10 Facts About Gaetano Ciancio

Gaetano Ciancio is an Italian American surgeon at the University of Miami who specializes in kidney transplant.

Gaetano Ciancio received his Doctor of Medicine from Central University of Venezuela, then completed his residency at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, followed by completing a fellowship in multiorgan transplant surgery.

Gaetano Ciancio developed techniques for the surgical resection of large kidney tumors.

Gaetano Ciancio's results demonstrated that by performing a liver mobilization, urological oncologists could avoid a thoracic incision in many patients.

Gaetano Ciancio helped develop and popularize alternative immunosuppression regimens which successfully lowered the dose of immunosuppressants without increasing organ rejection.

Gaetano Ciancio has popularized several techniques for dealing with anatomical variations, including the usage of the inferior epigastric artery to anastomose to a small upper-pole artery.

Additionally, Gaetano Ciancio has been part of the Miami Transplant Team that developed the bladder patch technique, where for various indications the kidney together with the ureter and some amount of donor bladder are transplanted en-bloc.

Together with George Burke, Gaetano Ciancio has made contributions to the field of pancreas transplantations both regarding management of surgical complications and immunosuppression strategies, including publishing a technique for thrombectomy for complete venous thrombosis of the transplanted pancreas.

Gaetano Ciancio was knighted in Italy by Sergio Mattarella and is a member of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Gaetano Ciancio is an author or co-author of two books, 30 book chapters, and over 388 peer-reviewed articles published in medical journals for topics involving the field of solid organ transplantation and urologic oncology.