Recent Publications

Artem (Tim) Shmelev and Steven Cunningham just presented their abstract, Predictors of same-admission cholecystectomy in mild, acute, biliary pancreatitis, at the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) meeting in Miami, FL which was held from March 20-24, 2019. This abstract was also accepted and presented at the 53rd Annual Pancreas Club meeting in San Diego in April 2019. By invitation, it is also being submitted to the American College of Surgeons Emerging News Community, and online platform for scholarly work.

Oluwaseun E. Fashanu (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Saint Agnes Hospital), Abayomi O. Oyenuga (Department of Medicine, Saint Agnes Hospital), Di Zhao (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health), Martin Tibuakuu (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Saint Luke’s Hospital Chesterfield, MO), Samia Mora (Harvard Medical School), James D. Otvos LabCorp, Morrisville, NC), James H. Stein (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Erin Minchos (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health) recently had their manuscript GlycA, a novel inflammatory marker and its association with peripheral arterial disease and carotid plaque: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis in Angiology. 2019 Apr 28:3319719845185. doi: 10.1177/0003319719845185. [Epub ahead of print].

Surgical fellow Ghaith Khair, Anne Sill and Andrew Averbach (Department of Surgery) had their abstract Intraoperative leak test (ILT) is not associated with improvement in 30-day outcomes after primary laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG): MBSAQIP PUF, 2015-2016 accepted and presented as an e-poster for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) meeting, which was held in Baltimore in April 2019. The accompanying manuscript is in preparation.

Aubrey Mwinyogle, Astha Bhatt, Kat Kapisoda, Justin Sommerville and Steven Cunningham (Department of Surgery) had their case report Plasmacytoma as a cause of small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen in a patient with multiple myeloma: a case report published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019, 17;13(1)148.

Ho An Thi (Medstar Hospital), Shmelev Artem (Department of Surgery), Joshi Astha, Ho Nghi (Medstar Hospital) had their manuscript Trends in hospitalizations for sickle cell disease related-complications in USA 2004-2012 published in the Journal of Hematology 2019, 8(1):11-6.