Submissions from 2023
NATURAL HISTORY AND RISK FACTORS OF BEDSIDE PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY TUBES IN THE ICU, Michael Dix, Lucy Chau, Ryan Soheim, Nadia Obeid, Arielle H. Gupta, and Cletus Stanton
Short-Term Follow-up of Endovascular Electrocautery Septostomy and Fenestration for Distal Landing Zone Optimization in Chronic Distal Aortic Dissections, Kaitlyn Dobesh, Chaitu Dandu, Mitchell R. Weaver, Kevin Onofrey, Kyle Miletic, Timothy Nypaver, and Loay S. Kabbani
Single-center Experience With Jeti Hydrodynamic Thrombectomy System for Arterial Occlusions of the Extremities, Kaitlyn Dobesh, Chaitu Dandu, Alexandra Yorks, Kevin Onofrey, Mitchell R. Weaver, Timothy Nypaver, and Loay S. Kabbani
Acute Limb Ischemia: Patient-reported Quality of Life and Ambulation Outcomes, Kaitlyn Dobesh, Dhruva Kadiyala, Alexander D. Shepard, Kevin Onofrey, Alice Lee, Andi Peshkepija, Timothy Nypaver, and Loay S. Kabbani
A Single Institution Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating Ciprofloxacin Versus Levofloxacin As Antibacterial Prophylaxis for Patients Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Shatha Farhan, Peter Xie, Klodiana Neme, Angela German, Nancy Mikulandric, Josena K. Stephen, Mary A. Trapp, Elizabeth A. Henne, Sarah Szymanski, Scott R. Rohrer, Danielle L. Pelland, Nada Zagar, Izabela Z. Mazur, Nada Rida, Kunj Patel, Min Wu, Neda Kortam, Aseel Yaseen, Aroob Sweidan, Josephine Emole, Edward Peres, Muneer H. Abidi, and Mayur Ramesh
COMPARING NERVE BLOCK PAIN PUMPS TO STANDARD OF CARE IN PATIENTS FOLLOWING CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY, David W. Gutenschwager, Laura Hencken, Kristin M. Griebe, Victor Coba, Hassan Nemeh, and Long To
Factors Influencing Surgeon Use of the Robot for Bariatric Surgery, Sophie Gutterman, C. Ann Vitous, Rachel A. Ross, Amanda L. Stricklen, Arthur M. Carlin, and Annie E. Ehlers
Comparison of Liver Transplantation Outcomes by Insurance Type in the Acuity Circles Era, Joe Habbouche, Lucy Chau Ching, Niluka Wickramaratne, Toshihiro Kitajima, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Differences in Post-Surgical Outcomes and Complications Among Males and Females Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A State-wide Analysis, Ahmad Hider, Aaron Bonham, Arthur M. Carlin, Johnathan Finks, Amir Ghaferi, Oliver A. Varban, and Anne Ehlers
Timing of Reoperation after Sleeve Gastrectomy: An Important Metric to Identify Criteria for Safe Same-Day Operation, Ahmad Hider, Aaron J. Bonham, Amir A. Ghaferi, Jonathan F. Finks, Annie E. Ehlers, Arthur M. Carlin, and Oliver A. Varban
Value Analysis of Improving Diabetes and Obesity on Total Episode Payment Outcomes after Common Surgical Procedures, Ahmad Hider, Kristen P. Hassett, Chelsea A. Pizzo, Jonathan F. Finks, Sean M. O’Neill, and Oliver A. Varban
Impact of National OCS Lung Procurement & Management Program on Post-Transplant Survival - Real World Data from the Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Post-Approval Registry, S. Huddleston, M. Hertz, G. Loor, P. Garcha, M. Hartwig, L. Snyder, A. Siddique, H. Strah, J. Kukreja, T. Song, R. Jablonski, M. Smith, R. Walia, A. Arjuna, L. Lozonschi, K. Patel, G. Katlaps, Hassan Nemeh, E. Saurez, H. Huang, N. Langer, J. Madsen, A. Lee, G. Dhillon, J. MacArthur, S. Keshavamurthy, S. Nandavaram, M. Daneshmand, D. Neujahr, E. Bush, D. Joyce, A. Ardehali, M. Budev, and K. McCurry
Association of Social Determinants with Patient Reported Outcomes in Patients with Cancer, Hollis E. Hutchings, N. Enofe, K. Brue, Samantha Tam, Steven S. Chang, Anqi Wang, and Ikenna Okereke
