Submissions from 2026
Mouse models for post-sepsis syndrome, John Matthew K. Ang, Stephanie F. Mori, Erick Lewis, Maria E.C. Bruno, Arnold Stromberg, and Hiroshi Saito
Prolonged Invasive Mechanical Ventilation is Associated With Decreased Survival After Lung Transplantation Among Recipients With Primary Graft Dysfunction, Meghan Aversa, Shaf Keshavjee, Tereza Martinu, Marcelo Cypel, Andrew T. Sage, Joshua M. Diamond, Jonathan P. Singer, Scott M. Palmer, Krishna Pandya, Edward Cantu, Jason D. Christie, and Michaela R. Anderson
Surgical nodal sampling established by Commission on Cancer Standard 5.8 is essential for accurate lung cancer staging, Raheem Bell, Amanda B. Francescatti, Daniel Boffa, Timothy W. Mullett, Matthew A. Facktor, Nirmal K. Veeramachaneni, Ryan C. Jacobs, Frank Schneider, Tina J. Hieken, David D. Odell, and Ronald J. Weigel
Implementation and assessment of a postreprocessing endoscope surveillance program at the University of Kentucky, 2019-2024, Court Desmond, Faith Fursman, Derek Forster, Julie A. Ribes, Sandra L. Mills, Kimberly Blanton, Kevin Hatton, Rachel Howard, David Olafsson, Sean McTigue, Nicholas Van Sickels, Sherese Hinton, Deborah R. Flomenhoft, and Takaaki Kobayashi
Impact of age and rurality on colorectal cancer outcomes in the United States, Caitlyn Grunert, Meng Han Tsai, Charles R. Rogers, Sydney Howard, Rachel Hogg-Graham, Courtney Martin, Darwin Conwell, Adetunji T. Toriola, Avinash Bhakta, and Justin Moore
Preoperative Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Therapy in Bariatric Surgery Patients with Morbid Obesity (PreMO): Rationale and Study Design for a Randomized Controlled Trial, Varun Jain, Colleen A. McMullen, Joy I. Kimbrough, Anna K. Rockich, Daniel L. Davenport, Gregory S. Hawk, Barbara S. Nikolajczyk, Philip A. Kern, Simon J. Fisher, Joshua P. Steiner, William B. Inabnet III, and Marlene E. Starr
A novel less invasive single port pulsatile ventricular assist device, Li Li, Jinsong Chen, Zhongjiang Zhuang, Stephen Topaz, Masashi Kawabori, Joseph B. Zwischenberger, Cherry Ballard-Croft, and Dongfang Wang
Durable Left-Ventricular Assist Device Inflow Thrombosis Following External Outflow Graft Obstruction, Mohammad J. Malik, Jin Woo Chung, Matthias Loebe, John C. Gurley, Emma J. Birks, Dhruv Kothari, and Masashi Kawabori
Amustaline/glutathione pathogen-reduced red cell hemoglobin utilization in complex cardiac surgery, Ian J. Welsby, Michael E. Sekela, Edward L. Snyder, James D. Gorham, John S. McNeil, Kathy Liu, Stanley Bentow, Thomas Gniadek, Laurence Corash, Nina Mufti, and Richard J. Benjamin
Submissions from 2025
Emergence of inflammatory fibroblasts with aging in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome associated pulmonary fibrosis, Brandon J.H. Banaschewski, Sylvia N. Michki, Sneha Sitaraman, Ruby Pan, Joanna Y. Wang, Dominique Stewart, Mary Kate Goldy, Susan M. Lin, Edward Cantu, Jeremy B. Katzen, Maria C. Basil, Amir M. Emtiazjoo, Jamie L. Todd, Jason J. Gokey, Jonathan A. Kropski, David B. Frank, Jarod A. Zepp, and Lisa R. Young
Neurotensin promotes hepatic steatosis by regulating lipid uptake and mitochondrial adaptation in hepatocytes, Moumita Banerjee, Jun Song, Baoxiang Yan, Haoming Wu, Shaghayegh Norouzi, Tomoko Sengoku, Savita Sharma, Teresa W.M. Fan, Eun Lee, Daheng He, Chi Wang, Jinpeng Liu, Timothy M. Schmitt, Tianyan Gao, Heidi L. Weiss, Jing Li, and B. Mark Evers
The International Soft Tissue Sarcoma Consortium, Gianni Bisogno, Monika Sparber-Sauer, David Rodeberg, Johannes H.M. Merks, Ewa Koscielniak, Suzanne L. Wolden, Gian Luca De Salvo, Paola Del Bianco, Wei Xue, Martin Ebinger, Christian Vokuhl, Rajkumar Venkatramani, Samuel L. Volchenboum, Brian Furner, Veronique Minard Colin, and Douglas S. Hawkins
Microwave ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients with diuretic-resistant ascites, Sawyer Blair, Jack Newcomer, and Driss Raissi
Outcomes of Liver Transplantation in Patients With Severe Obesity, Alejandro Cracco, Mackenzie Donoho, Siddharth Desai, Meera Gupta, Alexandre Ancheta, Malay B. Shah, Xiaonan Mei, Francesc Marti, and Roberto Gedaly
