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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS

Heladio Filho, MD FACS

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Rua Capitao Gutemberg, 1000 Cidade dos Funcionarios

Fortaleza, CE 60823050

Brazil

Biography

Professor of Surgery at Universidade Federal do Ceara - Brazil

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures
  • gastroplasty
  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure
  • abdominal pain
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • liver surgery
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • Hernia Procedures
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • Minimally Invasive Procedures

Thoracic

  • achalasia
  • Barrett's esophagus
  • empyema
  • esophageal surgery
  • hemothorax
  • hiatal hernia
  • myotomy
  • pneumothorax

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • abdominal injuries
  • abdominal wall reconstruction
  • amputation
  • bladder injury
  • blunt trauma
  • intestine injuries
  • kidney injury
  • liver injury
  • liver resection
  • stomach injuries
  • tracheotomy
  • Trauma/Injury Procedures
  • wound debridement

Urology (kidney, bladder, male reprod)

  • circumcision
  • nephrectomy
  • vasectomy

Hospital Appointments

Instituto Dr. Jose Frota

Fortaleza, CE

Chief

04/1982—Present

Hospital Universitario Walter Cantidio - Medicine Faculty - Federal University of Ceará

Fortaleza,

Senior Staff

02/1992—Present

Academic Appointments

Federal University of Ceara Faculty of Medicine

Professor

02/1992—Present