A risk factor analysis of donor-specific factors on one- and threeyear post-transplant mortality after multi visceral transplantation, Tommy Ivanics, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, Yakir Muszkat, Michael Rizzari, Marwan Abouljoud, Atsushi Yoshida, and Shunji Nagai
Era-specific improvements in age-disparate outcomes after liver transplantation for acute liver failure: a population-based analysis of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Tommy Ivanics, David Wallace, Marco Claasen, Michael Rizzari, Marwan Abouljoud, Atsushi Yoshida, Shunji Nagai, and William Bernal
Effect of Neuromuscular Blockade Reversal on Post-operative Urinary Retention Following Inguinal Herniorrhaphy, Alexa Jarman, Lucy Ching Chau, Ryan Soheim, Michael Dix, Kellie McFarlin, and Cletus Stanton
Willingness to Participate in Lung Cancer Screening: Race and Gender Differences among Informed, Screening- Eligible Individuals, Hollis Johanson, Olivia Aspiras, Hemi Thaker, Anqi Wang, Anurag Dawadi, Laila M. Poisson, Todd Lucas, and Ikenna C. Okereke
Novel technique to fenestrate an aortic dissection flap using electrocautery, Loay S. Kabbani, Marvin H. Eng, Kevin Onofrey, Mitchell R Weaver, and Timothy Nypaver
First Report of the Organ Care System (OCS) Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Post-Approval Registry, G. Loor, P. Garcha, S. Huddleston, M. Hertz, M. Hartwig, L. Snyder, A. Siddique, H. Strah, J. Kukreja, T. Song, R. Jablonski, M. Smith, R. Walia, A. Arjuna, L. Lozonschi, K. Patel, G. Katlaps, Hassan Nemeh, E. Suarez, H. Huang, N. Langer, J. Madsen, A. Lee, G. Dhillon, J. MacArthur, S. Keshavamurthy, S. Nandavaram, M. Daneshmand, D. Neujahr, E. Bush, D. Joyce, A. Ardehali, M. Budev, and K. McCurry
Impact of OCS Lung Warm Perfusion Times on Post-Transplant Survival - "Real-World" Experience from Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Registry, G. Loor, P. Garcha, S. Huddleston, M. Hertz, M. Hartwig, L. Snyder, A. Siddique, H. Strah, J. Kukreja, T. Song, R. Jablonski, M. Smith, R. Walia, A. Arjuna, L. Lozonschi, K. Patel, G. Katlaps, Hassan Nemeh, E. Suarez, H. Huang, N. Langer, J. Madsen, A. Lee, G. Dhillon, J. MacArthur, S. Keshavamurthy, S. Nandavaram, M. Daneshmand, D. Neujahr, E. Bush, D. Joyce, A. Ardehali, M. Budev, and K. McCurry
Sartorius Myoplasty for Exposed Composite Graft in the Groin, Alexander K. Lu, Sachinder Hans, and Phillip Nahirniak
HIGHER INTRA-OPERATIVE PEAK LACTATE VALUE MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH PROLONGED HEMODIALYSIS REQUIREMENT AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANT ALONE IN PATIENTS WITH PRE- TRANSPLANT KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION, Katsunori Miyake, Saleh Al-Juburi, Kelly Z. Young, Lucy Chau, Toshihiro Kitajima, Niluka Wickramaratne, Ahmed Nassar, Atsushi Yoshida, Dilip Moonka, Deepak Venkat, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Closing the Gap on Racial Disparities in Pancreas Cancer -the Impact of a Multidisciplinary Clinic for Surgical Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in an Integrated, Tertiary Healthcare System, Georges Nassif, Meng-Hua Tao, Kendyll J. Gartrelle, Julie Clark, Kyra Langley, Farzan Siddiqui, Parag J. Parikh, Gazala Khan, Philip A. Philip, Rupen Shah, Christopher Steffes, and David Kwon
