Sylvester M. Black

Open cardiac repair under direct vision: F. John Lewis and the University of Minnesota.

Porcine endothelial cells and iliac arteries transduced with AdenoIL-4 are intrinsically protected, through Akt activation, against immediate injury caused by human complement.

Carotid endarterectomy prior to ventricular assist device placement.

Inhibition of the membrane attack complex of complement for induction of accommodation in the hamster-to-rat heart transplant model.

IL-4 induces protection of vascular endothelial cells against killing by complement and melittin through lipid biosynthesis.

Protection of porcine endothelial cells against apoptosis with interleukin-4.

EPR spectroscopy as a predictive tool for the assessment of marginal donor livers perfused on a normothermic ex vivo perfusion circuit.

Ultrasound-accelerated, catheter-directed thrombolysis for inferior vena cava thrombosis after an orthotopic liver transplant.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric organ donation.

Animal models of ex vivo lung perfusion as a platform for transplantation research.

Organ assessment and repair centers: The future of transplantation is near.

Preservation solutions for cardiac and pulmonary donor grafts: a review of the current literature.

An indeterminate nodule in the cirrhotic liver discovered by surveillance imaging is a prelude to malignancy.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adult organ procurement.

Influence of donor and recipient age in lung transplantation.

Effect of pulmonary hypertension on survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after lung transplantation: An analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing registry.

Influence of age on survival in adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation before lung transplantation.

Outcomes in Pediatric Lung Transplant Recipients Receiving Adult Allografts.

Influence of pulmonary hypertension on survival in advanced lung disease.

Mortality Risk and Pulmonary Function in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis at Time of Wait Listing for Lung Transplantation.

Influence of diabetes on survival in patients with cystic fibrosis before and after lung transplantation.

Prevalence of Pulmonary Hypertension and its Influence on Survival in Patients With Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Prior to Lung Transplantation.

Human leukocyte antigen mismatching and survival after lung transplantation in adult and pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis.

Influence of human leukocyte antigen mismatching on bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplantation.

Cystic Fibrosis Associated with Worse Survival After Liver Transplantation.

Combined heart-liver transplantation: Indications, outcomes and current experience.

County socioeconomic characteristics and pediatric renal transplantation outcomes.

Outcomes of domino liver transplantation compared to deceased donor liver transplantation: a propensity-matching approach.

Combined liver-lung transplantation: Indications, outcomes, current experience and ethical Issues.

Intrahepatic Delivery of Pegylated Catalase Is Protective in a Rat Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury Model.

[D-Ala, D-Leu] Enkephalin Improves Liver Preservation During Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion.

Survival in Adult Lung Transplant Recipients Receiving Pediatric Versus Adult Donor Allografts.

Influence of HLA Mismatching on Survival in Lung Transplantation.

Influence of Pulmonary Hypertension on Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Awaiting Lung Transplantation.

Medicaid enrollment after liver transplantation: Effects of medicaid expansion.

Impact of Recipient and Donor Obesity Match on the Outcomes of Liver Transplantation: All Matches Are Not Perfect.

Donations After Circulatory Death in Liver Transplant.

Factors contributing to employment patterns after liver transplantation.

Medicaid Participation among Liver Transplant Candidates after the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion.

High Center Volume Does Not Mitigate Risk Associated with Using High Donor Risk Organs in Liver Transplantation.

Effect of transplant center volume on post-transplant survival in patients listed for simultaneous liver and kidney transplantation.

Self-management and liver allograft rejection in adolescence and beyond.

Change in Health Insurance Coverage After Liver Transplantation Can Be Associated with Worse Outcomes.

Early mortality after liver transplantation: Defining the course and the cause.

Patients From Appalachia Have Reduced Access to Liver Transplantation After Wait-Listing.

County Rankings Have Limited Utility When Predicting Liver Transplant Outcomes.

Preservation solutions used during abdominal transplantation: Current status and outcomes.

Pretransplant Locoregional Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Evaluation of Explant Pathology and Overall Survival.

Elevated NLR in gallbladder cancer and cholangiocarcinoma - making bad cancers even worse: results from the US Extrahepatic Biliary Malignancy Consortium.

Autoimmune Hepatitis in the Liver Transplant Graft.

Diagnosis of morbid obesity may not impact healthcare utilization for orthotopic liver transplantation: A propensity matched study.

Interval Magnetic Resonance Imaging: an Alternative to Guidelines for Indeterminate Nodules Discovered in the Cirrhotic Liver.

Evaluating the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement project risk calculator: results from the U.S. Extrahepatic Biliary Malignancy Consortium.

Trends and outcomes of transarterial chemoembolization in hepatocellular carcinoma: a national survey.

Gallbladder Infection in a Liver Transplant Donor.

Validation of Risk Score in Predicting Early Readmissions in Decompensated Cirrhotic Patients: A Model Based on the Administrative Database.

Normothermic Liver Perfusion and the Clinical Implications for Liver Transplantation.

A validated risk model for prediction of early readmission in patients with hepatic encephalopathy.

Defining a Liver Transplant Benefit Threshold for the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Score.

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment strategies for hepatocellular carcinoma.

A Novel Negative Pressure-Flow Waveform to Ventilate Lungs for Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Thirty-day readmission rates, trends and its impact on liver transplantation recipients: a national analysis.

MG53 as a Novel Therapeutic Protein to Treat Acute Lung Injury.

Trends and Health Care Outcomes Among Living Liver Donors: Are We Ready to Expand the Donor Pool With Living Liver Donations?

Electrical Impedance as a Noninvasive Metric of Quality in Allografts Undergoing Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Safely Expanding the Liver Donor Pool by Utilization of Organs from Donation after Circulatory Death with Comparable Results to Donation After Brain Death, a Large Single-Center Experience.

Commentary: Organ ARCs: Assessment and repair centers in transplantation as gateways to meaningful therapeutic interventions.

Intracardiac thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism during liver transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Biometric Profiling to Quantify Lung Injury Through Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Following Warm Ischemia.

Mitsugumin 53 mitigation of ischemia-reperfusion injury in a mouse model.

MG53 mitigates warm ischemic lung injury in a murine model of transplantation.

The role of CD38 in ischemia reperfusion injury in cardiopulmonary bypass and thoracic transplantation: a narrative review.

Polymerized Human Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier Preserves Lung Allograft Function During Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Cholangioscopy findings of biliary candidiasis post-liver transplantation.

An Unexpected Partnership: Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh, and Normothermic Machine Perfusion.