Submissions from 2018
Another means to meet MIPs requirements: The virtual group, Jordan Knepper, Karen Woo, Jill Rathbun, Brad Johnson, and Timothy P. Copeland
Medical Management of Diverticular Disease, Liam Knott and Craig Reickert
Vertebral artery arteriovenous fistula: Complication following cervical spinal fusion, Stephanie Leix, Mitchell R. Weaver, and Patricia Brown
Amyand Hernia with Incarcerated Acute Appendicitis, Emily K. Lenart, Kaitlyn M. Rountree, and Akash R. Sheth
Adventitial Cystic Disease: Complicated and Uncomplicated, Jonathan Lezotte, Quynh P. Le, Charles Shanley, and Sachinder Hans
Is Conventional Bypass for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery a Misnomer?, Donald S. Likosky; Robert A. Baker; Richard F. Newland; Theron A. Paugh; Timothy A. Dickinson; David Fitzgerald; Joshua B. Goldberg; Nicholas B. Mellas; Alan F. Merry; Paul S. Myles; Gaetano Paone; Kenneth G. Shann; Jane Ottens; Timothy W. Willcox; International Consortium for Evidence-Based Perfusion, the PERForm Registry; the Australian and New Zealand Collaborative Perfusion Registry (ANZCPR); and the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative
Collaborative Quality Improvement Reduces Postoperative Pneumonia After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery, Donald S. Likosky, Steven D. Harrington, Lourdes Cabrera, Alphonse DeLucia, Carol E. Chenoweth, Sarah L. Krein, Dylan Thibault, Min Zhang, Roland A. Matsouaka, Raymond J. Strobel, and Richard L. Prager
Implementation of a virtual vascular clinic with point-of-care ultrasound in an integrated health care system, Judith C. Lin, Janelle M. Crutchfield, Dana K. Zurawski, and Courtney Stevens
Comparison of virtual visit versus traditional clinic for management of varicose veins, Judith C. Lin, Dylan Mclaughlin, Dana K. Zurawski, Nicole Kennedy, and Loay S. Kabbani
Surgical site infection after transoral versus posterior approach for atlantoaxial fusion: a matched-cohort study, Mohamed Macki, Azam Basheer, Ian Lee, Ryan Kather, Ilan Rubinfeld, and Muwaffak M. Abdulhak
The Impact of Different Postgraduate Year Training in Neurosurgery Residency on 30-Day Return to Operating Room: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Study, Mohamed Macki, Mohamed Fakih, Pridvi Kandagatla, Ilan Rubinfeld, and Victor Chang
Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Does Lung Size Matter?, Arin L. Madenci, Joseph T. Church, Robert J. Gajarski, Kathryn Marchetti, Edwin J. Klein, Megan A. Coughlin, Jeannie Kreutzmann, Marjorie Treadwell, Maria Ladino-Torres, and George B. Mychaliska
Is Esophagectomy for Benign Conditions Benign?, Khalil Masabni, Pridvi Kandagatla, Andrew Popoff, Ilan Rubinfeld, and Zane Hammoud
Does Size Matter? Correlation of Excised Gastric Specimen Size in Sleeve Gastrectomy to Postoperative Weight Loss and Comorbidities, Jessica McCracken, Maggie Steinbeisser, and Bilal Kharbutli
Problematic Eating Behaviors Predict Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery, Lisa R. Miller-Matero, Kelly Bryce, Caroline K. Saulino, Kate E. Dykhuis, Jeffrey A. Genaw, and Arthur M. Carlin
Management of Diverticular Bleeding: Evaluation, Stabilization, Intervention, and Recurrence of Bleeding and Indications for Resection after Control of Bleeding, Mohammed I. Mohammed Ilyas and Eric J. Szilagy
Uncommon Diverticular Disease, Sanjay Mohanty and Shawn P. Webb
Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Diverticular Disease, Semeret T. Munie and Surya PM Nalamati