Surgical outcomes after neoadjuvant ablative dose radiation among patients with borderline resectable and locally advanced pancreas cancer from the multi-institutional phase 2 Stereotactic MR-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy (SMART) trial, Parag J. Parikh, Domenech Asbun, Michael D. Chuong, Lorraine Portelance, Jashodeep Datta, Michael F. Bassetti, Sharon M. Weber, Bassem I. Zaki, Kerrington D. Smith, Ann C. Raldow, Timothy R. Donahue, Hyun Kim, William G. Hawkins, Patrick Kelly, Daniel Low, Percy Lee, Martin Fuss, and David S. Kwon
Development and validation of an open pancreatic necrosectomy risk score in acute pancreatitis, Chinmayee Potti, Lucy Ching Chau, Rebecca Ferguson, Ilya Rakitin, Nadia Obeid, and Cletus Stanton
01. The Toronto management of initially unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer in a living donor liver transplant program, Luckshi Rajendran, Marco P. A. W. Claasen, Tommy Ivanics, Nazia Selzner, Ian McGilvray, Mark Cattral, Anand Ghanekar, Carol-Anne Moulton, Trevor Reichman, Chaya Shwaartz, Ur Metser, Ron Burkes, Erin Winter, Steven Gallinger, and Gonzalo Sapisochin
STATEWIDE TRENDS EM ESOPHAGECTOMY APPROACH: DATA FROM A REGIONAL THORACIC QUALITY COLLABORATIVE, R. Reddy, N. Mollberg, K. Adams, Andrew Popoff, G. Lam, S. Lall, and K. Lagisetty
EX SITU END ISCHEMIC HYPOTHERMIC OXYGENATED PERFUSION (HOPE) VERSUS STATIC COLD STORAGE PRIOR TO LIVER TRANSPLANTATION-EARLY RESULTS OF THE BRIDGE TO HOPE PIVOTAL MULTICENTER RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL ON THE SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE VITASMART LIVER MACHINE PERFUSION SYSTEM (CLINICALTRIALS.GOV: Nct05045794), David J. Reich, Andrea Schlegel, Michael Rizzari, Koji Hashimoto, Sander S. Florman, Michael E. De Vera, David P. Foley, Shennen A. Mao, William C. Chapman, Garrett Roll, Antonio Pinna, Ashish Saharia, Shaheed Merani, Humberto E. Bohorquez, Mohamed Akoad, Chandrashekhar A. Kubal, and Sophoclis Alexopoulos
Patient Recorded Outcomes (PROs) After Kidney Transplantation: Envarsus vs Tacrolimus (Multicenter Transplant Alliance Cohort), R. J. Ryan, M. Merzkani, Dean Kim, M. Mai, R. Heilman, B. Smith, M. Everly, and M. Stegall
The 24-Hour Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Discarded Human Liver Grafts, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Adhnan Mohamed, Iman E. Bajjoka, Catherine Crombez, Shunji Nagai, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan Abouljoud, and Michael Rizzari
Adverse Effects of New-Onset Diabetes After Liver Transplantation, Shingo Shimada, Katsunori Miyake, Deepak Venkat, Humberto Gonzalez, Dilip Moonka, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Combined Robotic and Endoscopic Assisted Gastric Lipoma Excision, Ryan Soheim, Lucy Ching Chau, and Kellie McFarlin
Risk Factors and Natural History of Bedside Percutaneous Endoscopic Versus Fluoroscopic Guided Gastrostomy Tubes in Intensive Care Unit Patients, Ryan Soheim, Sarah Chung, Lucy Ching Chau, Michael Dix, Miles Bowman, Nadia Obeid, Arielle H. Gupta, and Cletus Stanton
Treatment fragmentation and timely treatment in racially and socioeconomically diverse patients with head and neck cancers, Samantha Tam, Wan-Ting Su, Cara E. Cannella, Amy Tang, Katie Latack, F. Elssis, Haythem Y. Ali, Steven S. Chang, Andrew Popoff, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Brian Ahmedani, and Christine C. Johnson
Anticoagulation Bridging In Patients With Heartmate3 Left Ventricular Assist Device: A Regional Analysis Of The Momentum 3 Trial, Dmitry M. Yaranov, Abigail S. Baldridge, Sunit-Preet Chaudhry, Matthew Gonzalez, J. Barr Biglane, Daizo Tanaka, William Fischer, Chris Larkin, Rafath Ullah, and Duc Pham
Submissions from 2022
