resistant mutation in human cytomegalovirus following liver transplantation.
  Gregory A. Smallwood, Katie Casper, Todd Pillen, Andrei Stieber, Thomas G. Heffron, American Journal of Transplantation; American Transplant Congress (Joint meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation), Washington State Convention and Trade Center; Seattle, WA, 1/1/2005
• Increased survival in pediatric acute hepatic failure following liver transplantation with early surgical intervention utilizing living donor, partial grafts, and ABO ...
  Thomas G. Heffron, Todd Pillen, David Welch, Gregory A. Smallwood, Carlos Fasola, Rene Romero, Hepatology; AASLD annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2005
• Emergence of drug resistance cytomegalovirus following liver transplantation.
  Gregory A. Smallwood, Katie Casper, Todd Pillen, Carlos Fasola, Andrei C. Stieber, Thomas G. Heffron, Hepatology; AASLD annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2005
• Race and Age Impact Post-Transplantation Survival in Biliary Atresia.
  Rene Romero, Conrad Cole, Karen Melde, Todd Pillen, Meheret Asfaw, Thomas Heffron, Digestive Disease Week Annual Meeting, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, 1/15/2004
• Adult and Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Autoimmune Hepatitis.
  TG Heffron, GA Smallwood, T Pillen, D Welch, R Romero, AC Stieber, International Congress on Immunosuppression, Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1/8/2004
• Pediatric Liver Transplantation in Living Donors: Single Center Experience.
  Heffron T, Fasola CG, Pillen T, Smallwood G, Welch D, Henry S, Romero R, XX International Congress of the Transplantation Society, Vienna, Austria, 1/1/2004
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Lectures

• CMS and UNOS Audits, Can Ottr Help? 
  Omaha, NE - 1/1/2008
• Updates in Solid Organ Transplantation 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/1995
• Current Status of Solid Organ Transplantation 
  Miami, FL - 1/1/1992