Surgery Publications
Research in Surgery Publications examine the statistical, educational, innovative and patient centered facets of surgery studies and practice. Topics include surgical tools and approaches, bone healing and health, patient preferences and rationale studies, and blood and cellular research.
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Submissions from 2001
Myopia of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models, MacInnes Kenneth and Vivian C. McAlister
Approaching the Therapeutic Window for Cyclosporine in Kidney Transplantation: A Prospective Study, Kamran Mahalati, Philip Belitsky, Kenneth West, Bryce Kiberd, Albert Fraser, Ingrid Sketris, Alan S. Macdonald, Vivian McAlister, and Joseph Lawen
Provocative Effects of the Immunosuppressants Rapamycin, Tacrolimus, and Dexamethasone on Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonitis in Contrast to the Anti-pneumocystis carinii Pneumonitis Effects of Mycophenolate Mofetil, Vivian C. McAlister and A. S. MacDonald
Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Using Low-dose Tacrolimus and Sirolimus, Vivian C. McAlister, Kevork M. Peltekian, Dickran A. Malatjalian, Shannon Colohan, Sara MacDonald, Hinrich Bitter-Suermann, and Allan S. MacDonald
De Novo Use of Low-dose Tacrolimus and Sirolimus in Liver Transplantation, K. Peltekian, Vivian C. McAlister, S. Colohan, Z. Gao, A. B. Salazar, H. Bitter-Suermann, and A. S. MacDonald
Circulating Endothelial Cells after Transplantation, A. B. Salazar, Vivian C. McAlister, R. Gupta, and A. S. MacDonald
Sirolimus-tacrolimus Combination for Combined Kidney-pancreas Transplantation: Effect on Renal Function, A. Salazar, Vivian C. McAlister, B. A. Kiberd, H. Bitter-Suermann, M. F. Al-Kerithy, and A. S. MacDonald
Tacrolimus, MMF, Steroid, and ALG Immunotherapy for High Immunological Risk Renal Transplant Recipients, J. Zaltzman, Vivian McAlister, D. Russell, P. Halloran, D. Landsberg, S. Busque, A. Shoker, A. Boucher, J. Shapiro, J. Tchervenkov, and J. Peets
Submissions from 2000
Effect of Recipient Sensitization (Peak PRA) on Graft Outcome in Haploidentical Living Related Kidney Transplants, A. Barama, U. Oza, R. Panek, P. Belitsky, A. S. MacDonald, J. Lawen, Vivian McAlister, and B. Kiberd
Conversion to Rapamycin Immunosuppression in Renal Transplant Recipients: Report of an Initial Experience, Javier Dominguez, Kamran Mahalati, Bryce Kiberd, Vivian C. McAlister, and Allan S. MacDonald
Sirolimus-Tacrolimus Combination Immunosuppression in Organ Transplantation, A. S. MacDonald and Vivian C. McAlister
Sirolimus-tacrolimus Combination Immunosuppression, Vivian C. McAlister, Zuhua Gao, Kevork Peltekian, Javier Domingues, Kamrar Mahalati, and Allan S. MacDonald
Submissions from 1999
CD40-deficient Dendritic Cells Producing Interleukin-10, but not Interleukin-12, Induce T-cell Hyporesponsiveness In Vitro and Prevent Acute Allograft Rejection, J. X. Gao, J. Madrenas, W. Zeng, M. J. Cameron, Z. Zhang, J. J. Wang, R. Zhong, and D. Grant
Surgical Technique for Vascularized Thymus Transplantation in Mice, Jifu Jiang, Hao Wang, Joaquin Madrenas, and Robert Zhong
The Morbidity of Prolonged Wound Drainage after Kidney Transplantation, B. Kiberd, R. Panek, C. M. Clase, A. S. MacDonald, Vivian McAlister, P. Belitsky, and J. Lawen
Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia after Organ Transplantation, Kenneth A. West, David R. Anderson, Vivian C. McAlister, Thomas J. C. Hewlett, Philip Belitsky, James W. Smith, and John G. Kelton
Submissions from 1997
Use of Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin for Induction immunosuppression in High-risk Kidney Transplant Recipients, P. Belitsky, A. S. MacDonald, J. Lawen, Vivian McAlister, H. Bitter-Suermann, and B. Kiberd
Generation of Dendritic Cell-like Antigen-presenting Cells in Long-term Mixed Leucocyte Culture: Phenotypic and Functional Studies, J. X. Gao, J. Madrenas, W. Zeng, R. Zhong, and D. Grant
Long-term Follow-up (5 and 10 years) in Recipients of HLA Identical Living Related Donor Kidney Grafts Receiving Continuous Cyclosporine Compared with Azathioprine, A. S. MacDonald, P. Belitsky, H. Bitter-Suermann, J. Lawen, M. MacSween, B. Kiberd, K. West, and Vivian C. McAlister
Submissions from 1996
Kidney Transplantation, the Halifax Experience, P. Belitsky, A. S. MacDonald, J. Lawen, Vivian McAlister, H. Bitter-Suermann, B. Kiberd, K. West, and I. Sketris
Submissions from 1995
Use of OKT3 Monoclonal Antibody as Induction Therapy for Control of Rejection in Liver Transplantation, William J. Wall, Cameron N. Ghent, Andre Roy, Vivian C. McAlister, David R. Grant, and Paul C. Adams
Submissions from 1994
Increased Cyclosporine Bioavailability from a Microemulsion Formulation in a Liver Transplant Recipient, I. S. Sketris, Vivian McAlister, and M. R. Wright
Submissions from 1993
Right Phrenic Nerve Injury in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation, Vivian C. McAlister, David R. Grant, Andre Roy, William F. Brown, Linda C. Hutton, David J. Leasa, Cameron N. Ghent, James E. Veitch, and William J. Wall
Clinical Small Bowel Transplantation, Vivian C. McAlister and D. R. Grant
Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Liver Recipients Treated with OKT3 or ALG Induction Immunosuppression, Vivian McAlister, D. Grant, A. Roy, Z. Yilmaz, C. Ghent, and W. Wall