Right Ventricular Failure Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant: An Intermacs Analysis, Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, I Toumpoulis, David E. Lanfear, Celeste Williams, A Koliopoulou, S Adamopoulos, and Jennifer A. Cowger
Surgical Specialization and Standardization of Care Improves Outcomes in Mechanical Circulatory Support: A Single Center Experience, Donald D. Chang, M. Giraldo-Grueso, S. Desai, K. Marz, A. Bansal, K. Webre, and P. Parrino
COMPARISON OF LIVER TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOMES BY INSURANCE TYPE IN THE ACUITY CIRCLES ERA, Lucy Chau Ching, Joe Habbouche, Adhnan Mohamed, Toshihiro Kitajima, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Comparison of Outcomes in High Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation Usage Centers in the Acuity Circles Era, Lucy Chau, Kelly Collins, and Marwan S. Abouljoud
Patient factors that affect pre-operative patient-reported outcomes in women undergoing breast cancer surgery, Wing L. Cheung, Cara E. Cannella, Yalei L. Chen, Sanjay Rama, Semar Yono, Isabela Romano, Jessica Bensenhaver, Daniel Yoho, and Dunya M. Atisha
Patient and disease pre-operative factors influencing surgical procedure choice for breast cancer treatment, Wing L. Cheung, Cara E. Cannella, Yalei Chen, Sanjay Rama, S Yono, Isabela Romano, Jessica Bensenhaver, Daniel Yoho, and Dunya M. Atisha
The Value of a Vascular Surgery Curriculum for Clinical Medical Students: Results of a National Survey of Nonvascular Educators, Chelsea Dorsey, Maria Paz, Jonathan Bath, Loay S. Kabbani, Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar, Angela Kokkosis, Murray L. Shames, Michael Malinowski, Bernadette Aulivola, Brigitte K. Smith, Kelly Kempe, and Dawn M. Coleman
Does contralateral prophylactic mastectomy improve survival in triple negative breast cancer?, Genevieve A. Fasano, Solange Bayard, Yalei Chen, Jennifer Marti, Rache Simmons, Alexander Swistel, Jessica Bensenhaver, S. David Nathanson, Lindsay Petersen, Erica Proctor, Melissa Davis, and Lisa Newman
Cholecystectomy Is Risker in Male Patients, Camden W. Gardner, Ashley N. Ver Beek, Ilan S. Rubinfeld, and Jeffrey L. Johnson
Immunotherapy before solid organ transplantation: an international transplant community-focused survey, Tommy Ivanics, Marco Claasen, David Al-Adra, and Gonzalo Sapisochin
Regional Variation in Early Effects of Acuity Circle-Based Liver Allocation, Tommy Ivanics, Shunji Nagai, Toshihiro Kitajima, Shingo Shimada, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Dilip Moonka, and Marwan Abouljoud
Evaluating the performance and external validity of machine learning-based prediction models in liver transplantation: an international study, Tommy Ivanics, D. So, M. Claasen, D. Wallace, M. Patel, A. Gravely, K. Walker, T. Cowling, L. Erdman, and G. Sapisochin
Evaluating the predictive performance and transferability of machine learning-based prediction models using national liver transplant data registries, Tommy Ivanics, Delvin So, Marco Claasen, David Wallace, Madhukar Patel, Annabel Gravely, Kate Walker, Thomas Cowling, Lauren Erdman, and Gonzalo Sapisochin
International multi-institutional comparison of liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: United States, United Kingdom and Canada, Tommy Ivanics, D. Wallace, M. Claasen, M. Patel, W. Jassem, K. Menon, A. Suddle, N. Heaton, N. Mehta, J. van der Meulen, and G. Sapisochin
Treatment Patterns and Outcomes in Patients with Pancoast Tumors: A National Cancer Database Analysis, Hollis E. Johanson, J. Cox, and Ikenna Okereke
