Published in BMC Anesthesiol on November 19, 2002
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Aggressive warming reduces blood loss during hip arthroplasty. Anesth Analg (2000) 1.10
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Effectiveness of a circulating-water warming garment in rewarming after pediatric cardiac surgery using hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth (2004) 0.91
Novel thermoregulation system for enhancing cardiac function and hemodynamics during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Ann Thorac Surg (2001) 0.90
Comparison of two different temperature maintenance strategies during open abdominal surgery: upper body forced-air warming versus whole body water garment. Anesthesiology (2001) 0.89
A novel thermoregulatory system maintains perioperative normothermia in children undergoing elective surgery. Paediatr Anaesth (2001) 0.89
Intraoperative hypothermia is an independent risk factor for early cytomegalovirus infection in liver transplant recipients. Transplantation (1999) 0.86
Long-term survival after resection for primary hepatic carcinoid tumor. Ann Surg Oncol (2003) 3.18
Routine intraoperative completion angiography after coronary artery bypass grafting and 1-stop hybrid revascularization results from a fully integrated hybrid catheterization laboratory/operating room. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.40
Etomidate use and postoperative outcomes among cardiac surgery patients. Anesthesiology (2014) 2.13
Predicting outcome after liver transplantation: utility of the model for end-stage liver disease and a newly derived discrimination function. Transplantation (2004) 2.13
Liver Resection and Transplantation for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Beyond Milan Criteria. Ann Surg (2016) 2.05
Diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma. Oncologist (2004) 2.00
Effective treatment of biliary cystadenoma. Ann Surg (2005) 1.83
Fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging in the evaluation of gallbladder carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg (2004) 1.77
Obesity and oxidative stress predict AKI after cardiac surgery. J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 1.77
Efficacy of neoadjuvant chemoradiation, followed by liver transplantation, for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma at 12 US centers. Gastroenterology (2012) 1.70
Variation in the 4q25 chromosomal locus predicts atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Circ Cardiovasc Genet (2009) 1.59
The impact of aviation-based teamwork training on the attitudes of health-care professionals. J Am Coll Surg (2004) 1.55
Use of short tandem repeats for DNA fingerprinting to rapidly diagnose graft-versus-host disease in solid organ transplant patients. Transplantation (2006) 1.54
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition alters the inflammatory and fibrinolytic response to cardiopulmonary bypass in children. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2011) 1.52
Incorporation of a laser range scanner into image-guided liver surgery: surface acquisition, registration, and tracking. Med Phys (2003) 1.52
Pre-transplant overweight and obesity do not affect physical quality of life after kidney transplantation. J Am Coll Surg (2010) 1.51
Concepts and preliminary data toward the realization of image-guided liver surgery. J Gastrointest Surg (2007) 1.50
Robust surface registration using salient anatomical features for image-guided liver surgery: algorithm and validation. Med Phys (2008) 1.49
Long-term detrimental effect of bile duct injury on health-related quality of life. Arch Surg (2004) 1.49
Compensating for intraoperative soft-tissue deformations using incomplete surface data and finite elements. IEEE Trans Med Imaging (2005) 1.49
CpG island methylation of genes accumulates during the adenoma progression step of the multistep pathogenesis of colorectal cancer. Genes Chromosomes Cancer (2006) 1.44
Postoperative acute kidney injury is associated with hemoglobinemia and an enhanced oxidative stress response. Free Radic Biol Med (2011) 1.42
Surgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: expert consensus statement. HPB (Oxford) (2010) 1.40
The long-term effect of bile duct injuries on health-related quality of life: a meta-analysis. HPB (Oxford) (2012) 1.30
Disparate outcomes in patients with colorectal cancer: effect of race on long-term survival. Arch Surg (2002) 1.24
Creating an emergency general surgery service enhances the productivity of trauma surgeons, general surgeons and the hospital. J Trauma (2005) 1.23
Relationship between carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase genotype and systemic vascular function. Hypertension (2004) 1.21
Acute kidney injury during liver transplantation as determined by neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin. Liver Transpl (2009) 1.20
Implementation of a real-time compliance dashboard to help reduce SICU ventilator-associated pneumonia with the ventilator bundle. Arch Surg (2009) 1.19
The role of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging in the evaluation of hepatocellular carcinoma. Am Surg (2003) 1.12
Model for end-stage liver disease: did the new liver allocation policy affect waiting list mortality? Arch Surg (2007) 1.12
Pre-liver transplantation locoregional adjuvant therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma as a strategy to improve longterm survival. J Am Coll Surg (2006) 1.11
A multicenter evaluation of safety of early extubation in liver transplant recipients. Liver Transpl (2007) 1.10
Liver and intestine transplantation: summary analysis, 1994-2003. Am J Transplant (2005) 1.09
Increased diacylglycerols characterize hepatic lipid changes in progression of human nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; comparison to a murine model. PLoS One (2011) 1.08
Management of hepatocellular carcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg (2006) 1.07
Pancreatic tumors: role of imaging in the diagnosis, staging, and treatment. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg (2004) 1.07
Combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma (biphenotypic) tumors: imaging features and diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced CT and MRI. AJR Am J Roentgenol (2013) 1.06
Hepatic arterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison of survival rates with different embolic agents. J Vasc Interv Radiol (2005) 1.06
Surgical management of polycystic liver disease. World J Gastroenterol (2007) 1.06
Early postoperative statin therapy is associated with a lower incidence of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth (2010) 1.04
