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66th Annual Meeting
SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
May 3-6, 2025
San Diego Convention Center | San Deigo, CA
in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®
in partnership with Digestive Disease Week®


All rooms at San Diego Convention Center unless otherwise indicated.

Ticketed Session indicates a Ticketed Session requiring a separate registration and fee.
Residents Conference Indicates a Plenary presentation that is also being presented at the Resident & Fellows Research Conference.
Live Streamed Indicates a Live-streamed Session.

Tracks
Esophagus, Gastric, Bariatric, & Metabolic Education, Quality, Outcomes, & Policy
Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Colorectal
Peritoneal Surface, Abdominal Wall & Small Bowel General & Society Business

Program | Residents & Fellows | Posters

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SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025
6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Room 11
Ticketed Session DDW BREAKFAST CONNECTION: PEARLS OF WISDOM IN EARLY CLINICAL PRACTICE (GETTING STARTED 101)
 
Faculty: Rohan Jeyarajah, Dallas, TX
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 3
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM I: TOGETHER WE ARE BETTER - COLORECTAL SURGERY MEETS ABDOMINAL WALL RECONSTRUCTION
 
Moderators: Govind Nandakumar, Bangalore, India
Panelists: Jorge Daes, Barranquilla, Columbia
Sanjiv Haribhakti, Ahmedabad, India
Vivek Bindal, Dehli, India
Nikos Gouvas, Psimolofou, Cyprus
Jessica Zaman, Albany, NY
Ramesh Ardharnari, Madurai, India
Peush Sahni, New Dehli, India

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CASE 1: LOCALLY ADVANCED COLON CANCER INVADING THE ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL

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CASE 2: ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA AFTER ANASTOMOTIC LEAK WITH LOSS OF ABDOMINAL WALL DOMAIN
Saumya Singh
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital-Fenton, Phoenix, AZ

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CASE 3: PARASTOMAL, MIDLINE AND OFF-MIDLINE HERNIAS AFTER GI SURGERY
Karan R. Rawat
Safe Surgery Center, Agra, Agra, India

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CASE 4: PROPHYLACTIC MESH FOR HERNIAS. FRIEND OR FOE?
Louisa Bolm
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 9
ORAL SESSION: PANCREATIC DISEASES I
 
Moderators: Jessica Maxwell, Houston TX
John Stauffer, Jacksonville, FL
Michael Chienhui Wu, Taipei City, Taiwan
 
376. UPREGULATION OF GLYCOLYSIS IN PANCREATIC CANCER CELLS UNDER HYPOXIA INHIBITS THE ANTITUMOR EFFECT OF ASCORBIC ACID MEDIATED BY REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES
Takeru Maekawa*, Toru Miyake, Ken-ichi Mukaisho, Masaji Tani, Shinji Uemoto
Surgery, Shiga Ika Daigaku, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
 
377. LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ENABLE ACCURATE DATA EXTRACTION AND CURATION FROM SYNOPTIC RADIOLOGY REPORTS FOR PANCREATIC CYST SURVEILLANCE
Ankur P. Choubey*1, Emanuel Eguia1, Alexander Hollingsworth2, Subrata Chatterjee2, Remo Alessandris1, Misha Armstrong1, Emily Manin1, Lily V. Saadat1, Jenny Flood1, Avijit Chatterjee2, Vinod Balachandran1, Jeffrey Drebin1, T. Peter Kingham1, Michael D'Angelica1, William Jarnagin1, Alice Wei1, Vineet S. Rolston3, Mark A. Schattner3, Kevin Soares1
1Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Surgery, New York, NY; 2Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 3Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Medicine, New York, NY4
 
378. THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT MODALITIES IN RESECTABLE PANCREATIC CANCER: A VALUE-BASED ANALYSIS
Benjamin Varughese*1, Isabel Lavine1, Sophia Shah1, Harish Lavu2, Wilbur Bowne2, Charles Yeo2, Avinoam Nevler2
1Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; 2Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
 
379. TIMING MATTERS: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF EARLY VERSUS DELAYED CHOLECYSTECTOMY ON INFECTIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS IN BILIARY NECROTIZING PANCREATITIS
Himsikhar Khataniar*1, Rahul Karna2, Hany Habib1, Stuart K. Amateau2
1Internal Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; 2University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
 
380. EARLY RECURRENCE PREDICTORS AND PATTERNS AFTER RESECTION FOR PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA: IS THE SURGEON ONLY A BYSTANDER?
Alex M. Roch*, Alexa J. Hughes, Andrew J. Thyen, Thomas K. Maatman, Ryan J. Ellis, Max Schmidt, Nicholas J. Zyromski, Eugene P. Ceppa, Michael G. House
Surgical Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
 
