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• • ·Surgical Forum 2012

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• • ·Contents

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• Introduction

  • ·Introduction

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    Résumé Résumé Plan Plan

• Dedication

  • ·The 63^rd Volume of the Surgical Forum Is Dedicated to Michael R Harrison, MD, FACS

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    Michael T. Longaker

     

• Surgical Forum Dedications

  • ·Surgical Forum Dedications

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• 2012 Excellence in Research Award Recipients

  • ·American College of Surgeons Owen H Wangensteen Forum on Fundamental Surgical Problems: Resident/Fellow Excellence in Research Awards 2012

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• Alimentary Tract I

  • ·Potential tumor suppressor miR-1247 is down-regulated in CpG island methylator phenotype colon cancers

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    Jennifer J. Liang, Kathryn L. DeJulius, Awad Jarrar, Angela Ting, James Church, Matthew F. Kalady

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  • ·Loss of aryl hydrocarbon receptor within colonic epithelium increases susceptibility to colon tumor formation

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    Sean M. Ronnekleiv-Kelly, Peter G. Geiger, Gregory D. Kennedy

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  • ·Blockade of angiotensin converting enzyme-inhibitor (ACE-I) prevents in immunologically relevant colitis model

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    Ryo Sueyoshi, Kathleen Ignatoski, Manabu Okawada, Daniel H. Teitelbaum

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  • ·Intestinal alkaline phosphatase inhibits the pro-inflammatory ligand uridine diphosphate

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    Angela K. Moss, Madhu M. Malo, Sundaram Ramasamy, Halim Yammine, Kanakaraju Kaliannan, Sayeda N. Alam, Nur Muhammad, H. Shaw Warren, Elizabeth Hohmann, Richard A. Hodin

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  • ·Does re-evaluation of colorectal cancers with inadequate nodal yield lead to stage migration or the identification of metastatic lymph nodes?

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    Lilian Chen, Matthew Kalady, John Goldblum, Dilara Khoshknabi, Patricia Roberts, Rocco Ricciardi

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  • ·A matched case-control study of functional outcomes on rectal cancer patients undergoing surgery with or without intraoperative neuromonitoring

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    Daniel W. Kauff, Vera Juhre, Hauke Lang, Werner Kneist

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  • ·Morbid obesity and outcomes of surgery for diverticulitis: Results from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) dataset

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    Matthew B. Bailey, Daniel Davenport, Levi Procter, H. David Vargas

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  • ·Does obesity increase perioperative morbidity after laparoscopic surgery for inflammatory bowel disease? Review of 626 consecutive cases

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    Mukta Katdare Krane, Marco Allaix, Marco Zoccali, Konstantin Umanskiy, Michele Rubin, Anthony Villa, Roger Hurst, Alessandro Fichera

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  • ·Endoluminal vacuum therapy for gastrojejunal anastomotic leaks after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A pilot study in a swine model

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    Lane A. Ritter, Laura H. Rosenberger, Sanford H. Feldman, Mark J. Mentrikoski, Daniel E. Kleiner

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  • ·Human growth hormone (hGH) abolishes the negative effects of everolimus on intestinal anastomotic healing

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    Markus Alexander Küper, Sebastian Trütschel, Frank Traub, Jürgen Weinreich, Anita Hack, Michaela Weis-Klemm, Alfred Königsrainer, Stefan Beckert

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  • ·Near infrared imaging of colorectal anastomotic perfusion

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    Danny A. Sherwinter

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  • ·Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy: A comparison of natural orifice vs. transabdominal specimen extraction

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    Reginald Griffin, Irfan Qureshi, Ziad Awad

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• Alimentary Tract II

  • ·Toll-like receptor 7 regulates pancreatic inflammation and transformation

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    Christopher S. Graffeo, Adeel Rehman, Constantinos P. Zambirinis, Justin R. Henning, Nina Fallon, Rocky Barilla, Marco V. Medina-Zea, Mohsin Jamal, Michael Deutsch, George Miller

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  • ·Extracellular superoxide dismutase (EcSOD) suppresses hypoxia-inducible factor-1-alpha (HIF-1a) and inhibits growth in pancreatic cancer

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    Jessemae L. Welsh, Zita Sibenaller, Changbin Du, Hannah Schrock, Juan Du, Joseph J. Cullen

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  • ·Combination chemotherapy with nafamostat mesilate and oxaliplatin targeting NF-kappa B activation for pancreatic cancer in mice

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    Takeshi Gocho, Tadashi Uwagawa, Ryota Iwase, Koichiro Haruki, Yuki Fujiwara, Kenei Furukawa, Taigo Hata, Takeyuki Misawa, Toya Ohashi, Katsuhiko Yanaga

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  • ·Targeted glycemic control following total pancreatectomy

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    Eric Kubat, Kimberly S. Kirkwood

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  • ·Incidental gallbladder cancer: When should the surgeon be suspicious?

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    Susan C. Pitt, Linda Jin, Bruce L. Hall, Steven M. Strasberg, Henry A. Pitt

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  • ·Pancreatic duct ligation (PDL) abrogates ischemia reperfusion (I/R) mediated gut injury via the intestinal unstirred mucus layer

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    Jordan E. Fishman, Gal Levy, Edwin A. Deitch

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  • ·Macrophage depletion attenuates microvascular inflammation following hemorrhagic shock/resuscitation

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    Casey P. Hertzenberg, John G. Wood, Michael Moncure, Norberto C. Gonzalez, Elizabeth Echalier, Marcus Hook, James H. Thomas

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  • ·Adaptive cellular responses following lipopolysaccharide treatment are dependent on nitric oxide regulated, mitochondrial generation of reactive oxygen species

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    Sean Whelan, Evie H. Carchman, Brian S. Zuckerbraun

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  • ·Elevated mortality and prolonged intestinal cell death following combined radiation and burn in a mouse model

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    Stewart R. Carter, Anita Zahs, Jessica L. Palmer, Aleah L. Brubaker, Lu Wang, Luis Ramirez, Mashkoor A. Choudhry, Sherri L. Yong, Richard L. Gamelli, Elizabeth J. Kovacs

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  • ·Radiation-induced changes in intestinal and tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase: Implications for recovery of radiation chemotherapy

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    Rebecca M. Rentea, Vy Lam, Katherine Fredrich, Jennifer Callison, John E. Moulder, John E. Baker, David M. Gourlay, Mary F. Otterson

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  • ·Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor protects the intestines from radiation therapy-induced intestinal injury

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    Mika A.B. Matthews, Daniel J. Watkins, Amanda Darbyshire, Gail E. Besner

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• Alimentary Tract III

  • ·Insurance status impacts hospital transfer and subsequent outcomes for acute cholecystitis

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    Zeling Chau, Elan R. Witkowski, Elizaveta Ragulin-Coyne, Sing-Chau Ng, Shimul A. Shah, Heena P. Santry, Jennifer F. Tseng

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  • ·A practical index to predict 14-day mortality following hospital discharge after high-risk gastrointestinal (GI) operations

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    David C. Chang, Molly C. Easterlin, Mark A. Talamini

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  • ·Letting the sun set on small bowel obstruction: Can a simple risk score tell us when nonoperative care is appropriate?

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    Elizabeth Ann O'Leary, William S. Yi, Kari Fujita, Conor F. Hynes, Suma K. Chandra, Sameer Desale, Jack Sava

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  • ·Synergistic reduction of postoperative adhesions by combined intraoperative administration of a histone deacetylase inhibitor and a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist is achieved by targeting different mechanisms in adhesiogenesis

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    Michael R. Cassidy, Joseph J. Gallant, Alan C. Sherburne, Melanie L. Gainsbury, Holly K. Sheldon, Arthur F. Stucchi

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  • ·Postoperative ileus is influenced by interleukin (IL)-1 receptor signaling

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    Burkhard Stoffels, K. Johnnes Hupa, Joerg C. Kalff, Sven Wehner, PhD

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  • ·Non-vascular myocyte TLR4 regulates intestinal and systemic inflammation and prevents late ileus in murine endotoxemia

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    Bettina M. Buchholz, Yoram Vodovotz, Derek Barclay, Richard A. Shapiro, Timothy R. Billiar, Chhinder Sodhi, David J. Hackam, Anthony J. Bauer, PhD

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  • ·Endogenous interleukin (IL)-23 protects against acinar injury in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated mouse severe acute pancreatitis

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    Gregory M. Boucher, Albert E. Stanek, Sidharth Sharma, Cathy M. Mueller, Gainosuke Sugiyama, Thomas K. Weber, Nico Ghilardi, Wenjun Ouyang, Antonio E. Alfonso, Chongmin Huan

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  • ·Cerulein-treated Ras-activated mice develop painful chronic pancreatitis

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    Sandhya Bondada, Cali Johnson, Fiore Cattaruzza, Wendy Cedron, Eileen Grady, Baoan Ji, Craig Logsdon, Kimberly S. Kirkwood

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  • ·Spinal microglia are activated in a painful model of murine chronic pancreatitis

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    Cali Johnson, Fiore Cattaruzza, Sandhya Bondada, Ferda Cevikbas, Wendy Cedron, Eileen F. Grady, Kimberly S. Kirkwood

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  • ·Inhibition of NF-kappaB enhances the anti-tumor effect of combination treatment with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) gene therapy and gemcitabine for pancreatic cancer in mice

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    Yuki Fujiwara, Hiroaki Shiba, Ryota Iwase, Koichiro Haruki, Kenei Furukawa, Tadashi Uwagawa, Takeyuki Misawa, Toya Ohashi, Katsuihiko Yanaga

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  • ·Ezetimibe ameliorates hepatic steatosis but potentiates hepatic oxidative stress

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    Abhishek Mathur, Rachel Wilson, Terrence Wade, Lu Debao, Deborah Swartz-Basile, Nicholas Zyromski, Henry A. Pitt

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  • ·Intraoperative ultrasound does not predict hepatic ablation zone border viability

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    Ami M. Karkar, Camilo Correa-Gallego, Sebastien Monette, Paula C. Ezell, William R. Jarnagin, T. Peter Kingham

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• Apoptosis

  • ·An in vitro model of chemotherapy-associated steatohepatitis: Induction of lipid accumulation in hepatocyte/non-parenchymal cell co-culture by 5-flourouracil and irinotecan

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    John S. Hammond, Monika Owen, Elke Gottschalg, Nicola De Vivo, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Andrew J. Bennett, Dileep N. Lobo

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  • ·Plasmacytoid dendritic cells exacerbate liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R)

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    Jonathan B. Greer, Lee M. Ocuin, Michael J. Cavnar, Eric C. Sorenson, Teresa S. Kim, Shan Zeng, Rachel Popow, Ronald P. DeMatteo

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  • ·Focal adhesion kinase and P53 co-localize in neuroblastoma cells and impact cellular survival

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    Lauren A. Gillory, Michael L. Megison, Jerry E. Stewart, Hugh C. Nabers, Elizabeth A. Beierle

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  • ·Notch 1 regulates keratinocyte migration via integrin beta1 activation during wound healing

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    Madhuchhanda Roy, Taylor J. Jaraczewski, John T. Stofflet, Priya Pathak, Sandy J. Schlosser, B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, Timothy W. King

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• Biomarkers and Genetic Determinants of Disease and Outcomes

  • ·Up-regulation of adipose tissue glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) receptor expression in human obesity after Roux-en Y gastric bypass

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    Federico J. Serrot, Robert B. Dorman, Rocio Foncea, Brigitte Frohnert, Daniel B. Leslie, Bridget Slusarek, David A. Bernlohr, Sayeed Ikramuddin

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  • ·Cytologic atypia is equivalent to BRAF(V600E) status in predicting malignancy of indeterminate thyroid nodules

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    David A. Kleiman, Matthew J. Sporn, Toni Beninato, Michael J. Crowley, Anvy Nguyen, Alessia Uccelli, Rasa Zarnegar, Thomas J. Fahey

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  • ·EpCAM: A novel bio-marker of progressive metaplasia and cancer stem cells in esophageal adenocarcinoma

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    Rusell W. Farmer, Yan Li, Xinqian Kang, Deyi Xiao, Charles St. Hill, Nicholas Harper, Robert Martin

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  • ·Altered PTEN, CHGA, CHGB and ATRX expression are associated with aggressive Von Hippel- Lindau-associated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

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    Allison B. Weisbrod, Lisa Zhang, Meenu Jain, Stephanie Barak, Martha Quezado, Naris Nilubol, Electron Kebebew

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  • ·Germline mutations of the SMAD4 promoter in juvenile polyposis

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    Jennifer C. Carr, Fadi S. Dahdaleh, Daniel Calva, DongHong Wang, James R. Howe

