Submissions from 2017
The Incremental Cost of Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A National Cohort Analysis, George Lipkowitz MD
Effects of an Ambulation Orderly Program Among Cardiac Surgery Patients, Saki Miwa MD, Paul Visintainer, Richard Engelman MD, Amanda Miller RN, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, and Quinn Pack MD
Laparoscopic Pediatric Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Pilot Study in a Novel Guinea Pig Animal Model, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Katharine Bittner, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, David Tashjian MD, and Michael Tirabassi MD
Seasonal Variation of Trauma in Western Massachusetts: Fact or Folklore?, Jeffry Nahmias MD, Shiva Poola MD, Andrew Doben, Jane Garb, and Ronald Gross
SAGES quality initiative: an introduction, John Romanelli MD
Efficacy and Safety of Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy for Treatment of Achalasia After Failed Heller Myotomy, John Romanelli MD and David Desilets MD
Individual-specific Variation in the Respiratory Activities of HMECs and Their Bioenergetic Response to IGF1 and TNFα, Sallie Schneider PhD, Elizabeth Henchey, Nazeen Sultana, D Joseph Jerry, D. Joseph Jerry, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Richard Arenas MD, Holly Mason MD, and Nagendra Yadava PhD
Multicenter proficiency benchmarks for advanced laparoscopic suturing tasks, Neal Seymour MD and Erica Kane MD
Should we perform elective inguinal hernia repair in the elderly?, Jacqueline Wu MD
Submissions from 2016
A Technique for Avoiding Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch in the Small Aortic Root, Ak Alameddine MD and Victor Alimov MD
Endovascular Closure of an Aortic Pseudoaneurysm Complicated by Aorto-Pulmonary Fistula, Ak Alameddine MD and Victor Alimov MD
Prevention and management of sternal wound infections, Richard Engelman MD
Rapid Rewarming During Cardiopulmonary Bypass Is Associated With Cerebral Injury, Richard Engelman MD
Simulation-Based Selection of Surgical Trainees: Considerations, Challenges, and Opportunities, Gladys Fernandez M.D.
Extravascular Revascularization of a Chronic Total Occlusion Using the Dual Bull's-Eye Technique, S. Lowell Kahn MD and Jeffrey Kaufman
Massive Hemorrhage From Multiple Hepatic Artery Aneurysms, S. Lowell Kahn MD and Jeffrey Kaufman
Treatment of Malignant Superior Vena Cava Syndrome Using a Bifurcated Aortic Endograft, S. Lowell Kahn MD, Amanda Kravetz MD, Marc Norris MD, and Jeffrey Kaufman
Computed tomography of the aorta with heart, Jeffrey Kaufman
Decreasing the Hours That Anesthesiologists and Nurse Anesthetists Work Late, Jeffrey Kaufman
Prospective, Randomized, Concurrently-Controlled Study of a Stent Graft versus Balloon Angioplasty for Treatment of Arteriovenous Access Graft Stenosis: 2-Year Results of the RENOVA Study, George Lipkowitz MD
Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors, George Lipkowitz MD
Randomized controlled trial of remote ischemic preconditioning and atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, Amir Lotfi, Auras Atreya, Ananth Kashikar MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Paul Visintainer, and Daniel Engelman MD
Implementation of a quality improvement project on smoking cessation reduces smoking in a high risk trauma patient population, Jeffry Nahmias MD, Andrew Doben, Shiva Poola MD, Karen Carrens, and Ronald Gross
Public reporting and transparency: a primer on public outcomes reporting, John Romanelli MD
Putting the MeaT into TeaM Training: Development, Delivery, and Evaluation of a Surgical Team-Training Workshop, Neal Seymour MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, and Gerard Langlois
Loss of histone variant macroH2A2 expression associates with progression of anal neoplasm, Judith Sporn MD
Axillary Versus Femoral Arterial Cannulation During Repair of Type A Aortic Dissection?: An Old Problem Seeking New Solutions, Sotiris Stamou MD
Techniques of Proximal Root Reconstruction and Outcomes Following Repair of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection, Sotiris Stamou MD
Evaluation of PolyMPC-Dox Prodrugs in a Human Ovarian Tumor Model, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Sallie Schneider PhD
Submissions from 2015
Internal Hernia After Laparoscopic Antecolic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Mazen Al-Mansour MD, Romie Mundy, James Canoy MD, Kal Dulaimy MD, Jay Kuhn MD, and John Romanelli MD
