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Office
200 W Arbor Dr
# MC8892
San Diego, CA 92103Phone+1 619-543-7777Fax+1 619-543-2652
Summary
- Dr. Gert Pretorius is a thoracic surgeon in La Jolla, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, UC San Diego Medical Center – Hillcrest, Tri-City Medical Center, and VA San Diego Healthcare System. He received his medical degree from University of Pretoria Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice 24 years. He specializes in adult cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary transplantation and is experienced in adult cardiac surgery, lung transplant surgery, and minimally invasive mitral valve replacement. He has 6 publications and over 50 citings.
Education & Training
- University of Pretoria Faculty of MedicineClass of 1993
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2010 - 2026
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 372 citationsPulmonary Endarterectomy: Recent Changes in a Single Institution's Experience of More Than 2,700 PatientsMichael M. Madani, William R. Auger, Victor Pretorius, Naohide Sakakibara, Kim M. Kerr
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2012-07-01 - 9 citationsCASE 1-2015: Left ventricular assist device insertion in a patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and renal failureSonia Nhieu, Liem Nguyen, Victor Pretorius, Julio Ovando, Derek Moore
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2015-02-01 - 21 citationsCase 13--2014: Management of pulmonary hemorrhage after pulmonary endarterectomy with venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation without systemic anticoagulation.Brett Cronin, Timothy M. Maus, Victor Pretorius, Liem Nguyen, Desmond Johnson
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2014-12-01
Authored Content
- Emerging Frontier in Heart Transplantation: Donation After Circulatory DeathNovember 2022
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