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  • ·Repair of cleft lip in utero by reactivation of craniofacial developmental programs

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    Elisabetta Ferretti, Karina A. Hernandez, Alyssa J. Reiffel, James Hart, Jason A. Spector, Licia Selleri

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  • ·Methylation profile of plasma DNA as a biomarker in colorectal cancer

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    Elisa Cassinotti, Luigi Boni, Victor Levenson, Stefano Rausei, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Alessandro Marzorati, Renzo Dionigi

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  • ·A Smad4-modulated Wnt target gene expression profile identifies high-risk colorectal cancer patients

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    J. Joshua Smith, Tanner J. Freeman, Xi Chen, Natasha G. Deane, Mary K. Washington, Frank Revetta, Joseph T. Roland, Steven Eschrich, Timothy J. Yeatman, Robert D. Beauchamp

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  • ·miRNA expression profiling in early and advanced rectal cancer

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    Zhenbin Chen, Bing Mu, Hanjun Qin, Jinhui Wang, Harry Gao, Wanyan Li, Peter Cataldo, Jorge Marcet, Julio Garcia-Aguilar

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  • ·International analysis of unique DNA mismatch repair gene sequence variants redefines the contribution of MSH2 and MLH1 to colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence

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    Raj P. Raval, Luis Baez-Cabrera, John-Paul Plazzer, Francesco Serafini, Finlay Macrae, Thomas K. Weber

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  • ·Free circulating DNA as potential prognostic factor in colorectal cancer

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    Elisa Cassinotti, Luigi Boni, Stefano Rausei, Alessandro Marzorati, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Renzo Dionigi

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  • ·Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of TNFSF15 are associated with surgical diverticulitis

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    Tara M. Connelly, John P. Hegarty, Arthur Berg, Zhenwu Lin, Sue Deiling, Yun Wang, Walter A. Koltun

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• Cardiothoracic Surgery I

  • ·Intramyocardial gene therapy with adeno beta-catenin preserves cardiac function by increased angiogenesis and cell survival in type I diabetic rat

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    Sumanth Channapatna Suresh, Mahesh Thirunavukkarasu, Vaithinathan Selvaraju, Nilanjana Maulik, Juan A. Sanchez

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  • ·Notch signaling and the neovascular response to ethanol and chronic myocardial ischemia

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    Antonio D. Lassaletta, Nassrene Y. Elmadhun, Louis M. Chu, Thomas A. Burgess, Frank W. Sellke

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  • ·Mathematically-engineered stromal cell-derived factor 1alpha stem cell cytokine analogue enhances mechanical properties of infarcted myocardium

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    John W. MacArthur, Alen Trubelja, David P. Beason, William Hiesinger, Pavan Atluri, Y. Joseph Woo

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  • ·Hemodynamic, metabolic and histological effects of phentolamine during selective cerebral perfusion in neonatal piglets

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    Ivan Ricardo Argueta-Morales, Monica Olsen, Constantine Ionan, Moui Nguyen, Sarina Amin, Sara Danker, Lauren Meador, Hamish Munro, William M. DeCampli

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  • ·Successful use of an eptifibatide bridge for patients taking clopidogrel before cardiac surgery

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    Natalie Lui, Sam Chitsaz, Andrew D. Wisneski, Kiyoaki Takabe, Ali Azadani, Elaine E. Tseng

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  • ·Differential inflammatory response during fetal cardiac regeneration following Myocardial Infarction (MI) NIH 1T32HL105324

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    Michael Wyatt Morris, Myron Allukian, Junwang Xu, Robert C. Caskey, Wanda A. Dorsett-Martin, Marc E. Mitchell, Joseph H. Gorman, Robert C. Gorman, Kenneth W. Liechty

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  • ·Alcohol consumption alters the insulin signaling pathway in ischemic myocardium

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    Nassrene Y. Elmadhun, Antonio D. Lassaletta, Louis M. Chu, Ina Soh, Frank W. Sellke

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  • ·The cardioprotective mechanism of diazoxide is not via the inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase independent of K-ATP channel subunit SUR1

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    Melissa M. Anastacio, Angela D. Sellitto, Evelyn M. Kanter, Richard D. Schuessler, Colin G. Nichols, Jennifer S. Lawton

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  • ·Alterations in intracardiac flow patterns affect mitral leaflet dynamics in ischemic mitral regurgitation

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    Melissa Levack, Walter R.T. Witschey, Jeremy R. McGarvey, Norihiro Kondo, Alex J. Barker, Michael Markl, Joseph H. Gorman, James J. Pilla, Robert C. Gorman

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  • ·EphB4 mediated endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation regulates vein graft adaptation

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    Michael J. Collins, Akihito Muto, Amanda Feigel, Clinton D. Protack, Caroline C. Jadlowiec, Chenzi Yang, David D. Yuh, Alan Dardik

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  • ·Hyponatremia decreases left ventricular ejection fraction after ischemia by modulating NO production

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    Weiping Ye, Daniel Lee, James Ralston, Jay Zweier, Juan Crestanello

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  • ·Hydrogel encapsulation of the endothelial progenitor stem cell cytokine stromal cell derived factor-1alpha to facilitate sustained release therapy

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    John W. MacArthur, Brendan P. Purcell, Alexander S. Fairman, Alen Trubelja, Philip F. Hsiao, Elaine Yang, William Hiesinger, Pavan Atluri, Jason P. Burdick, Y. Joseph Woo

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• Cardiothoracic Surgery II

  • ·Within-tumor genetic diversity in lung cancer

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    Natalie Lui, Aleah Caulin, Trevor Graham, David Jablons, Carlo Maley

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  • ·Completion pneumonectomy: Do outcomes justify the operation?

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    Varun Puri, Andrew V. Tran, Jennifer M. Bell, Traves D. Crabtree, Alexander S. Krupnick, Daniel Kreisel, G. Alexander Patterson, Bryan F. Meyers

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  • ·Advanced esophageal cancer in patients who underwent HALO treatment for barretts esophagus with high grade dysplasia

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    Min P. Kim, Kendra N. Brown, Mary R. Schwartz, Shanda H. Blackmon

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  • ·Spatial and metabolic consequences of post-pneumonectomy lung growth

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    Barry C. Gibney, Mi-Ae Park, Kenji Chamoto, Grace S. Lee, Jan P. Houdek, Maximilian Ackermann, Moritz A. Konerding, Akira Tsuda, Steven J. Mentzer

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  • ·Lung resections: Measures of frailty as an index of morbidity and mortality

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    Athanasios Tsiouris, Arielle Hodari, Zane Hammoud, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

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  • ·Predicting outcomes after minimally invasive esophagectomy with the Charlson comorbidity index

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    Ryan A. Macke, James D. Luketich, Ryan M. Levy, Dan Winger, Manisha Shende, Neil A. Christie, Benny Weksler, Omar Awais, Matthew J. Schuchert, Katie S. Nason

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  • ·Standard markers for detection of circulating tumor cells are variably expressed in pulmonary adenocarcinomas and are downregulated in cells undergoing mesenchymal transition

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    Antonio Coppolino, Ding Cheng Gao, Patrick L. Wagner, Rafaella Sordella, Vivek Mittal, Nasser K. Altorki, Brendon M. Stiles

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  • ·Radiographic evaluation of an esophageal anastomosis often misses leaks

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    Min P. Kim, Kendra N. Brown, Shanda H. Blackmon

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  • ·Use of ketorolac is associated with decrease pneumonia following rib fractures

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    Yifan Yang, Jason B. Young, Garth H. Utter

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  • ·Surgeons' experience with endobronchial ultrasound for mediastinal staging: The learning curve and optimal sampling techniques

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    Yinin Hu, Varun Puri, Traves D. Crabtree, Alexander S. Krupnick, Daniel Kreisel, G. Alexander Patterson, Bryan F. Meyers

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  • ·A study to evaluate the use of handheld spirometry as an alternative to laboratory based volume-displacement spirometry in a low-risk population undergoing lung resection

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    Varun Puri, Jennifer M. Bell, Joanne F. Musick, Traves D. Crabtree, Alexander S. Krupnick, Daniel Kreisel, G. Alexander Patterson, Bryan F. Meyers

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• Cardiothoracic Surgery III

  • ·Continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation as a bridge to transplantation or destination therapy: Racial disparities in outcomes

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    Athanasios Tsiouris, Gaetano Paone, Robert J. Brewer, Hassan W. Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, Scott E. Henry, Jeffrey A. Morgan

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  • ·Open femoral access for transcatheter aortic intervention leads to fewer major vascular complications

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    Jennifer M. Hanna, Nicholas D. Andersen, Asad A. Shah, J. Kevin Harrison, Richard L. McCann, G. Chad Hughes

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  • ·Risk factors for readmission following coronary bypass surgery: Identification of a high risk population

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    Jonathan D. Price, Jamie L. Romeiser, Jeff M. Gnerre, A. Laurie W. Shroyer, Todd K. Rosengart

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  • ·Predictors of operative mortality in cardiac surgery patients with prolonged intensive care unit duration

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    Jacob R. Gillen, Damien J. LaPar, Ivan K. Crosby, Christine L. Lau, Irving L. Kron, Gorav Ailawadi

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  • ·On-pump beating-heart coronary artery bypass surgery in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock

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    Timothy I. Carter, Daniel C. Lee, Vinay M. Tak, Joshua H. Burack, Wilson Ko

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  • ·Quantitative three-dimensional analysis of bicuspid aortic valves: A single modality approach for characterization of valvular and proximal aortic pathology

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    Melissa Levack, Arminder S. Jassar, Liam P. Ryan, Benjamin M. Jackson, Martin G. Keane, Martin G. St John Sutton, Victor A. Ferrari, Joseph H. Gorman, Robert C. Gorman

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  • ·Continuous flow left ventricular assist device implant significantly improves pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular contractility and tricuspid valve competence

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    Alexander S. Fairman, Pavan Atluri, John W. MacArthur, Elaine Yang, Yashuhiro Shudo, William Hiesinger, Michael A. Acker, Y. Joseph Woo

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  • ·Thoracic injuries in U.S. combat casualties: A review of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom

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    Katherine M. Ivey, Christopher E. White, Timothy E. Wallum, Jeremy W. Cannon, Kevin K. Chung, Jeffrey D. McNeil, Stephen M. Cohn, Lorne H. Blackbourne

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  • ·Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lung resection in the elderly

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    Chad M. Hall, Rudy P. Lackner, Karin P. Trujillo

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  • ·Insurance status predicts non-elective case status but not outcomes of thoracic aortic operations

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    Nicholas D. Andersen, Jennifer M. Hanna, Syamal D. Bhattacharya, Judson B. Williams, Jeffrey G. Gaca, Richard L. McCann, G. Chad Hughes

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  • ·Finite element modeling of the human pulmonary autograft: A quantitative analysis of wall stress after the Ross procedure

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    Andrew D. Wisneski, Peter B. Matthews, Ali N. Azadani, Sam Chitsaz, Natalie Lui, Kiyoaki Takabe, Liang Ge, Elaine E. Tseng

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  • ·Pulmonary metastasectomy: Improving survival with less invasive, more aggressive surgery

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    Joseph A. Reza, Amanda Sammann, Barbara Grimes, Michael J. Mann

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• Critical Care I: Mechanisms of Cellular Injury in Trauma and Sepsis

  • ·Hepatocyte acute-phase response is dependent on HMGB1

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    Gary W. Nace, John R. Klune, Raymond E. Eid, Timothy R. Billiar, Allan Tsung

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  • ·Kidney-lung crosstalk: Lung endothelial cell apoptosis and NF-kappab activation during ischemic acute kidney injury

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    Laura E. White, Yan Cui, Heitham T. Hassoun

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  • ·Resolvin attenuates microvascular leak during inflammation

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    Arturo Garcia, Elizabeth Cureton, Emily Miraflor, Louise Yeung, Gregory P. Victorino

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  • ·Apolipoprotein E deficiency improves survival in sepsis

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    Natalie Seiser, Shiva Kasravi, Briana Leung, Frank Primus, Hobart Harris

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  • ·A novel expansion of CD14highCD16+ monocytes in severely injured trauma patients

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    Anna E. Ziegler, Michael A. Krencicki, Carolyn Mold, Sonlee D. West

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  • ·Oral supplementation with intestinal alkaline phosphatase: A novel preventive strategy against C. difficile colitis

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    Halim Yammine, Sayeda N. Alam, Sundaram Ramasamy, Omeed Moaven, Rizwan Ahmed, Angela K. Moss, Atul K. Bhan, Madhu S. Malo, Richard A. Hodin

