Submissions from 2016
An unusual manifestation of diabetic ketoacidosis Spontaneous pneumomediastinum, Pauline H. Go and M Alvelo-Rivera
Eventration of the diaphragm presenting as spontaneous pneumothorax, Pauline H. Go and Zane Hammoud
Effect of Body Mass Index on Outcomes in Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients, Pauline H. Go, Hassan Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, Gaetano Paone, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
Relationship between Central and Peripheral Venous Oxygen Saturation and Lactate Levels: A Prospective Study, Nikhil Goyal, Andrew R. Taylor, and Emanuel Rivers
The Case for a Conservative Approach to Blood Transfusion Management in Cardiac Surgery, Tyler Gunn, Gaetano Paone, Robert W. Emery, and Victor A. Ferraris
The 5 Most Important Recent Publications Regarding Robotic Esophageal Surgery, Zane Hammoud
Intraoperative Fluid Resuscitation Strategies in Pancreatectomy: Results from 38 Hospitals in Michigan, Mark A. Healy, Laurence E. McCahill, Mathew Chung, Richard Berri, Hiromichi Ito, Shawn H. Obi, Sandra L. Wong, Samantha Hendren, and D Kwon
Serotonin Syndrome Following Methylene Blue Administration for Vasoplegic Syndrome, Laura Hencken, Long To, Nancy Ly, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
The Association of Peri-Procedural Blood Transfusion with Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Lower Extremity Vascular Interventions: Insights from BMC2 VIC, Peter K. Henke, Yeo-Jung Park, Sachinder Hans, Paul Bove, Robert Cuff, Andris Kazmers, Theodore Schreiber, Hitinder S. Gurm, and P M. Grossman
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database 2016 Annual Report, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, David M. Shahian, Richard L. Prager, Fred H. Edwards, Donna McDonald, Jane M. Han, Richard S. D'Agostino, Marshall L. Jacobs, Benjamin D. Kozower, Vinay Badhwar, Vinod H. Thourani, Henning A. Gaissert, Felix G. Fernandez, Cameron D. Wright, Gaetano Paone, Joseph C. Cleveland, J M. Brennan, Rachel S. Dokholyan, Leo Brothers, Sreekanth Vemulapalli, Robert H. Habib, Sean M. O'Brien, Eric D. Peterson, Frederick L. Grover, Glexander A. Patterson, and Joseph E. Bavaria
Lifestyle and Self-Management by Those Who Live It: Patients Engaging Patients in a Chronic Disease Model, Michelle T. Jesse, Elizabeth Rubinstein, Anne Eshelman, Corinne Wee, Mrunalini Tankasala, Jia Li, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Comparative Analysis of Breast Cancer Phenotypes in African American, White American, and West Versus East African patients: Correlation Between African Ancestry and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Evelyn Jiagge, Aisha S. Jibril, Dhananjay A. Chitale, Jessica Bensenhaver, Baffour Awuah, Mark Hoenerhoff, Ernest Adjei, Mahteme Bekele, Engida Abebe, S David Nathanson, Kofi Gyan, Barbara Salem, Joseph Oppong, Francis Aitpillah, Ishmael Kyei, Ernest O. Bonsu, Erica Proctor, Sofia D. Merajver, Max Wicha, Azadeh Stark, and Lisa A. Newman
Socioeconomic disparities affect survival after aortic dissection, Loay S. Kabbani, Sara Wasilenko, Timothy Nypaver, Mitchell R. Weaver, Andrew R. Taylor, Khaled Abdul-Nour, Jamil Borgi, and Alexander D. Shepard
Surgical and endovascular revision of brachio-basilic vein fistula, Stavros K. Kakkos, Anastasia K. Kouri, Ioannis A. Tsolakis, Georges Haddad, George C. Lampropoulos, and Dimitrios Karnabatidis
Diabetes Mellitus in Patients Presenting with Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: Delaying Surgical Intervention Results in Worse Outcomes, Efstathios Karamanos, Scott A. Dulchavsky, Elizabeth Beale, Kenji Inaba, and Demetrios Demetriades
Association of Unplanned Reintubation with Higher Mortality in Old, Frail Patients: A National Surgical Quality-Improvement Program Analysis, Efstathios Karamanos, Nathan Schmoekel, Dionne J. Blyden, Anthony Falvo, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Abdominal pain and hematuria: duodenal perforation from ingested foreign body causing ureteral obstruction and hydronephrosis, Nina Kolbe, Kathleen Sisson, and Renato Albaran
