Marcos Adriano Da Rocha Lessa, MD, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia

Current Positions

Division of General Anesthesia
Division of Neuroanesthesia

Education

MD, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Doctorate in Clinical and Experimental Pathophysiology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Residency in Anesthesiology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fellow in Critical Care Medicine, Venerable Order of Penitence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fellow in Pain Medicine (Cancer) and Palliative Care, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research Fellow, Translational - Lung Inflammation and Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Selected Publications

Lessa, M. A., Cotta-Pereira, S. M., Ferreira, F. A., Castiñeiras, T. M. P. P., Galliez, R. M., Faffe, D. S., Leitão, I. C., Mariani, D., Nascimento, E. R., Lessa, F. S., Succi, I. B. & Pedreira, C. A. (2024). Usefulness of a quantitative olfactory test for the detection of COVID-19. J Biotechnol Biomed 7 (3) 329-337. DOI: 10.26502/jbb.2642-91280156.
Silva Júnior, R. E. R., Soriano, C. A., Lima, P. A. S., de Oliveira Santos, B. F., Pereira, W. G. N., de Brito Filho, M. T., Brandão, J. C. & Lessa, M. A. (2023). Beyond guidelines: the persistent challenge of preoperative fasting times. Surgeries 4 (4) 611-622. DOI: 10.3390/surgeries4040059.
Rashid, A., Zeng, C., Motta-Ribeiro, G., Dillon, S. T., Libermann, T. A., Lessa, M. A., Bagchi, A., Hutchinson, J. & Vidal Melo, M. F. (2022). Proteomics of lung tissue reveals differences in inflammation and alveolar-capillary barrier response between atelectasis and aerated regions. Sci Rep 12 (1) 7065. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11045-7. PMID: 35487970. PMCID: PMC9053128.
Linhares, R. M., Bersot, C. D. A., Pereira, J. E. G., Galhardo, C., Lessa, M. A. & Kietaibl, S. (2021). Clinical impact of preoperative anemia in patients undergoing peripheral vascular interventions: a systematic review. Surgeries 2 (3) 268-277. DOI: 10.3390/surgeries2030027.
Rodrigues, E. D. P., da Costa, G. C., Braga, D. Q., Pinto, J. E. D. S. S. & Lessa, M. A. (2021). Rocuronium-induced dilated nonreactive pupils in a patient with coronavirus disease 2019: a case report. A&A Pract 15 (7) e01491. DOI: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000001491. PMID: 34166250. PMCID: PMC8330622.
Bersot, C. D. A., Lessa, M. A. & Aslanidis, T. (2021). COVID-19 induced acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: respiratory ventilatory strategies. Greek e J Perioper Med 20 (a) 3-17.
Gomes, F., Marques, A. M., Nathalie, O., Lessa, M. A., Tibiriçá, E., Figueiredo, M. R. & Estato, V. (2020). Microvascular effects of echinodorus grandiflorus on cardiovascular disorders. Planta Med 86 (6) 395-404. DOI: 10.1055/a-1118-9341. PMID: 32168547.
Brandão, J. C., Lessa, M. A., Motta-Ribeiro, G., Hashimoto, S., Paula, L. F., Torsani, V., Le, L., Bao, X., Eikermann, M., Dahl, D. M., Deng, H., Tabatabaei, S., Amato, M. B. P. & Vidal Melo, M. F. (2019). Global and regional respiratory mechanics during robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery: a randomized study. Anesth Analg 129 (6) 1564-1573. DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004289. PMID: 31743177.
Zeng, C., Motta-Ribeiro, G. C., Hinoshita, T., Lessa, M. A., Winkler, T., Grogg, K., Kingston, N. M., Hutchinson, J. N., Sholl, L. M., Fang, X., Varelas, X., Layne, M. D., Baron, R. M. & Vidal Melo, M. F. (2020). Lung atelectasis promotes immune and barrier dysfunction as revealed by transcriptome sequencing in female sheep. Anesthesiology 133 (5) 1060-1076. DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003491. PMID: 32796202. PMCID: PMC7572680.
Lessa, M. A. & Rangel, R. (2019). Ventilação protetora no intraoperatório (Protective Ventilation During Surgery). In: Mendes Brandão, J. C., de Araujo Miranda, C., da Cunha Leal, P., Rodrigues Nunes, R., do Logar Mattos, S. L., Tardelli, M. A. & Freitas Curi, E. (Eds.). Medicina perioperatória e anestesia (Perioperative Medicine and Anesthesia). (1st Edition), pp. 143-153. Rio de Janeiro: Sociedade Brasieira de Anestesiologia.