William Pfaff

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

William Pfaff is a scholar working on Surgery, Transplantation and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, William Pfaff has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Surgery, 28 papers in Transplantation and 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in William Pfaff's work include Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (25 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (15 papers) and Organ Donation and Transplantation (8 papers). William Pfaff is often cited by papers focused on Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (25 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (15 papers) and Organ Donation and Transplantation (8 papers). William Pfaff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and Germany. William Pfaff's co-authors include Rodney R. Million, Richard J. Howard, Juan C. Scornik, William M. Mendenhall, Pamela R. Patton, Kirby I. Bland, Alan Reed, Edward M. Copeland, Mathew E. Brunson and Robert S. Fennell and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

William Pfaff

67 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Patterns of recurrence following surgery alone for adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum

1976 348 citations Rodney R. Million, William Pfaff et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	El destino manifiesto de EEUU: ideología y política exterior 2007 ·Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) ·William Pfaff	0
2	Choque de valores culturales 2006 ·Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) ·William Pfaff	0
3	The American Mission 2004 ·New York review of books/The New York review of books ·William Pfaff	1
4	El 11-S y el orden mundial 2002 ·Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) ·William Pfaff	0
5	El resurgimiento del "destino manifiesto" 2002 ·Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) ·William Pfaff	0
6	Parathyroidectomy in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure 1998 ·The American Journal of Surgery ·Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff	4
7	DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION1 1998 ·Transplantation ·William Pfaff, Richard J. Howard, Pamela R. Patton, Val R. Adams, Charles B. Rosen, Alan Reed	112
8	THE CROSSMATCH IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION 1994 ·Transplantation ·Juan C. Scornik, Mathew E. Brunson, (unknown), Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff	7
9	THE CROSSMATCH IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION 1994 ·Transplantation ·Juan C. Scornik, Mathew E. Brunson, (unknown), Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff	54
10	Increased incidence of rejection in patients with delayed graft function 1994 ·Clinical Transplantation ·Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff, Mathew E. Brunson, Juan C. Scornik, Eleanor L. Ramos, (unknown), Robert S. Fennell, Byron P. Croker	56
11	ALLOIMMUNIZATION, MEMORY, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF CROSSMATCH RESULTS FOR RENAL TRANSPLANTATION 1992 ·Transplantation ·Juan C. Scornik, Mathew E. Brunson, Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff	37
12	Does Preoperative Radiation Therapy Enhance the Probability of Local Control and Survival in High-risk Distal Rectal Cancer? 1992 ·Annals of Surgery ·William M. Mendenhall, Kirby I. Bland, Edward M. Copeland, (unknown), William Pfaff, Wiley W. Souba, Rodney R. Million	83
13	Evaluation of immunosuppression as a treatment for pre‐sensitization in renal transplant candidates 1991 ·Clinical Transplantation ·Juan C. Scornik, (unknown), Robert S. Fennell, (unknown), William Pfaff	1
14	Kidney transplantation in older patients 1990 ·Clinical Transplantation ·Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff, Juan C. Scornik, Daniel R. Salomon, (unknown), (unknown)	22
15	Growth in children following kidney transplantation 1990 ·Pediatric Nephrology ·Robert S. Fennell, (unknown), Abdollah Iravani, R. Dixon Walker, William Pfaff, Richard J. Howard, (unknown), (unknown), George A. Richard	13
16	INCIDENTAL AND PURPOSEFUL RANDOM DONOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION. Sensitization and Transplantation 1989 ·Transplantation ·William Pfaff, Richard J. Howard, Juan C. Scornik, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John C. Peterson, Daniel R. Salomon, Pamela R. Patton	18
17	PREVENTION OF TRANSFUSION-INDUCED BROAD SENSITIZATION IN RENAL TRANSPLANT CANDIDATES 1989 ·Transplantation ·Juan C. Scornik, Daniel R. Salomon, Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff	12
18	EVALUATION OF ANTIBODY SYNTHESIS IN BROADLY SENSITIZED PATIENTS1 1988 ·Transplantation ·Juan C. Scornik, Daniel R. Salomon, Richard J. Howard, William Pfaff	7
19	Loss of Corticomedullary Demarcation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Index of Biopsy-Proven Acute Renal Transplant Dysfunction 1988 ·American Journal of Kidney Diseases ·(unknown), Daniel R. Salomon, J Kaude, Charles S. Wingo, John C. Peterson, Byron P. Croker, Robert D. Thompson, William Pfaff, Richard J. Howard, C. Craig Tisher	10
20	LATE RESULTS OF RENAL TRANSPLANTATION 1988 ·Transplantation ·J. D. Wynn, William Pfaff, Pamela R. Patton, (unknown), Daniel R. Salomon, Robert S. Fennell, (unknown), Richard J. Howard	12

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