Submissions from 2021
The management of post-transplantation recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma, Luckshi Rajendran, Tommy Ivanics, Marco Paw Claasen, Hala Muaddi, and Gonzalo Sapisochin
The Impact of Portal Vein Thrombosis on Liver Transplant Outcomes: Does Grade or Flow Rate Matter?, Michael D. Rizzari, Mohamed Safwan, Michael Sobolic, Toshihiro Kitajima, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Just Say No: The Case Against Opioid-Based Postoperative Pain Management Regimens Following Breast Surgery, Theresa Schwartz
Comments on: Lower Incidence of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications Following Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: Propensity Score-Matched Comparison to Conventional Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy, Rupen Shah and Zane Hammoud
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Following Liver Transplantation: A Report of 2 Cases, Omar Shamaa, Syed Mohammed Jafri, M. Tayseer Shamaa, Kimberly Brown, and Deepak Venkat
Robot-assisted Transplant Ureteral Repair after Robot-assisted Kidney Transplant, Tayseer Shamaa, Atsushi Yoshida, Alex Borchert, Tracci McEvoy, Wooju Jeong, and Lauren Malinzak
What Every Colorectal Surgeon Should Know About the No Surprises Act, Amalia Stefanou, Stephen M. Sentovich, and Walter R. Peters
Feasibility and Evaluation of Surgical Simulation with Developed Crisis Scenarios: A Comparison of Performance by Vascular Surgery Training Paradigms, John P. Taaffe, Loay S. Kabbani, Christopher J. Goltz, Jonathan Bath, Mark A. Mattos, Francis J. Caputo, Priyanka Singh, and Todd R. Vogel
The Lactate-to-Platelet Ratio: A Novel Predictor for Short-Term Early Allograft Failure After Liver Transplantation, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Shunji Nagai, Masahiko Gosho, Toshihiro Kitajima, Jaejeong Kim, Tatsuya Oda, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Applicant perception of virtual interviews in cardiothoracic surgery: A Thoracic Education Cooperative Group Study, Melissa Taylor, Kirsten Freeman, J. Hunter Mehaffey, Tyler Wallen, and Ikenna C. Okereke
Incidence of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in Patients With Newly Implanted Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Long To, Dana Attar, Brittany Lines, Melissa McCarty, Hassan Nemeh, Ileana Lopez-Plaza, Zachary R. Smith, Victor Coba, and Jona Lekura
Conversion of PROMIS global health to EQ-5D health state values in patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery: A psychometric evaluation, Justin Turcotte, Maura Callanan, Brooke M. Buckley, Sohail Zaidi, and Chad Patton
Transfusion requirements and alloimmunization to red blood cell antigens in orthotopic liver transplantation, Ajna Uzuni, Jaber El-Bashir, Dragos Galusca, Sirisha Yeddula, Shunji Nagai, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Zaher K. Otrock
Am I on Track? Evaluating Patient-Specific Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery Using an Outcomes Calculator, Oliver A. Varban, Aaron J. Bonham, Amanda L. Stricklen, Rachel Ross, Arthur M. Carlin, Jonathan F. Finks, and Amir A. Ghaferi
Efficacy of High Temporal Frequency Photoacoustic Guidance of Laser Ablation Procedures, Yan Yan, Samuel John, Jurgita Meiliute, Loay S. Kabbani, and Mohammad Mehrmohammadi
Photoacoustic-guided endovenous laser ablation: Characterization and in vivo canine study, Yan Yan, Samuel John, Tanyeem Shaik, Bijal Patel, Mai T. Lam, Loay S. Kabbani, and Mohammad Mehrmohammadi
Submissions from 2020