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  • ·The contribution of toll like receptors 2,4 & 9 to delayed immune dysfunction following injury

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    Sophie S. Darwiche, Marcus K. Hoffman, Kent R. Zettel, Faez Ayoob, Ruan Xiangcai, Melanie Scott, Rosemary Hoffman, Hans-Christoph Pape, Timothy R. Billiar

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  • ·Alternative splicing in combination with single nucleotide polymorphisms decreases the human glucocorticoid receptor response to steroids

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    Aaron C. Baker, Victoria W. Chew, Kelly Tung, Tajia L. Green, Debora Lim, Kiho Cho, David G. Greenhalgh

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  • ·Peroxiredoxins generate transfusion-related acute lung injury-inducing lipids in stored packed red blood cells

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    John R. Stringham, Ernest E. Moore, Michael Ellison, Marguerite R. Kelher, Kirk C. Hansen, Christopher C. Silliman

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  • ·Response patterns of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in serum and peritoneal fluid during sepsis

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    Benyam P. Yoseph, Elise Breed, Zhe Liang, Kevin McConnell, Craig M. Coopersmith

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• Critical Care II: Epidemiology and Management of Trauma

  • ·Interhospital transfer: An independent risk factor for mortality in the surgical intensive care unit

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    Katherine R. Arthur, Rachel R. Kelz, Matthew Robertson, Carrie A. Sims, Jose L. Pascual, Patrick M. Reilly, Daniel N. Holena

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  • ·Predicting mortality in trauma patients: The discriminative accuracy of pre-hospital physiological variables vs. the current registry standard Trauma-Related Injury Severity Score (TRISS)

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    Alexander Van Esbroeck, Brian R. Lace, Amy Sisley, Zeeshan Syed, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

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  • ·Payer type is associated with disparities in mortality from penetrating trauma

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    Paul Logan Weygandt, Lia I. Losonczy, Eric B. Schneider, Mehreen T. Kisat, Lauren K. Licatino, Edward E. Cornwell, Elliot R. Haut, David T. Efron, Adil H. Haider

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  • ·Does the fed state impact outcome in polytrauma and hemorrhagic shock?

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    Uroghupatei P. Iyegha, Nancy Witowski, Dan Lexcen, Kristine Mulier, Javariah I. Asghar, Beth Lusczek, Greg J. Beilman

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  • ·Hyperfibrinolysis on thromboelastogram (TEG) predicts mortality in massively transfused trauma patients

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    Nicole M. Tapia, Alex L. Chang, Michael A. Norman, Francis J. Welsh, Bradford G. Scott, Matthew J. Wall, Kenneth L. Mattox, James W. Suliburk

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  • ·Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the inflammatory response following injury

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    Kristin M. Cook, Ziad C. Sifri, Latha Pasupuleti, Walter Alzate, Alicia M. Mohr, David H. Livingston

    Plan Plan
  • ·Autologous cellular therapy for traumatic brain injury: Mechanisms of action

    Page :S53

    Robert Andrew Hetz, Supinder S. Bedi, Peter A. Walker, Shinil K. Shah, Fernando Jimenez, Chelsea P. Thomas, Philippa Smith, Shibani Pati, Promad Dash, Charles S. Cox

    Plan Plan
  • ·Plasmonic thrombospondin-1, via cell surface CD47, rescues animals from hemorrhagic shock

    Page :S53

    Marcus K. Hoffman, Yonitte Kinsella, Sebastian Korff, Jeffrey S. Isenberg, Timothy R. Billiar

    Plan Plan
  • ·Hypertonic saline is superior to mannitol in severe traumatic brain injury for hourly correction of intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure and brain oxygenation

    Page :S54

    Jose Maria Alvarez Gallesio, Daniel N. Holena, Jiayan Huang, Carrie Sims, Joshua Levine, Gui-shuang Ying, Jose L. Pascual

    
  • ·Is early initiation of prophylactic heparin in severe traumatic brain injury neuroprotective?

    Page :S54

    Luke Kim, James Schuster, Daniel N. Holena, Carrie Sims, Joshua Levine, Jose L. Pascual

    Plan Plan
  • ·Chitosan based hemostatic dressing is associated with decreased blood loss in a swine uncontrolled hemorrhage model

    Page :S54

    Nicholas R. Kunio, Gordon M. Riha, Katherine M. Watson, Igor V. Kremenevskiy, Jerome A. Differding, Martin A. Schreiber, Jennifer M. Watters

    Plan Plan

• Geriatric Surgery

  • ·Who would have thought? Asking an older adult if they have fallen predicts surgical outcomes

    Page :S56

    Teresa S. Jones, Daniel S. Wu, Thomas N. Robinson

    Plan Plan
  • ·HIF-1⍺ gene therapy combined with HIF-1 activated bone marrow-derived angiogenic cell (BMDAC) therapy improves burn wound healing in aged mice

    Page :S56

    Junkai Du, Lixin Liu, Frank Lay, Qian Wang, Chunqing Dou, Raul Sebastian, Sayed Mohammad Hosseini, Andrew Simon, Bendix Slegtenhorst, John W. Harmon

    Plan Plan
  • ·Unplanned reintubation: Another problem that discriminates the older and more frail

    Page :S56

    Nathan Schmoekel, H. Mathilda Horst, Jill Watras, Dionne Blyden, Amy Sisley, Anthony Falvo, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

    Plan Plan
  • ·Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer in the elderly is associated with improved long-term survival

    Page :S57

    Therese Gannon Kerwel, Theodor Asgeirsson, Amanda McClure, Rebecca Hoedema, Ryan Figg, Nadav Dujovny, Donald Kim, Heather Slay, Martin Luchtefeld

    Plan Plan
  • ·Pre-injury warfarin use in older trauma patients: Risks and appropriateness of indications

    Page :S57

    David C. Evans, Barani Govindarajan, Anthony T. Gerlach, Daniel Eiferman, Charles H. Cook, Carla F. Justiniano, Viswanath Reddy Belum, Sergio D. Bergese, Steven M. Steinberg, Stanislaw P.A. Stawicki

    Plan Plan
  • ·Risk adjusted surgical site infection rates are lower in patients over 80 years old

    Page :S58

    Amani D. Politano, Laura H. Rosenberger, Matthew D. McLeod, Lin M. Riccio, Tjasa Hranjec, Kristin C. Turza, Tanya R. Flohr, Robert G. Sawyer

    Plan Plan

• Innovative Clinical Technology

  • ·Secondary cleft nasoplasty at primary school age: Quantitative evaluation of the efficacy of resorbable plates

    Page :S59

    Jarred McDaniel, Brendan J. Alleyne, Arun K. Gosain

    Plan Plan
  • ·Creation of a nonoperative, true orthotopic human gastric cancer murine model using electrocoagulation

    Page :S59

    Jasneet Singh Bhullar, Ahmad K. Alomari, Gokulakkrishna Subhas, Tafadzwa Makarawo, Boris Silberberg, Jacqueline Tilak, Vijay K. Mittal

    Plan Plan
  • ·Near infrared spectroscopic tomography for cerebral monitoring of stroke and intracranial hemorrhage

    Page :S59

    Tigran Gevorgyan, Harry L. Graber, Douglas S. Pfeil, Sundeep Mangla, Frank C. Barone, Jenny Libien, Jean Charchaflieh, John G. Kral, Randall L. Barbour, Daniel C. Lee

    Plan Plan
  • ·Platelet dysfunction as an early marker for traumatic brain induced coagulopathy in the absence of platelet inhibitors

    Page :S60

    Max V. Wohlauer, Scott G. Thomas, Ernest E. Moore, Mark Walsh, Harsha Musunuru, Patrick K. Davis, Edward Evans, Janet C. Howard, Victoria A. Ploplis, Francis J. Castellino

    Plan Plan
  • ·Incidence and impact of post-operative atrial fibrillation after minimally invasive esophagectomy

    Page :S60

    Susanne Gray Carpenter, Dawn E. Jaroszewski, Chee-Chee Stucky, Helen J. Ross, Harshita Paripati, Jonathan Ashman, Kristi L. Harold

    Plan Plan
  • ·Challenges and opportunities in implementing a robotic learning module in a general surgery training program. The University of Illinois at Chicago experience

    Page :S60

    Antonio Gangemi, Mario Masrur, Federico Gheza, Francesco Maria Bianco, Masahiko Kawaguchi, Enrico Benedetti, Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti

    Plan Plan

• Orthopaedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology

  • ·Effect of body mass index on early outcomes of degenerative lumbar surgery

    Page :S62

    Amanda N. Goldin, Dirk H. Alander

    Plan Plan
  • ·CT-based structural rigidity analysis yields high specificity and sensitivity for femoral fracture prediction

    Page :S62

    Carlos Enrique Brown, Vahid Entezari, Ara Nazarian, Brian D. Snyder, John A. Hipp, Richard M. Terek, Albert J. Aboulafia, Megan E. Anderson, Mark C. Gebhardt, Timothy A. Damron

    Plan Plan
  • ·Decreased bone in fracture healing as a result of increased chondrocyte apoptosis

    Page :S62

    Zhen Wang, Marie La Russa, Vania Rashidi, Namrata J. Barbhaiya, Misha C. Tran, Michael T. Longaker, George P. Yang

    Plan Plan
  • ·Current clinical protocols for cervical spine clearance in level I trauma centers in the United States

    Page :S63

    Alexander Antonios Theologis, Robert Dionisio, Geoffrey Manley, Robert Mackersie, Trigg McClellan, Murat Pekmezci

    Plan Plan
  • ·Is odontoid lateral mass interspace (OLMI) asymmetry a normal anatomical variant in patients after trauma?

    Page :S63

    Franck Georges Billmann, Therezia Bokor-Billmann, Marcus Leicht, Erhard Kiffner

    Plan Plan
  • ·Influence of metal ions on human lymphocytes and the generation of titanium-specific T-lymphocytes

    Page :S63

    Dieter Cadosch, Erwin Chan, P. Oliver Gautschi, Luis Filgueira, Hans-Peter Simmen

    Plan Plan
  • ·Post-operative walking enhancements for recovery (POWER): A randomized controlled trial

    Page :S64

    Colleen Rivard, Maike Liebermann, Micheal Awad, Megan DeJong, Jim Sinacore, Linda Brubaker

    Plan Plan
  • ·Clavien 4 and 5 complications associated with open and minimally invasive hysterectomy: Exploring National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) data

    Page :S64

    Rupen A. Shah, Adnan R. Munkarah, Thomas Buekers, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

    Plan Plan
  • ·In vitro generation of three-dimensional functional ovarian structures

    Page :S65

    Sunyoung Joo, Sittadjody Sivanandane, Emanuel C. Opara, John D. Jackson, James J. Yoo, Anthony Atala

    Plan Plan
  • ·Retrospective review of thromboembolic phenomena following craniotomy for brain tumor

    Page :S65

    Angela M. Bohnen, Joseph G. Adel, James P. Chandler

    Plan Plan
  • ·The goal of this study is to analyze risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) development in high grade glioma patients undergoing surgery, and to assess the impact of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) development on survival after surgery

    Page :S65

    Tomothy R. Smith, Randall B. Graham, Joseph G. Adel, James P. Chandler

    Plan Plan

• Patient Safety

  • ·Laparoscopic-assisted technique for colorectal procedures has much higher surgical site infection rates than standard laparoscopy

    Page :S66

    Alexander J. Antoniou, Shirin Towfigh, James Mirocha, Phillip Fleshner

    Plan Plan
  • ·Frailty as a risk factor for poor outcome in coronary bypass surgery: Exploring the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data

    Page :S66

    Jamil Borgi, Gaetano Paone, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

    Plan Plan
  • ·Role of overexpression of MACC1 and/or FAK in predicting prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation

    Page :S66

    Zhe Yang, Lin Zhou, Li-ming Wu, Feng Zhang, Qian-qian Zhu, Hai-yang Xie, Shu-sen Zheng

    Plan Plan
  • ·A retrospective study of burns patients at a major government referral hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Page :S67

    Jennifer Jackson-Cole, Dudley Pratt, Marta Forde, Joseph Bangura, Reinou S. Groen, Adam L. Kushner, Thaim B. Kamara

    Plan Plan
  • ·Severe vitamin D deficiency is associated with worsened outcomes in surgical patients with ventilated-associated pneumonia

    Page :S67

    Leslie Ray Matthews, Kenneth Wilson, Yusuf Ahmed, Diane Griggs, Omar Danner

    Plan Plan
  • ·Lack of emergency department and primary care genitourinary physical examination before urologic consultation - a quality of care issue