The Acuity Circle Allocation Policy is Associated with Worse Graft Survival After Liver Transplant with Donation After Circulatory Death Donors in Low-MELD Centers, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tommy Ivanics, Dilip Moonka, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Adhnan Mohamed, Shingo Shimada, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Favorable waitlist and transplant outcomes in transplant centers with a rapid increase in center volume, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tommy Ivanics, Tayseer Shamaa, Shingo Shimada, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
PRE-TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPENIA IS ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT-TERM MORTALITY AFTER DECEASED DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION, Toshihiro Kitajima, Luckshi Rajendran, Mei Lu, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Tommy Ivanics, Atsushi Yoshida, Marco Claasen, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Gonzalo Sapisochin, and Shunji Nagai
Perception of Transplant Surgery and the Pursuit of a Career in Transplant Surgery Among US General Surgery Residents, Caitlin Loseth, Caroline Qin, Laura Zeiser, Dorry Segev, Leigh Anne Dageforde, Anthony Watkins, Kelly Collins, Jaime Glorioso, R. Cutler Quillin III, Jacqueline Garonzik-Wang, and Amit Tevar
Cardiovascular Responses to Mild Lower Body Negative Pressure during Spaceflight, Jason R. Lytle, Brandon R. Macias, Stuart M. Lee, David Martin, Douglas J. Ebert, Alan R. Hargens, Scott A. Dulchavsky, Irina V. Alferova, Michael B. Stenger, and Steven S. Laurie
(PO-195) The utility of Phosphatidylethanol Testing in Assessing Alcohol use in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: A Case Series, Kellie Martens, Lisa Miller-Matero, Aaron Hamann, Kelly Bryce, Jeffrey Genaw, and Arthur Carlin
Characterizing Outflow Graft Narrowing over Time, S. McCarthy, E. Molina, Hassan Nemeh, S. Chaudhry, S. Pinney, A. Srivastava, J. Grinstein, I. Hackett, and Jennifer A. Cowger
Is nodal staging necessary for older patients with HER2-positive or triple-negative breast cancers?, Leslie M. McDonough, Lindsay Petersen, Anna Lehrberg, Jessica Bensenhaver, Omar Qutob, Laura L. Susick, Elisabeth Ekkel, Hemi Thaker, and Theresa Schwartz
EXCEPTION POLICY CHANGE INCREASED THE SIMULTANEOUS KIDNEY-LIVER TRANSPLANT PROBABILITY IN PATIENTS WITH POLYCYSTIC DISEASE IN THE CENTERS WITH HIGH MEDIAN MELD AT TRANSPLANTATION, Katsunori Miyake, Dean Y. Kim, Dilip Moonka, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Size to Fit: A Simple Formula to Predict Donor Liver Weight in Deceased Donor Liver Transplant, Adhnan Mohamed, Jennifer Cui, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Tommy Ivanics, I. Godana, Alexandra Yorks, Shingo Shimada, Bill Madek, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan Abouljoud, Shunji Nagai, and Kelly Collins
Thromboelastography and Liver Transplantation: A Target Group, Adhnan Mohamed, Toshihiro Kitajima, Santhalakshmi Angappan, Khortnal Delvecchio, Sirisha Yeddula, Mhd Tayseer Shamaa, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Jaber El-Bashir, and Shunji Nagai
Thromboelastography in Liver Transplantation: A Target Group, Adhnan Mohamed, Toshihiro Kitajima, Jennifer Cui, Santhalakshmi Angappan, Khortnal Delvecchio, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Tommy Ivanics, Shingo Shimada, Michael Rizzari, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan Abouljoud, Jaber El-Bashir, and Shunji Nagai