Risk Factors and Outcomes of Intracardiac Thrombosis During Orthotopic Liver Transplantation, Waleed Al-Darzi, Yusuf Alalwan, Firas Askar, Omar Sadiq, Deepak Venkat, Humberto C. Gonzalez, Dragos Galusca, Atsushi Yoshida, and Syed M. Jafri
Lingual compression for acute macroglossia in a COVID-19 positive patient, Erickson Andrews, Jonathan Lezotte, and Adam M. Ackerman
Extraperineal enterocele in male: A case report and literature review, Megumi Asai, Elizabeth Wood, and Craig A. Reickert
Heterogeneity at the invasion front of triple negative breast cancer cells, Koh Meng Aw Yong, Peter J. Ulintz, Sara Caceres, Xu Cheng, Liwei Bao, Zhifen Wu, Evelyn M. Jiagge, and Sofia D. Merajver
The Impact of Endovenous Ablation Assessment Based on Great Saphenous Vein Size, Gender, Clinical Severity, and Patient Reported Outcomes, Scott D. Bendix, Edward L. Peterson, Loay S. Kabbani, Mitchell R. Weaver, and Judith C. Lin
Nearing the Summit: Associating Liver Partitioning and Portal Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS) in Progressive Carcinoid Disease, John R. Bergquist, Amy Y. Li, Edwina M. Chang, Gregory D. Scott, Monica M. Dua, and Brendan C. Visser
Too Big to Fail: Successful Resection of a Large Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Portal Tumor Thrombus, John R. Bergquist, Amy Y. Li, Chris S. Javadi, Ranjit S. Chima, Joseph S. Frye, and Brendan C. Visser
Establishment and Implementation of Evidence-Based Opioid Prescribing Guidelines in Cardiac Surgery, Alexander A. Brescia, Melissa J. Clark, Patricia F. Theurer, Shelly C. Lall, Hassan W. Nemeh, Richard S. Downey, David E. Martin, Reza R. Dabir, Zewditu E. Asfaw, Phillip L. Robinson, Steven D. Harrington, Divyakant B. Gandhi, Jennifer F. Waljee, Michael J. Englesbe, Chad M. Brummett, Richard L. Prager, Donald S. Likosky, Karen M. Kim, and Kiran H. Lagisetty
Determinants of Value in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Alexander A. Brescia, Joceline V. Vu, Chang He, Jun Li, Steven D. Harrington, Michael P. Thompson, Edward C. Norton, Scott E. Regenbogen, John D. Syrjamaki, Richard L. Prager, and Donald S. Likosky
Modeling the Elective Vascular Surgery Recovery After COVID-19: Implications for Moving Forward, Craig S. Brown, Jeremy Albright, Peter K. Henke, M. Ashraf Mansour, Mitchell R. Weaver, and Nicholas H. Osborne
Right Ventricular Device HeartWare Implant to the Right Atrium with Fixation to the Chest Wall in Patient with Biventricular Support, Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, Jennifer A Cowger, Dimitrios Apostolou, Daizo Tanaka, and Hassan Nemeh
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: A case-control study, Zohra S. Chaudhry, Jonathan D. Williams, Amit Vahia, Raef Fadel, Tommy Parraga Acosta, Rohini Prashar, Pritika Shrivastava, Nadeen J. Khoury, Julio Pinto Corrales, Celeste Williams, Shunji Nagai, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Milagros Samaniego-Picota, Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco, Ramon Del Busto, Mayur S. Ramesh, Anita Patel, and George J. Alangaden
Evaluation of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Early Detection via Mammography Screening and Outcomes in African American and White American Patients, Yalei Chen, Laura L. Susick, Melissa Davis, Jessica Bensenhaver, S David Nathanson, Jessica A. Burns, and Lisa A. Newman
Wound healing adverse events in kidney transplant recipients receiving everolimus with reduced calcineurin inhibitor exposure or current standard-of-care: insights from the 24-month TRANSFORM study, Franco Citterio, Mitchell Henry, Dean Y. Kim, Myoung Soo Kim, Duck-Jong Han, Takashi Kenmochi, Eytan Mor, Giuseppe Tisone, Peter Bernhardt, Maria Pilar Hernandez Gutierrez, and Yoshihiko Watarai