381. A POPULATION-LEVEL, LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF POST-PANCREATECTOMY EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY AND ITS FINANCIAL BURDEN FOR PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC CANCER
Patricia Lu*2, Yu-Hui Chang2, Chee-Chee Stucky2, Patricia Cronin2, Alexandra Potter1, George Linderman1, Jeffrey Yang1, Michelle A. Anderson2, Norio Fukami2, Douglas O. Faigel2, Laurence Miller2, Rahul Pannala2, Richard Bold2, Nabil Wasif2, Zhi Ven Fong2
1Mass General Brigham Inc, Boston, MA; 2Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
 
382. METFORMIN USE WAS CORRELATED WITH A LOWER LONGITUDINAL RISK OF A DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR (NET) IN PATIENTS WITH A PREVIOUSLY BENIGN NET
Luis F. Lara*, Milton Smith, Moamen Gabr, Muhammad H. Dawwas, Andrew Ofosu, Rosanne Danielson, Wei-Wen Hsu, Inuk Zandvakili, Mubarak Sayyar, Davendra Sohal, Jordan Kharofa, Sameer Patel, Gregory C. Wilson, Syed Ahmad
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
 
383. PRIMARY CARE AND PANCREATIC CANCER. THE MISSING LINK?
Jaspinder S. Sanghera*1, Ioannis Liapis1, Michelle Holland1, Omar Ahmed1, Rida Ahmad2, Krisha Amin2, Ahmed Abdalla2, Smita Bhatia1, Martin Heslin1, Annabelle L. Fonseca1
1Surgical Oncology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 2University of South Alabama Health System, Mobile, AL
 
384. PREOPERATIVE GLUCOSE-TO-ALBUMIN RATIO AS A PROGNOSTIC MARKER FOR SURVIVAL IN PANCREATIC CANCER PATIENTS UNDERGOING PANCREATECTOMY
Andrea Feci*, Isabel Lavine, Sophia Shah, Matthew Kraft, Benjamin Varughese, Elijah Hoffman, Harish Lavu, Wilbur Bowne, Charles Yeo, Avinoam Nevler
Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
 
385. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A STROMAL SECRETED ECM FACTOR IN PDAC LIVER METASTASIS
Lorena Llontop*3, Alina-Sophie Markhoff3, Maren Drenckhan3, Andrew S. Liss1, Susanne Sebens2, Steffen Deichmann3, Rüdiger Braun3, Louisa Bolm3, Timo Gemoll3, Lennart von Fritsch3, Ulrich F. Wellner3, Tobias Keck3, Jannis Duhn3, Kim C. Honselmann3
1Pancreatic Biology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Institute of Experimental Cancer Research, Kiel University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; 3Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
 
 
387. CAN NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY BE ADMINISTERED AS SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY AT OUTSIDE INSTITUTIONS VS LOCALLY IN PATIENTS WITH PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA?
Po Hong Tan*, Richard Max Miller, Zhi Ven Fong, Melody Pi Yin Tu, Hoe Yan Hor, Mohamad B. Sonbol, Mitesh Borad, Daniel Ahn, Christina Wu, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Nabil Wasif, Chee-Chee Stucky
Surgical Oncology, Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Mesa, AZ
 
388. PEDIATRIC PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST PRESENTATION AND PROCEDURAL MANAGEMENT
Kristen N. Kaiser*3,2,1, Rhea Gupta2, Ella Boardley2, Ryan J. Ellis3,1, Brian A. McFerron2, Thomas K. Maatman1, Alan Ladd2, Brian Gray2
1General Surgery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; 2Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN; 3Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center, Indianapolis, IN
 
389. DISPARITIES IN TIME TO FIRST TREATMENT FOR EARLY-STAGE PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA IN PATIENTS RECEIVING UPFRONT SURGERY VS NEOADJUVANT THERAPY: A NATIONAL CANCER DATABASE ANALYSIS
Madeline M. Silva*, Candice Vieira, Chen-Pin Wang, Xuemei Song, Mio Kitano, Colin M. Court, Caitlin A. McIntyre, Alexander A. Parikh
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
 
390. ADVANCING GENETIC TESTING IN PANCREATIC CANCER: WHOLE EXOME AND WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING REVEALS MORE RARE PATHOGENIC MUTATIONS IN ASIAN POPULATIONS
Chien-hui M. Wu*, Pei-Lung Chen, Wei-Chih Liao
National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room 10
RESEARCH COMMITTEE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SURGICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
 
Moderators: Maria Altieri, Stony Brook, NY
Thinzar Lwin, Duarte, CA

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IMPROVING GI CANCER CARE THROUGH AI BY DIGITIZING CARE DELIVERY
Ryan Merkow
University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

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APPLICATION OF AI AND ML IN MEDICINE: DEFINING TERMINOLOGY
Daniel A. Hashimoto
Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

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AI IN THE OPERATING ROOM

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HOW CAN AI IMPROVE SURGICAL RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE QUALITY
Heather Lyu
Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 3
ORAL SESSION: STOMACH/BARIATRIC/METABOLIC DISEASES II
 
Moderators: Konstantinos Spaniolas, Stony Brook, NY
Margaux Mustian, Birmingham, AL
Matthew Kroh, Cleveland, OH
 
438. OUTCOMES OF CONVERSION OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY TO ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GERD
Michael Cymbal*, Renan Prado, Leandro Sierra, Arjun Chatterjee, Stephen Firkins, Roma Patel, Akash T. Khurana, Bailey Flora, Erika Staneff, Roberto Simons-Linares
Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
439. CONCOMITANT LAPAROSCOPIC VERTICAL SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY AND CHOLECYSTECTOMY INCREASES ODDS OF READMISSION AND REOPERATION
David J. Leishman*1, Zachary Leslie2, Sayeed Ikramuddin1, Eric Wise1
1Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 2Carleton College, Northfield, MN
 
440. 90 DAY OUTCOMES OF BARIATRIC SURGERY IN CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION AS A BRIDGE TO LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Timothy Trestrail, William Scola*, Talia R. Arcieri, Patrick R. Wang, David Goldberg, Mahmoud Mahfouz, Onur C. Kutlu
General Surgery, University of Miami - Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
 
441. ASSOCIATION BETWEEN BARIATRIC SURGERY AND MAJOR ADVERSE KIDNEY EVENTS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND OBESITY: A POPULATION-BASED COHORT STUDY OF MULTIPLE LINKED DATABASE
Yung Lee*, Sama Anvari, Amber O. Molnar, Michael Walsh, Dennis Hong
General Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
 
442. IMPACT OF GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-1 (GLP-1) RECEPTOR AGONISTS ON SUBSPECIALTY AND WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY REFERRALS
Thomas J. Mathews*2, Richard Maradiaga1, Thomas R. McCarty3, Raj Shah1
1The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 2The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; 3Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
 
443. PREOPERATIVE RISK FACTORS FOR WORSENED GERD-HRQL FOLLOWING BARIATRIC SURGERY
Colin G. DeLong*, Lily Stalter, Mads Owen, Kristen L. Patterson, Luke M. Funk, David A. Harris, Anne O. Lidor
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
 
444. LOWER RISK OF ALCOHOL USE DISORDER AFTER SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY COMPARED TO GASTRIC BYPASS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
Abraham Z. Cheloff*1, Sigrid Young1,3, Leah Kim1, Violeta Popov1,2
1Internal Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY; 2VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY; 3University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
 
445. BARIATRIC SURGERY IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED HAZARD RATIOS OF ADVERSE HEPATIC AND EXTRAHEPATIC OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION-ASSOCIATED STEATOTIC LIVER DISEASE
Weronika Stupalkowska*2,1, Alexander Henney1, Daniel Cuthbertson1, Eric Sheu2
1University of Liverpool Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2Laboratory for Surgical and Metabolic Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
 
446. SIMULTANEOUS ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS AND CHOLECYSTECTOMY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH WORSE 5-YEAR CLINICAL OUTCOMES COMPARED TO ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS ALONE: RESULTS OF A MULTINATIONAL ANALYSIS
Do Han Kim*2, Donghyun Ko3, Wilhelm S. Basegoda4, Jose A. Porres5, Paul T. Kröner6, Christopher C. Thompson1
1Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, New York, NY; 3Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT; 4University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; 5Universidad Francisco Marroquin Facultad de Medicina, Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala; 6Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA
 
447. EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF BARIATRIC SURGERY IN HIV-POSITIVE PATIENTS ON HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY
Varun Aitharaju*1, Leandro Sierra1, Ali Syed2, Arjun Chatterjee1, Akash Khurana1, Roma Patel1, Stephen A. Firkins1, Rehan Haidry3, Roberto Simons-Linares1
1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH; 3Cleveland Clinic London Ltd, London, England, United Kingdom
 
448. LONG-TERM EFFECT OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY VS ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH SEVERE OBESITY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
Mohammed Ayyad*11, Islam Mohamad1, Mohamed Abuelazm2, Ahmed Mazen Amin3, Abdallah Saeed4, Mohamed Abouzid5, Omar Al Ta'ani6, AlMothana Manasrah7, Mohammad Alqudah8, Abdallah Bani-Salameh9, Ubaid Khan10, Hassan Ghoz10, Mohammad Tanashat8
1University of Missouri, Kansas, KS; 2Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt; 3Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; 4Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt; 5Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland; 6Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA; 7UHS-Wilson Medical Center, Binghamton, NY; 8Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan; 9Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 10University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; 11Rutgers Health, Newark, NJ
 
449. OUTCOMES AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY CONVERSION TO ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS AND SINGLE ANASTOMOSIS DUODENAL SWITCH
Jean-Christophe Rwigema*, Derrius Anderson, Sullivan A. Ayuso, Kristine Kuchta, Natalie Liu, takagi taisuke, Ervin Denham, John Linn, H. Mason Hedberg, Michael Ujiki
NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
 
450. PATIENTS' PERSPECTIVES OF BARIATRIC SURGICAL CARE IN THE DEEP SOUTH: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
Alfonsus Adrian H. Harsono*1, Gurudatta Naik1, Ivan I. iherbey1, Gina Kim1, Dinakar S. Velagala1, Nathan C. English2,1, Kristen Wong1, Richard Stahl1, Jayleen Grams1, Daniel I. Chu1, Margaux N. Mustian1
1Department of Surgery, Div. of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery, Birmingham, AL; 2University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 9
SSAT-ISDS JOINT SYMPOSIUM: INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS DURING ROBOTIC/LAPAROSCOPIC GI SURGERY AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM
 
Moderators: Michele Ammendola, Catanzaro, Italy
R. Matthew Walsh, Cleveland, OH
Vassiliki L. Tsikitis, Portland, OR

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BILIARY
R. Matthew Walsh
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

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ESOPHAGEAL
Peter P. Grimminger
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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GASTRIC
Kaitlyn J. Kelly
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

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LIVER
Zenichi Morise
HUAC, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

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PANCREAS
Zhi Ven Fong
Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ

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COLORECTAL
Mark Soliman
AdventHealth, Altamonte Springs, FL
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 10
APP COMMITTEE SYMPOSIUM: QUALITY APPS = QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
 
Moderators: Sarah Smith, Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer Merrill, Wauwatosa, WI

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APPS IN QI INITIATIVES
Allison N. Martin
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

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DRIVING SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT WITH CLINICAL DATABASES
Erica Amianda
Surgery, Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ

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HOW APPS CAN FACILITATE CHANGE: ITS A PROCESS
Morgan L. Bruno
Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

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DATA TO BEDSIDE: HOW TO LEVERAGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Heather Lyu
MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

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APP RESEARCH GRANT AWARD: OPTIMIZING ROBOTIC SURGERY OUTCOMES - THE EFFECT OF PROFESSIONAL BEDSIDE ASSISTANCE
Tyler Cross
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room 6DE
Live Streamed SSAT-ASCRS JOINT SYMPOSIUM: BENIGN ANORECTAL DISEASE FOR THE GASTROENTEROLOGIST: WHAT SURGEONS CAN OFFER
 
Moderators: Sonia Ramamoorthy, La Jolla, CA
Govind Nandakumar, Bangalore, India
Kim Lu, Seattle, WA

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SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF ANAL FISSURE
Katherine Kelley
Surgery, Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI

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SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF ANAL FISTULA
Mukta Krane
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF HEMORRHOIDS
Jennifer Davids
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Halls C-E, Lower Level (Poster Hall)
POSTER SESSION I: PANCREATIC AND ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES (NON-CME)
 
Pancreas Moderators: Sven Eriksson, Monroeville, PA
Esophageal Moderators: Jon DeLong, Knoxville, TN
Zhi Fong, Phoenix, AZ
Authors available at their posters to answer questions 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm; posters on display 9:30 AM - 4 PM.
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Room 8
Ticketed Session DDW MEET-THE-PROFESSOR: WRITER'S WORKSHOP WITH JOGS EDITORS
 
Speakers: Timothy Pawlik, Columbus, OH
Richard Hodin, Boston, MA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 9
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM II: CONTEMPORARY ADVANCES IN GI SURGERY AROUND THE WORLD
 
Moderators: Katsuhiko Yanaga, Fukuoka, Japan
Ming-Tsan Lin, Taipei City, Taiwan

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY MANAGEMENT AND ROBOTIC SURGERY FOR ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER IN JAPAN
Masahiro Yura
National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan

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ADVANCES IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE ESOPHAGECTOMY AND PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN
Hirotoshi Kikuchi
Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

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DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN TURKEY
Ender Dulundu
Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey

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PANCREATECTOMY PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND MIS ADOPTION IN GERMANY
Steffen Deichman
Universitatsklinikum Schleswig Holstein, Lübeck, Germany

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PANCREATIC CANCER SURGERY AND TREATMENT ADVANCES IN TAIWAN
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 10
PLENARY AND ORAL SESSION: BEST OF PERITONEAL SURFACE/ABDOMINAL WALL/SMALL BOWEL DISEASES (PAWS)
 
Moderators: Molly Kledzik, Morgantown, WV
Oliver S. Eng, Orange, CA
Nikos Gouvas, Psimolofou, Cyprus
 
Residents Conference 468. TUMOR DNA ANALYSIS IN PERITONEAL FLUID TO DETECT AND MONITOR PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS.
Muhammad Talha Nawaz*5,1, Muhammad Talha Waheed4, Kirsten Dennison5,1,2, Bradon Mcdonald1,5,2, Stephanie McGregor3,2, Syed Nabeel Zafar1,2, Mustafa Raoof4, Muhammed Murtaza1,5,2
1University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Surgery, Madison, WI; 2University of Wisconsin-Madison Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI; 3University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Madison, WI; 4City of Hope Department of Surgery, Duarte, CA; 5Center for Human Genomics & Precision Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
 
Residents Conference 469. BIDIRECTIONAL PACLITAXEL PLUS NILOTINIB FOR PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS: PHASE II CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS
Shruthi R. Perati*, Amber F. Gallanis, Stephanie Canady, Molly Sullivan, Nancy Moore, Yvonne Mallory, Audra Satterwhite, Diane Ahn, Silvia Figueiroa Da Cruz, Stacy Joyce, John Lee, Andre De Souza, Jessica Mukherjee, Sarah Shin, Ning Ma, Lamin Juwara, Jibran Ahmed, Alice Chen, Jeremy L. Davis, Andrew Blakely
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
 
470. CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES OF EXTERNAL REFERRAL PATIENTS UNDERGOING CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY AT AN INTERNATIONAL PERITONEAL SURFACE MALIGNANCY PROGRAM
Edward A. Joseph*, Muhammad Muntazir Mehdi Khan, Gordon Hua, catherine lewis, Patrick Wagner, David Bartlett, Casey Allen
Surgical Oncology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
 
471. COMPARISON OF ENDOSCOPIC AND RADIOLOGICAL RESULTS BETWEEN STRICTUREPLASTY AND INTESTINAL RESECTION IN PATIENTS WITH SMALL BOWEL STRICTURING CROHN'S DISEASE
Xi Zhang*1, Yi Li2, Weiming Zhu3
1Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; 2General Hospital of Eastern Theatre Command Department of General Surgery, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; 3Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
 
472. MESENTERY HYPERTROPHY TO IDENTIFY MICROSCOPIC CLEAN ILEAL SECTION AND REDUCE POSTOPERATIVE ENDOSCOPIC RECURRENCE IN ILEOCOLIC CROHN'S DISEASE
Jiaxin Zou*, Xijian Zhang, Chao Wang, Xinzhe Zhao, Zhen He, Xiang Gao, Min Zhi, Xiao-Jian Wu, Jia Ke
Sun Yat-sen University Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
 
473. HOW HAS ROBOTICS CHANGED OUR APPROACH TO INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR?
William T. Head*, Divyaam Satija, Stefanie C. Rohde, Dylan S. Goto, Sidhant Kalsotra, Savannah Renshaw, Patrick Sweigert, Courtney Collins, Benjamin Poulose
Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
 
474. RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE RATE OF SAME-ADMISSION CHOLECYSTECTOMY FOLLOWING BILIARY PANCREATITIS
Brynne A. Ichiuji*, Matthew Ashbrook, Vincent Cheng, Anaar Siletz, Matthew Martin, Kenji Inaba, Kazuhide Matsushima
Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
 
475. OPTIMAL TIMING FOR ELECTIVE VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR TO PREVENT BOWEL OBSTRUCTION UTILIZING A POPULATION-LEVEL MODEL
Sourav Podder*, Subhadra Acharya, Julia Baran, Scott Koeneman, Christopher Keating, Francesco Palazzo, Sami Tannouri
Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room 6DE
Live Streamed KELLY AND CARLOS PELLEGRINI SSAT-SAGES JOINT SYMPOSIUM: REVISIONAL FOREGUT SURGERY - APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES
 
Moderators: Anne Lidor, Madison, WI
Brent Matthews, Charlotte, NC
Steven R. Demeester, Grandville, MI

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INDICATIONS, OUTCOMES AND TIPS FOR REDO ANTIREFLUX SURGERY
Vic Velanovich
USF, Tampa, FL

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WHAT TO DO WHEN HELLER MYOTOMY FAILS: PNEUMATIC DILATION, REDO HELLER OR POEM
Michael Ujiki
Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL

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WHAT TO DO WHEN PYLORIC DRAINAGE PROCEDURE FAILS IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROPARESIS
Michael M. Awad
Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 3
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM III: THE DIFFICULT GALL BLADDER AND BEYOND
 
Moderators: Taylor Riall, Tucson, AZ
Louisa Bolm, Boston, MA
Saumya Singh, Atlanta, GA

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WHAT IS A DIFFICULT CHOLECYSTECTOMY
Nathaniel J. Soper*
The University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

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SAFE CHOLECYSTECTOMY AND CRITICAL VIEW OF STRASBERG
Eduardo E. Jave-Montalvo*
Mexico City, Mexico

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HOW TO AVOID INJURING THE BILE DUCT: LESSONS LEARNT FROM A 35-YEAR EXPERIENCE FROM CBD REPAIR
Miguel A. Mercardo*
Mexico City, Mexico

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WHEN IN DOUBT, GET OUT (SOMEHOW)
Robert Grützmann
University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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SAVING THE DAY: GASTROENTEROLOGY TO THE RESCUE
Kevin Liu*
Banner Health, Boston, MA
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 9
ORAL SESSION: COLORECTAL DISEASES II
 
Moderators: Kristen Crowell, Boston, MA
Meghan Good, Tucson, AZ
 
605. RESETTING THE CLOCK: DOES REDO IPAA RESTORE QUALITY OF LIFE? PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES BEFORE AND AFTER REDO ILEOANAL POUCH SURGERY
Stefan D. Holubar*, Olga Lavryk, Jeremy M. Lipman, Arielle E. Kanters, Benjamin L. Cohen, Katherine Falloon, Florian Rieder, Taha Qazi, Emre Gorgun, Scott Steele, David Liska
Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
606. HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY DOWNSTAGES REFRACTORY PERIANAL FISTULIZING CROHN'S DISEASE AND ALLOWS FOR SURGICAL CLOSURE
Lieven Mulders*1, Kim Beek1, Marte Becker1, Pim J. Koelink1, Marloes Zwart1, Jarmila D.W. van der Bilt2, Malaika Vlug1, Jeroen Tielbeek3, Svend Rietdijk4, Jeroen M. Jansen4, Milan Ridderikhof1, Wouter J. De Jonge1, Willem A. Bemelman1, Jaap Stoker1, Geert D'Haens1, Rob van Hulst1, Manon E. Wildenberg1, Christianne J. Buskens1, Krisztina Gecse1
1Amsterdam UMC Locatie AMC, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; 2Flevoziekenhuis, Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands; 3Spaarne Gasthuis, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; 4OLVG, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
 
607. PREDICTORS OF POOR BOWEL FUNCTION FOLLOWING ILEAL-POUCH ANAL ANASTOMOSIS: RESULTS FROM THE UNITED STATES ILEAL POUCH-ANAL ANASTOMOSIS (TULIP) STUDY
Jesse Zuckerman*2, Anthony de Buck van Overstraeten1, Gil Melmed2, William Conan Mustain3, Jeffrey S. Scow4, Katerina Wells5, Mary Otterson6, James Ogilvie7, Lilianna Bordeianou8, Stefan D. Holubar9, Steven D. Wexner10, Phillip Fleshner2, Karen Zaghiyan2
1Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 3Mercy Clinic Colon and Rectal Surgery, Oklahoma City, OK; 4Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; 5Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX; 6Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; 7Corewell Health West Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI; 8Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 9Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 10Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
 
608. FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INTERVAL SURVEILLANCE AFTER ENDOSCOPIC RESECTION OF ADENOMA WITH HIGH GRADE DYSPLASIA: A SEER-MEDICARE ANALYSIS
Julia Frebault*1,2, Alexander Troester1, Sarah Mott3, Lauren Weaver1, Imran Hassan4, Aasma Shaukat5, Schelomo Marmor1, Paolo Goffredo1
1University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; 2Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; 3University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; 4MercyOne, Des Moines, IA; 5NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
 
609. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OVERSTAGES RECTAL POLYPS UNDERGOING ENDOSCOPIC RESECTION: A US ACADEMIC CANCER CENTER EXPERIENCE
Phillip S. Ge*, Victoria G. Terrazas Morales, Emmanuel Coronel, Gene Liaw, Raju S. Gottumukkala, Brian K. Bednarski, George J. Chang, Tsuyoshi Konishi, Craig A. Messick, Y. Nancy You, Montserrat Guraieb Trueba
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 
610. MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTION OF INCREASED HEALTHCARE RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN COLECTOMY FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE.
Gustavo Salgado-Garza*, Cynthia Araradian, Maura Walsh, Shahrose Rahman, Elliot Ballato, Sandy Fang, Brett C. Sheppard, Patrick J. Worth, Vassiliki L. Tsikitis
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
 
611. ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY WITH FULLY COVERED METAL STENTS FOR MANAGEMENT OF POST COLORECTAL SURGERY ANASTOMOTIC COMPLICATIONS: A SINGLE CENTER RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
Rahul Karna*, Cyrus Jahansouz, Paolo Goffredo, Nabeel Azeem, Stuart K. Amateau
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
 
612. ENDOSCOPIC FINDINGS OF A STATE-SPONSORED COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PROGRAM: A CASE-MATCHED CONTROL COMPARISON STUDY
Alfonsus Adrian H. Harsono*1, Lauren Wood1, Raj Roy1, Nathan C. English2,1, Gregory Kennedy1, Daniel I. Chu1, Patricia Ajayi-Fox3, Robert H. Hollis1
1Department of Surgery, Div. of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery, Birmingham, AL; 2University of Cape Town Department of Surgery, Cape Town, WC, South Africa; 3The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
 
613. IMPACT OF DUODENECTOMY ON ILEAL POUCH-ANAL ANASTOMOSIS SURVIVAL AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES
Pavel Lenkov*, Ece Unal, Brian Tang, Joshua Sommovilla, Robert Simon, Daniel Joyce, R Matthew Walsh, Stefan D. Holubar, David Liska
Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic foundation, Cleveland, OH
 
614. STATUS OF ROLE OF STEM CELL THERAPY IN PERIANAL CROHN'S FISTULA
Jai Singh*1, Micheal Luca1, Gabriela Olivera2, maryam aleissa1, Ernesto Drelichman1, Vijay Mittal1, Jasneet S. Bhullar1
1Colon and Rectal Surgery, Ascension Providence Hospital Southfield Campus, Southfield, MI; 2University of medicine and Health sciences, Detroit, MI
 
615. PROS AND CONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION DURING COLONOSCOPY TO ENHANCE ADENOMA DETECTION RATES.
Maryam Aleissa*1,2, Micheal Luca1, Jai Singh1, Vijay Mittal1, Ernesto Drelichman1, Jasneet S. Bhullar1
1Henry Ford Providence Hospital, Southfield, MI; 2Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 
616. RECTAL ESD IN AN EX VIVO BOVINE LARGE BOWEL MODEL VIA INDEPENDENT RETRACTION WITH GRASPER AND OVERTUBE PASSED THROUGH A TRANSANAL PLATFORM NOTABLY SHORTENS CASE TIME, DECREASES DEEP WALL INJURIES AND IMPROVES RESECTION QUALITY.
Neil Mitra1, Elizabeth Nilsson Sjolander*1,2, Yi-Ru Chen1, Jorge Castro-Otero1, Jeffrey Nussbaum1, Kavita Jain1, Hmc Shantha Kumara1, Richard L. Whelan1
1Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY; 2North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
 
617. THE LARGEST SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE IN ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION IN EGYPT: CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND SAFETY
Ahmad A. Madkour*6, Amr El Fouly6, Butros Fakhoury5, Ahmed Gammal2, Ahmed Tawansy6, Amr Abdelazim6, Ahmed Shuman1, Ayman Aboushmeila6, Hazem Abosheaishaa4,3
1Damanhour Oncology Center, Damanhour, Egypt; 2Dar El Shefa Hospital, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt; 3GI Research Club, American Society for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Health care, Lewes, DE; 4Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; 5Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 6Helwan University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt
 