Long-term outcomes of donation after cardiac death and living donor liver transplant for primary sclerosing cholangitis, Dilip Moonka, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tommy Ivanics, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
INCREASING RENAL INSUFFICIENCY AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANT: AN ANALYSIS OF UNOS REGISTRY, Dilip Moonka, Yueren Zhou, Mei Lu, and Shunji Nagai
Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of LongTerm Survival After Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Abdul Kader Natour, Keinnan Hares, Alexander D. Shepard, and Loay S. Kabbani
Utilization Of Preoperative Vein Mapping In Patients Undergoing Infra-inguinal Bypass Is Associated With Increased Use Of Venous Conduits, Abdul Kader Natour, Alexander D. Shepard, Timothy Nypaver, Robert Cuff, Nicholas J. Mouawad, Mark Mattos, Peter Henke, and Loay S. Kabbani
Impact of Preoperative Hemoglobin A1c in Patients Undergoing Open Distal Vascular Procedures, Abdul Kader Natour, Alexander D. Shepard, Mitchell R. Weaver, and Timothy Nypaver
Impact Of Preoperative Hemoglobina1c In Patients Undergoing Open Distal Vascular Procedures, Abdul Kader Natour, Alexander D. Shepard, Mitchell R. Weaver, Timothy Nypaver, Peter Henke, and Loay S. Kabbani
Left Subclavian Artery Revascularization May Not Influence the Incidence of Spinal Cord Ischemia in Elective Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Abdul Kader Natour, Alexander D. Shepard, Mitchell R. Weaver, Andi Peshkepija, Timothy Nypaver, and Loay S. Kabbani
Re-vascularization Of Left Subclavian Artery May Not Influence The Incidence Of Spinal Cord Injury After Endovascular Repair Of Acute Type B Aortic Dissection, Abdul Kader Natour, Alexander D. Shepard, Mitchell R. Weaver, Andi Peshkepija, Timothy Nypaver, and Loay S. Kabbani
Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of Long-Term Survival After Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Abdul K. Natour, Keinnan Hares, Alexander Shepard, and Loay Kabbani
The Relationship of Social Determinants and Distress in Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients, B. Okeke, J. Jones, G. Obanigba, A. Obi, M. Nkansah, N. Odiase, K. Khanipov, and Ikenna Okereke
Sentinel Lymph Node Positivity in Clinically Node Negative Breast Cancer Patients After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Opportunities to Defer Intraoperative Frozen Section Analysis, Omar Qutob, Jessica Bensenhaver, Laura L. Susick, Lindsay Petersen, Anna Lehrberg, Fallon Dimaano, and Theresa Schwartz
The effect of lymphatic microsurgical preventive healing approach (LYMPHA) on the development of upper-extremity lymphedema following axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer patients, Omar Qutob, Sanjay Rama, Lisa Black, Michele Zubalik, Jessica Bensenhaver, Lindsay Petersen, Saul D. Nathanson, Donna G. Tepper, Daniel Yoho, Maristella S. Evangelista, and Dunya M. Atisha
Disparity Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Pancreas Surgery at an Urban Tertiary Care Center, Mariam A. Saad, Kendyll J. Gartrelle, Rupen Shah, Julie Clark, Kyra Langley, Erin Field, Christopher P. Steffes, and David S. Kwon
A single-center analysis of 30- and 90-day post-pancreatectomy complications in patients undergoing neoadjuvant radiation with EBRT versus MRI-guided SBRT, Mariam Saad, Julie Clark, Rupen A. Shah, Farzan Siddiqui, Parag J. Parikh, Kendyll J. Gartrelle, Abdul Kader Natour, Gazala Khan, and David Kwon