Racial Differences in Psychological Symptoms and Eating Behaviors Among Bariatric Surgery Candidates, Shannon M. Clark-Sienkiewicz, Leah M. Hecht, Bethany Pester, Kellie Martens, Aaron Hamann, Arthur M. Carlin, and Lisa R. Miller-Matero
Revisiting the organ procurement organization-based organ procurement center in the COVID era, Kelly M. Collins and M BM Doyle
Fenestrated Repair Improves Perioperative Outcomes but Lacks a Hospital Volume Association for Complex Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, Frank M. Davis, Jeremy Albright, Michael Battaglia, Jonathan Eliason, Dawn Coleman, Nicolas Mouawad, Jordan Knepper, M Ashraf Mansour, Matthew Corriere, Nicholas H. Osborne, and Peter K. Henke
Cyclin E overexpression confers resistance to trastuzumab through noncanonical phosphorylation of SMAD3 in HER2+ breast cancer, Joseph T. Decker, Pridvi Kandagatla, Lei Wan, Regan Bernstein, Jeffrey A. Ma, Lonnie D. Shea, and Jacqueline S. Jeruss
Association Between Surgeon Practice Knowledge and Venous Thromboembolism, Alirio de Meireles, Arthur M. Carlin, Anne Cain-Nielsen, Amanda Stricklen, Rachel Ross, Jonathan F. Finks, Oliver A. Varban, and Amir A. Ghaferi
Characteristics of Patients Seeking Second Opinions at a Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Clinic, Ana C. De Roo, Arden M. Morris, Joceline V. Vu, Ari D. Schuman, Kenneth L. Abbott, Pridvi Kandagatla, Karin M. Hardiman, and Samantha Hendren
Obesity, Transplantation, and Bariatric Surgery: An Evolving Solution for a Growing Epidemic, Tayyab S. Diwan, Tiffany C. Lee, Shunji Nagai, Enrico Benedetti, Andrew Posselt, Ginny Bumgardner, Sabrena Noria, Bryan A. Whitson, Lloyd Ratner, David Mason, Jon Friedman, Kenneth J. Woodside, and Julie Heimbach
Primary gallbladder paraganglioma: A case report and review of literature, Megan D'John and Furrukh Jabbar
Closed Facebook groups and COVID-19: an evaluation of utilization prior to and during the pandemic, Salvatore Docimo, Brian Jacob, Kevin K. Seeras, and Omar Ghanem
National trends in the diagnosis and repair of SLAP lesions in the United States, Mark C. Dougherty, J E. Kulenkamp, Haroutioun Boyajian, Jason L. Koh, Michael J. Lee, and Lewis L. Shi
Outcome Benefit of Arterial Duplex Stent Imaging After Superficial Femoral Artery Stent Implantation, Martina S. Draxler, Ziad Al Adas, Daniyal Abbas, Yasaman Kavousi, Loay S. Kabbani, Judith C. Lin, Mitchell R. Weaver, Alexander D. Shepard, and Timothy J. Nypaver
Evaluation of Patient Reported Gastroesophageal Reflux Severity at Baseline and at One-Year after Bariatric Surgery, Anne P. Ehlers, Jyothi R. Thumma, Jonathan F. Finks, Arthur M. Carlin, Amir A. Ghaferi, and Oliver A. Varban
Determinants of hospital variability in perioperative red blood cell transfusions during coronary artery bypass graft surgery, David C. Fitzgerald, Annie N. Simpson, Robert A. Baker, Xiaoting Wu, Min Zhang, Michael P. Thompson, Gaetano Paone, Alphonse Delucia, and Donald S. Likosky
A Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis, David R. Flum, Giana H. Davidson, Sarah E. Monsell, Nathan I. Shapiro, Stephen R. Odom, Sabrina E. Sanchez, F. Thurston Drake, Katherine Fischkoff, Jeffrey Johnson, Joe H. Patton, Heather Evans, Joseph Cuschieri, Amber K. Sabbatini, Brett A. Faine, Dionne A. Skeete, Mike K. Liang, Vance Sohn, Karen McGrane, Matthew E. Kutcher, Bruce Chung, Damien W. Carter, Patricia Ayoung-Chee, William Chiang, Amy Rushing, Steven Steinberg, Careen S. Foster, Shaina M. Schaetzel, Thea P. Price, Katherine A. Mandell, Lisa Ferrigno, Matthew Salzberg, Daniel A. DeUgarte, Amy H. Kaji, Gregory J. Moran, Darin Saltzman, Hasan B. Alam, Pauline K. Park, Lillian S. Kao, Callie M. Thompson, Wesley H. Self, Julianna T. Yu, Abigail Wiebusch, Robert J. Winchell, Sunday Clark, Anusha Krishnadasan, Erin Fannon, Danielle C Lavallee, Bryan A. Comstock, Bonnie Bizzell, Patrick J. Heagerty, Larry G. Kessler, and David A. Talan
Robotic assistance in ventral hernia repair may decrease the incidence of hernia recurrence, Mitchell A. Goettman, Margaret L. Riccardi, Lucky Vang, Moe S. Dughayli, and Chadi H. Faraj
Commentary: Despair and disparity, Zane T. Hammoud
Ureteral stenosis following iliac artery stenting, Sachinder S. Hans, Mary M. Lee, and Nitin Jain
Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities in Bariatric Surgery, Leah Hecht, Bethany Pester, Jordan M. Braciszewski, Amy E. Graham, Kara Mayer, Kellie Martens, Aaron Hamann, Arthur M. Carlin, and Lisa R. Miller-Matero
Trends of Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction in the United States from 2003 to 2014: Analysis of 3,133 Patients, Olumuyiwa A. Idowu, Haroutioun H. Boyajian, Kevin Lindsay-Rivera, Cody S. Lee, Michael J. Lee, Lewis L. Shi, and Aravind Athiviraham
Prescribing Habits of Providers and Risk Factors for Nonadherence to Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Tommy Ivanics, Hassan Nasser, Pridvi Kandagatla, Shravan Leonard-Murali, Adam Jones, Marwan Abouljoud, Arielle Hodari Gupta, and Ann Woodward
Aortic and superior mesenteric artery embolectomy after paradoxical embolism, Tommy Ivanics, Hassan Nasser, Alexander D. Shepard, and Alice Lee
Re-transplantation outcomes for hepatitis C in the United States before and after DAA-introduction, Tommy Ivanics, Michael Rizzari, Dilip Moonka, Abbas Al-Kurd, Khortnal Delvecchio, Toshihiro Kitajima, Ahmed Elsabbagh, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Uptake of Total Mesorectal Excision and Total Mesorectal Excision Grading for Rectal Cancer: A Statewide Study, Arielle E. Kanters, Robert K. Cleary, Shawn Obi, Theodor Asgeirsson, Sarah K. Evilsizer, Laurie G. Fasbinder, Darrell A. Campbell, and Samantha K. Hendren
Challenging the Surgical Axiom: Albumin Level Does Not Reliably Predict Development of Wound Complications in Patients Undergoing Body Contouring, Efstathios Karamanos, Pridvi Kandagatla, Howard Wang, Arielle H. Gupta, and Aamir Siddiqui
Extinguishing burnout: National analysis of predictors and effects of burnout in abdominal transplant surgery fellows, Al-Faraaz Kassam, Alexander R. Cortez, Leah K. Winer, Kendra D. Conzen, Ashraf El-Hinnawi, Christopher M. Jones, Lea Matsuoka, Anthony C. Watkins, Kelly M. Collins, Chandra Bhati, Markus Selzner, Christopher J. Sonnenday, Michael J. Englesbe, Tayyab S. Diwan, André AS Dick, and Ralph C. Quillin
Center Experience Affects Liver Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma, Toshihiro Kitajima, Taizo Hibi, Dilip Moonka, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Liver transplant waitlist outcomes in alcoholic hepatitis compared with other liver diseases: An analysis of UNOS registry, Toshihiro Kitajima, Dilip Moonka, Sirisha Yeddula, Michael Rizzari, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
ASO Author Reflections: It Is Not a Low-Hanging Fruit: Center Experience Plays an Important Role in Improving Outcomes in Liver Transplantation for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma, Toshihiro Kitajima and Shunji Nagai
