James Jaggers, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Department:
Surgery

Division:
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Mailing Address:
DUMC 3474 Durham, NC 27710

Telephone:
919-681-2343

Office Telephone:
919-681-2343

Fax:
919-681-4907

Training:
MD, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1988

Fellowship:
Thoracic Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1993-1996
Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital (Colorado), 1993-1995

Residency:
General Surgery, Oregon Health & Science Center, 1988-1993

Clinical Interests:
Pediatric cardiac surgery with emphasis on neonatal repairs including Norwood procedures, arterial switch procedure, and pediatric cardiac transplants; adult congenital heart surgery and Ross procedures; neonatal cardiac repairs; surgery for Marfan's syndrome; aortic valve repair

Publications:
Wang A, Jaggers J, Ryan T.  Exercise echocardiographic comparison of pulmonary autograft and aortic homograft replacements for aortic valve disease in adults.  J Ht Valve Disease (in press) 2002.

Romp RL, Herlong JR, Landolfo CK, Sanders SP, Miller C, Ungerleider RM, Jaggers J. Outcome of unroofing procedure for repair of anomalous aortic origin of left or right coronary arery.  Ann Th Surg (in press) 2002.

Market ML, Sarzotti M, Ozaki DA, Sempowski GD, Rhein ME, Hale LP, LeDeist F, Alexieff MA, Li J, Haynes BF, Skinner MA, Rice HE, Mahaffey SM, Jaggers J, Stein LD, Mill MR.  Thymic transplantation in complete DiGeorge Syndrome:  Immunologic and safety evaluation in twelve patients.  Blood (in press) 2002.

Lawson DS, Walczak R,, Lawson AF, Shearer IR, Ing R, Schulman S, Kern F, Jaggers J. North American neonatal extracorporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)devises:2002 survey results.  JECT (submitted) 11/2002.

Davidson MJ, Jones JM, Emani SM, Wilson KH, Jaggers J, Koch WJ, Milano CA. Cardiac gene delivery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Circulation. 2001 Jul 10;104(2):131-3.

Milano CA, Shah AS, Van Trigt P, Jaggers J, Davis RD, Glower DD, Higginbotham MB, Russell SD, Landolfo KP. Evaluation of early postoperative results after bicaval versus standard cardiac transplantation and review of the literature. Am Heart J. 2000 Nov;140(5):717-21.

Lodge AJ, Jaggers J, Adams D, Rice HE. Vascular control for resection of suprahepatic intracaval Wilms' tumor: technical considerations. J Pediatr Surg. 2000 Dec;35(12):1836-7.

Jaggers J, Ungerleider RM. Cardiopulmonary bypass in infants and children. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2000;3():82-109.

Hilton AK, Jaggers J, Mathew J. An unexpected flow abnormality. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2000 Jun;14(3):347-9.

Darling E, Harris-Holloway S, Kern FH, Ungerleider R, Jaggers J, Lawson S, Shearer I. Impact of modifying priming components and fluid administration using miniaturized circuitry in neonatal cardiopulmonary bypass. Perfusion. 2000 Jan;15(1):3-12.

Chai PJ, Nassar R, Oakeley AE, Craig DM, Quick G Jr, Jaggers J, Sanders SP, Ungerleider RM, Anderson PA. Soluble complement receptor-1 protects heart, lung, and cardiac myofilament function from cardiopulmonary bypass damage. Circulation. 2000 Feb 8;101(5):541-6.