Racial disparities in surgical outcomes in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) undergoing pancreas surgery, Mariam Saad, Kendyll Gartrelle, Rupen A. Shah, Julie Clark, Christopher P. Steffes, and David S. Kwon
Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (Novel) as an Assessment of Extended Criteria Donor Lungs: A Prospective Multi-Center Clinical Trial, P. G. Sanchez, E. G. Chan, R. D. Davis, M. Hartwig, T. Machuca, B. Whitson, M. Daneshmand, F. D. Ovidio, J. Dcunha, M. Weyant, M. Jessen, C. Bermudez, M. Mulligan, T. Wozniak, W. Lynch, Hassan Nemeh, C. Caldeira, T. Song, D. Kreisel, P. Camp, D. Ramzy, B. Griffith, and E. Cantu
Evaluation of Practice Patterns and Outcomes after Implementing SMART for Pancreatic Cancer, Eric Schaff, Parag J. Parikh, Pin Li, Rupen Shah, Gazala Khan, Farzan Siddiqui, Benjamin Movsas, and David Kwon
Measurement of physical activity and frailty in the early post-operative period after kidney transplant: Single-center prospective pilot study using Fitbit watch, Tayseer Shamaa, Lisa Allenspach, Toshihiro Kitajima, Omar Shamaa, Catherine Crombez, Omar Hage-Hassan, Shingo Shimada, Sirisha Yeddula, Iman Francis, Lauren Malinzak, Jason E. Denny, Dean Kim, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
IMPACT OF FRAILTY ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE POST-OPERATIVE PERIOD AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANT SURGERY; PILOT STUDY USING FITBIT WATCH, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Lisa Allenspach, Omar Shamaa, Catherine Crombez, Omar Hage-Hassan, Toshihiro Kitajima, Iman Bajjoka-Francis, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
EARLY IMPACT OF ACUITY CIRCLE ALLOCATION POLICY ON DISCARDED LIVERS; ANALYSIS OF UNOS REGISTRY, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Katsunori Miyake, Tommy Ivanics, Adhnan Mohamed, Toshihiro Kitajima, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
The impact of pre-transplant treatment on post-transplant outcomes in liver transplant patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, Shingo Shimada, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tayseer Shamaa, Tommy Ivanics, Adhnan Mohamed, Dilip Moonka, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
8605 Gynecologic Laparoscopy in the Bariatric Patient: A Retrospective Review of Abdominal Access and Associated Complications, G. H. Shukr, M. Shukr, D. I. Eisenstein, Arthur M. Carlin, and Joelle Abood
Risks and Outcomes Associated with Pleural Space Infections After Lung Transplantation, Jane Simanovski, Hassan Nemeh, Lisa Allenspach, L. L. Mei, Lisa Stagner, Julio Pinto Corrales, Kaitlin Olexsey, Domingo J. Franco-Palacios, and George Alangaden
Association of Discontinuing Pre-Injury Beta-Adrenergic Blockade Medication with Mortality in Severe Blunt Traumatic Brian Injury, C. J. Tignanelli, S. Arbabi, G. A. P. Iskander, Kurt A. Kralovich, A. M. Ledgerwood, J. W. Scott, N. Sangji, and M. R. Hemmila
Factors That Influence Discharge Opioid Prescribing among Bariatric Surgeons across Michigan, C. A. Vitous, A. L. Stricklen, R. A. Ross, A. A. Ghaferi, Arthur M. Carlin, and A. E. Ehlers
Update on a pilot study: Flumeltbi peripheral blood HLAhaploidentical stem cell transplantation with post-transplant cyclophosphamide and bortezomib (Cy2Bor3), Sowjanya Vuyyala, Edward Peres, Klodiana Neme, Nancy Mikulandric, Susan M. Wautelet, Danielle L. Pelland, Nada Zagar, Mary A. Trapp, Scott R. Rohrer, Elizabeth A. Henne, Sarah Szymanski, Josephine Emole, Muneer H. Abidi, and Shatha Farhan
Submissions from 2021