Antibiotic treatment duration for isolated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus native tricuspid valve endocarditis, Sami El-Dalati, Bennett Collis, Evan Hall, Talal Alnabelsi, Chloe Cao, Meredith Johnson, John Gurley, Luke Strnad, Hassan Reda, Michael Sekela, Armaghan E.Rehman Mansoor, David Olafsson, William Harris, and Bobbi Jo Stoner
Partial Oral Versus Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy for Endocarditis With Management by a Multidisciplinary Team, Sami El-Dalati, Bennett Collis, Takaaki Kobayashi, Evan Hall, Talal Alnabelsi, Chloe Cao, Meredith Johnson, John Gurley, Luke Strnad, Corey Adams, Victoria Weaver, Hassan Reda, Michael Sekela, Tessa London, Kara Kennedy, Armaghan E.Rehman Mansoor, David Olafsson, Grant Laugherty, Alyssa Tremblay, Angella Linder, Deborah Gill, Nicholas J. Van Sickels, Alexander Pomakov, William Harris, and Bobbi Jo Stoner
RRAD-reduction reveals efficacy of targeting L-type calcium channel regulation for treatment of heart failure, Garrett Elmore, Sarisha S. Lohano, Nicholas M. McVay, Bryana M. Levitan, Andrea Sebastian, Kyle W. Barker, Alec Dupont, Steven W. Leung, Riham R.E. Abouleisa, Pretty R. Mathew, Austin Wellette-Hunsucker, Austin T. Minton, Kenneth S. Campbell, Solomon W. Harrar, Mohammad Mehri, Jonathan F. Wenk, Tamer M.A. Mohamed, Douglas A. Andres, and Jonathan Satin
Outcomes associated with absent blood product utilization in Jehovah’s witness patients compared to the standard of care in cardiac surgery, Nathan Fields, Ayesha Ather, Dan Davenport, Sadiq Ahmed, and Michael Sekela
Candida auris screening, positivity trends, and patient characteristics at the University of Kentucky between 2021 and 2024, Faith Fursman, Natalie Fitzsimmons, Da Nelle Overton, Court Desmond, Kimberly Blanton, Kevin W. Hatton, Rachel Howard, David Olafsson, Sean Mctigue, Nicholas Van Sickels, Derek Forster, and Takaaki Kobayashi
Training, Validating, and Testing Machine Learning Prediction Models for Endometrial Cancer Recurrence, Jesus Gonzalez Bosquet, Andrew Polio, Erin George, Ahmad A. Tarhini, Casey M. Cosgrove, Marilyn S. Huang, Bradley Corr, Aliza L. Leiser, Bodour Salhia, Kathleen Darcy, Christopher M. Tarney, Rob L. Dood, Lauren E. Dockery, Stephen B. Edge, Michael J. Cavnar, Lisa Landrum, Rob J. Rounbehler, Michelle Churchman, and Vincent M. Wagner
Management of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Infection Utilizing a Multidisciplinary Team, Evan Hall, Bennett Collis, Talal Alnabelsi, Chloe Cao, Meredith Johnson, John Gurley, Luke Strnad, Hassan Reda, Tessa London, Erinn Ogburn, Michael Sekela, Bobbi Jo Stoner, and Sami El-Dalati
Noncontact diffuse optical imaging of blood flow and oxygenation distributions in reconstructive rat skin flaps, Samaneh Rabienia Haratbar, Fatemeh Hamedi, Mehrana Mohtasebi, Faraneh Fathi, Faezeh Akbari, Dara Singh, L. I.U. Xuhui, Li Chen, Lesley Wong, Lei Chen, and Guoqiang Yu
Gene Expression Profile–Based Test to Predict Melanoma Sentinel Node Status, Tina J. Hieken, Michael E. Egger, Christina V. Angeles, John R. Hyngstrom, Erin E. Burke, Michael C. Lowe, Georgia M. Beasley, Edmund K. Bartlett, Scott C. Bresler, Kelly L. Harms, Jonathan S. Zager, Julia S. Lehman, Nabil Wasif, Sanjay P. Bagaria, Kelly M. McMasters, David A. Wada, Prakash Pandalai, Keith A. Delman, Jay Lee, Klaus J. Busam, Jane L. Messina, and Vernon K. Sondak
Prevalence and biological impact of clinically relevant gene fusions in head and neck cancers, Emily L. Hoskins, Raven Vella, Julie W. Reeser, Michele R. Wing, Eric Samorodnitsky, Altan Turkoglu, Leah Stein, Elizabeth Breuning, Zachary A. Risch, Wilnelly M. Hernandez-Sanchez, Lianbo Yu, Michelle Churchman, Nancy Single, Jad Chahoud, Antonio Jimeno, Michael J. Cavnar, Matthew Reilley, Courtney Scaife, Kenneth G. Nepple, Minh Phan, Bryan Schneider, Stephen Edge, Bodour Salhia, Aliza Leiser, Trisha M. Wise-Draper, Michael K. Wendt, and Sameek Roychowdhury
Proto-Oncogene HRAS Transcript Level and Overall Survival in Stages II and III Colorectal Cancer, Donghyun Kim, Saima Sharif, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Avanish S. Bhakta, Patrick M. Boland, Michael J. Cavnar, Michelle L. Churchman, Hassan Hatoum, Lyen C. Huang, Joseph Kim, Richard Kim, Robert W. Lentz, Sarbajit Mukherjee, Mary T. O'Donnell, Benjamin Quartey, Matthew J. Reilley, Robert J. Rounbehler, Bodour Salhia, Bryan P. Schneider, and Carlos H. Chan