The predictive value of increased sentinel lymph node volume in breast cancer, B A. Krasnick, S David Nathanson, C N. Arbabi, Dhananjay A. Chitale, and Edward L. Peterson
Practical Pharmacogenomic Approaches to Heart Failure Therapeutics, Chayakrit Krittanawong, Amalia Namath, David E. Lanfear, and W HW Tang
A Preliminary Survey Examining Predictors of Burnout in Pain Medicine Physicians in the United States, Henry R. Kroll, Taylor Macaulay, and Michelle T. Jesse
Impact of institutional culture on rates of transfusions during cardiovascular procedures: The Michigan experience, Donald S. Likosky, Min Zhang, Gaetano Paone, John Collins, Alphonse DeLucia, Theodore Schreiber, Patty Theurer, Samer Kazziha, Dale Leffler, Douglas J. Wunderly, Hitinder S. Gurm, and Richard L. Prager
Clinical utility of carotid duplex ultrasound prior to cardiac surgery, Judith C. Lin, Loay S. Kabbani, Edward L. Peterson, Khalil Masabni, Jeffrey A. Morgan, Sara Brooks, Kathleen P. Wertella, and Gaetano Paone
Three-dimensional printing for preoperative planning of renal artery aneurysm surgery, Judith C. Lin and Eric Myers
Mycotoxin verrucarin A inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis in prostate cancer cells by inhibiting prosurvival Akt/NF-kB/mTOR signaling, Yongbo Liu, Xiaohua Gao, Dorrah Deeb, Yiguan Zhang, Jonathan Shaw, Frederick A. Valeriote, and Subhash C. Gautam
Use of a simplified frailty index to predict Clavien 4 complications and mortality after hepatectomy: analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project database, Lisa Louwers, Gabriel Schnickel, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Health Literacy Status Affects Outcomes for Patients Referred for Transplant, Lisa R. Miller-Matero, Kelly Bryce, Maren E. Hyde-Nolan, Kate E. Dykhuis, Anne Eshelman, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Pursuing bariatric surgery in an urban area: Gender and racial disparities and risk for psychiatric symptoms, Lisa R. Miller-Matero, Erin T. Tobin, Shannon Clark, Anne Eshelman, and Jeffrey A. Genaw
Optimal Perioperative Management of the Geriatric Patient: A Best Practices Guideline from the American College of Surgeons NSQIP and the American Geriatrics Society, Sanjay Mohanty, Ronnie A. Rosenthal, Marcia M. Russell, Mark D. Neuman, Clifford Y. Ko, and Nestor F. Esnaola
Outcomes on Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Single Institutional 9-Year Experience, Jeffrey A. Morgan, Pauline H. Go, Linnea Xuereb, Babbaljeet Kaur, Silvy Akrawe, Hassan Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, David E. Lanfear, Celeste Williams, and Gaetano Paone
Seat Belt Use and its Effect on Abdominal Trauma: A National Trauma Databank Study, Nick A. Nash, Obi Okoye, Ozgur Albuz, Kelly N. Vogt, Efstathios Karamanos, Kenji Inaba, and Demetrios Demetriades
A prospective cohort study of early discontinuation of adjuvant chemotherapy in women with breast cancer: the breast cancer quality of care study (BQUAL), Alfred I. Neugut, Grace C. Hillyer, Lawrence H. Kushi, Lois Lamerato, Donna L. Buono, S David Nathanson, Dana H. Bovbjerg, Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Wei-Yann Tsai, Judith S. Jacobson, and Dawn L. Hershman
Parsing the Etiology of Breast Cancer Disparities, Lisa A. Newman
Early goal-directed therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock: insights and comparisons to ProCESS, ProMISe, and ARISE, H B. Nguyen, Anja K. Jaehne, Namita Jayaprakash, Matthew W. Semler, Sara Hegab, Angel C. Yataco, Geneva Tatem, Dhafer Salem, Steven Moore, Kamran Boka, Jasreen Gill, Jayna Gardner-Gray, Jacqueline Pflaum, Juan P. Domecq, Gina Hurst, Justin B. Belsky, Raymond Fowkes, Ronald B. Elkin, Steven Q. Simpson, Jay L. Falk, Daniel J. Singer, and Emanuel Rivers