    Page :S67

    Adam W. Ylitalo, Kelly R. Ylitalo, Richard A. Santucci

    Plan Plan
  • ·Success of reminder systems in reducing catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)

    Page :S68

    Amruta Vilas Unawane, Kashyap Patel, Vijay K. Mittal, Laurence Y. Cheung, Jasneet S. Bhullar, Gokulakkrishna Subhas

    Plan Plan

• Pediatric Surgery I

  • ·Murine endothelium derived microparticle induced early murine lung injury

    Page :S69

    Paul M. Jeziorczak, Sushma Kaul, Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Elizabeth R. Jacobs, John C. Densmore

    Plan Plan
  • ·The role of prenatal tadalafil in altered relaxation of pulmonary arteries from lambs with surgical diaphragmatic hernia

    Page :S69

    Eveline H. Shue, Samuel C. Schecter, Wenhui Gong, Michael Johengen, William Ferrier, Jianfeng Wu, Mozziyar Etemadi, Peter Oishi, Jeff Fineman, Douglas N. Miniati

    Plan Plan
  • ·Oncolytic herpes simplex virus and radiation combination therapy results in a systemic immune response to inhibit neuroblastoma tumor growth

    Page :S69

    Lauren A. Gillory, Michael L. Megison, Jerry E. Stewart, Hugh C. Nabers, Gregory K. Friedman, James M. Markert, G. Yancey Gillespie, Elizabeth A. Beierle

    Plan Plan
  • ·Intereleukin (IL)-12 and STAT4 activation leads to decreased neuroblastoma cell survival

    Page :S70

    Michael L. Megison, Lauren A. Gillory, Jerry E. Stewart, Hugh C. Nabers, Elizabeth A. Beierle

    Plan Plan
  • ·Chrysin induces growth suppression through apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells

    Page :S70

    Jocelyn F. Burke, Logan Schlosser, Herbert Chen, Muthusamy Kunnimalaiyaan

    Plan Plan
  • ·Inhibition of host Notch function disrupts hepatic vasculature, and promotes tumor growth

    Page :S70

    Alejandro Garcia, Debarshi Banerjee, Sonia Hernandez, Roderick Alfonso, Arul Thirumoorthi, John Andrews, Emily Sbiroli, Angela Kadenhe-Chiweshe, Darrell J. Yamashiro, Jessica J. Kandel

    Plan Plan
  • ·P-glycoprotein-like factor in breast milk binds to intestinal epithelium and protects from bacterial inflammation

    Page :S71

    Elizabeth M. Pontarelli, Shannon L. Castle, Anatoly V. Grishin, Henri R. Ford

    Plan Plan
  • ·Early intravenous cyclosporine treatment attenuates necrotizing enterocolitis-like intestinal injury compared to delayed treatment during resuscitation of asphyxiated newborn piglets

    Page :S71

    Richdeep S. Gill, Tze-Fun Lee, Consolato Sergi, Po-Yin Cheung, David L. Bigam

    Plan Plan
  • ·Genetic variation regulates the expression of tight junction (TJ) proteins at baseline and following common bile duct ligation (CBDL)

    Page :S71

    Alexis D. Smith, Jennifer Timmons, Ebony Murphy, Aiping Zhao, Alan Cross, Samuel M. Alaish

    Plan Plan
  • ·Celecoxib inhibits metastasis and cellular invasion in Ewings sarcoma via downregulation of beta-catenin

    Page :S72

    Meade P. Barlow, Kiranmye Reddy, Meredith Akerman, Richard D. Glick, Morris Edelman, Bettie M. Steinberg, Samuel Z. Soffer

    Plan Plan
  • ·Celecoxib attenuates gut barrier failure during sepsis

    Page :S72

    Scott S. Short, Shannon L. Castle, Jin Wang, Anatoly Grishin, Henri R. Ford

    Plan Plan
  • ·Potentiation of serotonergic signaling increases enterocyte mass and intestinal absorptive capacity

    Page :S73

    Abbey L. Fingeret, Zoya V. Gertsberg, Michael D. Gershon, Robert A. Cowles

    Plan Plan
  • ·Intrinsic hepatic collagenase activity is activated by neutrophil granule contents

    Page :S73

    Sean S. Ciullo, Christopher S. Muratore, Yonghong Zhou, Thomas F. Tracy

    Plan Plan

• Pediatric Surgery II

  • ·A method for generating antigen specific alloreactive T-cells against murine neuroblastoma

    Page :S74

    Felix C. Blanco, Priya Srinivasan, Lina Chakrabarti, Jason A. Snyder, Stanislav Vukmanovic, Anthony D. Sandler

    Plan Plan
  • ·Development of an siRNA delivery system targeting macrophage function in-vivo

    Page :S74

    Felix C. Blanco, Priya Srinivasan, Ryan M. Walk, Jason A. Snyder, Mark Behlke, Aliasger K. Salem, Stanislav Vukmanovic, Anthony D. Sandler

    Plan Plan
  • ·Neuroblastoma cell plasticity: A mechanism for tumor heterogeneity and treatment failure

    Page :S74

    Lina Chakrabarti, Felix C. Blanco, Jason D. Snyder, Stanislav Vukmanovic, Anthony D. Sandler

    Plan Plan
  • ·An epidemiological investigation into the incidence of perforated appendicitis: Does ethnicity matter?

    Page :S75

    William C. Boswell, David E. Carney, Andrew W. Gamenthaler, Imran A. Siddiqui, Ashley Rogers

    Plan Plan
  • ·Mesenchymal change in the development of drug resistance in human neuroblastoma cells: A systems biology approach

    Page :S75

    Jessica Ann Naiditch, Chunfa Jie, Timothy B. Lautz, Sandra Clark, Yi-Yong Qiu, Jafari Nadereh, Fei Chu, Mary Beth Madonna

    Plan Plan
  • ·Enteral deprivation leads to a loss of intestinal epithelial barrier function in pediatric patients

    Page :S75

    Matthew W. Ralls, E.A. Miyasaka, R.S. Herman, D.H. Teitelbaum

    Plan Plan
  • ·Diverse early intestinal microbiota as a key factor in necrotizing enterocolitis

    Page :S76

    Stephanie C. Papillon, Brandon A. Bell, Monica L. Williams, Jin Wang, Larry Wang, Anatoly V. Grishin, Henri R. Ford

    Plan Plan
  • ·Regulation of the adaptive immune system of the newborn intestine by the bacterial receptor toll like receptor 4 (TLR4) leads to the development of necrotizing enterocolitis

    Page :S76

    Joyce Ying Lin, Charlotte E. Egan, Chhinder Sodhi, Matthew Neal, Ibrahim Yazji, Misty Good, Sapana Shah, Amin Afrazi, Maria Branca, David J. Hackam

    Plan Plan
  • ·Impact of obesity on children with appendicitis

    Page :S76

    Beth Rymeski, Jun Ying, Roshni Dasgupta

    Plan Plan
  • ·Ileocecal resection (ICR)-driven crypt fission requires intestinal epithelial IGF-1 receptor, is increased with delayed IGF-1 therapy, and results in sustained adaptive increases in body weight and intestinal length

    Page :S77

    Megan A. Stevenson, Jennifer A. Hawkins, Nambirajan Sundaram, P. Kay Lund, Laurianne Van Landeghem, Michael A. Helmrath

    Plan Plan
  • ·Pediatric venous thromboembolism following trauma: A review of the National Trauma Data Bank

    Page :S77

    Jeffrey S. Barton, Peter E. Fischer, Samantha J. Underwood, Martin A. Schreiber, Jennifer M. Watters

    Plan Plan
  • ·Adherence to CONSORT statement guidelines of published surgical randomized trials in children

    Page :S78

    Anthony Yuan-Dun Tsai, Lillian S. Kao, KuoJen Tsao, Eunice Y. Huang, Shiraz Younas, Stacy T. Tanaka, Zengqi Lu, Kevin P. Lally, Martin L. Blakely

    Plan Plan
  • ·Optimization of the preclinical canine model results in consistent and improved engraftment following haploidentical in utero hematopoietic cell transplantation

    Page :S78

    Jesse D. Vrecenak, Matthew T. Santore, Carlyn A. Todorow, Keith A. Alcorn, Haiying Li, Antoneta P. Radu, Mark P. Johnson, Alan W. Flake

    Plan Plan
  • ·Functional significance of CITED1 overexpression and nuclear localization in Wilms tumor

    Page :S78

    Andrew Jackson Murphy, Janene Pierce, Christian de Caestecker, Alan O. Perantoni, Mark P. de Caestecker, Harold N. Lovvorn

    Plan Plan

• Plastic Surgery I

  • ·In vitro microdistraction of Nager syndrome dental pulp stem cells: comparison with pre-osteoblasts and adipose-derived stem cells

    Page :S80

    Joyce T. Yuan, Patricia Zuk, Kenneth Fan, Daniela F. Bueno, Christina J. Tabit, James P. Bradley

    Plan Plan
  • ·Clinical application and validation of the FACES score for facial transplantation

    Page :S80

    Karan Chopra, Seenu M. Susarla, Danielle Goodrich, Chad R. Gordon

    Plan Plan
  • ·Amifostine prophylaxis preserves biomechanical properties of irradiated bone: A murine mandibular model

    Page :S80

    Peter A. Felice, Alexis Donneys, Sagar S. Deshpande, Catherine N. Tchanque-Fossuo, Noah S. Nelson, Deniz Sarhaddi, Joseph E. Perosky, Kenneth M. Kozloff, Steven R. Buchman

    Plan Plan
  • ·Stem cell and intermittent parathyroid hormone therapy creates superior regenerate in murine mandibular distraction osteogenesis following radiation

    Page :S81

    Sagar Satish Deshpande, Steven R. Buchman, Alexis Donneys, Kelly K. Gallagher, Catherine N. Tchanque-Fossuo, Deniz Sarhaddi, Daniela M. Weiss, Hongli Sun, Paul H. Krebsbach

    Plan Plan
  • ·Connective tissue growth factor enhances keratinocyte adhesion to fibronectin and promotes migration through integrin alpha5/beta1

    Page :S81

    Elizabeth Kiwanuka, Junker P.E. Johan, Edward J. Caterson, Bengt Gerdin, Elof Eriksson

    Plan Plan
  • ·Novel development of craniofacial morphomic indeces to characterize variation among craniosynostosis subtypes

    Page :S82

    Jacob Rinkinen, Lu Wang, Peng Zhang, Binu Enchakalody, Sven Holcombe, Alex Dombrowski, Jeffrey Lisiecki, Stewart Wang, Steven R. Buchman, Benjamin Levi

    Plan Plan
  • ·Factors associated with noncompliance with follow-up care after maxillofacial fractures

    Page :S82

    Amelia W. Maiga, Dunya Atisha, David Nolen, Ryan Kellogg, Brian Christie, Ed Ruane, Ketan Sharma, Alex Allori, Detlev Erdmann, Jeffrey Marcus

    Plan Plan
  • ·Impact of pre-operative cleft width on rates of fistula and velopharyngeal insufficiency after cleft palate repair

    Page :S83

    Nance Yuan, Keith E. Follmar, Courtney Pendleton, Amir H. Dorafshar, Richard J. Redett

    
  • ·Morphomic measurement of the temporalis muscle as a novel predictor of injury severity and clinical outcomes in mandible fracture patients

    Page :S83

    Jeffrey Lisiecki, Peng Zhang, Lu Wang, Binu Enchakalody, Sven Holcombe, Jacob Rinkinen, Stewart Wang, Steven R. Buchman, Benjamin Levi

    Plan Plan
  • ·Morbidity of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp

    Page :S83

    Kate Elzinga, Peter Kwan, John Arlette

    Plan Plan

• Plastic Surgery II

  • ·Xbp1 inhibition delays wound healing by inhibition of cell migration and proliferation

    Page :S85

    Namrata J. Barbhaiya, Misha C. Tran, Wang Zhen, Vania Rashidi, Paris D. Butler, Fattakhov Ernst, Michael T. Longaker, Albert C. Koong, George P. Yang

    Plan Plan
  • ·Reduction of cutaneous burn wound severity in a large animal model

    Page :S85

    Hamed Sadeghipour, Radbeh Torabi, James Gottschall, David H. Sachs, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Francis D. Moore

    Plan Plan
  • ·CD4+ inflammation is necessary for pathologic changes associated with sustained lymphatic fluid stasis

    Page :S85

    Jamie Christine Zampell, Sonia Elhadad, Tomer Avraham, Alan Yan, Evan S. Weitman, Babak J. Mehrara

    Plan Plan
  • ·Importance of mast cells and their granule serine proteases in microdeformational wound therapy (mdwt) of surgically damaged skin