Developing and validation of a liver transplantation donation after cardiac death risk index using the UNOS database, Lucy Chau, Khortnal Delvecchio, Adhnan Mohamed, Toshihiro Kitajima, Mei Lu, Sirisha Yeddula, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Effect of tacrolimus exposure on everolimus-based immunosuppression in de novo kidney transplant recipients: A 24-month analysis from transform study, Franco Citterio, V. Ram Peddi, Yasir Qazi, Dean Kim, Flavio Vincenti, Stefan Berger, Claudia Sommerer, Apurva Gawai, Maria-Pilar Hernandez-Gutierrez, Peter Bernhardt, and Rainer Oberbauer
Impact of Hiatal Hernia Repair Technique on Patient-Reported Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, Anne P. Ehlers, Aaron J. Bonham, Amir A. Ghaferi, Jonathan F. Finks, Arthur M. Carlin, and Oliver A. Varban
Extreme Hyponatremia as a Risk Factor for Early Mortality after Liver Transplantation in the MELD-Sodium Era, Tommy Ivanics, Shravan Leonard-Murali, Hassan Mouzaihem, Dilip Moonka, Toshihiro Kitajima, Sirisha Yeddula, T Shamaa, Michael Rizzari, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
A rapid increase in liver transplant center volume is associated with favorable waitlist and transplant outcomes: An analysis of unos registry from 2014-2019, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tommy Ivanics, Tayseer M. Shamaa, Shingo Shimada, Dilip Moonka, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Careful donor selection is key to improving post-liver transplant graft survival in older patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure, Toshihiro Kitajima, Y Kuno, Luisa Arevalo, Nicole Murray, Eric Lisznyai, T Shamaa, Tommy Ivanics, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
Combined liver and lung transplantation with extended normothermic liver preservation using TransmedicsOrgan Care System (OCS)™ liver: A single center experience, Jonathan Konel, Mhd Tayseer Shamaa, Omar Shamaa, Ahmed Elsabbagh, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tommy Ivanics, Khortnal Delvecchio, Adhnan Mohamed, Sirisha Yeddula, Kelly Collins, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Shunji Nagai, and Michael Rizzari
Predicting Right Ventricular Failure Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Support: A Derivation-Validation Multicenter Risk Score, C P. Kyriakopoulos, I Taleb, A G. Koliopoulou, N Ijaz, Zachary Demertzis, Adithya Peruri, E Dranow, O Wever-Pinzon, M Y. Yin, K S. Shah, L Kemeyou, T J. Richins, D G. Tang, Hassan W. Nemeh, J Stehlik, C H. Selzman, R Alharethi, W T. Caine, A G. Kfoury, J C. Fang, Jennifer A. Cowger, P Shah, and S G. Drakos
Pre-Transplant Prognostic Nutritional Index Predicts Short-Term Outcomes after Liver Transplantation, Eric Lisznyai, Toshihiro Kitajima, Khortnal Delvecchio, Adhnan Mohamed, Sirisha Yeddula, T Shamaa, Tommy Ivanics, Kelly Collins, Michael Rizzari, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
The use of grape juice in the detection of esophageal leaks, Madison J. Malfitano, Jenny T. Bui, Rachel M. Swier, and Benjamin E. Haithcock
The Effect of Neutrophil-lymphocyte Ratio on 10-year Survival Outcomes Following Elective Open and EVAR Procedures, Megan A. Mitchell, Abdul Kader Natour, Keinnan Hares, A H. King, Loay S. Kabbani, V S. Kashyap, and J S. Cho
The Impact of Thromboelastography on Decreasing Blood Product Usage in Liver Transplantation, Adhnan Mohamed, Toshihiro Kitajima, Tayseer Shamaa, Ahmed M. Elsabbagh, Atsushi Yoshida, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Shunji Nagai
