Hesham Abdelfattah, MD

Clinical Interests

• Surgery of the hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, shoulder
• Fractures
• Arthritis
• Peripheral nerve surgery
• Joint replacement
• Tendinitis
• Arthroscopy
• Microsurgery
• Nerve injuries in the upper extremity     
• Arthritis in the upper extremity
• Upper extremity trauma

Research Interests

• Upper extremity trauma
• Peripheral nerve disorders

Educational Background

• Fellowship, Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery, The Philadelphia Hand Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
• Fellowship, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, 2016
• Residency, Orthopaedic Surgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, 2014
• MD, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX/El Paso, TX, 2009

Certifications

• Orthopaedic Surgery
• Hand Surgery

Memberships

• American Society for Surgery of the Hand
• American Association for Hand Surgery
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Sedney, CL, Daffner, SD, Stefanko, JJ, Abdelfattah, H, France, JC, Emery, SE. Fracture of fusion mass after hardware removal in patients with high sagittal imbalance. J Neurosurg Spine. 2015 Dec 18: 1-5

Pirela-Cruz, MA, Higgs, M, Reddy, K, Abdelfattah, H, Camerron, C, Hakim, N. Treatment of a Giant Cell Tumor of the Distal Ulna with a Fully Constrained Prosthesis. El Paso Physician Vol. 31:3.2008

Gaspar MP, Abdelfattah HM, Welch IW, Vosbikian MM, Kane PM, Rekant MS. Recurrent cubital tunnel syndrome treated with revision neurolysis and amniotic membrane nerve wrapping. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2016 Dec;25(12):2057-2065. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2016.09.013.
PMID:27751716

Gaspar MP, Kho JY, Kane PM, Abdelfattah HM, Culp RW. Orthogonal Plating with Corrective Osteotomy for Treatment of Distal Radius Fracture Malunion. Journal of Hand Surgery American; 2017;42(1):e1-e10. doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2016.10.012