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±P1.	Meta-analysis Showing Superiority of Extended VTE Prophylaxis in Abdominopelvic Surgery Performed for Malignancy Maria X Kiely¹, Mariam Eskander², Taiwo Adesoye³, Tope Kusa⁴, Francisco Gelpi-Hammerschmidt⁵ ¹Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, ² Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, ³ University of Wisconsin Medical Center, Madison, WI, USA, ⁴ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
±P2.	Derivation and Validation of a Novel Emergency Surgery Acuity Score (ESAS) Naveen F Sangji MD MPH¹,², Jordan D Bohnen MD MBA¹, Elie P Ramly MD¹, Myriam M Aguilar¹, Thomas Peponis¹, Matthew M Hutter MD MPH², George C Velmahos MD PhD¹, David C Chang PhD MBA MPH², Haytham MA Kaafarani MD MPH¹,² ¹ Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ² Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
±P3.	Population-based Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias Daniel P Bent¹, Andrew Benedict¹,², Jason Nelson², Howard C Jen¹,² ¹Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ² Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
±P4.	Effect of Geraniol on a Murine Model of Colitis Sara Morrison¹, Sulaiman Hamarneh¹, Mohammed Gharedaghi¹, Wei Lui¹, Dong Hu¹, Haizhong Hu¹, Weifeng Zhang¹, Konstantinos Economopoulous¹, Sarah Shireen Gul¹, Richard Hodin¹ ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgery, Boston, MA, USA
±P5.	Massachusetts Healthcare Reform and Trends in Emergent Colorectal Surgery Mariam F. Eskander¹, Lindsay A. Bliss¹, Ellen P. McCarthy¹, Susanna W. de Geus¹, Sing Chau Ng¹, James R. Rodrigue¹, Jennifer F. Tseng¹ ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
±P6.	Quantifying the Benefit of Deliberate Practice on Quality of Tendon Repair Performed by Trainees Aidin Masoudi¹, Eric Fu², Ellen P. Fitzpatrick², Philip Blazar², George S.M. Dyer² ¹ Surgery Department, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA ² Orthopaedics Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
±P7.	Bronchial Artery Revascularization and En Bloc Lung Transplant in Children Francisco Guzman-Pruneda¹,², Yishay Orr¹,², Jeffrey G. Trost Jr.¹,², Wei Zhang², Shailendra Das¹,², Ernestina Melicoff¹,², Jennifer Maddox², Melissa Nugent², Carlos Mery¹,², Iki Adachi¹,², George B. Mallory¹,², Jeffrey S. Heinle¹,², E. Dean McKenzie¹,² Lung Transplant Programs ¹Baylor College of Medicine and ²Texas Children's Hospital (Houston, TX)
±P8.	Implementation of a Smoking Cessation Program Reduces Smoking in a Trauma Patient Population Jeffry Nahmias¹ MD, Andrew Doben¹ MD, Karen Carrens¹ PA, Samuel Korntner¹, Shiva Poola¹ MD, Ronald Gross¹ MD ¹Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA
±P9.	Laparoscopy for Early Ovarian Cancer: A Propensity Matched Analysis of the National Cancer Data Base Alexander Melamed¹, Jose A. Rauh-Hain¹, Joel T. Clemmer¹, Marcela G. del Carmen¹, David M. Boruta II¹, John O. Schorge¹ ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Divsion of Gynecologic Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
±P10.	Transcriptome analysis of Wnt signaling pathway in pediatric hepatocellular carcinoma Naveed Rabbani¹, Ugur Ayturk, PhD²,³, Michael LaQuaglia, MD¹, Matthew Warman, MD²,³, Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, PhD⁴, Khashayar Vakili, MD¹ ¹. Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ². Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA ³. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ⁴. MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
P11.	Derivation and Validation of a Novel and Abbreviated Emergency Surgery Acuity Score (a-ESAS) Naveen F Sangji MD MPH¹,², Jordan D Bohnen MD MBA¹, Elie P Ramly MD¹, Thomas Peponis¹, Myriam M Aguilar¹, George C Velmahos MD PhD¹, David C Chang PhD MBA MPH², Haytham MA Kaafarani MD MPH¹,² ¹Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ²Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
P12.	A Single Center's Experience with Donation of Facial Allografts for Transplantation Anne Huang¹, Mario Aycart¹, Muayyad Alhefzi¹, Sebastian Fischer¹, Ericka Bueno¹, Bohdan Pomahac¹ ¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
P13.	Laser Doppler Imaging for Surgical Evaluation of Pediatric Burns Cornelia Griggs, MD; Philip H. Chang, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Shriner's Hospital for Children, Boston, MA
