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Paul Suhocki, MD

Paul Suhocki, MD

Department / Division:
Radiology / Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Address:
DUMC 3808
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-2711

Office Telephone:
919-684-7359

Fax Telephone:
919-684-7148

Training:
  • MD, Georgetown University School of Medicine (Washington, DC), 1985

Residency:
  • Radiology, Georgetown University (Washington, DC), 1986-1990

Fellowship:
  • Vascular/Interventional Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1990-1991

Clinical Interests:
Vascular/interventional radiology, liver intervention

Research Interests:
My current interests in research include:
1. Improved anesthesia for liver intervention.
2. Thrombectomy device for dialysis fistulae and veins.
3. Improving diagnostic yield for difficult biliary duct biopsies.
4. Improving methods of small bowel and colonic arterial embolization.
5. Percutaneous intervention for pancreatic duct.
6. Prolonging the patency of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts.
7. Prolonging the patency of biliary stents.

Representative Publications:
Workman MJ, Suhocki PV, Meyers WC, Branch MS: Percutaneous Transhepatic Choledochocholedochostomy in the Management of the Postoperative Patient. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1998;9:359-362 (1998)

Suhocki PV, Trotter JF: Percutaneous hepatic vein reconstruction for Budd-Chiari syndrome. Am J Roentgenal 1998; 171:189-191 (1998)

Suhocki PV, Lawson JH, Harland RC, Smith TP: Curing a Consumption Coagulopathy with Transcatheter Emolization of a Visceral Artery Aneurysm. AM J Roentgenol 1996;166:982-984 (1996)

Suhocki PV, Lawson JH, Harland RC, Smith TP. Effecting a Cure for a Consumptive Coagulopathy with Transcatheter Embolization of a Visceral Artery Aneurysm. Accepted by AJR 10/3/95 for publication. (1996)

Sharara AI, Le TH, Suhocki PV, Jowell PS. Extrahepatic Biliary Obstruction Resulting from a Pancreatic Pseudoaneurysm. GI Endoscopy 1995; 42: 176-177. (1995)

Knelson MH, Husdon ER, Suhocki PV, Payne CS, Salle DS, Newman GE. Functional Restoration of Occluded Central Venous Catheters: New Interventional Techniques. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 1995; 6:623-627. (1995)

Branum G, Schmitt C, Baillie J, Suhocki P, Baker M, Davidoff A, Branch S, Chair R, Cucchiaro G, Murray E, Pappas T, Cotton P, Meyers WC. Management of Major Biliary Complications After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Annals of Surgery 1993: 217:532-541. (1993)

Suhocki PV, Meyers WC: Injury to aberrant bile ducts during cholecystectomy: a common cause of diagnostic error and treatment delay. Am J Roentgenol. (In Press).

Suhocki PV, Clavien PA: Percutaneous transhepatic creation of a choledochojejunostomy between an excluded aberrant bile duct and a Roux-en-Y limb. Am J Roentgenol. (In Press)

Ashdown BC, Suhocki PV, Jowell PS, Meyers WC: Non-Operative Management of a Common Bile Duct Injury Sustained During Cholecystectomy in a Morbidly Obese Patient. Accepted for publication in Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery.