Riccardo A. Superina, MD

Specialties

• Transplantation - kidney

  Offers complete transplant care for pediatric patients within a single hospital. Learn more »

• Transplantation - liver

  Offers complete transplant care for pediatric patients within a single hospital. Learn more »

• Surgery (General pediatric)

  Provides general and chest surgery for problems related to the head, neck, chest, abdomen and extremities, congenital malformations, and solid tumors. Many standard procedures are completed through minimally invasive techniques. Learn more »

• Transplantation - intestinal

  Offers complete transplant care for pediatric patients within a single hospital. Learn more »

• Portal hypertension

  abnormally high blood pressure in the portal vein, the blood vessel that brings all of the blood from the intestines to the liver. It supplies the liver with 75% of its blood supply and 50% of its oxygen. Portal hypertension can happen because of a sick liver that is slowly being replaced with scar tissue. Learn more »

• Transplant surgery

  While transplantation is the primary service offered to children with severe organ failure, the transplant surgery team uses alternative and innovative transplant-sparing procedures in a comprehensive approach aimed at improving existing organ function.

Special interests

Liver transplantation (living donor, reduced size, split liver), biliary atresia, portal hypertension, rex shunt, organ donation, bowel and kidney transplantation

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Health care plans accepted

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• Aetna (EPO, HMO, POS, PPO)
• Beech Street (PPO)
• Best Doctors (PPO)
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois (HMO, POS, PPO)
• CCN (PPO)
• CIGNA (EPO, HMO, POS, PPO)
• Employer Coalition on Health (HMO)
• First Health (PPO)
• Great West Health Care (formerly One Health Plan) (PPO)
• Harmony Health Plans of Illinois (HMO)
• Health Alliance Medical Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
• HealthNetwork/Wellmark (PPO)
• HFN, Inc. (EPO, PPO)
• Humana, Inc. (HMO, POS, PPO)
• Illinois Health Connect (HMO)
• Managed Care Strategies (PPO)
• Multiplan (PPO)
• National Provider Network (PPO)
• Preferred Plan (PPO)
• Private Healthcare Systems, Inc. (POS, PPO)
• Sagamore - Indiana (PPO)
• UniCare (HMO, PPO)
• United Healthcare of Illinois (EPO, HMO, POS, PPO)
• WEA Insurance Group (PPO)

Certifications

Board certified in Pediatric Surgery, 1983; Surgery, 1981

Languages (other than English)

French, Italian

Publications

View a partial list of Dr. Superina's publications

Available from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database.