Genetic variation in soluble epoxide hydrolase (EPHX2) is associated with forearm vasodilator responses in humans. Hypertension (2010) 1.04
Interplay between immune responses to HLA and non-HLA self-antigens in allograft rejection. Hum Immunol (2013) 1.02
Milrinone use is associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. Circulation (2008) 1.01
Outcomes of liver transplantation in 490 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: validation of a uniform staging after surgical treatment. J Am Coll Surg (2007) 1.01
National analysis of adverse patient safety for events in bariatric surgery. Am Surg (2005) 1.01
Use of percutaneous drainage to treat hepatic abscess after radiofrequency ablation of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Am Surg (2004) 1.00
Endoplasmic reticulum stress is a mediator of posttransplant injury in severely steatotic liver allografts. Liver Transpl (2011) 1.00
Impact of donor, technical, and recipient risk factors on survival and quality of life after liver transplantation. Arch Surg (2005) 0.99
Survival after pediatric liver transplantation: why does living donation offer an advantage? Arch Surg (2005) 0.98
Substance P increases sympathetic activity during combined angiotensin-converting enzyme and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibition. Hypertension (2014) 0.96
Safety and immunogenicity observations pooled from eight clinical trials of recombinant human thrombin. J Am Coll Surg (2009) 0.95
Systemic nf-kappaB activation in a transgenic mouse model of acute pancreatitis. J Surg Res (2003) 0.95
Percutaneous closure of aortic prosthetic paravalvular regurgitation with two amplatzer septal occluders. Anesth Analg (2009) 0.95
Endotoxin potentiates lung injury in cerulein-induced pancreatitis. Am J Surg (2003) 0.95
Hepatocellular carcinoma: a review of the surgical approaches to management. Mo Med (2011) 0.94
Hepatitis C virus-induced changes in microRNA 107 (miRNA-107) and miRNA-449a modulate CCL2 by targeting the interleukin-6 receptor complex in hepatitis. J Virol (2014) 0.94
SALL4 immunoreactivity predicts prognosis in Western hepatocellular carcinoma patients but is a rare event: a study of 236 cases. Am J Surg Pathol (2014) 0.94
A cost-effectiveness analysis of early vs late reconstruction of iatrogenic bile duct injuries. J Am Coll Surg (2012) 0.94
Ethnicity affects vasodilation, but not endothelial tissue plasminogen activator release, in response to bradykinin. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2002) 0.94
Polymorphisms in the transcription factor NRF2 and forearm vasodilator responses in humans. Pharmacogenet Genomics (2012) 0.94
Previously unreported high-grade complications of adrenalectomy. Surg Endosc (2008) 0.93
Lack of optimal T-cell reactivity against the hepatitis C virus is associated with the development of fibrosis/cirrhosis during chronic hepatitis. Hum Immunol (2003) 0.93
Elevated soluble CD30 correlates with development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome following lung transplantation. Transplantation (2006) 0.93
Liver transplantation for non-hepatocellular carcinoma malignancy. HPB (Oxford) (2007) 0.93
Modulation of endotoxin-induced NF-kappa B activation in lung and liver through TNF type 1 and IL-1 receptors. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol (2002) 0.93
Prevention of gallstone formation in morbidly obese patients undergoing rapid weight loss: results of a randomized controlled pilot study. J Surg Res (2002) 0.92
Registration of medical images using an interpolated closest point transform: method and validation. Med Image Anal (2004) 0.92
Characterization of genome-wide association-identified variants for atrial fibrillation in African Americans. PLoS One (2012) 0.92
Liver transplantation for iatrogenic porta hepatis transection. Am Surg (2009) 0.91
Hepatitis C virus mediated changes in miRNA-449a modulates inflammatory biomarker YKL40 through components of the NOTCH signaling pathway. PLoS One (2012) 0.91
The impact of tumor extent (T stage) and lymph node involvement (N stage) on survival after surgical resection for gallbladder adenocarcinoma. HPB (Oxford) (2008) 0.91
Comparative effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and angiotensin-receptor blockade on inflammation during hemodialysis. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 0.90
Molecular mechanisms of interleukin-4-induced up-regulation of type I collagen gene expression in murine fibroblasts. Arthritis Rheum (2003) 0.90
Is there racial disparity in outcomes after solid organ transplantation? Am J Surg (2004) 0.89
Advanced donor age alone does not affect patient or graft survival after liver transplantation. J Am Coll Surg (2008) 0.89
The effects of physical quality of life, time, and gender on change in symptoms of anxiety and depression after liver transplantation. J Gastrointest Surg (2007) 0.89
Reversed activity of mitochondrial adenine nucleotide translocator in ischemia-reperfusion. Transplantation (2003) 0.89
Risk factors for post-operative mortality in bariatric surgery. J Surg Res (2005) 0.89
Liver transplantation for childhood hepatic malignancy: a review of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database. J Pediatr Surg (2006) 0.88
Correlation of health-related quality of life after liver transplant with the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score. Arch Surg (2009) 0.88
Ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat steatotic liver is dependent on NFκB P65 activation. Transpl Immunol (2012) 0.88
Bradykinin type 2 receptor BE1 genotype influences bradykinin-dependent vasodilation during angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition. Hypertension (2008) 0.88
Hepatic cryoablation-induced multisystem injury: bioluminescent detection of NF-kappaB activation in a transgenic mouse model. J Gastrointest Surg (2002) 0.88
A prognostic system applicable to patients with resectable liver metastasis from colorectal carcinoma staged by positron emission tomography with [18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose: role of primary tumor variables. J Am Coll Surg (2008) 0.88
Organ surface deformation measurement and analysis in open hepatic surgery: method and preliminary results from 12 clinical cases. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng (2011) 0.87
Health insurance status affects staging and influences treatment strategies in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Ann Surg Oncol (2010) 0.87
Reduction in corticosteroids is associated with better health-related quality of life after liver transplantation. J Am Coll Surg (2011) 0.87