Hepatic Venous and Inferior Vena Cava Morphology No Longer a Barrier to Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome: Surgical Techniques and Outcomes, Hirak Pahari, R J. Chaudhary, S Thiagarajan, V Raut, R Babu, P Bhangui, S Goja, A Rastogi, V Vohra, and A S. Soin
Intestine Transplantation Across a Positive Crossmatch With Preformed Donor-Specific Antibodies, R Parekh, M Kazimi, Sharon Skorupski, O Fagoaga, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, and M C. Segovia
Prolonged Length of Stay after Esophageal Resection: Identifying Drivers of Increased Length of Stay Using the NSQIP Database, Ko-Un Park, Ilan Rubinfeld, Arielle Hodari, and Zane Hammoud
The Midterm Impact of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement on Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Michigan, Himanshu J. Patel, Morley A. Herbert, Gaetano Paone, John C. Heiser, Francis L. Shannon, Patricia F. Theurer, Gail F. Bell, and Richard L. Prager
Cognition Predicts Quality of Life Among Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease, Daniel Paulson, Mona Shah, Lisa R. Miller-Matero, Anne Eshelman, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
A Case Report of Acute Cellular Rejection Following Intestinal Transplantation Managed With Adalimumab, B Rao, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, M Kazimi, Keith Mullins, Mohammad Raoufi, and M C. Segovia
Use of Everolimus After Multivisceral Transplantation: A Report of Two Cases, B Rao, M C. Segovia, M Kazimi, R Parekh, Mohammad Raoufi, and Syed-Mohammed Jafri
Novel Once-Daily Extended-Release Tacrolimus Versus Twice-Daily Tacrolimus in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients: Two-Year Results of Phase 3, Double-Blind, Randomized Trial, Lionel Rostaing, Suphamai Bunnapradist, Josep M. Grinyó, Kazimierz Ciechanowski, Jason E. Denny, Helio T. Silva, and Klemens Budde
Symptomatic lymphoepithelial cyst of the pancreas: successful treatment without pancreatic resection, John M. Ruggero and Shivana N. Prakash
Portal Vein Inflow From Enlarged Coronary Vein in Liver Transplantation: Surgical Approach and Technical Tips: A Case Report, M Safwan, Shunji Nagai, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Video Ratings of Surgical Skill and Late Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery, Christopher P. Scally, Oliver A. Varban, Arthur M. Carlin, John D. Birkmeyer, and Justin B. Dimick
Nonoperative Damage Control: The Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Traumatic Bronchial Avulsion as a Bridge to Definitive Operation, Nathan Schmoekel, James V. O'Connor, and Thomas M. Scalea
A New Panel of Blood Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion in Adults, Rongzi Shan, Joanna Szmydynger-Chodobska, Otis U. Warren, Farah Mohammad, Brian Zink, and Adam Chodobski
A Phase II Trial Exploring the Success of Cryoablation Therapy in the Treatment of Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Results from ACOSOG (Alliance) Z1072, Rache M. Simmons, Karla V. Ballman, Charles Cox, Ned Carp, Jennifer Sabol, Rosa Hwang, Deanna Attai, Michael Sabel, Saulavid Nathanson, Andrew Kenler, Linsey Gold, Cary Kaufman, Linda Han, Aaron Bleznak, J Stanley Smith, Dennis Holmes, Bruno Fornage, Carisa Le-Petross, Syed Hoda, Linda McCall, and Kelly Hunt
Trans-oral robotic surgical excision of an ectopic parathyroid adenoma, Matthew M. Smith, William G. Young, Arthur M. Carlin, and T Ghanem
A Preoperative Risk Model for Postoperative Pneumonia After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Raymond J. Strobel, Qixing Liang, Min Zhang, Xiaoting Wu, Mary Rogers, Patricia Theurer, Astrid Fishstrom, Steven Harrington, Alphonse DeLucia, Gaetano Paone, Himanshu Patel, Richard Prager, and Donald Likosky
Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma in the Liver Explant After Liver Transplantation: Histological Differentiation and Prognosis, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Joseph Obeid, C Burmeister, David Bruno, Marwan Kazimi, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Gabriel Schnickel
Arterioenteric fistula 12 years after kidney transplant, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Anita Patel, Krishna G. Putchakayala, Jason Denny, Dean Kim, and Lauren Malinzak
Lower Extremity Microembolism in Open vs Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Shahab Toursavadkohi, Stavros K. Kakkos, Ilan Rubinfeld, and Alexander D. Shepard
Technique or technology? Evaluating leaks after gastric bypass, Oliver A. Varban, Ruth B. Cassidy, Kyle H. Sheetz, Ann Cain-Nielsen, Arthur M. Carlin, Jon L. Schram, Matthew J. Weiner, Daniel Bacal, Amanda Stricklen, and Jonathan F. Finks
Surgical skill in bariatric surgery: Does skill in one procedure predict outcomes for another?, Oliver A. Varban, Caprice C. Greenberg, Jon Schram, Amir Ghaferi, Joythi Thumma, Arthur Carlin, and Justin Dimick
Predicting LVOT Obstruction After TMVR, Dee Dee Wang, Marvin H. Eng, Adam Greenbaum, Eric Myers, Michael Forbes, Milan Pantelic, Thomas Song, Christina Nelson, George Divine, Andrew R. Taylor, Janet Wyman, Mayra Guerrero, Robert Lederman, Gaetano Paone, and William O'Neill
Application of 3-Dimensional Computed Tomographic Image Guidance to WATCHMAN Implantation and Impact on Early Operator Learning Curve: Single-Center Experience, Dee Dee Wang, Marvin H. Eng, Daniel Kupsky, Eric Myers, Michael Forbes, Mehnaz Rahman, Mohammed Zaidan, Sachin Parikh, Janet Wyman, Milan Pantelic, Thomas Song, Jeffrey Nadig, Patrick Karabon, Adam Greenbaum, and William O'Neill
Should Patients with Hepatic Fibrosis Undergo LVAD Implantation: A Comparative Analysis, Linnea Xuereb, Pauline H. Go, Babbaljeet Kaur, Silvy Akrawe, Jamil Borgi, Gaetano Paone, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
Impact of Preoperative Atrial Fibrillation on Postoperative Thromboembolic Events After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation, Linnea Xuereb, Pauline H. Go, Babbaljeet Kaur, Silvy Akrawe, HW Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, Celeste Williams, Gaetano Paone, and Jeffrey Morgan
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in Liver Transplant Patients: Risks and Prevention, James Yip, David A. Bruno, C Burmeister, Marwan Kazimi, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Gabriel Schnickel
Submissions from 2015
Incidence and prognosis of vascular complications after percutaneous placement of left ventricular assist device, Miriam Abaunza, Loay S. Kabbani, Timothy Nypaver, Adam Greenbaum, Praveen Balraj, Sherazuddin Qureshi, Mohammad Alqarqaz, and Alexander D. Shepard
Surgical options for the management of portal hypertension, Marwan S. Abouljoud and Lauren Malinzak
A video case report of LRYGB in a patient with a left ventricular assist device, Ali Amro and Michel Murr
Inferior vena cava collapsibility loses correlation with internal jugular vein collapsibility during increased thoracic or intra-abdominal pressure, Zachary Bauman, Victor Coba, Marika Gassner, David Amponsah, John Gallien, Dionne J. Blyden, and Keith Killu
Lung Injury Prediction Score Is Useful in Predicting Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Mortality in Surgical Critical Care Patients, Zachary M. Bauman, Marika Y. Gassner, Megan A. Coughlin, Megan Mahan, and Jill Watras
The Combination of Gastroschisis, Jejunal Atresia, and Colonic Atresia in a Newborn, Zachary Bauman and Victor Nanagas
Gallbladder Volvulus Presenting as Acute Appendicitis, Zachary Bauman, John M. Ruggero, and John J. Lim