Effects of Allocating Livers for Transplantation Based on Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Scores on Patient Outcomes, Shunji Nagai, Lucy C. Chau, Randolph E. Schilke, Mohamed Safwan, Michael Rizzari, K. Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and D Moonka
Novel intraoperative management in the model for end-stage liver disease-sodium era: Continuous venovenous hemofiltration for severe hyponatremia in liver transplantation, Shunji Nagai, Dilip Moonka, and Anita Patel
Liver alone or simultaneous liver-kidney transplant? Pretransplant chronic kidney disease and post-transplant outcome - a retrospective study, Shunji Nagai, Mohamed Safwan, Kelly Collins, Randolph E. Schilke, Michael Rizzari, Dilip Moonka, Kimberly A. Brown, Anita Patel, Atsushi Yoshida, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Giant Cell Tumor of Bone Presenting as Left Posteromedial Chest Wall Tumor, Hassan Nasser, Arjune Dhanekula, Muwaffak M. Abdulhak, Michael Mott, and Zane T. Hammoud
Breast cancer metastasis through the lympho-vascular system, Saul D. Nathanson, David Krag, Henry M. Kuerer, Lisa A. Newman, Markus Brown, Dontscho Kerjaschki, Ethel R. Pereira, and Timothy P. Padera
Severe Mitral Regurgitation Due to a "Folded" Anterior Mitral Valve Leaflet After Bentall Procedure Requiring Mitral Valve Replacement, Jose R. Navas-Blanco, Stephanie Cook, Carlos E. Guerra, Jamil Borgi, Joseph A. Sanders, and Trevor Szymanski
Integrating the Genetics of Race and Ethnicity Into Cancer Research: Trailing Jane and John Q Public, Lisa A. Newman and John Carpten
Concurrent testicular torsion and acute incarcerated inguinal hernia in an adolescent boy, Darren Nisly, Sean Barnett, Karen Herzing, and Arturo Aranda
Graft-versus-host disease of the central nervous system after liver transplantation: A rare complication, Hirak Pahari, Shunji Nagai, Sharon Skorupski, and Reena Salgia
Anemia, transfusion, and outcome: Both are bad…does it really matter which is worse?, Gaetano Paone
Aortic clamping and stroke: Because two isn't worse doesn't mean one isn't better, Gaetano Paone
Saphenous vein composite graft based on the left internal thoracic artery: A vein by any other name!, Gaetano Paone
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Comparing Transfemoral, Transcarotid, and Transcaval Access, Gaetano Paone, Marvin H. Eng, Loay S. Kabbani, Jamil Borgi, Edward L. Peterson, Brianna Novitsky, Benjamin Burroughs, Dee Dee Wang, William O'Neill, and Adam B. Greenbaum
Different Harm and Mortality in Critically Ill Medical vs Surgical Patients: Retrospective Analysis of Variation in Adverse Events in Different Intensive Care Units, Kon Park, Michael Eichenhorn, Bruno Digiovine, Jennifer Ritz, Jack Jordan, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Self-assembled Collagen-Fibrin Hydrogel Reinforces Tissue Engineered Adventitia Vessels Seeded with Human Fibroblasts, Bijal Patel, Zhengfan Xu, Cameron B. Pinnock, Loay S. Kabbani, and Mai T. Lam
Perspectives on Healthcare Provider Well-Being: Looking Back, Moving Forward, Lauren Penwell-Waines, Wendy Ward, Heather Kirkpatrick, Patrick Smith, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Rate of Urologic Injury with Robotic Hysterectomy, Shariska S. Petersen, Samfee Doe, Ilan Rubinfeld, Yafa Davydova, Thomas Buekers, and Roopina Sangha
Diverticular Disease, Craig A. Reickert
That's No Bee Sting: Penetrating Neck Trauma with Isolated Vertebral Artery Injury, Kaitlyn M. Rountree, Julie A. Zachwieja, Jesse A. Coleman, Isaac J. Hinton, and Peter P. Lopez
Impact of abdominal shape on living liver donor outcomes in mini-incision right hepatic lobectomy: Comparison among 3 techniques, Mohamed Safwan, Shunji Nagai, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Association of Frailty With Failure to Rescue After Low-Risk and High-Risk Inpatient Surgery, Rupen Shah, Kristopher Attwood, Shipra Arya, Daniel E. Hall, Jason M. Johanning, Emmanuel Gabriel, Anthony Visioni, Steven Nurkin, Moshim Kukar, Steven Hochwald, and Nader N. Massarweh
Percutaneous gastric remnant gastrostomy following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery: a single tertiary center's 13-year experience, Shehbaz H. Shaikh, Justin J. Stenz, David W. McVinnie, James J. Morrison, Todd Getzen, Arthur M. Carlin, and Farhaan R. Mir
Effect of Surgeon Age on Bariatric Surgery Outcomes, Haley Stevens, Arthur M. Carlin, Rachel Ross, Amanda Stricklen, Michael H. Wood, and Amir A. Ghaferi
Brincidofovir as Salvage Therapy for Adenovirus Disease in Intestinal Transplant Recipients, Nimisha Sulejmani, Shunji Nagai, Mohamed Safwan, Michael Rizzari, Mohammad Raoufi, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Mayur Ramesh
Thrombocytopenia after liver transplantation: Should we care?, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Shunji Nagai, Mohamed Safwan, Chen Liang, and Nobuhiro Ohkohchi
Homologous recombination deficiency and host anti-tumor immunity in triple-negative breast cancer, M L. Telli, D G. Stover, S Loi, S Aparicio, L A. Carey, S M. Domchek, Lisa A. Newman, G W. Sledge, and E P. Winer
Association Between Postoperative Pneumonia and 90-Day Episode Payments and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, Michael P. Thompson, Lourdes Cabrera, Raymond J. Strobel, Steven D. Harrington, Min Zhang, Xiaoting Wu, Richard L. Prager, and Donald S. Likosky
Conventional Epidural vs Transversus Abdominis Plane Block with Liposomal Bupivacaine: A Randomized Trial in Colorectal Surgery, Matthew Torgeson, Joel Kileny, Christopher C. Pfeifer, Larry Narkiewicz, and Shawn Obi
Efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange on angiotensin II type-1 receptor antibodies on two kidney transplant recipients, Chisa Yamada, Yihung Huang, Silas Norman, Abhijit Naik, Omar Moussa, Milagros Samaniego, and Laura Cooling
Submissions from 2017
Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Among African Patients With Breast Cancer: Deoxyribonucleic Acid Extraction From Tumor Tissue and International Multidisciplinary Partnerships, Emmanuel Amankwaa-Frempong, Francis A. Yeboah, Samuel B. Nguah, and Lisa A. Newman
Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Presenting as Inferior Vena Cava Obstruction Diagnosed Using an Endovascular Thrombectomy Device, Praveen Balraj, Loay S. Kabbani, Jeff Mathews, Francis Tinney Jr., Scott Schwartz, D Kwon, Felix Braun, and Sara Wasilenko
Repeat Head CT? Not Necessary for Patients with a Negative Initial Head CT on Anticoagulation or Antiplatelet Therapy Suffering Low-Altitude Falls, Zachary M. Bauman, John M. Ruggero, Sunny Squindo, Chris McEachin, Michelle Jaskot, Will Ngo, Scott Barnes, and Peter P. Lopez
Posterior Iliac Crest Bone Graft: How Much Is Enough?, Thaddeus Boucree, Dylan McLaughlin, Silvy Akrawe, Vigen Darian, and Aamir Siddiqui
Organizational Contributors to the Variation in Red Blood Cell Transfusion Practices in Cardiac Surgery: Survey Results From the State of Michigan, Anton Camaj, Darin B. Zahuranec, Gaetano Paone, Barbara R. Benedetti, Warren D. Behr, Marc A. Zimmerman, Min Zhang, Robert S. Kramer, Jason Penn, Patricia F. Theurer, Theron A. Paugh, Milo Engoren, Alphonse DeLucia, Richard L. Prager, and Donald S. Likosky
