Advisers & FriendsLorenzo Rossaro, M.D.
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Clinical/Research InterestsLorenzo Rossaro is an internationally recognized authority on liver transplantation and liver disease (cirrhosis and hepatitis B and C). He received his medical training in his native Italy and the United States, where he was a Fulbright scholar. Rossaro has contributed book chapters on the indications, selection and timing for liver transplantation, as well as medical complications and disease recurrence for this procedure. He has also authored a management guide for fulminant hepatic failure, and his contributions to innovative treatments for hepatitis C based on multicenter international studies appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. Rossaro's research focuses on complications of liver disease. He also is studying hepatic encephalopathy using psychometric testing and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. |
Title: |
Professor Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
Specialty: |
Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
Center/Program Affiliation: |
Transplant Center |
Address: |
UC Davis Medical Center - Cypress Building 2221 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95817 |
Alternate Address |
Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center 4860 Y St. Sacramento, CA 95817 |
Phone: |
(916) 734-2111 |
Other Languages: |
Italian |
Education: |
University of Padova School of Medicine Padova, Italy Italy M.D. 1982 |
Residency: |
University of Padova School of Medicine Padova, Italy 1982-86 |
Fellowships: |
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1986-88 Gastroenterology Veterans Administration Medical Center Brooklyn, New York 1982 Gastroenterology |
Board Certifications: |
American Board of Internal Medicine, 1997 American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, 1995 |
Professional Memberships: |
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases American Association of Gastroenterology American College of Gastroenterology European Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy European Society for Organ Transplantation North Italian Transplant Program Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine The Society for Organ Sharing The Transplantation Society |
Select Recent Publications: |
Aoki, C.A., Rossaro, L., Ramsamooj, R., Brandhagen, D., Burritt, M. , and C.L. Bowlus. Liver hepcidin mRNA correlates with iron stores, but not inflammation, in patients with hepatitis C infection. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 39(1):71-74, 2005. Balan, V., D. Schwartz, G.Y. Wu, A.J. Muir, R. Ghalib, J. Jackson, E.B. Keeffe, L. Rossaro, A. Burnett, B.L. Goon, P.J. Bowers, and G.J. Leitz. Erythropoietic response to anemia in chronic hepatitis C patients receiving combination pegylated interferon/ribavirin. American Journal of Gastroenterology 100:299-307, 2005. Ichiki, Y., X.S. He, S. Shimoda, H. Ishibashi, E.B. Keeffe, L. Rossaro, M.E. Gershwin. T cell immunity in hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infection: implications for autoimmunity. Autoimmunity Reviews. 4:82-95, 2005. Aoki C.A., C.L. Bowlus, and L. Rossaro. An adult case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting as hepatic dysfunction. Digestive and Liver Disease. 37(3):206-210, 2005. Selmi, C., P. Invernizzi, E.B. Keefe, R.L. Coppel, M. Podda, L. Rossaro, A.A. Ansari, and M.E. Gershwin. Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 38(3):264-271, 2004. L. Rossaro, W. Lee, and the Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Acute liver failure: Early referral is the key. Practical Gastroenterology. 28(4):15-42, 2004. Schiødt F.V., T.J. Davern, A.O. Shakil, B.McGuire, G. Samuel, W.M.Lee and the Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Viral hepatitis-related acute liver failure. The American Journal of Gastroenterology 98(2):448-453, 2003. Vaquero J, J. Polson, C. Chung, I. Helenowski, F.V. Schiødt, J. Reisch, W.M. Lee, A.T. Blei, and the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Infection and the progression of hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver failure. Gastroenterology 125(3):755-764, 2003. Schiødt F.V., J. Balko, M. Schilsky, E.M. Harrison, A. Thornton, W.M. Lee and the Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Thrombopoetin in Acute Liver Failure. Hepatology 37:558-561, 2003. Abu-Mouch S., C. Selmi, G.D. Benson, T.P. Kenny, P. Invernizzi, M. Zuin, M. Podda, L. Rossaro and M.E. Gershwin. Geographic clusters of primary biliary cirrhosis. Clinical and Developmental Immunology 10(2-4):127-131, 2003. |
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