Specialty Areas
- Acute and Critical Care Surgery
Common Procedures & Conditions Treated
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Robotic surgery
- Surgical critical care
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery (ABS)
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
Laparoscopic Surgery
Endoscopic Surgery
Degrees
2017 Medical Degree
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), Baltimore, MD
Residency
2023 General Surgery Residency
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
Fellowship
2024 Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Professional Memberships
American College of Surgeons
Gold Humanism Honor Society
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Awards and Honors
2020, 2021 Penn State College of Medicine Exceptional Teacher Recognition
2020 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Looking to the Future Scholarship Recipient
2020 Certificate of Outstanding Achievement in Foundations of Research and Critical Thinking, UMSOM
2020 First Place, Poster Presentation in 37th Annual Medical Student Research Day, UMSOM
2020 Meyerhoff Scholarship Program 21st Class, UMBC
2020 National Merit Scholarship
Areas of Research Interest
Heart failure therapeutics
Vascular anomalies
Heart transplantation
Lung transplantation
Ventricular assist device
Molecular immunology
Publications
Hamaoka T, Leuenberger U, Kronfli A, Gao Z, Blaha C, Luck J, Dalton P, Sinoway L, Cui J. The effect of cyclooxygenase inhibition on peripheral venous distension reflex in healthy humans. Hypertension. 2023 May;80(5):1102-1109.
Shah A, Pasrija C, Kronfli A, Essien EO, Zhou Y, Brigante F, Bittle G, Menaker J, Herr D, Mazzeffi MA, Deatrick KB, Kon ZN. A Comparison of Anticoagulation Strategies in Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. ASAIO. 2022 May 1;68(5):738-743.
Olecki E, Kronfli AP, Stahl K, King S, Razavi N, Koltun W. Stoma-less Ileal-Pouch-Anal-Anastamosis is Not Associated with Increased Anastamotic Leak Rate or Long-Term Pouch Failure in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 2022 Nov 1;65(11):1342-1350
Kronfli A, Atnip RG, Aziz F. Carotid Artery Duplex Velocity Criteria May Be Equivocal After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. J Vasc Surg. 2021 May 3:S0741-5214(21)00681-9.
Kronfli AP, McLaughlin CJ, Moroco AE, Grant CG. Lymphatic malformations: a 20-year single institution experience. Pediatr Surg Int. 2021 Jun;37(6):783-790.
Kronfli AP, Lehman E, Yamane K, Roberts SM, Cios TJ. Dexmedetomidine Is an Equal Cost Alternative to Propofol in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, With Equivalent In-Hospital and 30-Day Outcomes. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2021 Feb;35(2):439-445.
Kronfli A, Boukerche F, Medina D, et al. Immediate Post-Operative Hyperglycemia After Peripheral Arterial Bypass is Associated with Short-Term and Long-Term Poor Outcomes. J Vasc Surg. 2021 Apr;73(4):1350-1360.
Kronfli AP, Bixby CE, Brehm C, Soleimani B. Late cardiac tamponade four years following total artificial heart implant. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Sep 25:S0003-4975(20)31530-7.
Pasrija C, Shah A, George P, Kronfli A, et al. Triage and optimization: A new paradigm in the treatment of massive pulmonary embolism. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2018;156:672-681.
Pasrija C, Kronfli A, George P, et al. Utilization of Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Massive Pulmonary Embolism. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2018 Feb;105(2):498-504
Pasrija C, Kronfli A, Rouse M, et al. Outcomes after surgical pulmonary embolectomy for acute submassive and massive pulmonary embolism: A single-center experience. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2018 Mar;155(3):1095-1106.e2.
Zhang T, Azimzadeh AM, Sun W… Kronfli A, et al. Selective CD28 inhibition modulates alloimmunity and cardiac allograft vasculopathy in anti-CD154-treated monkeys. Transplantation. 2018;102:e90-e100.
O’Neill NA, Zhang T, Braileanu G… Kronfli A, et al. Comparative Evaluation of aCD40 (2C10R4) and αcD154 (5C8H1 and IDEC-131) in a nonhuman primate cardiac allotransplant model. Transplantation. 2017 Sep;101(9):2038-2047.
Shah A, Pasrija C, Kronfli A, Wehman B, Griffith BP, Sanchez PG, Garcia JP, Kon ZN. Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Use in the Treatment of Bleomycin Pulmonary Toxicity. Innovations (Phila). 2017 Mar/Apr;12(2):144-146.
Azimzadeh AM, Zhang T, Wu G… Kronfli A, et al. Preemptive CD20+ B cell depletion attenuates cardiac allograft vasculopathy in CD154-treated monkeys. Transplantation. 2017 Jan;101(1):63-73.
Kronfli AP, Pasrija C, Shah A, Ghoreishi M, Garcia JP, Pham SM, Sanchez PG, Kon ZN. Thrombosis of the Right Internal Jugular Vein is Not a Contraindication to Ambulatory Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation with a Bicaval Dual-Lumen, Single Cannula System. Heart Surg Forum 2016 Dec 14;19(6):E282-E283.
Pasrija C, Kronfli A, Ghoreishi M, Griffith B, Sanchez P, Kon Z. Evaluation and Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock in Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Chest. 2016;150:62A.
Subleski J, Scarzello A, Alvord W, Jiang Q, Stauffer J, Kronfli A, Saleh B, Back T, Weiss J, Wiltrout R. (2015). Serum-based tracking of de novo initiated liver cancer progression reveals early
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Patients Seen At
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
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