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 | John Christopher Eagon M.D.
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery | Board Certification
General Surgery--Certified | Specialty Areas
Surgical treatment of benign and malignant gastrointestinal disease; surgical treatment of obesity; laparoscopic approaches to obesity, gastroesophageal reflux, biliary tract disease and abdominal hernias; surgical treatment of gastrointestinal motility disorders; and benign and malignant disorders of the bile ducts, gallbladder, liver and stomach. | Medical School
Harvard Medical School, 1988 | Postdoctoral Education
Residency - General Surgery, Washington University, 1988-1995
Fellowship - Digestive Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 1990-1992
Fellowship - Medical Informatics, University of Utah, 1995-1997 | Patients Seen At
Center for Advanced Medicine
GI Center
4921 Parkview Place, Suite C, Floor 8
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 454-8877
Fax: (314) 454-5396
Barnes West County Hospital
Physician’s Office Building #1
Suite #124
1040 North Mason Rd.
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
(314) 454-8877
Fax: (314) 454-5396
| Patient Appointments
(314) 454-8877 | Research Interest
Laparoscopic approaches to surgical treatment of obesity | | Outcomes analysis in hepatobiliary and minimally invasive surgery | | Evaluating relationship between clinical research vocabulary and controlled medical vocabularies | | Alterations in fat metabolism and NAFLD induced by surgical weight loss | | Tissue oxygenation in the obese surgical patient | Selected or Recent Publications
Croce MA, Eagon JC, LaRiviere LL, Korenblat KM, Klein S, Finck BN. Hepatic lipin 1beta expression is diminished in insulin-resistant obese subjects and is reactivated by marked weight loss. Diabetes. 2007;56(9):2395-2399. Epub 2007
Fontana L, Eagon JC, Trujillo ME, Scherer PE, Klein S. Visceral fat adipokine secretion is associated with systemic inflammation in obese humans. Diabetes. 2007 Feb 7; [Epub ahead of print] Link to medical news release.
Pierce RA, Spitler JA, Hawkins WG, Strasberg SM, Linehan DC, Halpin VJ, Eagon JC, Brunt LM, Frisella MM, Matthews BD. Outcomes analysis of laparoscopic resection of pancreatic neoplasms. Surgical Endoscopy. 2006 Dec 16; [Epub ahead of print]
Gangopadhyay N, Perrone JM, Soper NJ, Matthews BD, Eagon JC, Klingensmith ME, Frisella MM, Brunt LM. Outcomes of laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair in elderly and high-risk patients. Surgery. 2006 Oct;140(4):491-498; discussion 498-499. Epub 2006 Sep 6
Meyerrose TE, De Ugarte DA, Hofling AA, Herrbrich PE, Cordonnier TD, Shultz LD, Eagon JC, Wirthlin L, Sands MS, Hedrick MA, Nolta JA. In vivo distribution of human adipose-derived MSC. stem cells. 2006 Sep 7; [Epub ahead of print]
Hager H, Reddy D, Mandadi G, Pulley D, Eagon JC, Sessler DI, Kurz A. Hypercapnia improves tissue oxygenation in morbidly obese surgical patients. Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2006;103(3):677-81.
Klein S, Mittendorfer B, Eagon JC, Patterson B, Grant L, Feirt N, Seki E, Brenner D, Korenblat K, McCrea J. Gastric bypass surgery improves metabolic and hepatic abnormalities associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology. 2006;130(6):1564-1572.
Perrone JM, Soper NJ, Eagon JC, Klingensmith ME, Aft RL, Frisella MM, Brunt LM. Perioperative outcomes and complications of laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. Surgery. 2005;138:708-716.
Rivera RE, Eagon JC, Soper NJ, Klingensmith ME, Brunt LM. Experience with laparoscopic gastric resection: results and outcomes for 37 cases. Surgical Endoscopy. 2005;19(12):1622-1626. Epub 2005 Oct 12.
Kabon B, Nagele A, Reddy D, Eagon C, Fleshman JW, Sessler DI, Kurz A. Obesity decreases perioperative tissue oxygenation. Anesthesiology. 2004;100(2):274-280.
Vollmer CM, Drebin JA, Middleton WD, Teefey SA, Linehan DC, Soper NJ, Eagon CJ, Strasberg SM. Utility of staging laparoscopy in subsets of peripancreatic and biliary malignancies. Annals of Surgery. 2002;235(1):1-7.
Eagon JC. Nationwide Whipple mortality remains high. ACS Surgical Forum. 2001.
Strasberg SM, Eagon CJ, Drebin JA. The "hidden cystic duct" syndrome and the infundibular technique of laparoscopic cholecystectomy--the danger of the false infundibulum. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2000;191(6):661-667. | Selected or Recent Chapters
Eagon JC. Small Bowel Obstruction. In: Rosenthal R, Zenilman M, Katlic (eds.). Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
Peplinski GR, Eagon JC. Stomach. In: Doherty G, Meko J, Olson J, Peplinski G, Worrall N (eds.). The Washington Manual of Surgery. 2nd edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1999.
Peplinski GR, Eagon JC. Special Problems in Gastroenterology. In: Doherty G, Meko J, Olson J, Peplinski G, Worrall N (eds.). The Washington Manual of Surgery. 2nd edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1999. | Academic Office
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Section of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery
Campus Box 8109, 660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 454-8877 |
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