    Page :S86

    Julien Succar, Luca Lancerotto, Jeffrey Douaiher, George J. Younan, Qiong Li, Ryushiro Yamaguchi, Michael F. Gurish, Richard L. Stevens, Dennis P. Orgill

    Plan Plan
  • ·Adrenomedullin and its binding protein (AMBP-1) accelerate cutaneous wound healing

    Page :S86

    Juan Pablo Idrovo, Weng-Lang Wang, Michael A. Ajakaiye, Jose M. Prince, Jeffrey Niscastro, Gene F. Coppa, Ping Wang

    Plan Plan
  • ·Reduction of suture associated inflammation using the novel biocompatible poly ester amide pseudo protein

    Page :S86

    Michel C. van Harten, Alyssa J. Reiffel, Jonne F. van Koot, Elisa S. Rezaie, Tatiana Boyko, Karina A. Hernandez, C.C. Chu, Jason A. Spector

    Plan Plan
  • ·Hyperspectral reflectance spectroscopy analysis of skin blood flow during negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT)

    Page :S87

    Lida Jafari, Samuel E. Wilson, Ian L. Gordon

    Plan Plan
  • ·In situ bioprinting of skin for reconstruction

    Page :S87

    Mohammad Z. Albanna, Sean Murphy, Weixin Zhao, Idris B. El-Amin, Josh Tan, Dennis D. Dice, Hyun-Wook Kang, John D. Jackson, James J. Yoo, Anthony Atala

    Plan Plan
  • ·Early kinetics of integration of collagen-gag matrices

    Page :S87

    Luca Lancerotto, Yvonne I. Heit, Qiong Li, Jeffrey Douaiher, Julien Succar, Ryushiro Yamaguchi, Dennis P. Orgill

    Plan Plan

• Plastic Surgery III

  • ·Involvement of regulatory t-cells in tolerance towards vascularized and non-vascularized skin allograft transplants

    Page :S89

    Jeff Chang, Billana Hwang, Tiffany Butts, Scott S. Graves, Rainer Storb, David W. Mathes

    Plan Plan
  • ·The quality of reporting in randomised controlled trials in plastic surgery

    Page :S89

    Riaz Ahmed Agha, Christian Camm, Emre Doganay, Eric Edison, Muhammed Siddiqui, Dennis P. Orgill

    Plan Plan
  • ·Comparison of prosthetic and autogenous breast reconstruction: A multi-instituional analysis of postoperative complications

    Page :S89

    Geoffrey Chow, Philip J. Hanwright, Colton H. McNichols, Caitlin M. Connor, Kevin P. Bethke, Karl Bilimoria, John Y.S. Kim

    Plan Plan
  • ·Long-term tolerance after transplantation of mismatched vascularized composite allografts without the use of chronic immunosuppression

    Page :S90

    Jeff Chang, Tiffany Butts, Scott S. Graves, Rainer Storb, David W. Mathes

    Plan Plan
  • ·Glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) delivered from microspheres enhances peripheral nerve regeneration after delayed nerve repair

    Page :S90

    Gregory H. Borschel, Matthew D. Wood, Howard Kim, Stephen W.P. Kemp, Mark Szynkaruk, Peter Phua, Christine Lafontaine, Molly S. Shoichet, Tessa Gordon

    Plan Plan
  • ·Long-term tolerance towards vascularized composite allograft transplantation is due to naturally derived regulatory T-cells

    Page :S90

    Jeff Chang, Billana Hwang, Tiffany Butts, Scott S. Graves, Rainer Storb, David W. Mathes

    Plan Plan
  • ·Lymphatic microsurgery today for the treatment of peripheral lymphedema: indications, techniques and long-term clinical outcome

    Page :S91

    Corradino Campisi, Lorenz Larcher, Rosalia Lavagno, Francesco Boccardo

    Plan Plan
  • ·Death and ICU level complications in laryngeal and pharyngeal surgery: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) multi-specialty story of patients who are high risk for death

    Page :S91

    Alfredo C. Cordova, Tamer Ghanem, Francis Hall, Robert Stachler, Jennifer Ritz, Anthony Falvo, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

    Plan Plan
  • ·Lessons learned in establishing the first preclinical, orthotopic, large animal maxillofacial transplant model

    Page :S91

    Erin M. Rada, Kate Buretta, Gabriel Santiago, Jaimie Shores, Steven Bonawitz, Justin M. Sacks, Gerald Grant, Gerald Brandacher, W.P. Andrew Lee, Chad R. Gordon

    Plan Plan
  • ·Effects of adjuvant radiation therapy for breast cancer based on type of free flap reconstruction

    Page :S92

    Eric I. Chang, Jaco H. Festekjian, Andrew L. Da Lio, Christopher A. Crisera

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• Progenitor Cells and Cell-Based Therapies

  • ·Single cell analysis reveals phenotypically distinct sub-populations in putative endothelial progenitor cells

    Page :S93

    Jerry Chen, Michael Januszyk, Micael Sorkin, Geoffrey C. Gurtner

    Plan Plan
  • ·Cancer stem cell (CSC) vaccination induces anti-csc immunity by priming csc-reactive antibodies and cytotoxic t lymphocytes

    Page :S93

    Martin U. Egenti, Fang Zheng, Max S. Wicha, Jeffery S. Moyer, Mark E.P. Prince, Qiao Li, Alfred E. Chang

    Plan Plan
  • ·In vitro differentiation of pluripotent stem cells from human amniocytes into definitive endoderm

    Page :S93

    Shaun Michael Kunisaki, Guihua Jiang, Luis G. Villa-Diaz, Kathy Sue O'Shea, Paul H. Krebsbach

    Plan Plan
  • ·Novel tyrosine mutant recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) transduction of dendritic cells (DCs) as a step towards therapeutic vaccination in multiple myeloma (MM)

    Page :S94

    Ramesh B. Batchu, Oksana Gruzdyn, Donald Weaver, Scott A. Gruber

    Plan Plan
  • ·Synergistic effects of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor and mesenchymal stem cells in a murine model of intestinal ischemia-reperfusion injury

    Page :S94

    Daniel J. Watkins, Hong-Yi Zhang, Gail E. Besner

    Plan Plan
  • ·A combined strategy of fetal hematopoietic stem cell mobilization and selective enhancement of donor cell homing results in improved engraftment following in utero hematopoietic cell transplantation

    Page :S94

    Jason P. Sulkowski, Edem N. Timpo, Jacqueline Tsai, Haiying Li, Yan Li, Alan W. Flake

    Plan Plan
  • ·Donor T lymphocytes induce the maternal adaptive immune response following in utero hematopoietic cell transplantation

    Page :S95

    Erik Gregory Pearson, Jesse D. Vrecenak, Alan W. Flake

    Plan Plan
  • ·Integrating high-resolution single cell gene expression data with a public microarray repository permits automated functional profiling of progenitor cell populations

    Page :S95

    Michael Januszyk, Michael Sorkin, Robert C. Rennert, Geoffrey C. Gurtner

    Plan Plan
  • ·Myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) assume an M1 phenotype when exposed to vesicular stomatitis virus, synergistically treating tumors

    Page :S95

    Samuel Eisenstein, Brian A. Coakley, Ge Ma, Marcia Meseck, Savio Woo, Ping-Ying Pan, Shu-Hsia Chen, Celia Divino

    Plan Plan
  • ·Regeneration of fetal sheep myocardial infarction occurs by recruitment of cardiac progenitor cells via a stromal-derived factor-1a dependent mechanism

    Page :S96

    Myron Allukian, L. Zhang, M.W. Morris, J. Xu, R.C. Caskey, B.J. Herdrich, W.A. Dorsett-Martin, J.H. Gorman, R.C. Gorman, K.W. Liechty

    Plan Plan
  • ·A biomimetic collagen-pullulan hydrogel enhances stemness and wound healing potential of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells

    Page :S96

    Ravi K. Garg, Lauren J. Auerbach, Michael Sorkin, Robert C. Rennert, Michael T. Longaker, Geoffrey C. Gurtner

    Plan Plan

• Quality, Outcomes and Costs I

  • ·All-cause surgical readmissions: Does administrative data tell the real story?

    Page :S97

    Greg D. Sacks, Aaron J. Dawes, Marcia M. Russell, Anne Y. Lin, Melinda M. Gibbons, Areti Tillou, James S. TomLinson, Darryl T. Hiyama, Jonathan R. Hiatt, Clifford Y. Ko

    Plan Plan
  • ·Racial disparities and site of care in readmissions after major surgery

    Page :S97

    Micah E. Girotti, John D. Birkmeyer, Justin B. Dimick

    Plan Plan
  • ·Measuring surgical complications as a quality metric: Looking beyond hospital discharge

    Page :S97

    Melanie Morris, Rhiannon Deierhoi, Joshua S. Richman, Laura Altom, Kamal Itani, Jamie Cannon, William Henderson, Mary T. Hawn

    Plan Plan
  • ·Identification of modifiable factors for reducing readmission after colectomy: A national analysis

    Page :S98

    Elise H. Lawson, Rachel Louie, David S. Zingmond, Clifford Y. Ko

    Plan Plan
  • ·Validation of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) new readmission variables

    Page :S98

    Morgan M. Sellers, Ryan P. Merkow, Amy Halverson, Keiki Hinami, Rachel R. Kelz, David J. Bentrem, Karl Y. Bilimoria

    Plan Plan
  • ·Which diagnoses are responsible for most 30-day pediatric surgery readmissions?

    Page :S98

    Andre P. Marshall, James C. Gay, Paul D. Hain, Rebecca A. Snyder, Jamie S. Tice, Thomas P. Rauth, Martin L. Blakely

    Plan Plan
  • ·Laparoscopic colon resection for cancer is not associated with fewer hospital-based encounters following discharge

    Page :S99

    Dallas G. Hansen, Justin P. Fox, Cary P. Gross, John S. Bruun

    Plan Plan
  • ·Flow disruptions during trauma care

    Page :S99

    Daniel Shouhed, Ken Catchpole, Eric J. Ley, Jennifer Blaha, Renaldo C. Blocker, Sacha Duff, Cathy Karl, Richard Karl, Bruce L. Gewertz, Doug Wiegmann

    Plan Plan
  • ·Are all trauma centers equal: Analyzing pediatric outcomes

    Page :S100

    Cassandra V. Villegas, Hannah A. Dineen, Mautomn Sadoun, Julie L. Wynne, Randall S. Friese, Andrew Tang, Terence O'Keeffe, Narong Kulvatunyou, Peter M. Rhee, Bellal A. Joseph

    Plan Plan
  • ·Surgical Team Assessment Training (STAT): Improving surgical teams during deployment

    Page :S100

    Dwight C. Kellicut, Eric Kuncir, Hope M. Williamson, Peter E. Nielsen

    Plan Plan
  • ·Comparative study between manual aspiration and closed tube thoracostomy in the management of pneumothorax secondary to trauma: A prospective randomized control trial done in a tertiary hospital specialized in trauma

    Page :S100

    Marie Abigail Garchitorena Ramirez, Nilo C. Delos Santos, Florentino C. Doble, Edgar A. Baltazar, Eric S. Talens, Estanislao C. De Castro, Allan Troy D Baquir

    Plan Plan
  • ·Rethinking the burden of surgical disease: Beyond simple counts of operative cases

    Page :S101

    Cristina Metildi Angela, Mark A. Talamini, Stephen W. Bickler, David C. Chang

    Plan Plan

• Quality, Outcomes and Costs II

  • ·The impact of accreditation on safety and cost of bariatric surgery

    Page :S102

    Steve Kwon, Bruce Wang, Hao He, Edwin Wong, Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho, Sean Sullivan, David R. Flum

    Plan Plan
  • ·The Florida Initiative for Quality Cancer Care (FIQCC): Improvements in colorectal cancer surgical pathologic quality indicator compliance over a 3-year interval

    Page :S102

    Erin M. Siegel, Paul B. Jacobsen, Ji-Hyun Lee, William J. Fulp, Michelle Fletcher, David Shibata

    Plan Plan
  • ·Associations between perioperative beta-blocker use and surgical outcomes

    Page :S102

    Joshua S. Richman, William G. Henderson, Kamal M.F. Itani, Catherine Vick, Mary T. Hawn

    Plan Plan
  • ·Rurality and colon cancer care quality measures

    Page :S103

    Christopher J. Chow, Waddah Al-Refaie, Anasooya Abraham, Abraham Markin, Wei Zhong, David A. Rothenberger, Mary Kwaan, Elizabeth Habermann

    Plan Plan
  • ·Nationwide diffusion of laparoscopic resection improves quality and cost measures for distal pancreatectomy

    Page :S103

    Hop S. Tran Cao, David C. Chang, Kerrin L. Palazzi, Andrew M. Lowy, Michael Bouvet, J.K. Parsons, Mark A. Talamini, Jason K. Sicklick

    Plan Plan
  • ·Analysis of defined mortality for patent ductus arteriosus: Implications for measuring quality in neonatal surgical care

    Page :S104

    Danielle M. Hsu, Lingling Li, Chi-Hong Tseng, Lorraine I. Kelley-Quon, Stephen B. Shew

    Plan Plan
  • ·Can we measure the quality of complex cancer surgery? Comparison of patients and outcomes at National Cancer Institute Designated Cancer Centers (NCI-CC) vs. Non-NCI centers

    Page :S104

    Ryan P. Merkow, David J. Bentrem, Warren B. Chow, Clifford Y. Ko, Karl Y. Bilimoria

    Plan Plan
  • ·Longer waiting times for colorectal cancer surgery are not associated with decreased survival

    Page :S105

    Ramzi M. Helewa, Donna Turner, Jason Park, Debrah Wirtzfeld, Piotr Czaykowski, David J. Hochman, Harminder Singh, Emma Shu, Andrew McKay

    Plan Plan
  • ·Using diagnostic and procedural codes to assess quality and outcomes

    Page :S105

    Alexander Van Esbroeck, Sanjay Mohanty, Pat Patton, Zeeshan Syed, Ilan S. Rubinfeld

    Plan Plan
  • ·Completion of the surgical safety checklist: A job poorly done!