Phosphoproteome and transcription factor activity profiling identify actions of the anti-inflammatory agent UTL-5g in LPS stimulated RAW 2647 cells including disrupting actin remodeling and STAT-3 activation, Nicholas J. Carruthers, Paul M. Stemmer, Ben Chen, Frederick A. Valeriote, Xiaohua Gao, Subhash C. Guatam, and Jiajiu Shaw
Rupture of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Patients with and without Antecedent Endovascular Repair, Irina Catanescu, Graham Long, Paul Bove, Michael Khoury, Otto Brown, Steve Rimar, Youssef Rizk, Maciej Uzieblo, and Sachinder Hans
Creating diagnostic criteria for perforated appendicitis using cross-sectional imaging, Joseph T. Church, Megan A. Coughlin, Alexis G. Antunez, Ethan A. Smith, and Steven W. Bruch
Surgical Guidelines for Perioperative Management of Older Adults: What Geriatricians Need to Know, Jessica L. Colburn, Sanjay Mohanty, and John R. Burton
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Outcomes and Quality, Richard S. D'Agostino, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Vinay Badhwar, Gaetano Paone, J S. Rankin, Jane M. Han, Donna McDonald, Fred H. Edwards, and David M. Shahian
Predictors of surgical site infection after open lower extremity revascularization, Frank M. Davis, Danielle C. Sutzko, Scott F. Grey, M A. Mansour, Krishna M. Jain, Timothy J. Nypaver, Greg Gaborek, and Peter K. Henke
The undiagnosed pandemic: Burnout and depression within the surgical community, Lauren DeCaporale-Ryan, Joseph V. Sakran, Scott B. Grant, Adnan Alseidi, Tziporah Rosenberg, Ross F. Goldberg, Hilary Sanfey, Joseph Dubose, Stanislaw Stawicki, Robert Ricca, Ellen T. Derrick, Carol A. Bernstein, Dinchen A. Jardine, Amalia J. Stefanou, Ben Aziz, Ellie He, Sharmila Dissanaike, Gerald R. Fortuna, Rodolfo J. Oviedo, Jo Shapiro, Pamela Galowitz, and Jacob Moalem
Inhibition of hTERT in pancreatic cancer cells by pristimerin involves suppression of epigenetic regulators of gene transcription, Dorrah Deeb, Xiaohua Gao, Yong-Bo Liu, Yiguan Zhang, Jiajiu Shaw, Frederick A. Valeriote, and Subhash C. Gautam
Breast cancer statistics, 2017, racial disparity in mortality by state, Carol E. DeSantis, Jiemin Ma, Ann Goding Sauer, Lisa A. Newman, and Ahmedin Jemal
Thrombotic valvular dysfunction with transcatheter mitral interventions for postsurgical failures, Marvin H. Eng, Adam Greenbaum, Dee Dee Wang, Janet Wyman, Heider Arjomand, Pradeep Yadav, Hassan Nemeh, Gaetano Paone, Mayra Guerrero, and William O'Neill
Mitral Annuloplasty Ring Fracture and Annular Injury During Transcatheter Mitral Valve-in-Ring Intervention, Tiberio M. Frisoli, Dee Dee Wang, Marvin H. Eng, William O'Neill, Gaetano Paone, and Adam B. Greenbaum
Validation of the electronic version of the BREAST-Q in the army of women study, Sarah Fuzesi, Stefan J. Cano, Anne F. Klassen, Dunya M. Atisha, and Andrea L. Pusic
Delineation of disease phenotypes associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma by MALDI-IMS-MS analysis of serum N-linked glycans, M M. Gaye, T Ding, H Shion, A Hussein, Y Hu, S Zhou, Zane Hammoud, B K. Lavine, Y Mechref, J C. Gebler, and D E. Clemmer
Resolution of Mitral Regurgitation With Left Ventricular Assist Device Support, Matthew Goodwin, Hassan Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, Gaetano Paone, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
Robotic resection of a mediastinal parathyroid cyst, Pauline H. Go, Jenna Watson, Zhichun Lu, Arthur M. Carlin, and Zane Hammoud