It Is Not All About Pretransplant Factors: Posttransplant Complications Alter the Risk of Alcohol Relapse, Toshihiro Kitajima, Shunji Nagai, Dilip Moonka, Antu Segal, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Posttransplant Complications Predict Alcohol Relapse in Liver Transplant Recipients, Toshihiro Kitajima, Shunji Nagai, Antu Segal, Michelle Magee, Shaundra Blackburn, Donna L. Ellithorpe, Siri Yeddula, Yusuf Qadeer, Atsushi Yoshida, Dilip Moonka, Kimberly A. Brown, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Response to: "Surgical Volume Alone Does Not Determine Outcome Following Liver Transplant for Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma", Toshihiro Kitajima, Mhd Tayseer Shamaa, Taizo Hibi, Dilip Moonka, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Aneurysm of the aberrant splenic artery arising from the superior mesenteric artery, Mary Lee, Michael Trpkovski, and Sachinder S. Hans
Biliary tract cancer patient-derived xenografts: Surgeon impact on individualized medicine, Jennifer L. Leiting, Stephen J. Murphy, John R. Bergquist, Matthew C. Hernandez, Tommy Ivanics, Amro M. Abdelrahman, Lin Yang, Isaac Lynch, James B. Smadbeck, Sean P. Cleary, David M. Nagorney, Michael S. Torbenson, Rondell P. Graham, Lewis R. Roberts, Gregory J. Gores, Rory L. Smoot, and Mark J. Truty
Thoracoacromial artery injury after tube thoracostomy for pneumothorax, Shravan Leonard-Murali, Adhnan Mohamed, Ann Woodward, and Dionne Blyden
Predictors of postoperative emergency department visits after laparoscopic bariatric surgery, Shravan Leonard-Murali, Hassan Nasser, Tommy Ivanics, and Jeffrey A. Genaw
A multi-disciplinary approach utilizing filters for surgical procedures in erythropoietic protoporphyria, Melissa A Levoska, James L. Griffith, Shunji Nagai, Kelly Collins, and Henry W. Lim
Telemedicine Platforms and Their Use in the Coronavirus Disease-19 Era to Deliver Comprehensive Vascular Care, Judith C. Lin, Misty D. Humphries, William P. Shutze, Oliver O. Aalami, Uwe M. Fischer, and Kim J. Hodgson
Analysis of Outpatient Telemedicine Reimbursement in an Integrated Healthcare System, Judith C. Lin, Yasaman Kavousi, Brian Sullivan, and Courtney Stevens
Reply, Judith C. Lin and Hassan Nasser
The molecular diagnosis of rejection in liver transplant biopsies: First results of the INTERLIVER study, Katelynn Madill-Thomsen, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Chandra Bhatti, Michał Ciszek, Magdalena Durlik, Sandy Feng, Bartosz Foroncewicz, Iman Francis, Michał Grąt, Krzysztof Jurczyk, Goran Klintmalm, Maciej Krasnodębski, Geoff McCaughan, Rosa Miquel, Aldo Montano-Loza, Dilip Moonka, Krzysztof Mucha, Marek Myślak, Leszek Pączek, Agnieszka Perkowska-Ptasińska, Grzegorz Piecha, Trevor Reichman, Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, Olga Tronina, Marta Wawrzynowicz-Syczewska, Andrzej Więcek, Krzysztof Zieniewicz, and Philip F. Halloran
Predictors of Alcohol Use after Bariatric Surgery, Lisa R. Miller-Matero, Aaron Hamann, Leah LaLonde, Kellie M. Martens, John Son, Shannon Clark-Sienkiewicz, Monika Sata, Joseph P. Coleman, Leah M. Hecht, Jordan M. Braciszewski, and Arthur M. Carlin
Hepatic Vein Flow Index During Orthotopic Liver Transplantation as a Predictive Factor for Postoperative Early Allograft Dysfunction, Yoshihisa Morita, Taro Kariya, Shunji Nagai, Ahmed Itani, Michael Isley, and Kenichi Tanaka
Proteomic Profiles of Exosomes of Septic Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department Compared to Healthy Controls, Daniel C. Morris, Anja K. Jaehne, Michael Chopp, Zhenggang Zhang, Laila M. Poisson, Yalei Chen, Indrani Datta, and Emanuel P. Rivers
