Alejandro Bribriesco, MD

Speciality

Thoracic Surgery

About

Alejandro C. Bribriesco, MD, is a thoracic surgeon in the Department of Thoracic Surgery in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. He sees patients at the Cleveland Clinic main campus.

Treatment & Services

• Abdominal Surgery
• Bronchial Biopsy
• Bronchoscopy
• Bronchus Surgery
• Cancer Center
• Chest Surgery
• Claggetts Window
• Decortication
• Diaphragm Surgery
• ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)

Specialty in Diseases & Conditions

• Advanced Lung Disease
• Cancer
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Collapsed Lung
• Collis Nissen/Nissen
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Diaphragm Hernia
• Emphysema
• Esophageal Cancer
• Esophageal Diseases

Education & Professional Highlights

Appointed
2017

Fellowship - Washington University
Thoracic Surgery
St. Louis, MO USA
2017

Residency - Washington University
General Surgery
St. Louis, MO USA
2015

Medical Education - University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA USA
2008

Undergraduate - Yale University
New Haven, CT USA
2004

Hospital Affiliations

Cleveland ClinicCleveland, Ohio

Certifications & Licensure

American Board of Surgery

Certified in Surgery

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Certified in Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

MO State Medical License

Active through 2018

OH State Medical License

Active through 2023

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

• Fellow (FACS)American College of Surgeons

Professional Memberships

• Association for Academic Surgery - AAS
  Member
• American College of Surgeons - ACS
  Member
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons - STS
  Candidate Member
• Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
  Member

Publications

Know Your Enemy-Interstitial Lung Disease Classification and Outcomes After Lung Cancer Surgery.

Alejandro Bribriesco

Shift in the Future of Cardiothoracic Surgery Applications: Holistic or Too Optimistic?

Ariadna Marrero, Lin Chen, Tara Karamlou, Alejandro Bribriesco

Successful treatment of pulmonary mucormycosis (in a post-partum patient with COVID-19 ARDS requiring extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation using salvage therapy.

Justin Hanks, Shinya Unai, Alejandro Bribriesco, Steven Insler, Eileen Yu, Jona Banzon, Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, Ahmad Adi, Haytham Elgharably, James Yun, Sudhir Krishnan

A Phase 1 Study of Concurrent Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab Plus Chemoradiation Followed by Consolidation Pembrolizumab in Patients With Resectable Stage IIIA NSCLC.

Christopher A Lemmon, Gregory M M Videtic, Sudish Murthy, Kevin L Stephans, Marc Shapiro, Usman Ahmad, Daniel Raymond, Vamsidhar Velcheti, Alejandro Bribriesco, Xuefei Jia, James Stevenson, Nathan A Pennell

Select octogenarians with stage IIIa non-small cell lung cancer can benefit from trimodality therapy.

Andrew Tang, Andrew Feczko, Sudish C Murthy, Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco, Dean Schraufnagel, Usman Ahmad, Daniel P Raymond, Monisha Sudarshan

Clinical significance of donor lung weight at procurement and during ex vivo lung perfusion.

Toshihiro Okamoto, Kamal S Ayyat, Ichiro Sakanoue, Hiromichi Niikawa, Sayf A Said, Usman Ahmad, Shinya Unai, Alejandro Bribriesco, Haytham Elgharably, Marie M Budev, James J Yun, Kenneth R McCurry

Commentary: Back(ward) to the future-novel technique of inverted left lung-right chest lung transplant in rats.

Lin Chen, Alejandro C Bribriesco

An institution-wide tracheostomy rounding team: Initial caregiver perceptions.

Brooke A Quinton, William S Tierney, Paul C Bryson, Alejandro Bribriesco, Colin T Gillespie, Brandon D Hopkins

How Much Delay Matters? How Time to Treatment Impacts Overall Survival in Early Stage Lung Cancer.

Andrew Tang, Usman Ahmad, Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco, Monisha Sudarshan, Jesse Rappaport, Alok A. Khorana, Eugene H. Blackstone, Sudish C. Murthy, Daniel P. Raymond

Comment on State of Diversity in Surgery: How We Move Forward

Paola A. Barrios, Lin Chen, Alejandro Bribriesco, Tara Karamlou

Diversity and Inclusion in the Virtual Era.

Lin Chen, Tara Karamlou, Alejandro Bribriesco

Commentary: iPad or Ballpoint Pen? Focusing on People in Modern Patient Education.

Monisha Sudarshan, Alejandro Bribriesco

The Generation of Collaboration.

Lin Chen, Samantha Xu, Alejandro Bribriesco

Commentary: Winning the battle for local control without losing war for survival against malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Alejandro Bribriesco

A case of vaping-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring extracorporeal life support:

Sudhir Krishnan, Guramrinder Singh Thind, Mona H. Soliman, Leslie Tolle, Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, Ahmad Adi, Balaram Anandamurthy, Alejandro Bribriesco, James Yun

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Team preparation and approach to tracheostomy.

Alejandro Bribriesco, Monisha Sudarshan, Colin T. Gillespie, Paul C. Bryson, Brandon Hopkins, Donna Tanner, Siva Raja, Usman Ahmad, Daniel P. Raymond, Sudish C. Murthy

Pleural space management after lung transplant: Early and late outcomes of pleural decortication.

Jesse Rappaport, Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Andrew Tang, Lucy Thuita, Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco, Monisha Sudarshan, Daniel P. Raymond, Marie Budev, Charles Lane, Atul C. Mehta, Kenneth R. McCurry, Sudish C. Murthy, Eugene H. Blackstone, Usman Ahmad

Evolution of Recipient Characteristics Over 3 Decades and Impact on Survival After Lung Transplantation.

Haytham Elgharably, Kamal S. Ayyat, Toshihiro Okamoto, Lucy Thuita, Shinya Unai, Alejandro Bribriesco, James Yun, Douglas R. Johnston, Usman Ahmad, Sudish C. Murthy, Marie Budev, Gösta B. Pettersson, Kenneth R. McCurry

Pulmonary Pathology of COVID-19 Following 8 Weeks to 4 Months of Severe Disease: A Report of Three Cases, Including One With Bilateral Lung Transplantation.

Scott W Aesif, Alejandro Bribriesco, Ruchi Yadav, Summer L Nugent, Dmitriy Zubkus, Carmela D. Tan, Atul C. Mehta, Sanjay Mukhopadhyay

Commentary: Bilobar lung torsion-Time is parenchyma in race to treatment.

Lin Chen, Jesse Rappaport, Alejandro Bribriesco

Looking beyond the eyeball test: A novel vitality index to predict recovery after esophagectomy.

Andrew Tang, Usman Ahmad, Siva Raja, Jesse Rappaport, Daniel P. Raymond, Monisha Sudarshan, Alejandro Bribriesco, Eugene H. Blackstone, Sudish C. Murthy

Commentary: Intuitive is important: Opioid-sparing enhanced recovery after Thoracic surgery is not for everyone.

Andrew F Feczko, Alejandro C Bribriesco

Natural History of Pleural Complications After Lung Transplantation

Andrew Tang, Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Lucy Thuita, Jesse Rappaport, Alejandro Bribriesco, Kenneth R. McCurry, James Yun, Shinya Unai, Marie Budev, Sudish C. Murthy, Eugene H. Blackstone, Usman Ahmad

Urgently listed lung transplant patients have outcomes similar to those of electively listed patients.

Andrew Tang, Lucy Thuita, Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Jesse Rappaport, Eugene H. Blackstone, Kenneth R. McCurry, Usman Ahmad, Michael Z. Tong, Alejandro Bribriesco, Douglas R. Johnston, Shinya Unai, James Yun, Ahmad Zeeshan, Sudish C. Murthy, Marie Budev

Signet Ring Cell Histology Confers Worse Overall Survival in Treated Esophageal Adenocarcinoma.

Andrew Tang, Jesse Rappaport, Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco, Monisha Sudarshan, Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Daniel P. Raymond, Sudish C. Murthy, Usman Ahmad

Commentary: BEEP marks the spot: Novel audiovisual system for localization of lung nodules with radiofrequency identification tagging.

Alejandro Bribriesco

Continuous infusion chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and FDG-PET are feasible during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Seth J. Rotz, Francisco A. Almeida, Shlomo A. Koyfman, Sudhir Krishnan, Guramrinder Singh Thind, William T. Phillips, James Yun, Anthony S. Zembillas, Mark Zahniser, Alejandro Bribriesco

Surgical Management of Chest Wall Sarcoma.

Nathan W. Mesko, Alejandro Bribriesco, Daniel P. Raymond

Robotic Approach Offers Similar Nodal Upstaging to Open Lobectomy for Clinical Stage I Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Andrew Tang, Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco, Daniel P. Raymond, Monisha Sudarshan, Sudish C. Murthy, Usman Ahmad

Commentary: C-Reactive Protein - At the Crossroads of Cancer and Inflammation.

Alejandro Bribriesco

Utilization of Marginal Lung Donors With Low PaO2/FiO2 Ratio and High Body Mass Index.

Toshihiro Okamoto, Mohamed Omara, Usman Ahmad, James Yun, Alejandro Bribriesco, Shinya Unai, Ahmad Zeeshan, Douglas R. Johnston, Hiromichi Niikawa, Eugene H. Blackstone, Marie Budev, Kenneth R. McCurry

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a patient with fulminant pulmonary embolism refractory to intraarrest thrombolysis

Guramrinder Singh Thind, Tarik Hanane, Alejandro Bribriesco, James Yun, Balaram Anandamurthy, Mani Latifi, Shinya Unai, Sudhir Krishnan

Correction to: Largely Unchanged Annual Incidence and Overall Survival of Pleural Mesothelioma in the USA.

Hari B. Keshava, Andrew Tang, Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Siva Raja, Daniel P. Raymond, Alejandro Bribriesco, James P. Stevenson, Sudish C. Murthy, Usman Ahmad

Largely Unchanged Annual Incidence and Overall Survival of Pleural Mesothelioma in the USA

Hari B. Keshava, Andrew Tang, Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Siva Raja, Daniel P. Raymond, Alejandro Bribriesco, James P. Stevenson, Sudish C. Murthy, Usman Ahmad

Patterns of Recurrence and Overall Survival in Incidental Lung Cancer in Explanted Lungs.

Usman Ahmad, Ali H. Hakim, Andrew Tang, Michael Z. Tong, Alejandro Bribriesco, Marie Budev, Atul C. Mehta, Olufemi Akindipe, Charles Lane, Kenneth R. McCurry, Nathan A. Pennell, Carol Farver, Sudish C. Murthy

Beauty and the beast: Endoscopic resection of superficial esophageal cancer

Dean P. Schraufnagel, Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco

Cricothyroid Approach for Emergency Access to the Airway.

Alejandro Bribriesco, G. Alexander Patterson

Management of Postpneumonectomy Bronchopleural Fistula: From Thoracoplasty to Transsternal Closure.

Alejandro Bribriesco, G. Alexander Patterson

Needle in a Haystack: Post-thymectomy New-onset Myasthenia Gravis.

Andrew Tang, Alejandro Bribriesco, Usman Ahmad

Atlas is not alone: sharing the burden of clinical challenge.

Alejandro Bribriesco, Siva Raja, Usman Ahmad

Is less really more? Endoscopic mucosal resection versus esophagectomy for submucosal esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Siva Raja, Alejandro Bribriesco, Madhu R. Sanaka

To cut or not to cut: When is the pill mightier than the scalpel?

Alejandro Bribriesco, Usman Ahmad, Siva Raja

Devices for ex vivo heart and lung perfusion

Dean P. Schraufnagel, Robert J. Steffen, Patrick R. Vargo, Tamer Attia, Haytham Elgharably, Saad M. Hasan, Alejandro Bribriesco, Per Wierup

The price of innovation: a primer on high risk, high reward surgery.

Alejandro Bribriesco, Usman Ahmad, Siva Raja

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery consensus guidelines for the management of empyema.

K. Robert Shen, Alejandro Bribriesco, Traves D. Crabtree, Chad Denlinger, Joshua C. Eby, Patrick W. Eiken, David R. Jones, Shaf Keshavjee, Fabien Maldonado, Subroto Paul, Benjamin D. Kozower

Cardiothoracic Organ Procurement for Transplantation: How I Teach It.

Puja Kachroo, Jessica Y. Rove, Alejandro Bribriesco, Sharven Taghavi, Christina C. Pasque, Michael K. Pasque

DAP12 Expression in Lung Macrophages Mediates Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Promoting Neutrophil Extravasation

Jessica H. Spahn, Wenjun Li, Alejandro Bribriesco, Jie Liu, Hua Shen, Aida Ibricevic, Jie Hong Pan, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer, Steven L. Brody, Daniel R. Goldstein, Alexander S. Krupnick, Andrew E. Gelman, Mark J. Miller, Daniel Kreisel

Surgical technique for lung retransplantation in the mouse.

Wenjun Li, Daniel R. Goldstein, Alejandro Bribriesco, Ruben G. Nava, Jessica H. Spahn, Xingan Wang, Andrew E. Gelman, Alexander S. Krupnick, Daniel Kreisel

Experimental models of lung transplantation

Alejandro Bribriesco, Wenjun Li, Ruben G. Nava, Jessica H. Spahn, Daniel Kreisel

Intravital 2-photon imaging of leukocyte trafficking in beating heart

Wenjun Li, Ruben G. Nava, Alejandro Bribriesco, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer, Jessica H. Spahn, Andrew E. Gelman, Alexander S. Krupnick, Mark J. Miller, Daniel Kreisel

Lung transplant acceptance is facilitated by early events in the graft and is associated with lymphoid neogenesis

Wenjun Li, Alejandro Bribriesco, Ruben G. Nava, Alexander A. Brescia, Aida Ibricevic, Jessica H. Spahn, Steven L. Brody, Jon Ritter, Andrew E. Gelman, Alexander S. Krupnick, Mark J. Miller, Daniel Kreisel

Research & Publications

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