Transcaval Access and Closure for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Prospective Investigation, Adam B. Greenbaum, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Marcus Y. Chen, Annette M. Stine, Toby Rogers, William O'Neill, Gaetano Paone, Vinod H. Thourani, Kamran I. Muhammad, Robert A. Leonardi, Stephen Ramee, James F. Troendle, and Robert J. Lederman
Contrast-induced nephropathy in patients undergoing endovascular peripheral vascular intervention: Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes as observed in the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium, P M. Grossman, Syed S. Ali, Herbert D. Aronow, Michael Boros, Timothy Nypaver, Theodore L. Schreiber, Yeo-Jung Park, Peter K. Henke, and Hitinder S. Gurm
A method to reduce ancestry related germline false positives in tumor only somatic variant calling, Rebecca F. Halperin, John D. Carpten, Zarko Manojlovic, Jessica Aldrich, Jonathan Keats, Sara Byron, Winnie S. Liang, Megan Russell, Daniel Enriquez, Ana Claasen, Irene Cherni, Baffour Awuah, Joseph Oppong, Max S. Wicha, Lisa A. Newman, Evelyn Jaigge, Seungchan Kim, and David W. Craig
Professional interpersonal dynamics and burnout in European transplant surgeons, Michelle T. Jesse, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Anne Eshelman, Chantal De Reyck, and Jan Lerut
Flow Patterns in the Carotid Arteries of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Loay S. Kabbani, Semeret Munie, Judith Lin, Mauricio Velez, Iyad Isseh, Sara Brooks, Stephanie Leix, and Alexander D. Shepard
Use of Epidural Analgesia as an Adjunct in Elective Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: A Review of 4983 Cases, Efstathios Karamanos, Sophie Dream, Anthony Falvo, Nathan Schmoekel, and Aamir Siddiqui
Development and Validation of a Scoring System to Predict Surgical Site Infection After Ventral Hernia Repair: A Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative Study, Efstathios Karamanos, Pridvi Kandagatla, Jenna Watson, Nathan Schmoekel, and Aamir Siddiqui
Prospective correlates of early (30 day) readmissions on a Cardiothoracic Surgery Service, Mark W. Ketterer, Mansi Chawa, and Gaetano Paone
Nurse assessment of nutritional status to identify patients at risk for complications after pancreatic resection, Tanya Kintz and C Riley-Doucet
Isolated unilateral adrenal gland hemorrhage following motor vehicle collision: a case report and review of the literature, Anna Lehrberg and Bilal Kharbutli
Prediction of Transfusions After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgical Procedures, Donald S. Likosky, Theron A. Paugh, Steven D. Harrington, Xiaoting Wu, Mary AM Rogers, Timothy A. Dickinson, Alphonse DeLucia, Barbara R. Benedetti, Richard L. Prager, Min Zhang, and Gaetano Paone
A rare case of right lower quadrant abdominal pain, Mark Macedo, Brian Kim, Rami Khoury, and Larry Narkiewicz
Human papillomavirus manifestation after kidney-pancreas transplantation, S M. Miller, Surya Nalamati, and A C. Cordova
Post-procedural pseudoaneurysms: Single-center experience, Farah Mohammad, Loay S. Kabbani, Judith Lin, Efstathios Karamanos, Fatema Esmael, and Alexander D. Shepard
Intestinal Graft Failure: Should We Perform the Allograft Enterectomy Before or With Retransplantation?, Shunji Nagai, Richard S. Mangus, Eve Anderson, Burcin Ekser, Chandrashekhar A. Kubal, Jonathan A. Fridell, and A J. Tector
Do Patterns of Breast Cancer Surgical Care Reflect National Voting Records?, Lisa A. Newman