A Share 21 model in liver transplantation: Impact on waitlist outcomes, Shunji Nagai, Lucy C. Chau, Toshihiro Kitajima, Sirisha Yeddula, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Dilip Moonka
Effect of mandatory 6-month waiting period on waitlist and transplant outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, Shunji Nagai, Toshihiro Kitajima, Sirisha Yeddula, Reena Salgia, Randolph Schilke, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Dilip Moonka
Factors influencing the choice between laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, Hassan Nasser, Tommy Ivanics, and Arthur M. Carlin
Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Laparoscopic Colectomy: An NSQIP Database Analysis, Hassan Nasser, Tommy Ivanics, Shravan Leonard-Murali, and Amalia Stefanou
Perioperative Outcomes of Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Superobese, Hassan Nasser, Tommy Ivanics, Rohit S. Ranjal, Shravan Leonard-Murali, and Jeffrey A. Genaw
Comparison of early outcomes between Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy among patients with body mass index ≥ 60 kg/m(2), Hassan Nasser, Tommy Ivanics, Oliver A. Varban, Jonathan F. Finks, Aaron Bonham, Amir A. Ghaferi, and Arthur M. Carlin
ASO Author Reflections: Is Breast Cancer Dissemination Lymphatic, Hematogenous, or Both; and Does It Matter?, Saul D. Nathanson
Clinicopathological Evaluation of the Potential Anatomic Pathways of Systemic Metastasis from Primary Breast Cancer Suggests an Orderly Spread Through the Regional Lymph Nodes, Saul D. Nathanson, Shavran Leonard-Murali, Charlotte Burmeister, Laura L. Susick, and Patricia Baker
Lung Transplantation for the Treatment of Vaping Induced, Irreversible, End Stage Lung Injury, Hassan Nemeh, Victor Coba, Maria Chulkov, Arielle H. Gupta, Nicholas S. Yeldo, Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, Daizo Tanaka, Lisa Allenspach, Jane Simanovski, and Christina Shanti
Metastatic Conditioning of Myeloid Cells at a Subcutaneous Synthetic Niche Reflects Disease Progression and Predicts Therapeutic Outcomes, Robert S. Oakes, Grace G. Bushnell, Sophia M. Orbach, Pridvi Kandagatla, Yining Zhang, Aaron H. Morris, Matthew S. Hall, Petrina LaFaire, Joseph T. Decker, Rachel M. Hartfield, Michael D. Brooks, Max S. Wicha, Jacqueline S. Jeruss, and Lonnie D. Shea
A Single Center Review of the Dangers of Recreational Fires in the Pediatric Population, Vinu Perinjelil, Robert Stephen Haake, Afroze Ahmed, Fadi Al-Daoud, Tareq Maraqa, Leo Mercer, Kristoffer Wong, Stephen Morris, Donald Scholten, and Gul Sachwani-Daswani
A Potential Indication for Adjuvant Therapy in Node-Negative Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Andrew M. Popoff
The Impact of Portal Vein Thrombosis on Liver Transplant Outcomes: Does Grade or Flow Rate Matter?, Michael Rizzari, Mohamed Safwan, Michael Sobolic, Toshihiro Kitajima, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Paradoxical embolic strokes in a liver transplant recipient with atrial septal defect undergoing therapeutic plasma exchange, Shannon A. Rodgers, Aarushi Suneja, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Zaher K. Otrock
Progressive stenosis of a popliteal artery stent graft by laminated thrombus, Ali Rteil, Martina Draxler, Ziad Al Adas, Farah Mohammad, Yasaman Kavousi, and Loay S. Kabbani
Validation of the Risk Analysis Index for Evaluating Frailty in Ambulatory Patients, Rupen Shah, Jeffrey D. Borrebach, Jacob C. Hodges, Patrick R. Varley, Mary Kay Wisniewski, Myrick C. Shinall, Shipra Arya, Jonas Johnson, Joel B. Nelson, Ada Youk, Nader N. Massarweh, Jason M. Johanning, and Daniel E. Hall
Acute Kidney Injury in a Predominantly African American Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients With COVID-19 Infection, Pritika Shrivastava, Rohini Prashar, Nadeen J. Khoury, Anita Patel, Sirisha Yeddula, Toshihiro Kitajima, Shunji Nagai, and Milagros Samaniego-Picota
Readmissions After Lung Transplantation, Jane Simanovski and Jody Ralph
Pharmacist-driven discontinuation of antipsychotics for ICU delirium: A quasi-experimental study, Misa M. Stuart, Zachary R. Smith, Katelyn Payter, Carolyn R. Martz, Long To, Jennifer Swiderek, Victor E. Coba, and Michael Peters
Neoadjuvant Phase II Trial of Chemoradiotherapy in Patients With Resectable and Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer, Kannan Thanikachalam, Vijay Damarla, Trevor Seixas, Irina Dobrosotskaya, Ira Wollner, David Kwon, Kenneth Winters, Mohammad Raoufi, Jia Li, Farzan Siddiqui, and Gazala Khan
Cardiac Tamponade Following the Removal of Epicardial Pacing Wires: Critical Care APRN Toolkit, Ashleigh G VanBlarcom, Cristina A. Wojack, and Jesus Casida
Peer Assessment of Operative Videos with Sleeve Gastrectomy to Determine Optimal Operative Technique, Oliver A. Varban, Jyothi R. Thumma, Arthur M. Carlin, Jonathan F. Finks, Amir A. Ghaferi, and Justin B. Dimick
Evaluating the Impact of Surgeon Self-Awareness by Comparing Self vs Peer Ratings of Surgical Skill and Outcomes for Bariatric Surgery, Oliver A. Varban, Jyothi R. Thumma, Arthur M. Carlin, Amir A. Ghaferi, Justin B. Dimick, and Jonathan F. Finks
Defining the roles and responsibilities of the kidney transplant medical director: A necessary step for future training, mentoring, and professional development, Alexander C. Wiseman, Enver Akalin, Darshana M. Dadhania, Angelo DeMattos, Mona Doshi, John Friedewald, Christina Klein, Nicolae Leca, Kim Nicoll, Todd Pesavento, Luke Preczewski, Milagros Samaniego-Picota, Neeraj Singh, and Roy Bloom
The Demise of Islet Allotransplantation in the US: A Call for an Urgent Regulatory Update The "ISLETS FOR US" Collaborative, Piotr Witkowski, Louis Philipson, Dixon B. Kaufman, Lloyd Ratner, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Melena Bellin, John Buse, Fouad Kandeel, Peter Stock, David Mulligan, James F. Markmann, Tomasz Kozlowski, Kenneth Andreoni, Rodolfo Alejandro, David Baidal, Mark A. Hardy, Amittha Wickrema, Raghavendra G. Mirmira, John Fung, Yolanda Becker, Michelle A. Josephson, Piotr J. Bachul, Jordan S. Pyda, Michael Charlton, J. Michael Millis, Jason Gaglia, Robert J. Stratta, Jonathan A. Fridell, Silke Niederhaus, Rachael C. Forbes, Kumar Jayant, R. Paul Robertson, Jon Odorico, Marlon Levy, Robert Harland, Peter L. Abrams, Oyedolamu K. Olaitan, Raja Kandaswamy, Jason Wellen, Anthony J. Japour, Chirag S. Desai, Bashoo Naziruddin, Appakalai N. Balamurugan, Rolf N. Barth, and Camillo Ricordi
Factors Affecting Healing in the Treatment of Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Andrew Worden, Daniel J. Yoho, Herman P. Houin, Kenneth Moquin, Iltefat Hamzavi, Ihab Saab, and Aamir Siddiqui
Submissions from 2019
Contrast-induced nephropathy after peripheral vascular intervention: Long-term renal outcome and risk factors for progressive renal dysfunction, Ziad Al Adas, Kevin Lodewyk, David Robinson, Sherazuddin Qureshi, Loay S. Kabbani, Brian Sullivan, Alexander D. Shepard, Mitchell R. Weaver, and Timothy J. Nypaver