    Page :S105

    Eric A. Sparks, Hania Wehbe-Janek, Rebecca L. Johnson, Roy W. Smythe, Harry T. Papaconstantinou

    Plan Plan
  • ·Racial disparities in surgical resection and survival among patients with poor prognosis cancer

    Page :S106

    Sha'Shonda L. Revels, Mousumi Banerjee, Huiying Yin, Christopher J. Sonnenday, John D. Birkmeyer

    Plan Plan
  • ·The impact of expanded insurance coverage in massachusetts on acute surgical disease

    Page :S106

    Andrew P. Loehrer, Zirui Song, Hugh G. Auchincloss, Matthew M. Hutter

    Plan Plan

• Quality, Outcomes and Costs III

  • ·ICOUGH: A multidisciplinary strategy to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications

    Page :S107

    Michael R. Cassidy, Pamela Rosenkranz, Karen Weinstock, David McAneny

    Plan Plan
  • ·Surgical skills limit availability of essential and emergency surgery services more than lack of resources in zambian hospitals: A nationwide study

    Page :S107

    Kendra G. Bowman, Jovic Goran, William Berry, Atul A. Gawande

    Plan Plan
  • ·Cervical operating room thoracic anastomosis: An American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program analysis of morbidity and mortality in the modern era

    Page :S107

    Dhruvil R. Shah, Steve R. Martinez, Robert J. Canter, Anthony Yang, Richard J. Bold, David Wisner, Vijay P. Khatri

    Plan Plan
  • ·Comparison of two-stage hepatectomy and single-stage hepatectomy after downstaging by chemotherapy for the treatment of initially unresectable colorectal liver metastases: A meta-analysis

    Page :S108

    Irada Ibrahim-Zada, Kaye M. Reid Lombardo

    Plan Plan
  • ·Preference card deviations adversely impact operating room efficiency

    Page :S108

    Thomas C. Yonce, P.N. Montero, V.B. Tsirline, R.C. Phillips, C. Sievers, D. Stefanidis

    Plan Plan
  • ·Quality of life and pulmonary function improvements following laparoscopic repair of paraesophageal hernia: Results of a 5-year experience

    Page :S108

    Ashraf A. Maghrabi, Philip Mitchell, Kenton Rommens, Elizabeth Paolucci, Neal Church, Estifanos Debru

    Plan Plan
  • ·Abdominal wall reconstruction: Positive outcomes with negative pressure therapy

    Page :S109

    Andrew Gassman, Anupama Mehta, Ali Abtahi, Eleonar Bucholz, Thomas Esposito, Omar Guerra, Casey Thomas

    Plan Plan
  • ·Recurrence of inguinal hernia in general and hernia specialty hospitals in Ontario, Canada

    Page :S109

    Atiqa F.A. Malik, Chiam M. Bell, Therese A. Stukel, David R. Urbach

    Plan Plan
  • ·Minimally invasive drainage of subcutaneous abscesses reduces hospital cost and length of stay

    Page :S110

    Tiffany N. Wright, Leah Gilligan, Oksana Zhurbich, John M. Draus

    Plan Plan  
  • ·Laparoscopy: Improvement in inguinal hernia repair

    Page :S110

    Aaron Saul Rickles, James C. Iannuzzi, Andrew-Paul Deeb, Fergal J. Fleming, John R.T. Monson

    Plan Plan
  • ·Increased corticosteroid dosing for immunosuppression in liver transplant recipients is associated with decreased patient-reported health preference valuations

    Page :S111

    Leigh Anne Redhage, Irene D. Feurer, C. Wright Pinson, Derek E. Moore

    Plan Plan

• Surgical Education I

  • ·Interrupting patient care: The impact of current communication technologies on surgical residents

    Page :S112

    Jennifer Doorey, Renae E. Stafford, George Sheldon

    Plan Plan
  • ·The assessment of emotional intelligence among candidates interviewing for general surgery residency

    Page :S112

    Dana T. Lin, Aarthy Kannappan, James N. Lau

    Plan Plan
  • ·Simulation-based team training improves outcomes during real peri-operative emergencies

    Page :S112

    Natalia Martinez, Gregory Motuk, Gretchen Kolb, Josef Luba, Kristoffel R. Dumon, Andrew S. Resnick

    Plan Plan
  • ·The cutting edge: Values affirmations improve residents' on-the-job performance

    Page :S113

    Arghavan Salles, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Claudia Mueller

    Plan Plan
  • ·Changing paradigms in hepato-pancreato-biliary training during general surgery residency

    Page :S113

    Sally Sayeh Daee, Vijay K. Mittal

    Plan Plan
  • ·Achieving Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) compliance in training qualified cardiothoracic transplant surgeons: A simulation-based feasibility assessment

    Page :S113

    Andrea Tara Obi, Jennifer Chung, Mark Daskin, Amy Cohn, Rishi Reddy

    Plan Plan
  • ·Do we really need preliminary interns in academic surgery?

    Page :S114

    David C. Evans, Mark W. Arnold, David E. Lindsey

    Plan Plan
  • ·Multi-disciplinary survey of resident education, service, and quality of life: Did 80 hours level the playing field?

    Page :S114

    Brenessa M. Lindeman, Lauren G. Block, Sanjay V. Desai, Bethany Sacks, Kenzo Hirose, Pamela Lipsett

    Plan Plan
  • ·Implementation of a merit based resident ranking system: Does competition motivate?

    Page :S115

    Christian Xavier Cruz Pico, Alfredo D. Guerron, Matthew Kroh, Steve Rosenblatt, Allan Siperstein, Matthew Walsh, Sricharan Chalikonda

    Plan Plan
  • ·The role of the non-physician educator in general surgery residency training

    Page :S115

    Margaret J. Tarpley, John L. Tarpley

    Plan Plan
  • ·Sifting through course evaluations: Medical student comments driving surgery curriculum changes

    Page :S115

    Judith C. French, Melissa M. Bickett, Anne Ryan, Joseph A. Iocono

    Plan Plan
  • ·Does aptitude matter?

    Page :S116

    Christina E. Buckley, Dara O. Kavanagh, Oscar Traynor, Paul C. Neary

    Plan Plan

• Surgical Education II

  • ·A simulator module for percutaneous tracheostomy

    Page :S117

    Patricia Anne Pentiak, Diane Schuch-Miller, Robert Hammond, Ronald Streetman, Michelle Veenstra, David Pridmore, James Robbins

    Plan Plan
  • ·Validation and implementation of the mini-Structured Training Trainer Assessment Report (mini-STTAR)

    Page :S117

    Susannah M. Wyles, Danilo Miskovic, Melody Ni, Mark G. Coleman, Roland Valori, Ara W. Darzi, George B. Hanna

    Plan Plan
  • ·Development of a tool for the identification and assessment of technical errors in laparoscopic surgery

    Page :S117

    Esther M. Bonrath, Boris Zevin, Nicolas J. Dedy, Teodor P. Grantcharov

    Plan Plan
  • ·Use of an operative competency model with immediate feedback to evaluate resident technical progression

    Page :S118

    William J. Curtiss, Vijay K. Mittal, Richard K. Englehardt, Armin Kamyab, Karen McFarlane, Yeon-Jeen Chang

    Plan Plan
  • ·The impact of heat stress on performance and cognitive function during simulated laparoscopic surgical tasks

    Page :S118

    Regan James Berg, Kenji Inaba, Maura Sullivan, Obi Okoye, Michael Minneti, G. Teixeira, Peep Talving, Demetrios Demetriades

    Plan Plan
  • ·Identifying pitfalls in chest tube insertion: improving teaching and performance

    Page :S118

    James S. Davis, George D. Garcia, Mary M. Wyckoff, Salman Alsafran, Jill M. Graygo, Kelly F. Withum, Carl I. Schulman

    Plan Plan
  • ·Does intra-operative teaching address the steps delineated in a cognitive task analysis (CTA)?

    Page :S119

    Luise I.M. Pernar, Katherine Corso, Elizabeth Breen

    Plan Plan
  • ·Construct validity of instrument vibrations as a measure of robotic surgical skill

    Page :S119

    Ernest D. Gomez, Karlin Bark, Charlotte Rivera, William McMahan, Austin Remington, David I. Lee, Noel N. Williams, Kenric M. Murayama, Kristoffel R. Dumon, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

    Plan Plan
  • ·Validity and inter-rater reliability of a regional mock oral boards examination

    Page :S120

    John L. Falcone, Daniel J. Gagne, Kenneth K.W. Lee, Giselle G. Hamad

    Plan Plan
  • ·Comparative study of case-specific endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) simulation with real patient cases

    Page :S120

    Neil G. Kumar, Sean J. Hislop, Michael D. Raco, Jennifer L. Ellis, Jason K. Kim, Michael J. Singh, David L. Gillespie, Ankur Chandra

    Plan Plan
  • ·An evidence-based algorithm for the design, validation and implementation of a simulation-based surgical training curriculum

    Page :S120

    Boris Zevin, Jeffrey S. Levy, Richard M. Satava, Teodor P. Grantcharov

    Plan Plan

• Surgical Oncology/Endocrine I

  • ·Overcoming evasive resistance from vascular endothelial growth factor A inhibition in sarcomas by genetic or pharmacologic targeting of hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha

    Page :S122

    Benjamin Schmidt, Yeo-Jung Kim, Alexia Y. Zhang, Tae-Min Kim, T.S. Karin Eisinger-Mathason, Peter J. Park, M. Celeste Simon, Sam S. Yoon, Hae-June Lee

    Plan Plan
  • ·Amplification of full-length HMGA2 is oncogenic in liposarcoma

    Page :S122

    Douglas W. Jones, Penelope DeCarolis, Aimee M. Crago, Samuel Singer

    Plan Plan
  • ·Differential gene expression in liposarcoma: A biologic basis for clinically aggressive behavior?

    Page :S122

    Dale Han, Gregory Bloom, Marilyn M. Bui, Steven Enkemann, Hideko Yamauchi, Gang Han, Anthony P. Conley, Jonathan S. Zager, Douglas Letson, Ricardo J. Gonzalez

    Plan Plan
  • ·Viral-mediated gene therapy in combination with temozolomide in melanoma

    Page :S123

    Michael E. Egger, J.G. Gomez-Gutierrez, H. Hao, H.S. Zhou, Kelly M. McMasters

    Plan Plan
  • ·Hemithyroidectomy: a meta-analysis of postoperative need for hormone replacement and complications

    Page :S123

    Salem Noureldine, Barath Krishnan, Lu Yao, Emad Kandil

    Plan Plan
  • ·Rate and predictors of thyroid malignancy in patients with follicular lesions of undetermined significance (FLUS) classification

    Page :S123

    Parth Kishore Shah, Kinjal K. Shah, Giorgos C. Karakousis, Rachel R. Kelz, Douglas L. Fraker

    Plan Plan
  • ·Should immunohistochemical (IHC) markers be performed on axillary lymph node metastases in view of the lack of concordance between the primary tumor and axillary lymph node metastases?

    Page :S124

    Lauren Turza Greer, Martin Rosman, W. Charles Mylander, Janet A. Wareham, J. Leigh Campbell, Jeffrey Hooke, Albert J. Kovatich, Craig D. Shriver, Lorraine Tafra

    Plan Plan
  • ·Dysregulation of zinc metabolism as a marker of phenotypic and functional change in breast cancer cells

    Page :S124

    Zeynep Bostanci, Samina Alam, David I. Soybel, Shannon L. Kelleher

    Plan Plan
  • ·Lymphatic drainage of mammary gland and upper extremities: From anatomy to surgery to microsurgery

    Page :S124

    Corrado Campisi, Francesco Boccardo, Rosalia Lavagno, Lorenz Larcher, Corradino A. Campisi, Miguel Amore

    Plan Plan
  • ·Baicalein induces tumor suppression in triple negative breast cancer by mTOR inhibition mediated through DDIT4 expression

    Page :S125

    Amanda K. Arrington, Yujun Wang, Jin Yan, Yasir Akmal, Quanhua Xing, Theodore Wu, John Yim

    Plan Plan
  • ·TFAP2C regulates Erk1/2 activation and cell proliferation through the ret receptor in breast carcinoma

    Page :S125

    Philip M. Spanheimer, George W. Woodfield, Anthony R. Cyr, Ronald J. Weigel

    Plan Plan
  • ·Characteristics of ductal carcinoma in situ found in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

    Page :S126

    Rachel L. Yang, Holly L. Graves, Paul J. Zhang, Katherine Nathanson, Susan M. Domchek, Brain J. Czerniecki, Rachel R. Kelz

    Plan Plan

• Surgical Oncology/Endocrine II

  • ·Targeting CSE1L in colorectal cancer

    Page :S127

    Jose M. Pimiento, Domenico Coppola, Anying Zhang, Kazim Husain, Steven Eschrich, Dung-Tsa Chen, Mokenge P. Malafa

    Plan Plan
  • ·Loss of Bcl-2 expression impacts survival in colorectal cancer using a high throughput tissue microarray analysis (AQUA)

    Page :S127

    Allen Nicholson, Xiaojia Guo, Catherine Sullivan, Charles Cha

    Plan Plan
  • ·Fluorophore-conjugated antibodies improve surgical resection of pancreatic cancer leading to prolonged disease-free survival and overall survival in orthotopic mouse models

    Page :S127

    Cristina Angela Metildi, Sharmeela Kaushal, Mark A. Talamini, George A. Luiken, Robert M. Hoffman, Michael Bouvet

    Plan Plan
  • ·Loss of programmed death-1 signaling uncouples the anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects of liver regulatory T cells in a model of obstructive jaundice

    Page :S128

    Lauren A. Licata, Cang T. Nguyen, Rachel A. Burga, Seema Naheed, Xiaofei Wang, Liu J. Wang, Alfred Ayala, Richard P. Junghans, N. Joseph Espat, Steven C. Katz

    Plan Plan
  • ·Inhibition of stromal TGFbetaR2 reduces pancreatic cancer growth and metastasis in vivo

    Page :S128

    Katherine T. Ostapoff, Bercin Cenik, Roderich E. Schwarz, Kyla D. Carroll, Rolf A. Brekken

    Plan Plan
  • ·Preoperative hypercoagulability is associated with advanced disease in cancer

    Page :S128

    Chad M. Thorson, Robert M. Van Haren, Mark L. Ryan, Emiliano Curia, Danny Sleeman, Joe U. Levi, Alan S. Livingstone, Kenneth G. Proctor, PhD

    Plan Plan
  • ·RON overexpression drives macrophage differentiation toward an alternatively activated (M2) phenotype in a mouse model of spontaneous pancreatic carcinogenesis

    Page :S129

    Michele L. Babicky, Megan M. Harper, Evangeline Mose, Dawn Jaquish, Randy French, Andrew M. Lowy

    Plan Plan
  • ·Polo-like Kinase 4 (Plk4) enhances cancer cell motility via RhoGTPase activation

    Page :S129

    Francis Si Wai Zih, Carla O. Rosario, Olga Brashavitskaya, Karineh Kazazian, Carol J. Swallow

    Plan Plan
  • ·Inhibition of dendritic cells fatty acid synthesis enhance their immune-stimulatory potential

    Page :S130

    Adeel Rehman, Keith C. Hemmert, Justin R. Henning, Constantinos P. Zambirinis, Shahzad Rahim, Mohsin Jamal, Rocky M. Barilla, Nina Fallon, Christopher S. Graffeo, George Miller

    Plan Plan
  • ·Ascorbate-induced autophagy: Mode of cell death or mechanism for survival?

    Page :S130

    Jessemae L. Welsh, Juan Du, Zita Sibenaller, Joseph J. Cullen

    Plan Plan
  • ·Extracellular superoxide dismutase promotes pancreatic cancer liver metastasis

    Page :S131

    Jennifer E. Hrabe, Adam J. Case, Brianne R. O'Leary, Trenton L. Place, Alicia K. Olivier, Michael D. Henry, Frederick E. Domann, James J. Mezhir

    Plan Plan
  • ·Prolyl-hydroxylase 3 silencing correlates with epithelial to mesenchymal transition in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    Page :S131

    Trenton L. Place, James J. Mezhir, Frederick E. Domann

    Plan Plan

• Targeted Therapies

  • ·A targeted systemic therapy for the prevention of arterial restenosis

    Page :S132

    Hussein A. Kassam, Tyson J. Moyer, Teng L. Chew, Sam I. Stupp, Melina R. Kibbe

    Plan Plan
  • ·Natural IgM blockade mitigates myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in miniature swine

    Page :S132

    Smita Sihag, Michael Haas, Karen Kim, Jose L. Guerrero, James D. Gottschall, Joren C. Madsen, Bruce R. Rosengard, David H. Sachs, Michael Carroll, James S. Allan

    Plan Plan
  • ·Apolipoprotein A-I inhibits clot formation by inhibition of platelets

    Page :S132

    Wilbert L. Jones, Ernest E. Moore, Jeffrey N. Harr, James G. Chandler, John R. Stringham, Theresa Chin, Karen K. Lo, Luis Lee, Christopher C. Silliman, Anirban Banerjee

    Plan Plan
  • ·Addition of tumor-lysate pulsed dendritic cells to chemoradiation increases complete pathologic response and imparts lasting immunity in a murine model of rectal cancer

    Page :S133

    Zachary P. Englert, Melinda Carver, Michael A. White, Steven Agle, Emmanuel E. Zervos

    Plan Plan
  • ·Anti-CTLA-4 enhances the effect of imatinib in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)

    Page :S133

    Teresa S. Kim, Michael J. Cavnar, Eric C. Sorenson, Shan Zeng, Jonathan B. Greer, Rachel Popow, Ronald P. DeMatteo

    Plan Plan
  • ·Targeting cancer initiating cells in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

    Page :S133

    Matteo Ligorio, Yangyang Wang, Elvira Favoino, Ling Yu, Soldano Ferrone, Xinhui Wang, Keith D. Lillemoe, Cristina R. Ferrone

    Plan Plan
  • ·The novel ability of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor to alter myeloid-derived suppressor cell and t-regulatory cell (Treg) function

    Page :S134

    Brian A. Coakley, David Z. Kalir, Ge Ma, Junko Ozao-Choy, Ping Y. Pan, Shu-Hsia Chen, Celia Divino

    Plan Plan
  • ·Enhanced therapeutic effects of a novel oncolytic and anti-angiogenic vaccinia virus against triple-negative breast cancer

    Page :S134

    Sepideh Gholami, Andrew A. Marano, Nanhai G. Chen, Alexa Frentzen, Chun-Hao Chen, Clarisse Eveno, Emil Lou, Laurence Belin, Aladar A. Szalay, Yuman Fong

    Plan Plan
  • ·Hedgehog (HH) and ErbB signaling as mediators of tumor-stroma interactions in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)

    Page :S134

    Brett L. Broussard, Alevtina Mikhaylina, Martin J. Heslin, Juan P. Arnoletti, Andrey Frolov

    Plan Plan
  • ·JAK-2 downregulation sensitizes pancreatic cancer cells to tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-induced cell death

    Page :S135

    Vikas Dudeja, Amanda R. Oliveira, Steven J. Skube, Sulagna Banerjee, Veena Sangwan, Rajinder K. Dawra, Selwyn M. Vickers, Ashok K. Saluja

    Plan Plan
  • ·Triptolide and sorafenib combination therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma results in superior cell death in vitro and prolonged survival in vivo

    Page :S135

    Tara C.K. Krosch, Veena Sangwan, Sulagna Banerjee, Ashok K. Saluja, Selwyn M. Vickers, Eric H. Jensen

    Plan Plan
  • ·GLV1h153, an oncolytic vaccinia virus carrying the human sodium iodide symporter, kills malignant pleural mesothelioma and facilitates PET imaging

    Page :S136

    Laurence Justin Belin, Sepideh Gholami, Kelly M. Mojica, Andrew A. Marano, Pat B. Zanzonico, Valerie A. Longo, Nanhai G. Chen, Richard J. Aguilar, Aladar A. Szalay, Yuman Fong

    Plan Plan

• Transplantation and Tissue Engineering

  • ·Passenger antigen presenting cells (APCs) are crucial for the more potent immune response following the transplantation of vascularized allografts from old donors

    Page :S137

    Rupert Oberhuber, Olaf Boenisch, Karin Hock, Timm Heinbokel, Hongmei Li, Guangxiang Liu, Johann Pratschke, Stefan G. Tullius

    Plan Plan
  • ·Tissue-engineered small intestine (TESI) forms normal architecture following a period of hyper-proliferation

    Page :S137

    Daniel E. Levin, Frederic G. Sala, Erik R. Barthel, Allison L. Speer, Xiaogang Hou, Yasuhiro Torashima, Justin M.L. Dreyfuss, Tracy C. Grikscheit

    Plan Plan
  • ·Anti-IL-6R antibodies prevent acute rejection of allogeneic lung transplants in monkeys

    Page :S137

    Soyoung Lee, Akihiro Aoyama, Makoto Tonsho, Svjetlan Boskovic, Yohei Yamada, A. Benedict Cosimi, Joren C. Madsen, Gilles Benichou, Tatsuo Kawai, James S. Allan

    Plan Plan
  • ·Attenuation of hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury through CD47 blockade in vivo

    Page :S138

    Bernard John DuBray, Pam T. Manning, William A. Frazier, Kristen L. Gunter, Parvathi Balachandran, Gundumi A. Upadhya, Jianluo Jia, Christopher D. Anderson, Thalachallour Mohanakumar, William C. Chapman

    Plan Plan
  • ·Dendritic cells regulate fibro-inflammation but exacerbate steatosis in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

    Page :S138

    Justin R. Henning, Christopher S. Graffeo, Michael Deutsch, Nina Fallon, Adeel Rehman, Rocky Barilla, Marco Medina-Zea, Constantinos Zambirinis, George Miller

    Plan Plan
  • ·Acute graft vs host disease (GVHD) induced by in utero hematopoietic cell transplantation is reversed by a regulatory response resulting in a potent graft vs hematopoietic effect without clinical GVHD

    Page :S139

    Miho Watanabe, Jesse D. Vrecenak, Jacqueline Tsai, Jason P. Sulkowski, Edem Timpo, Yan Li, Haying Li, Alan W. Flake

    Plan Plan
  • ·Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) on hepatocytes mediates high mobility group box-1 (HMGB1) release after hepatic ischemia reperfusion in a JNK-dependent manner

    Page :S139

    Gary W. Nace, Hai Huang, John R. Klune, Raymond E. Eid, Timothy R. Billiar, Allan Tsung

    Plan Plan
  • ·Dual seeded polycaprolactone (PCL)/collagen electrospun vascular scaffold for engineering small diameter blood vessel and clinical translation

    Page :S139

    Juan E. Arenas, Hyunhee Ahn, Tanner K. Hill, Ju M. Young, Hwang Chang, James Yoo, Sang J. Lee

    Plan Plan
  • ·REDD1 (regulated in development and DNA damage responses 1) is a central regulator of hepatic injury following liver ischemia-reperfusion (I/R)

    Page :S140

    Raymond E. Eid, John Evankovich, Gary W. Nace, Huang Hai, Allan Tsung

    Plan Plan
  • ·Tissue-engineered stomach epithelium develops few parietal cells but is not metaplastic

    Page :S140

    Allison L. Speer, Frederic G. Sala, Erik R. Barthel, Yasuhiro Torashima, Xiaogang Hou, Justin M.L. Dreyfuss, Daniel E. Levin, Tracy C. Grikscheit