Health Disparities and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in African American Women: A Review, Lisa A. Newman and Linda Kaljee
Association Between Benign Breast Disease in African American and White American Women and Subsequent Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Lisa A. Newman, Azadeh Stark, Dhananjay A Chitale, Margaret Pepe, Gary Longton, Maria J. Worsham, S. David Nathanson, Patricia Miller, Jessica M. Bensenhaver, Erica Proctor, Monique Swain, Christos Patriotis, and Paul F. Engstrom
Translating the 2-dimensional mammogram into a 3-dimensional breast: Identifying factors that influence the movement of pre-operatively placed wire, Ko-Un Park and S David Nathanson
Preoperative Antibiotics Do Not Reduce Postoperative Infections Following Needle-Localized Lumpectomy, Lindsay Petersen, Kjirsten Carlson, Katherine Kopkash, Thomas Witt, and Andrea Madrigrano
Efficacy and Safety of Everolimus Plus Low-Dose Tacrolimus Versus Mycophenolate Mofetil Plus Standard-Dose Tacrolimus in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients: 12-Month Data, Y Qazi, D Shaffer, B Kaplan, Dean Y. Kim, F L. Luan, V R. Peddi, F Shihab, S Tomlanovich, S Yilmaz, K McCague, D Patel, and S Mulgaonkar
Isolated orbital roof blow-in fracture, Kaitlyn M. Rountree and John J. Blase
Emphysematous Gastritis, a Spectrum of Disease: A Four-Case Report, Kaitlyn M. Rountree and Peter P. Lopez
Outcome of liver transplantation in patients with prior bariatric surgery, Mohamed Safwan, Kelly M. Collins, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Reena Salgia
The Technique and Benefits of Angiographic Embolization of Inferior Epigastric Arteries Prior to Pedicled TRAM Flap Breast Reconstruction: Results from a Single Center, Alysse J. Sever, Chirag Patel, Yahya Albeer, and Vigen B. Darian
Denture molding causing small bowel obstruction: Case study, Sergey Shimunov and Fadi Baidoun
A look ahead into Advanced Alternative Payment Models in vascular surgery, Taylor A. Smith, Jordan Knepper, Karen Woo, Jill Rathbun, and Brad Johnson
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Preoperative Weight Loss and Other Factors as Predictors of Postoperative Success, Maggie Steinbeisser, Jessica McCracken, and Bilal Kharbutli
Separate origins of the left internal and external carotid arteries from the aortic arch and cervical internal carotid artery aneurysm in a patient with Noonan syndrome, Rizwan A. Tahir, Karam Asmaro, Aqueel Pabaney, Max Kole, Timothy Nypaver, and Horia Marin
Mycophenolate Mofetil and Pulmonary Fibrosis After Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Pauline H. Go, Chad H. Stone, Mohamed Safwan, Krishna G. Putchakayala, William J. Kane, Lauren E. Malinzak, Dean Kim, and Jason E. Denny
Prediction of biliary anastomotic stricture after deceased donor liver transplantation: the impact of platelet counts - a retrospective study, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Shunji Nagai, Krishna G. Putchakayala, Mohamed Safwan, Masahiko Gosho, Amy Y. Li, William J. Kane, Priyanka L. Singh, Michael D. Rizzari, Kelly M. Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Gabriel T. Schnickel
Prognostic impact of postoperative low platelet count after liver transplantation, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Shunji Nagai, Krishna G. Putchakayala, Mohamed Safwan, Amy Li, William Kane, Priyanka Singh, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Gabriel Schnickel, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
