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Esophageal Diseases I
Su1147	TJ-14 (Hangeshashinto) Impedes the Development of Reflux-Induced Esophageal Cancer in a Surgical Rat Model Tomoharu Miyashita, Department of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
Su1148	Incidence and Risk Factors of Symptomatic Hiatal Hernia following Resection for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Andreas Andreou, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Su1149	Influence of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy on Complications of Cervical Esophagogastric Anastomosis Mian Hashim Hanif, Surgical Oncology, Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, IA
Su1150	Inhaled Beta Agonist Bronchodilator Does Not Affect Transdiaphragmatic Pressure Gradient but Decrease Lower Esophageal Sphincter Retention Pressure in Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease (COPD) and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) Fernando A.M. Herbella, Surgery, Unifesp, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Su1151	Importance of Esophageal Manometry and pH Monitoring in the Evaluation of Patients with "Refractory GERD": A Multicenter Study Ciro Andolfi, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Su1152	Postoperative Complications Adversely Affect Long-Term Survival of Patients with Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction (GEJ) Ian Jse-Wei Tan, University Surgical Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Su1153	Information Providing to Patients with Esophageal Cancer in a Tertiary Referral Center Marco Scarpa, Oncological Surgery Unit, Regional Centre for Oesophageal Disease, Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV-IRCCS), Padova, Italy
Su1154	Outcome after Surgical Treatment for Achalasia: Comparison of Sub-Classification Using High-Resolution Manometry Se Ryung Yamamoto, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE
Su1155	Jejunostomy Feeding Tubes Placed Prior to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Are Safe and Improve Therapeutic Efficiency during Trimodality Therapy for Esophageal Cancer Mustapha A. El Lakis, General and Thoracic Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Su1156	A Hill Gastropexy Combined with Nissen Fundoplication Appears to Mitigate the Shortcomings of Collis-Nissen in the Management of Short Esophagus Oliver C. Bellevue, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA
Su1157	Clinical Relevance of Circulating Cell-Free DNA Level in Patients with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus Chih-Cheng Hsieh, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Su1158	Racial Disparities in Esophagectomy Procedures and Outcome for Esophageal Cancer Adam P. Johnson, Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Su1160	Pharmacologic Challenge with Amyl Nitrite Distinguishes between Structural Esophagogastric Junction and Functional Lower Esophageal Sphincter Abnormalities Causing Esophageal Outflow Obstruction in the Post-Operative Setting Arash Babaei, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Su1161	Outcomes following Laparoscopic Hiatal Hernia Repair with Mesh: A Comparison of Biologic and Biosynthetic Mesh Matthew Eric Gitelis, Minimally Invasive Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
Obesity and Nutrition I
Su1979	Common Channel Length Is Associated with Weight Loss and Nutritional Deficiencies after Duodenal Switch Alaa Sada, General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, ROCHESTER, MN
Su1980	Unsedated Thin-Caliber Endoscopy Is Efficient and Cost Effective for Pre-Surgical Evaluation of Bariatric Patients Wei-Chung Chen, Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Su1981	Concordance between Serology and Urea Breath Test in Detecting Helicobacter Pylori Infection in an Ethnically Diverse Morbidly Obese Bariatric Patient Population Michael Anthony Edwards, Surgery, Division of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Health System, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Su1982	Compliance with Bariatric Surgery Follow-Up and Weight Loss Outcomes Britney Corey, Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Liver Diseases and Transplantation I
Su1528	Frailty as a Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality following Liver Surgery Faiz Gani, Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Su1529	To Drain or Not to Drain? Not after Major Hepeatectomy Henry Pitt, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA
Su1530	Robotic Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Placement Motaz Qadan, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Su1531	Can Non-Home Discharge following Major Hepatectomy Be Predicted Using Preoperatively Determined Factors? Megan Victoria Beems, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Su1532	Lack of Decline in Phosphorus Levels after Hepatic Resection Predict Worse Outcomes Aaron G. Lewis, Department of Surgical Oncology, City of Hope, Pasadena, CA
Biliary Tract Diseases I
Su1405	Intraoperative Confocal Endomicroscopy for the Real-Time Characterization of Tissues during Laparoscopic Procedures, Toward Telepathology David Fuks, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, Paris, France
Su1406	Surgical Results of Concomitant Hepatic Artery Resection for Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma: A Propensity Score-Matching Study Takehiro Noji, Gastroenterological surgery II, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Su1407	Polymorphism of Growth Factors and Survival in Gall Bladder Cancer Vinay Kumar Kapoor, Surgical Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, UP, India
Su1408	Clinical Usefulness of Staging Laparoscopy in Patients with Biliary Tract Cancer following Criteria Based on Inflammation-Based Prognostic Scores and Tumor Markers Kenta Shinozaki, Department of Surgery, Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Su1410	New Classification of Acute Cholecystitis According to Transoperative Features. Presentation of a Descriptive Transoperative Features Table in Cases of Acute Cholecystitis and That Allows Grade the Severity of the Illness. First Step: Validation and Inter Raul Gaxiola, General Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hospital General de Mexico, Hospital Angeles del Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico
Su1411	Validation of the Lucknow BCD Classification for Acute Bile Duct Injury Vinay Kumar Kapoor, Surgical Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, UP, India
Su1412	20 Year Trends in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Biliary Dyskinesia, Patient Factors and Health Resource Utilization Vamsi V. Alli, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY
Pancreatic Diseases I
Su1391	Absolute Quantitation of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Naoto Hadano, Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Su1392	A Personalized Approach to Adjuvant Therapy: Cytoplasmic HuR Status Predicts Disease Free Survival after Resection for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Talar Tatarian, Jefferson Pancreas, Biliary, and Related Cancer Center, Department of Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Su1393	Does Giving Pasireotide to Patients Undergoing Pancreaticoduodenectomy Pay for Itself? Pablo E. Serrano, Surgery, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Su1394	Tailored Approach to Reconstruction following Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Pancreaticogastrostomy for High Risk Remnant Is Associated with Decreased Pancreatic Fistula Rate George Kazantsev, Surgery, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Su1395	Efficacy of Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Pancreatic Cancer Metastases Yoichi Miyata, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
Su1396	Multimodality Treatment of Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Including FOLFIRINOX Chemotherapy, Surgical Exploration and Irreversible Electroporation: Prospective Series of 132 Consecutive Patients Jantien Vogel, Surgery, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Su1397	The Surgical Impact of Mesenteric Approach for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Hiroki Yamaue, Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Wakayama, Japan
Su1398	Modified Frailty Index Predicts Morbidity and Mortality after Pancreaticoduodenectomy Harveshp Mogal, General Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC
Su1399	Laparoscopic vs. Open Distal Pancreatectomy: A Comparative Study of Perioperative Outcomes Onur Kutlu, Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Su1400	Multimodality Therapy Is Associated with Improved Cause-Specific Survival in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma with Vascular Abutment Olga Kantor, Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Su1401	Impact of Treatment Sequencing on Sites of First Recurrence in Patients with Localized Pancreatic Cancer Chad Barnes, General Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Su1402	Evaluation of Respiratory Parameters in 189 Patients with Acute Pancreatitis in a Single Center: How to Detect a Fire? Tercio De Campos, Surgery, Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences - Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Su1403	Surgical Transgastric Necrosectomy for Symptomatic Pancreatic Necrosis in Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis Jessica Cioffi, Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Su1404	Fistulojejunostomy versus Distal Pancreatectomy for the Management of Disconnected Duct and Distal Pancreas Vikrom Kumar Dhar, Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Stomach and Small Bowel Disorders I
Su1261	Long and Short Term Consequences of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer Toshinaga Nabae, Department of Surgery, JCHO Kyushu Hospital, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka-ken, Japan
Su1262	Sarcopenia, Related to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Perioperative Outcomes, in Resected Gastric Cancer Katelin Anne Mirkin, Surgery, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hummelstown, PA