    Plan Plan
  • ·Selective manipulation of blood flow dynamics in microcirculation

    Page :S141

    Grace S. Lee, Roxanna M. Webber, Miao Lin, Barry C. Gibney, Dinee C. Simpson, Nenad Filipovic, Akira Tsuda, Moritz A. Konerding, Steven J. Mentzer

    Plan Plan
  • ·Liver allografts suppress cellular and humoral responses toward co-transplanted heart allografts

    Page :S141

    Jinny S. Ha, Raghava B. Munivenkatappa, Erika D. Feller, Bartley P. Griffith, Benjamin Philosophe, Rolf N. Barth

    Plan Plan

• Urology and Reproductive Surgery I

  • ·Early surgical intervention versus medical expulsive therapy for renal colic

    Page :S142

    John M. Hollingsworth, Edward C. Norton, Samuel R. Kaufman, R. Matt Smith, J. Stuart Wolf, Brent K. Hollenbeck

    Plan Plan
  • ·Impact of comorbidity on hospitalization cost in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy

    Page :S142

    Augustine Obirieze, Adil H. Haider, Edward E. Cornwell, Chiledum Ahaghotu

    Plan Plan
  • ·Repopulation of primary renal cells for whole organ engineering

    Page :S142

    Sigrid M. Agcaoili, Tamer Aboushwareb, John D. Jackson, James J. Yoo, Anthony Atala

    Plan Plan
  • ·The Worcestershire Prostate Cancer Survivorship Programme: A new concept for holistic long-term support and follow-up

    Page :S143

    Sanchia Shanika Goonewardene, Mary Symons, Gary McCormack, Adel Makar

    Plan Plan
  • ·Physiological factors are more important than operative impact in predicting early mortality after radical cystectomy

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    Stephanie Mai, E. Jason Abel, Luke Hillman, Fangfang Shi, Tracy M. Downs

    Plan Plan
  • ·Trends in the age and gender of the urology workforce in the United States: 1981-2009

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    Raj Kurpad, Erin Fraher, Simon Neuwahl, Ian Udell, Eric Wallen, Angela Smith, Matthew Nielsen, Michael Woods, Raj S. Pruthi

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  • ·The evolving role and age structure of international medical graduates (IMGs) on the urology workforce in the United States: 1981-2009

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    Raj Kurpad, Erin Fraher, Simon Neuwahl, Ian Udell, Eric Wallen, Angela Smith, Matthew Nielsen, Michael Woods, Raj S. Pruthi

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  • ·Should blunt segmental renal vascular injury be classified as American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) grade 4?

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    Bahaa S. Malaeb, Bradley D. Figler, Hunter B. Wessells, Bryan B. Voelzke

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  • ·Use of a neighboring uninjured nerve for restoration of tissue function

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    Bukyu Lee, Young Min Ju, Jaeko Cho, Sang Jin Lee, John D. Jaskson, James J. Yoo, Anthony Atala

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  • ·Surveillance guidelines for low grade non-invasive bladder cancer: A cost comparison

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    Ian Udell, Raj Kurpad, Angela B. Smith, Michael E. Woods, Eric Wallen, Raj S. Pruthi, Matthew Nielsen

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  • ·The cost impact of routine addition of urovysion FISH early postoperative to non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer surveillance

    Page :S145

    Ian Udell, Raj Kurpad, Angela B. Smith, Michael E. Woods, Eric Wallen, Raj S. Pruthi, Matthew Nielsen

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  • ·Re-operative urethroplasty for failed prior urethral reconstruction: Outcomes of a 35 year experience

    Page :S146

    Sarah D. Blaschko, Jack W. McAninch, Jeremy B. Myers, Benjamin N. Breyer

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  • ·An analysis of thromboembolic events after radical cystectomy and chemoprophylaxis recommendations

    Page :S146

    Katie S. Murray, Ernesto Lopez-Corona, Marcus Austenfeld, Jeffrey M. Holzbeierlein

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• Urology and Reproductive Surgery II: Robotics/MIS

  • ·Patterns of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) versus open radical retropubic prostatectomy (ORP) in patients older than 70

    Page :S147

    Priyanka Gupta, Oluwakayode Adejoro, Badrinath R. Konety

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  • ·Outcomes after minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) versus open radical prostatectomy (OPRP) in patients older than 70

    Page :S147

    Priyanka Gupta, Oluwakayode Adejoro, Badrinath R. Konety

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  • ·Risk and prevention of acute urinary retention after robotic prostatectomy

    Page :S147

    Ryan Novak, Tariq A. Khemees, Ronney Abaza

    Plan Plan
  • ·Prospective randomized controlled trial of robotic versus open radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: Median 3-year follow-up results

    Page :S147

    Ian Udell, Raj Kurpad, Angela B. Smith, Michael E. Woods, Eric Wallen, Matthew Nielsen, Raj S. Pruthi

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  • ·Comparison of renal function outcomes: Resection versus radiofrequency ablation

    Page :S148

    Christopher J. Martin, Robert I. Carey, Marco Ferrara, Mark J. Murnane

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  • ·Ablation of small renal masses: Practice patterns at academic institutions in the United States

    Page :S148

    Sutchin R. Patel, E. Jason Abel, Sean P. Hedican, Stephen Y. Nakada

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  • ·Early Postoperative Complications After Robotic Vs Open Radical Cystectomy

    Page :S149

    Tariq A. Khemees, David N. Prall, Robert R. Bahnson, Ahmad Shabsigh

    Plan Plan
  • ·Median lobe prostatic enlargement and urinary symptoms after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

    Page :S149

    Trisha Fleet, Betty Skipper, Satyan K. Shah

    Plan Plan
  • ·Review of positive surgical margin rates and nodal status in robotic-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC)

    Page :S149

    Philip Zhao, Murali K. Ankem, Robert E. Weiss

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  • ·Cost analysis of robotic-assisted radical cystectomy versus open radical cystectomy utilizing a prospective, randomized cohort

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    Ian Udell, Raj Kurpad, Angela B. Smith, Michael E. Woods, Eric Wallen, Matthew Nielsen, Raj S. Pruthi

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  • ·Renal artery embolization immediately before laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for T3 renal cancer

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    Kelly C. Johnson, Adam Howe, Saum Rahimi, Robert E. Weiss, Murali K. Ankem

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• Vascular Surgery I

  • ·Silencing prolyl hydroxylase-3 (PHD-3) improves blood perfusion in a murine hind-limb ischemia model

    Page :S151

    Muhammad Tipu Rishi, Mahesh Thirunavukkarasu, Vaithinathan Selvaraju, Juan A. Sanchez, Nilanjana Maulik

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  • ·Collagen production is dysregulated at both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level in the progression from acute to chronic diabetic wound

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    Robert C. Caskey, Junwang Xu, Myron Allukian, Michael W. Morris, Wanda A. Dorsett-Martin, Wenjie Wu, Marc E. Mitchell, Kenneth W. Liechty

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  • ·Medical therapy predicts need for carotid revascularization in asymptomatic patients

    Page :S151

    Matthew B. Burruss, Timothy W. Capps, Bryan A. Ehlert, Christopher A. Durham, William M. Bogey, Frank M. Parker, Charles S. Powell, Michael C. Stoner

    Plan Plan
  • ·The modified frailty index as a predictor of operative mortality and morbidity in lower extremity amputations

    Page :S152

    Joseph Karam, Ilan S. Rubinfeld, Alexander Shepard, Farah Mohammad

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  • ·A comparison of contemporary mortality following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

    Page :S152

    Dawn M. Coleman, Frank Davis, Nicholas H. Osborne, Christopher Scally, Jay Lee, Michael Ranella, Jonathan L. Eliason

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  • ·Alvimopan is associated with faster return of gastrointestinal function and fewer hospital days in transperitoneal compared to retroperitoneal open aortic patients

    Page :S152

    Timothy W. Capps, Matthew B. Burruss, Bryan A. Ehlert, Christopher A. Durham, William M. Bogey, Frank M. Parker, Charles S. Powell, Michael C. Stoner

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  • ·EphB4 regulates venous endothelial cell angiogenic phenotype

    Page :S153

    Caroline C. Jadlowiec, Amanda Feigel, Michael J. Collins, Chenzi Yang, Clinton D. Protack, Susun T. Kim, Alan Dardik

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  • ·Inhibition of prolyl hydroxylase attenuates microvascular inflammation after mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion via upregulation of heme oxygenase

    Page :S153

    Jessica Hogan, John G. Wood, Michael Moncure, James H. Thomas

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  • ·Fabrication of biocompatible biodegradable artificial tissue constructs via sacrificial nonionic triblock copolymer networks

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    Jonne F. van Koot, Alyssa J. Reiffel, Nikola Lekic, Karina A. Hernandez, Elisa S. Rezaie, Michel C. van Harten, Rachel Campbell, Cynthia Wisnieff, Jason A. Spector

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  • ·A four year experience with femoral artery pseudoaneurysms: Should there be a size criteria for observation?

    Page :S154

    Michael Amendola, Ayorinde Akinrinlola, Francisco Albuquerque, John Pfeifer, Luke Wolfe, Justin Pfeifer, Mark Levy

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  • ·Racial differences in treatment and mortality following vascular injury: A National Trauma Data Bank analysis

    Page :S154

    Charles S. Briggs, Tze-Woei Tan, Naomi Hamburg, Robert Eberhardt, Gheorghe Doros, Denis Rybin, Alik Farber

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• Vascular Surgery II

  • ·A shifting paradigm for the treatment of acute mesenteric ischemia

    Page :S155

    Robert J. Beaulieu, James H. Black

    Plan Plan
  • ·Protein and mitochondrial content in the gastrocnemius predicts mortality rates in patients with peripheral arterial disease

    Page :S155

    Jonathan Robert Thompson, Stanley A. Swanson, Gleb Haynatzki, George P. Casale, Jason M. Johanning, Eva Papoutsi, Panagiotis Koutakis, Dimitrios Miserlis, Zhen Zhu, Iraklis I. Pipinos

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  • ·National survey of the management of calf vein thrombosis

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    T. Calloway Robertson, Michael J. Anstadt, Pegge M. Halandras, Ross Milner

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  • ·Recurrent injury of diabetic mice significantly delays wound closure and recapitulates the dysregulated inflammatory state seen in chronic diabetic wounds

    Page :S156

    Robert C. Caskey, Wanda A. Dorsett-Martin, Junwang Xu, Liping Zhang, Wenjie Wu, Michael W. Morris, Myron Allukian, Marc E. Mitchell, Kenneth W. Liechty

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  • ·Outcomes following lower extremity bypass surgery among octogenarians

    Page :S156

    Nicholas H. Osborne, Dawn M. Coleman, Danielle Campbell, John E. Rectenwald, Peter K. Henke, Katherine A. Gallagher

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  • ·Impact of renal function on outcomes after elective endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

    Page :S156

    Abhishek Sundaram, Prateek K. Gupta, Bala Ramanan, Jason N. MacTaggart, G. Matthew Longo, Jason M. Johanning, Armour Forse, Marcus W. Balters, Thomas G. Lynch, Irkalis I. Pipinos

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  • ·Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A inhibits venous marker expression and stimulates arterial marker expression in adult venous endothelial cells

    Page :S157

    Chenzi Yang, Yuanyuan Guo, Caroline C. Jadlowiec, Clinton D. Protack, Michael J. Collins, Chang Shu, Alan Dardik

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  • ·Cytoplasmic tyrosine 774 is critical for Eph-B4 function

    Page :S157

    Clinton D. Protack, Chenzi Yang, Michael J. Collins, Caroline C. Jadlowiec, Alan Dardik

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  • ·Inhbition of the matrix metalloproteinase stromelysin-1 reduces arterial calcification

    Page :S157

    Weifeng Luo, Xue-lin Wang, Raul J. Guzman

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  • ·TGF-beta/Smad3-treated smooth muscle cells enhance the production of collagen type 3 from adventitial fibroblasts

    Page :S158

    Shakti A. Goel, Lian-Wang Guo, Xu-Dong Shi, Stephen Seedial, K. Craig Kent

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  • ·Geometric and hemodynamic effects of carotid artery stenting

    Page :S158

    Alexey V. Kamenskiy, Jai Bikhchandani, Iraklis I. Pipinos, Prateek K. Gupta, Yuris A. Dzenis, Jason N. MacTaggart

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  • ·Poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibition modulates glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) activity in a diabetic mouse model of hind limb ischemia reperfusion

    Page :S159

    Valy Boulom, Chandler A. Long, Junaid Y. Malek, Hyung-Jin Yoo, Rahmi Oklu, Maxime Raux, Michael T. Watkins, Hassan Albadawi

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