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Normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism associated with relatively low 1:25 vitamin D levels post-renal transplant can be successfully treated with oral calcitriol. Clin Transplant (1995) 0.95
Proposed thresholds for pancreatic tissue volume for safe intraportal islet autotransplantation after total pancreatectomy. Am J Transplant (2013) 0.94
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Accuracy and significance of pretransplant liver volume measured by magnetic resonance imaging. Liver Transpl Surg (1996) 0.93
Increased early morbidity and mortality with acceptable long-term function in severely obese patients undergoing liver transplantation. Clin Transplant (1999) 0.92
Diagnosis of intra-abdominal infection in the critically ill patient. Curr Opin Crit Care (2001) 0.92
Pancreas transplantation. An initial experience with systemic and portal drainage of pancreatic allografts. Ann Surg (1992) 0.92
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Percutaneous aspiration and drainage for suspected abdominal infection. Surgery (1984) 0.92
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Contribution of Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin to bacterial virulence and to intraperitoneal alterations in peritonitis. Infect Immun (2000) 0.92
Prostaglandin E1 increases survival with extended anhepatic phase during liver transplantation. Ann Surg (1994) 0.91
Peritonitis into the 1990s: changing pathogens and changing strategies in the critically ill. Am Surg (1992) 0.91
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Glucose metabolism after pancreas autotransplantation. The effect of open duct versus urinary bladder drainage technique. Ann Surg (1991) 0.87
Clinical and histologic patterns of early graft failure due to recurrnet hepatitis C in four patients after liver transplantation. Transplantation (1996) 0.86
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Impact of bloodstream infection on outcomes among infected surgical inpatients. Ann Surg (2001) 0.86
Recurrent variceal bleeding after liver transplantation--persistent left-sided portal hypertension. Transplantation (1992) 0.86
Cohort study of fever and leukocytosis as diagnostic and prognostic indicators in infected surgical patients. World J Surg (2001) 0.85
In vivo cytokine response to Escherichia coli alpha-hemolysin determined with genetically engineered hemolytic and nonhemolytic E. coli variants. Infect Immun (1996) 0.84
Intern call schedules and their relationship to sleep, operating room participation, stress, and satisfaction. Surgery (1999) 0.84
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Oral ganciclovir dosing in transplant recipients and dialysis patients based on renal function. Transplantation (1998) 0.83
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Implications of 2,457 consecutive surgical infections entering year 2000. Ann Surg (2001) 0.82
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Predictive value of intraoperative biopsies and liver function tests for preservation injury in orthotopic liver transplantation. Hepatology (1997) 0.82
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Human sphincter of Oddi motility and cholecystokinin response following liver transplantation. Dig Dis Sci (1993) 0.81
Succinic acid production by Bacteroides fragilis. A potential bacterial virulence factor. Arch Surg (1987) 0.80
Analysis of aminoglycosides in the treatment of gram-negative infections in surgical patients. Arch Surg (1999) 0.80
Characteristics of infectious complications associated with mortality after solid organ transplantation. Clin Transplant (2000) 0.80
A Bacteroides by-product inhibits human polymorphonuclear leukocyte function. Arch Surg (1986) 0.80
Effectiveness of fluconazole in murine Candida albicans and bacterial C. albicans peritonitis and abscess formation. J Med Vet Mycol (1995) 0.80
Prospective randomized trial of maintenance immunosuppression with rapid discontinuation of prednisone in adult kidney transplantation. Am J Transplant (2013) 0.80
Enhanced murine macrophage TNF receptor shedding by cytosine-guanine sequences in oligodeoxynucleotides. J Immunol (2000) 0.80
The use of pronase-digested human leukocytes to improve specificity of the flow cytometric crossmatch. Transpl Int (1995) 0.79
Donor lazaroid pretreatment improves viability of livers harvested from non-heart-beating rats. Am J Surg (1996) 0.79
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A nutrition support team led by general surgeons decreases inappropriate use of total parenteral nutrition on a surgical service. Am Surg (2004) 0.78
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A composite risk model for predicting technical failure in pancreas transplantation. Am J Transplant (2013) 0.78
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