Su1263	Comparison of Negative-Pressure Vacuum Wound Closure Methods on Postoperative Complications after Open Ventral Hernia Repair Katherine E. Poruk, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Su1264	The Surgical Clinical Features of Gastric Cancer in Young Patients JunWen Ma, Gastroenterology Surgery, The General Hospital of NingXia Medical University, Yinchuan, China., YinChuan, Ningxia, China
Su1265	Three Surgical Cases of Segmental Arterial Mediolysis Nobutaka Mukai, Surgery, Sapporo Higashi Tokusyukai Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
Su1266	Do CVD Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery Have Similar Outcomes to Non-CVD Patients? Lindsey Voller, General Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Su1267	Clinical and Surgical Recurrences in Crohn Disease (CD): A-15 Years Follow-Up Cohort Study from Northern Italy Tertiary Center Amedeo Indriolo, Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
Su1268	Enterra II Gastric Neurostimulation for Refractory Gastroparesis: Outcomes at a Single Center Rahul Parupalli, Temple University School of Medicine, Downingtown, PA
Su1269	Adequacy of Lymph Node Resection in Open versus Minimally Invasive Surgery for Gastric Adenocarcinoma Using the National Cancer Center Database Natalie Gwilliam, Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Su1270	Intussusception following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Nadeem Nabil Haddad, Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Colorectal Diseases I
Su1750	Crohn’s Disease Recurrence after Ileocolonic Resection: Higher BDNF Levels in Healthy Ileum Is Associated to a Longer Recurrence-Free Interval Imerio Angriman, Surgery, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy
Su1751	Fecal Diversion and Enterolysis Are Risk Factors for Postoperative Bowel Obstruction after Colorectal Resection in Cancer Patients: A Review of the ACS-NSQIP Database Hiromichi Miyagaki, Surgery, Surgery, Saiseikai Senri Hospital, Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, Suita,, Osaka, Japan
Su1752	The Management of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: The Analysis of 211 Adults Kenji Nanishi, Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Kyoto Daiichi Hospital, Kyoto, Kyoto Pref., Japan
Su1753	Does Tacrolimus Affect the Outcome after Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis? Munenori Nagao, Department of Surgery, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Su1754	Colorectal Cancer Is Associated with Elevated Plasma Levels of MMP2 H M C Shantha Kumara, Department of Surgery,Division of Colon and Rectal surgery, Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY
Su1755	Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Sigmoid Colectomy Is Effective for Patients with Diverticulitis Regardless of Disease Severity Fadwa Ali, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Su1756	Do Patients Requiring a Multivisceral Resection for Rectal Cancer Have Worse Oncologic Outcomes than Patients Undergoing Only Abdominoperineal Resection? Eslam M.G. Dosokey, Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Su1757	Is Right Hemicolectomy Justified in Patients with Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Appendix? Andrea Frilling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Su1758	Gender Specific Differences in Colon Cancer When Quality Measures Are Adhered To: Results from International, Prospective, Multicenter Clinical Trials Shrawan G. Gaitonde, Surgical Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA
Su1759	Complex Anorectal Crohn’s Disease: Improving Quality of Life through Abdominoperineal Resection Tamar Bella Nobel, Surgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Su1760	Microbiological Comparison of Two Brothers with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Kathleen Marie Schieffer, Surgery, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Su1761	A Study of Health Care Utilization and Comorbidities Associated with Congenital Anorectal Malformations in the United States Karlo Kovacic, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Su1762	Primary Health Concerns Perceived by Long-Term Disease-Free Colorectal Cancer Survivors: A Qualitative Analysis Y. Nancy You, Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Su1764	Emergency Department Presentation, Admission and Surgical Intervention for Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis in the United States Keri Calkins, Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Su1765	A Comparison of Lymph Node Harvest following Emergent Laparoscopic versus Open Colectomy for Colon Cancer: Results from the ACS-NSQIP Database Jad Abou Khalil, General Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Su1766	Restorative Proctectomy for Crohn's Proctitis: Resurrecting the Turnbull-Cutait Coloanal Anastomosis Huriye Hande Aydinli, Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Su1767	Does Colovesical Fistula Secondary to Diverticulitis Have Similar Outcomes under the 50-Age-Group? Huriye Hande Aydinli, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH