General Surgery
General Surgery Resident, Hospital Dr. Domingo Luciani, Venezuela
Dr. Arocha is a general surgery resident at the Hospital Dr. Domingo Luciani in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied medicine at the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado in Barquisimeto, from where he graduated with honors in 2019, having additional studies in the fields of ultrasound and occupational medicine.
He is an active member of the Na'Waraos Foundation, a medical-social aid organization that has provided health to more than 35,000 people and performed more than 1,500 surgeries throughout its more than 10 expeditions around the country. He has published articles in national and international magazines. Currently, he is an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) provider accredited by the American Heart Association
His academic interests include minimally invasive digestive tract surgery and robotic surgery.
Selected publications from PubMed
Impaired butyrate absorption in the proximal colon, low serum butyrate and diminished central effects of butyrate on blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Yang T, Magee KL, Colon-Perez LM, Larkin R, Liao YS, Balazic E, Cowart JR, Arocha R, Redler T, Febo M, Vickroy T, Martyniuk CJ, Reznikov LR, Zubcevic J
Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2019 Jun;226(2):e13256 doi: 10.1111/apha.13256.
Increased Abundance of Lactobacillales in the Colon of Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Knock Out Mouse Is Associated With Increased Gut Bacterial Production of Short Chain Fatty Acids and Reduced IL17 Expression in Circulating CD4(+) Immune Cells.
Bartley A, Yang T, Arocha R, Malphurs WL, Larkin R, Magee KL, Vickroy TW, Zubcevic J
Front Physiol. 2018;9:1593 doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01593.
A Single Angiotensin II Hypertensive Stimulus Is Associated with Prolonged Neuronal and Immune System Activation in Wistar-Kyoto Rats.
Zubcevic J, Santisteban MM, Perez PD, Arocha R, Hiller H, Malphurs WL, Colon-Perez LM, Sharma RK, de Kloet A, Krause EG, Febo M, Raizada MK
Front Physiol. 2017;8:592 doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00592.
Shifts in the Gut Microbiota Composition Due to Depleted Bone Marrow Beta Adrenergic Signaling Are Associated with Suppressed Inflammatory Transcriptional Networks in the Mouse Colon.
Yang T, Ahmari N, Schmidt JT, Redler T, Arocha R, Pacholec K, Magee KL, Malphurs W, Owen JL, Krane GA, Li E, Wang GP, Vickroy TW, Raizada MK, Martyniuk CJ, Zubcevic J
Front Physiol. 2017;8:220 doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00220.
[Alcoholic liver disease in Venezuela. Clinical hepato-functional and histopathologic course].
Arocha R, Pérez Machado L, Hamana N
G E N. 1990 Jan-Mar;44(1):15-20.
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