Kent C. Sasse, MD

Reported credentials

• Surgery Source ↗
• Colon & Rectal Surgery Source ↗
• Surgery, Surgical Critical Care Source ↗

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Reported affiliations

• K SASSE SURGICAL ASSOCIATES, PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION Source ↗

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Selected publications

• Mechanisms responsible for pacemaker activity in human gastric muscles. · 2026 Source ↗
• Arterial Myocyte Pannexin 1 Channel Controls Vascular Reactivity in Diabetic Hyperglycemia. · 2025 Source ↗
• Sacral Neuromodulation Therapy for Urinary and Fecal Incontinence in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: Report of 6 Cases and Literature Review. · 2023 Source ↗
• Mfge8 is expressed by pericytes in gastric antrum submucosa from patients with obesity. · 2023 Source ↗
• Spatiotemporal Control of Vascular Ca_V1.2 by α1_C S1928 Phosphorylation. · 2022 Source ↗
• Metalloendopeptidase ADAM-like Decysin 1 (ADAMDEC1) in Colonic Subepithelial PDGFRα⁺ Cells Is a New Marker for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. · 2022 Source ↗
• Changes in interstitial cells and gastric excitability in a mouse model of sleeve gastrectomy. · 2022 Source ↗
• The identification of neuronal control pathways supplying effector tissues in the stomach. · 2020 Source ↗
• AKAP5 complex facilitates purinergic modulation of vascular L-type Ca²⁺ channel Ca_V1.2. · 2020 Source ↗
• The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Postoperative Bariatric Surgery Weight Loss Outcomes. · 2020 Source ↗
• Large Hiatal Hernia Repair with Urinary Bladder Matrix Graft Reinforcement and Concomitant Sleeve Gastrectomy. · 2019 Source ↗
• A G_s-coupled purinergic receptor boosts Ca²⁺ influx and vascular contractility during diabetic hyperglycemia. · 2019 Source ↗
• Relationships of endocrine cells to each other and to other cell types in the human gastric fundus and corpus. · 2019 Source ↗
• Contractile Protein Expression and Phosphorylation and Contractility of Gastric Smooth Muscles from Obese Patients and Patients with Obesity and Diabetes. · 2018 Source ↗
• Transcriptome analysis of PDGFRα+ cells identifies T-type Ca2+ channel CACNA1G as a new pathological marker for PDGFRα+ cell hyperplasia. · 2017 Source ↗
• DNA methylation, through DNMT1, has an essential role in the development of gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells and disease. · 2018 Source ↗
• Impaired BK_Ca channel function in native vascular smooth muscle from humans with type 2 diabetes. · 2017 Source ↗
• Ser1928 phosphorylation by PKA stimulates the L-type Ca2+ channel CaV1.2 and vasoconstriction during acute hyperglycemia and diabetes. · 2017 Source ↗
• Loss of nitric oxide-mediated inhibition of purine neurotransmitter release in the colon in the absence of interstitial cells of Cajal. · 2017 Source ↗
• Technical Details of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Leading to Lowered Leak Rate: Discussion of 1070 Consecutive Cases. · 2017 Source ↗
• Laparoscopic Rectopexy with Urinary Bladder Xenograft Reinforcement. · 2017 Source ↗
• Hiatal Hernia Repair with Novel Biological Graft Reinforcement. · 2016 Source ↗
• Uridine adenosine tetraphosphate is a novel neurogenic P2Y1 receptor activator in the gut. · 2014 Source ↗
• Accelerated healing of complex open pilonidal wounds using MatriStem extracellular matrix xenograft: nine cases. · 2013 Source ↗
• Long-term durability and comfort of laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. · 2012 Source ↗
• Outpatient weight loss surgery: initiating a gastric bypass and gastric banding ambulatory weight loss surgery center. · 2009 Source ↗
• Seven cases of gastric perforation in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients: what lessons can we learn? · 2008 Source ↗

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Professional identifier

NPI: 1538104443