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Jürgen Weitz

Jürgen Weitz

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34589
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Overview

Jürgen Weitz is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in the field of surgery. Their research portfolio encompasses a wide range of topics related to pancreatic and hepatic oncology, gastrointestinal diseases, and surgical techniques.

Their research spans the domain of medicine, with a primary focus on subfields including surgery, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, biomedical engineering, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Key areas of study in Jürgen Weitz's work include:

  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Some of the most recent publications attributed to Jürgen Weitz include:

  • "A Simple Classification of Pancreatic Duct Size and Texture Predicts Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula" (2021), published in Annals of Surgery
  • "Multi-omics profiling of living human pancreatic islet donors reveals heterogeneous beta cell trajectories towards type 2 diabetes" (2021), published in Nature Metabolism
  • "Dysfunction of Persisting β Cells Is a Key Feature of Early Type 2 Diabetes Pathogenesis" (2020), published in Cell Reports
  • "Open versus minimally invasive total gastrectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: results of a European randomized trial" (2020), published in Gastric Cancer
  • "Tumor-infiltrating plasmacytoid dendritic cells are associated with survival in human colon cancer" (2021), published in Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Jürgen Weitz has frequently published in several prominent venues, including:

  • Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
  • Surgical Endoscopy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancers

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors such as:

  • Marius Distler
  • Florian Oehme
  • Stefanie Speidel
  • Thilo Welsch
  • Christoph Kahlert

Best Publications

  • Posthepatectomy liver failure: A definition and grading by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery (ISGLS)

    Nuh N. Rahbari;O. James Garden;Robert Padbury;Mark Brooke-Smith

  • Bile leakage after hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery: a definition and grading of severity by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery.

    Moritz Koch;O. James Garden;Robert Padbury;Nuh N. Rahbari

  • Definition and grading of anastomotic leakage following anterior resection of the rectum: a proposal by the International Study Group of Rectal Cancer.

    Nuh N. Rahbari;Jürgen Weitz;Werner Hohenberger;Richard J. Heald

  • Tumour response and secondary resectability of colorectal liver metastases following neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cetuximab: the CELIM randomised phase 2 trial.

    Gunnar Folprecht;Thomas Gruenberger;Wolf O Bechstein;Hans-Rudolf Raab

  • Low-dose irradiation programs macrophage differentiation to an iNOS⁺/M1 phenotype that orchestrates effective T cell immunotherapy.

    Felix Klug;Hridayesh Prakash;Hridayesh Prakash;Hridayesh Prakash;Peter E. Huber;Tobias Seibel

  • Primary malignant hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: a comprehensive review of the literature with emphasis on the surgical therapy.

    Arianeb Mehrabi;Arash Kashfi;Hamidreza Fonouni;Peter Schemmer

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma: current management and perspectives for the future.

    Nuh N. Rahbari;Arianeb Mehrabi;Nathan M. Mollberg;Sascha A. Müller

  • Arterial Resection During Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Nathan Mollberg;Nuh N. Rahbari;Moritz Koch;Werner Hartwig

  • Post-hepatectomy haemorrhage: a definition and grading by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery (ISGLS)

    Nuh N. Rahbari;O. James Garden;Robert Padbury;Guy Maddern

  • Localized Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Improved Knowledge With Unchanged Survival Over Time

    Jürgen Weitz;Christina R. Antonescu;Murray F. Brennan

  • Meta‐analysis of standard, restrictive and supplemental fluid administration in colorectal surgery

    N N Rahbari;J B Zimmermann;T Schmidt;M Koch

  • Randomized Phase II Trial of Chemoradiotherapy Plus Induction or Consolidation Chemotherapy as Total Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: CAO/ARO/AIO-12

    Emmanouil Fokas;Michael Allgäuer;Bülent Polat;Gunther Klautke

  • Meta-analysis Shows That Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells Indicates Poor Prognosis in Patients With Colorectal Cancer

    Nuh N. Rahbari;Maximilian Aigner;Kristian Thorlund;Nathan Mollberg

  • Interleukin-3 amplifies acute inflammation and is a potential therapeutic target in sepsis

    Georg F. Weber;Georg F. Weber;Benjamin G. Chousterman;Shun He;Ashley M. Fenn

  • Distinct types of tumor-initiating cells form human colon cancer tumors and metastases

    Sebastian M. Dieter;Claudia R. Ball;Christopher M. Hoffmann;Ali Nowrouzi

  • Dissemination of tumor cells in patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer.

    J Weitz;P Kienle;J Lacroix;F Willeke

  • Natural killer cells are scarce in colorectal carcinoma tissue despite high levels of chemokines and cytokines.

    Niels Halama;Monika Braun;Christoph Kahlert;Anna Spille

  • A Complex of EpCAM, Claudin-7, CD44 Variant Isoforms, and Tetraspanins Promotes Colorectal Cancer Progression

    Sebastian Kuhn;Moritz Koch;Tobias Nübel;Markus Ladwein

  • Sepsis and major abdominal surgery lead to flaking of the endothelial glycocalix.

    Jochen Steppan;Stefan Hofer;Benjamin Funke;Thorsten Brenner

  • The "artery first" approach for resection of pancreatic head cancer.

    Jürgen Weitz;Nuh Rahbari;Moritz Koch;Markus W. Büchler

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus W. Büchler
Markus W. Büchler Champalimaud Foundation
Stefanie Speidel
Stefanie Speidel National Center for Tumor Diseases
Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz
Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz Heidelberg University
Philipp Beckhove
Philipp Beckhove German Cancer Research Center
Christian Herfarth
Christian Herfarth Heidelberg University
Axel Benner
Axel Benner German Cancer Research Center
Jens Werner
Jens Werner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Beat P. Müller-Stich
Beat P. Müller-Stich Heidelberg University
Christoph Engel
Christoph Engel Leipzig University

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