Topic: Recent Innovations in Hernia Surgery, David Desilets MD and John Romanelli MD
Tension capnopericardium and cardiac arrest as an unexpected adverse event of peroral endoscopic myotomy (with video), David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD
Computed tomography pulmonary angiography: More than a screening tool for pulmonary embolus, Andrew Doben MD
Airway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, from Intubation to Cricothyroidotomy, Andrew Doben and Ronald Gross
Effects of Red-Cell Storage Duration on Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, Richard Engelman MD
Strategies and Devices to Minimize Stroke in Adult Cardiac Surgery, Richard Engelman MD and Daniel Engelman MD
Debriefing 101: training faculty to promote learning in simulation-based training, Gladys Fernandez MD and Neal Seymour MD
Time-Limited vs Unlimited Physician Certification, Paul Friedmann MD
Surgical drainage of a small tissue volume with butterfly infusion and vacuum phlebotomy tube sets, Jeffrey Kaufman MD
The concept of risk in comparative effectiveness research, Jeffrey Kaufman MD
Eversion Femoral Endarterectomy With Oblique Arteriotomy and Primary Closure for Ileofemoral Occlusive Disease: A Description of Technique and Series of Cases, Matthew Kronick MD, Natasha Saiyed MD, Marc Norris MD, Neal Hadro MD, and Marvin Morris MD
Trends in coronary revascularization procedures among medicare beneficiaries between 2008 and 2012, Aaron Kugelmass MD
Effects of prolonged ethanol lock exposure to carbothane- and silicone-based hemodialysis catheters: a 26-week study, Daniel Landry MD, Randa Jaber MD, George Lipkowitz MD, and Michael O'Shea MD
Utility of Functional Hemodynamics and Echocardiography to Aid Diagnosis and Management of Shock, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Adam Adler MD
Duodenal web resection via hybrid natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), Maria Carmen Mora MD, Gregory Banever MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD
Rhodiola crenulata inhibits Wnt/β-catenin signaling in glioblastoma, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Lotfi Bassa, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Sallie Schneider PhD
Concentration-Dependent Vascularization of Adipose Stromal Vascular Fraction Cells, Marvin Morris MD
Restoration of Physiologically Responsive Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis in Genetically Deficient Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Marvin Morris MD
Obstetric Balloon for Treatment of Foreshortened Vagina Using the McIndoe Technique, Aubrey Rauktys MD, Pranay Parikh MD, and Oz Harmanli MD
Evaluation of advanced laparoscopic skills tasks for validity evidence, Neal Seymour MD
Moving the Needle: Simulation's Impact on Patient Outcomes, Neal Seymour MD
Vascular heterogeneity and targeting: The role of YKL-40 in glioblastoma vascularization, Rong Shao, Sherry Taylor MD, Dennis Oh MD, and Larry Schwartz
In vivo construction of a multilayer bare-metal stent for the treatment of an aortic mycotic pseudoaneurysm, Sara Smolinski MD, Marc Norris MD, Sang Won Rhee MD, and Jeffrey Kaufman MD
Antineoplastic effects of Rhodiola crenulata treatment on B16-F10 melanoma, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Lotfi Bassa, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Jennifer Ser-Dolansky, Jean Henneberry MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Sallie Schneider PhD
Submissions from 2014
Chronic pain localized to the iliohypogastric nerve: Treatment using an ultrasound-guided technique of hydrodissection for catheter placement as a guide for surgical iliohypogastric nerve resection, Adam Adler MD and Pranay Parikh MD
Calcium oxalate supersaturation increases early after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, Varun Agrawal MD, Xiao Liu MD, Thomas Campfield MD, John Romanelli MD, J Enrique Silva MD, and Gregory Braden MD
Unexpected traumatic rupture of left atrium mimicking aortic rupture, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and John Rousou MD
Blood transfusion and the risk of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery, Ak Alameddine MD, Paul Visintainer, Victor Alimov MD, and John Rousou MD
Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation DisordersTransfusion Medicine and Coagulation Disorders, Gregory Banever MD