P14.	Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase(IAP) Prevents Burn Induced Intestinal Permeability Fatemeh Adiliaghdam¹, Mohammad H. Gharedaghi¹, Shuangchun Yan¹,²,³, Sara A. Morrison¹, Sulaiman R. Hamarneh¹, Laurence G. Rahme¹,²,³, Richard A. Hodin¹ ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, General Surgery, Boston,MA,USA ²Shriners Hospitals For Children, Boston,MA,USA ³Harvard School Of Medicine, Department Of Microbiology And Immunobiology, Boston,MA,USA
P15.	A Novel High-Fidelity Beating Heart ED Thoracotomy Simulator Leah Demetri¹; Jordan D. Bohnen, MD, MBA¹; Eva Fuentes, MD¹; Kathryn Butler, MD¹; Reza Askari, MD²; Emil Petrusa, PhD¹; Haytham M.A. Kaafarani, MD, MPH¹; D. Dante Yeh, MD¹; David King, MD¹; Peter J. Fagenholz, MD¹; Susan Briggs, MD, MPH¹; George C. Velmahos, MD, PhD¹; Marc de Moya, MD¹ ¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁰²¹¹⁴ ² Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁰²¹¹⁵
P16.	Secreted Factors from Human Vestibular Schwannomas Can Cause Cochlear Damage Lukas D. Landegger¹,², Sonam Dilwali¹,³,⁴, Vitor Y.R. Soares¹,², Daniel G. Deschler²,³ and Konstantina M. Stankovic¹,²,³,⁴ ¹Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston MA, USA ²Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA ³Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston MA, USA ⁴Harvard-MIT Program in Health, Science and Technology, Cambridge MA, USA * these authors contributed equally
P17.	Risk of Deep Venous Thromboembolism after Open Pancreatectomy: Factor Analysis among 1,133 patients Natalie Bath¹, Molly Kilbane¹, Eugene Ceppa¹, Attila Nakeeb¹, Nicholas Zyromski¹, Max Schmidt¹, David Feliciano¹, Michael House¹ ¹Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Indianapolis, IN, USA
P18.	YAP Subcellular Localization in Pediatric HCC Michael J. LaQuaglia¹, James L. Grijalva¹, Kaly A. Mueller², Antonio R. Perez-Atayde¹, Heung Bae Kim¹, Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili², Khashayar Vakili¹ ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
P19.	Does bariatric surgery alter breast cancer treatment? Ali Ardestani¹, Elisha Pranckevicius¹, Mehra Golshan ¹,², Ali Tavakkoli¹, Eric Sheu¹ ¹Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ²Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
P20.	Changes in Portal Nutrient and Hormone Circulation after Sleeve Gastrectomy Hassan Aliakbarian ¹, Jingge Yang ¹, Eric Sheu ¹, Atanu Pal ¹, Ali Tavakkoli ¹ ¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
P21.	A Single Institution Series of 1000 Children with Solid Organ Injuries Mary Arbuthnot Thorpe DO ¹, Alon Geva MD, MPH ², David Mooney MD, MPH ³ ¹ Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ² Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ³ Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
P22.	Primary vs. Delayed Perineal Proctectomy � There is no Free Lunch Michael Alosilla¹, Thomas Curran¹, Thomas Cataldo¹, Deborah Nagle¹, Vitaliy Poylin¹ ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
P23.	A Ten Year Experience with Umbilical Hernias at the VA Boston Health Care System Divya Shankar BA¹, Kamal M.F. Itani MD, FACS², Vivian M. Sanchez MD, FACS³ ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ²VA Boston Health Care System, West Roxbury, MA, USA ³VA Boston Health Care System, West Roxbury, MA, USA
P24.	Late Incidence of Endocarditis in Patients Undergoing Placement of Right Ventricular to Pulmonary Carlos M. Mery, MD, MPH,¹ Francisco A. Guzm�n-Pruneda, MD,¹ Luis E. De Le�n, BS,² Matthew D. Terwelp, BS,³ Claire E. Bocchini, MD,⁴ Iki Adachi, MD,¹ Jeffrey S. Heinle, MD,¹ E. Dean McKenzie, MD,¹ Charles D. Fraser Jr., MD¹ ¹ Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital; Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX ² Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, Monterrey, Mexico ³ University of Texas Medical School at Houston, TX ⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Texas Children's Hospital; Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX
P25.	Operative vs. Non-Operative Management of Pediatric Blunt Pancreatic Trauma: Evaluation of the NTDB Maria Carmen Mora MD¹, Kaitlyn E. Wong MD, MPH¹, Katharine Bittner MD¹, Jennifer Friderici MS¹, Kevin P. Moriarty MD FACS², Lisa A. Patterson MD FACS¹, Ronald I Gross MD FACS¹, Michael V. Tirabassi MD FACS², David B. Tashjian MD FACS² ¹Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA, ⁰¹¹⁹⁹ ²Baystate Children's Hospital, Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA, ⁰¹¹⁹⁹