618. DETECTING ANAL INTEREPITHELIAL NEOPLASM DURING ROUTINE COLONOSCOPY - CAN IT BE TRANSLATED TO ROUTINE PRACTICE. SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE
Maryam Aleissa*, Molly F. Synowicz, Ernesto Drelichman, Jasneet S. Bhullar
Department of Surgery, Ascension Providence Hospital Southfield Campus, Southfield, MI
 
619. TRENDS IN SURGICAL AND ENDOSCOPIC RESECTION INTERVENTION FOR NON-MALIGNANT COLORECTAL POLYPS OVER THE LAST DECADE: A NATIONWIDE ANALYSIS
Yassine Kilani*1, Mahmoud Y. Madi1, Ahmad Najdat Bazarbashi4, Thomas R. McCarty3, Raj Shah2
1Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO; 2The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 3Houston Methodist, Houston, TX; 4Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 10
PLENARY SESSION: BEST OF STOMACH/BARIATRIC/METABOLIC DISEASES
 
Moderators: Kaitlyn Kelly, Madison, WI
Jorge Zehetner, Bern, Switzerland
Ulysses Ribeiro, São Paulo, Brazil
 
Residents Conference 599. OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES WITH MASH AND MASLD: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BARIATRIC SURGERY AND GLP-1 AGONISTS
Zehra Naseem*1, Varun Aitharaju1, Aun Muhammad2, Arjun Chatterjee1, Stephen A. Firkins1, Roma Patel1, Akash Khurana1, Roberto Simons-Linares1, Bailey Flora1, Erika Staneff1, Rehan Haidry3
1Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 3Cleveland Clinic London Ltd, London, England, United Kingdom
 
600. POST OPERATIVE OUTCOMES AND COMPLICATIONS OF CDH1 CARRIERS UNDERGOING PROPHYLACTIC GASTRECTOMY- RESULTS FROM THE GASTRIC CONSORTIUM
Ophir Gilad*1, Melissa Heller2, Taylor Apostolico2, Michelle Jacobs3, Maegan Roberts4, Kebire Gofar4, Beth Dudley5, Eve Karloski5, Souvik Saha6, Keenan Nguyen6, Yana Chertock7, Christine Drogan1, Emma Keel1, Benjamin A. Lerner8, George Hanna8, Afshin Khan9, Sarah Ertan9, Kimberly Hillfrank10, Sheila D. Rustgi10, Aparajita Singh9, Xavier Llor8, Michael Hall7, Randall Brand5, Peter P. Stanich4, Elena M. Stoffel3, Sonia S. Kupfer1, Ajay Bansal6, Bryson W. Katona2
1The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 4The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 6The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; 7Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA; 8Yale University, New Haven, CT; 9University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; 10Columbia University, New York, NY
 
Residents Conference 601. THE DIABETES REMISSION INDEX (DRI): AN INNOVATIVE PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR DIABETES REMISSION AFTER METABOLIC PROCEDURES
Wissam Ghusn*1,3, Pearl Ma2, Robert A. Vierkant3, Manpreet Mundi3, Matyas Fehervari4, Kayla Ikemiya2, Karl Hage5, Andres Acosta3, Michael Camilleri3, Barham Abu Dayyeh3, Kelvin Higa2, Omar M. Ghanem3
1Internal Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA; 2University of California San Francisco Department of Medicine Fresno, Fresno, CA; 3Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN; 4Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 5Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
 
Residents Conference 602. TRENDS IN GLP-1 RECEPTOR AGONIST UTILIZATION AND BARIATRIC SURGERY RATES: A REAL-WORLD ANALYSIS FROM 2021-2024
Ahmed Telbany*, Evelyn Inga, Pooja Viswanath, Abhishek Patel, Gulshan Parasher
Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
 
Residents Conference 603. ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES AT 10-YEARS POST-SURGERY: RESULTS OF A MULTINATIONAL MULTICENTER ANALYSIS
Donghyun Ko*3, Do Han Kim2, Wilhelm S. Basegoda4, Jose A. Porres5, Paul T. Kröner6, Christopher C. Thompson1
1Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, New York, NY; 3Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT; 4University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; 5Universidad Francisco Marroquin Facultad de Medicina, Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala; 6Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA
 
604. COMPARATIVE OUTCOMES OF GASTRIC RESECTION VS GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ACID-INDUCED GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION: A PILOT STUDY
Utpal Anand*, Bijit Saha
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Patna, Bihar, India
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Grand Ballroom, San Diego Omni
Ticketed Session SSAT FOUNDATION RECEPTION
 
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