Physician leadership initiatives at small or mid-size organizations, J Bisordi and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Successful Porcine Renal Transplantation After 60 Minutes of Donor Warm Ischemia: Extracorporeal Perfusion and Thrombolytics, David S. Demos, Amit Iyengar, Benjamin S. Bryner, Brian W. Gray, Hayley R. Hoffman, Marie S. Cornell, John E. Wilkinson, Daniel E. Mazur, Robert H. Bartlett, Jeffrey D. Punch, and Alvaro Rojas-Peña
Nadir Hematocrit on Bypass and Rates of Acute Kidney Injury: Does Sex Matter?, Michelle C. Ellis, Theron A. Paugh, Timothy A. Dickinson, John Fuller, Jeffrey Chores, Gaetano Paone, Michael Heung, Karsten Fliegner, Andrew L. Pruitt, Himanshu J. Patel, Min Zhang, Richard L. Prager, and Donald S. Likosky
CDDO-Me inhibits tumor growth and prevents recurrence of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Xiaohua Gao, Dorrah Deeb, Yongbo Liu, Patricia Liu, Yiguan Zhang, Jiajiu Shaw, and Subhash C. Gautam
Feasibility of common carotid artery point of care ultrasound in cardiac output measurements compared to invasive methods, Marika Gassner, Keith Killu, Zachary Bauman, Victor Coba, Kelly Rosso, and Dionne J. Blyden
Colonic lipomas and liposarcomas, N Ghalyaie and Eric J. Szilagy
Greater Volume of Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution May Aid in Reducing Blood Transfusions After Cardiac Surgery, Joshua Goldberg, Theron A. Paugh, Timothy A. Dickinson, John Fuller, Gaetano Paone, Patty F. Theurer, Kenneth G. Shann, Thoralf M. Sundt, Richard L. Prager, and Donald S. Likosky
Effect of Preoperative Albumin Levels on Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Device Implantation, Pauline H. Go, Arielle Hodari, Hassan Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, David E. Lanfear, Celeste Williams, Gaetano Paone, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
Accuracy of 2-Phase Parathyroid CT for the Preoperative Localization of Parathyroid Adenomas in Primary Hyperparathyroidism, Brent Griffith, Hamad Chaudhary, G Mahmood, Arthur M. Carlin, Edward L. Peterson, Michael C. Singer, and Suresh C. Patel
Pancreatic Resection Results in a Statewide Surgical Collaborative, Mark A. Healy, Robert W. Krell, Zaid M. Abdelsattar, Laurence E. McCahill, D Kwon, Timothy L. Frankel, Samantha Hendren, Darrell A. Campbell, and Sandra L. Wong
Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy With Real-Time Perfusion Assessment, Arielle Hodari, Ko-Un Park, Brian Lace, Athanasios Tsiouris, and Zane Hammoud
Introduction to the STS National Database Series: Outcomes Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, David M. Shahian, Richard L. Prager, Fred H. Edwards, Donna McDonald, Jane M. Han, Richard S. D'Agostino, Marshall L. Jacobs, Benjamin D. Kozower, Vinay Badhwar, Vinod H. Thourani, Henning A. Gaissert, Felix G. Fernandez, Cam Wright, James I. Fann, Gaetano Paone, Juan A. Sanchez, Joseph C. Cleveland, J M. Brennan, Rachel S. Dokholyan, Sean M. O'Brien, Eric D. Peterson, Frederick L. Grover, and G A. Patterson
Determinants of burnout among transplant surgeons: a national survey in the United States, Michelle T. Jesse, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Anne Eshelman
Burnout in transplant nurses, Michelle T. Jesse, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Kathy Hogan, and Anne Eshelman
Quality and outcomes reporting in trauma using International Statistical Classification for Diseases, Ninth Revision codes, Efstathios Karamanos, Alexander Van Esbroeck, Sanjay Mohanty, Zeeshan Syed, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Tobacco Use and Body Mass Index as Predictors of Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Breast Reduction Mammoplasty, Efstathios Karamanos, Benjamin Wei, Aamir Siddiqui, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Predictors of Clavien 4 Complications and Mortality After Necrosectomy: Analysis of the NSQIP Database, Nina Kolbe, Stephanie Bakey, Lisa Louwers, Dionne J. Blyden, Mathilda Horst, Anthony Falvo, Joe Patton, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Assessing Risk of Critical Care Complications and Mortality in the Elective Bariatric Surgery Population Using a Modified Frailty Index, Nina Kolbe, Arthur M. Carlin, Stephanie Bakey, Lisa Louwers, Hathilda Horst, and Ilan Rubinfeld