Ramifications of single-port laparoscopic surgery: measuring differences in task performance using simulation., Nathan Conway MD, John Romanelli MD, Ron Bush, and Neal Seymour MD
Surgical rib fixation for flail chest deformity improves liberation from mechanical ventilation, Andrew Doben MD
The Utilization of Surgical Rib Fixation: Age Restrictions, Andrew Doben MD and Caitlyn Ryan
Maintaining situational awareness in a cardiac intensive care unit, Daniel Engelman MD, Thomas Higgins MD, Rakesh Talati MD, and Jason Grimsman MD
Early experience treating tricuspid valve endocarditis with a novel extracellular matrix cylinder reconstruction, Joseph Flack MD
DNA methylation in paired breast epithelial and white blood cells from women undergoing reduction mammoplasty, Melissa Johnson MD, D Joseph Jerry, and Sallie Schneider PhD
Quantifying the risk of incompatible kidney transplantation: a multicenter study, George Lipkowitz MD
A Prospective Study of the Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries without Neurosurgical Consultation, Jeffry Nahmias MD and Robert Gaffey
Palliative care: Surgical time-out for introspection, David Page MD
The effects of viewing axis on laparoscopic performance: a comparison of non-expert and expert laparoscopic surgeons, Sang Won Rhee MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Ron Bush, and Neal Seymour MD
Toward scar-free surgery: an analysis of the increasing complexity from laparoscopic surgery to NOTES, John Romanelli MD
Local control and results of leksell gamma knife therapy for the treatment of uveal melanoma, Clemens Schirmer MD
Anti-YKL-40 antibody and ionizing irradiation synergistically inhibit tumor vascularization and malignancy in glioblastoma, Rong Shao, Brooke Bentley, Sherry Taylor MD, Luis Moral MD, and Wei Yan
MCP arthrodesis using an intramedullary interlocking device, Jacqueline Vanderzanden MD
Abnormalities of the Breast in Pregnancy and Lactation,, Richard Wait MD and Holly Mason MD
Evaluation of the treatment of pectus carinatum with compressive orthotic bracing using three dimensional body scans, Kaitlyn Wong MD, David Tashjian MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD
Submissions from 2013
Chronic pain localized to the iliohypogastric nerve: Treatment using an ultrasound-guided technique of hydrodissection for catheter placement as a guide for surgical iliohypogastric nerve resection, Adam Adler MD and Pranay Parikh MD
Alternative perfusion technique without axillary artery cannulation during combined aortic root and total arch replacement, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and Joseph Flack MD
Medical student boot camp: A two-week elective for the advancement of cognitive and technical skills in preparation for internship, Raquel Belforti MD, Adam Kellogg MD, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton MD, and Gladys Fernandez MD
Starting a peroral endoscopic myotomy program at your institution, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD
Guidelines for the management of hiatal hernia, David Earle MD
Repair of umbilical and epigastric hernias, David Earle MD
SAGES clinical spotlight review: endoluminal treatments for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), David Earle MD
Axillary and Brachial Injuries, Neal Hadro MD and Ronald Gross MD
Saving Sight: An Eye Surgeon's Look at Life Behind the Mask and the Heroes Who Changed the Way We See, Andrew Lam MD
Nissen fundoplication in the pediatric patient: Clinical and imaging evaluation, Grace Mitchell MD, Stanley Polansky MD, Stephen O'Connor MD, David Tashjian MD, Anastasios Angelides MD, and Qiqing Ge MD
Guns and states: Pediatric firearm injury, Kevin Moriarty MD, David Tashjian MD, and Lisa Patterson MD
Meningococcal sepsis and purpura fulminans: the surgical perspective, Marvin Morris MD
Obstructive jaundice secondary to multiple hepatic artery aneurysms in a 14-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis type 1, Marvin Morris MD
Ruptured hypogastric artery aneurysms: a contemporary review, Marvin Morris MD
Use of fibrin sealants in cardiovascular surgery: a systematic review, John Rousou MD
A novel craniotomy simulator provides a validated method to enhance education in the management of traumatic brain injury, Clemens Schirmer MD
A single center's experience with the bedside subdural evacuating port system: A useful alternative to traditional methods for chronic subdural hematoma evacuation, Clemens Schirmer MD