P26.	Hospital Transfers and Patterns of Mortality in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates with Surgical NEC Brenna S. Fullerton¹, Eric A. Sparks¹, Kate A. Morrow², Erika M. Edwards², Christine Velazco¹, Roger F. Soll², Tom Jaksic¹, Jeffrey D. Horbar², Biren P. Modi¹ ¹Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ²Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, VT
P27.	Enteral Autonomy, Cirrhosis, and Long Term Transplant-Free Survival in Pediatric Intestinal Failure Brenna S. Fullerton, MD¹, ², Eric A. Sparks, MD¹, ², Amber M. Hall, MPH², Christine Velazco¹, Christopher Duggan, MD¹,³, Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD¹, ², Biren P. Modi, MD¹, ² ¹Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA ² Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA ³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
P28.	Pre-Operative Antidepressant Use: Prolonged Intubation and Re-Intubation After Cardiac Surgery Kortney Robinson ¹, John McCallum ², Allen Hamdan ¹, Frank LoGerfo ¹ ¹ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA
P29.	The Enigma of White Blood Cell Count After Splenectomy Ali Ardestani¹, Roger T Lis¹, Richard S Swanson¹,², Eric G Sheu¹, Ali Tavakkoli¹ ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA ²Dana Farbar Cancer Institue, Boston, MA, USA
P30.	Local Adipose Mediators Link to Anatomic and Physiologic Adaptations Following AVF Creation Gaurav Sharma, M.D.¹; Christopher Kuppler, M.D.²; Yong He, Ph.D.²; Ming Tao, M.D.¹; Kui Ding, M.D.¹; Alban Longchamp, M.D.¹; Laura M. Dember, M.D.³; C. Keith Ozaki, M.D.¹; Scott A. Berceli, M.D., Ph.D.² for the Hemodialysis Fistula Maturation Study ¹Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston,MA ²Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL ³Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
P31.	Predictors of DVT/PE in Elderly Trauma Patients Charles M. Psoinos M.D.¹ Julie M. Flahive M.S.¹ Frederick A Anderson Ph.D.¹ Heena P Santry M.D., M.S.¹ ¹University of Massachusetts, Worcester MA, USA
P32.	Self-inflicted Abdominal Stab Wounds are Associated with a Higher Incidence of Non-Therapeutic Lapar Kevin McKay, Nikolay Bugaev, MD, Janis L Breeze, MPH, Sandra S. Arabian, CSTR, Reuven Rabinovici, MD Tufts Medical Center
P33.	The Role of Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Sara Morrison¹, Sulaiman Hamarneh¹, Holly Sturgeon¹, Dong Hu¹, Haizhong Huo¹, Weifeng Zhang¹, Konstantinos Economopoulos¹, Sarah Shireen Gul¹, Fatemeh Adiliaghdam¹, Juan Ramirez Decrescenzo¹, Richard Hodin¹ ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgery, Boston, MA,USA
P34.	Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Conditioned Medium in TRASCET for Experimental Spina Bifida Beatrice Dionigi, MD¹; Christopher Graham, MD¹; Christina Feng, MD¹; Joseph Brazzo III, BS¹; John Patrick Connors, BS¹; David Zurakowski, PhD¹; Dario O Fauza, MD, PhD¹ ¹ Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
P35.	3-year Outcomes of Combined Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery (CELS) for Benign Colon Polyps Maria X Kiely¹, Sam Sharma², Art Sedrakyan², Stephen Resch³ James Yoo¹, Jeffrey Milsom² ¹Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; ²Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; ³Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
P36.	An Analysis of Perioperative Factors Associated with Hemorrhage in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Jonathan Miller, Pei-Wen Lim, Richard Perugini, John Kelly, Donald Czerniach, Philip Cohen University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
P37.	Consumption of Aspartame Contributes to the Development of Metabolic Syndrome S. S. Gul¹, R. A. Hamilton¹, T. Phupitakphol¹, L. Wei¹, S. K. Hyoju¹, D. Hu¹, W. Zhang¹, M. H. Gharedaghi¹, H. Huo¹, K. P. Econompolous¹, S. A. Morrison¹, S. Hamarneh¹, R. Hodin¹ ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Department Of Surgery, Boston, MA, USA
P38.	Should We Use The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease To Predict Mortality After Colorectal Surgery Haddon Pantel¹, Kristian Stensland¹, Jason Nelson², Todd Francone¹, Patricia Roberts¹, Peter Marcello¹, Thomas Read¹, Jason Hall¹, David Schoetz¹, Rocco Ricciardi¹ ¹ Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA,USA ² Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

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