Treatment of acute hemorrhoidal crisis using hyaluronidase with local anesthetic prior to surgical excision, Nina Kolbe and J Hain
Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) telemedicine project in rural Nicaragua and its impact on patient management, Nina Kolbe, Keith Killu, Victor Coba, Luca Neri, Kathleen M. Garcia, Marti McCulloch, Alberta Spreafico, and Scott A. Dulchavsky
Red Blood Cell Transfusions Impact Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Donald S. Likosky, Gaetano Paone, Min Zhang, Mary A. M. Rogers, Steven D. Harrington, Patricia F. Theurer, Alphonse DeLucia, Astrid Fishstrom, Anton Camaj, and Richard L. Prager
Sources of Variation in Hospital-Level Infection Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Heart Surgery Database, Donald S. Likosky, Amelia S. Wallace, Richard L. Prager, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Min Zhang, Steven D. Harrington, Paramita Saha-Chaudhuri, Patricia F. Theurer, Astrid Fishstrom, Rachel S. Dokholyan, David M. Shahian, and J S. Rankin
Treatment of 200 locally advanced (stage III) pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients with irreversible electroporation: safety and efficacy, Robert CG Martin, D Kwon, Sricharan Chalikonda, Marty Sellers, Eric Kotz, Charles Scoggins, Kelly M. McMasters, and Kevin Watkins
Transmission of infection to liver transplant recipients from donors with infective endocarditis: lessons learned, M. H. Miceli, M. Gonulalan, Mary Perri, Linoj Samuel, M. A. Al Fares, Kimberly Brown, D. A. Bruno, Marcus J. Zervos, Mayur Ramesh, and George Alangaden
Genuflecting to Hospital Variation in Home Discharge-Reply, Sanjay Mohanty, Mark Cohen, and Karl Y. Bilimoria
Risk of discharge to postacute care: a patient-centered outcome for the american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program surgical risk calculator, Sanjay Mohanty, Yaoming Liu, Jennifer L. Paruch, Thomas E. Kmiecik, Mark E. Cohen, Clifford Y. Ko, and Karl Y. Bilimoria
Post-transplant course of hepatitis C after living donor liver transplantation in association with polymorphisms near IFNL3, Kristin G. Monaghan, Humberto C. Gonzalez, Albert M. Levin, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Stuart C. Gordon
Prognosis after recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in liver transplantation: predictors for successful treatment and survival, Shunji Nagai, Richard S. Mangus, Chandrashekhar A. Kubal, Burcin Ekser, Jonathan A. Fridell, Kendell R. Klingler, Mary A. Maluccio, and A J. Tector
Self-reported remission of obstructive sleep apnea following bariatric surgery: cohort study, Myura Nagendran, Arthur M. Carlin, Daniel Bacal, Jeffrey A. Genaw, Abdelkader A. Hawasli, Nancy J. Birkmeyer, and Jonathan F. Finks
Sentinel lymph node metastases in cancer: causes, detection and their role in disease progression, Saul D. Nathanson, Rupen Shah, and K Rosso
Red blood cells and mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: an analysis of 672 operative deaths, Gaetano Paone, Morley A. Herbert, Patricia F. Theurer, Gail F. Bell, Jaelene K. Williams, Francis L. Shannon, Donald S. Likosky, and Richard L. Prager
Novel Use of External Tissue Expander for Management of Sternal Wound Dehiscence, Ko-Un Park and Kenneth Moquin
Hospital Characteristics Associated With Penalties in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, Ravi Rajaram, Jeanette W. Chung, Christine V. Kinnier, Cynthia Barnard, Sanjay Mohanty, Emily S. Pavey, Megan C. McHugh, and Karl Y. Bilimoria
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Version 273: More Is Better, Terry Shih, Gaetano Paone, Patricia F. Theurer, Donna McDonald, David M. Shahian, and Richard L. Prager
