Jeffrey D Hodges

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• Ali, A. B., Morris, L. M., Hodges, J., Amirkhosravi, F., Yasrebi, S., Khoo, A., Graviss, E. A., Nguyen, D. T., & Reardon, P. R. (2022). Postoperative bleeding and leaks in sleeve gastrectomy are independent of both staple height and staple line oversewing. Surgical endoscopy, 36(9), 6924-6930.
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  Over 100,000 sleeve gastrectomy procedures are performed annually in the USA. Despite technological advances, postoperative bleeding and gastric staple line leak are complications of this procedure. We analyzed patient-specific and perioperative factors to determine their association with these complications.
• Hodges, J. D., Nguyen, D. T., Doan, J., Meisenbach, L. M., Chihara, R., Chan, E. Y., Graviss, E. A., & Kim, M. P. (2021). Factors associated with home opioid use after thoracic surgery. JTCVS open, 5, 173-186.
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  Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) with a pre-emptive pain management program has been shown to decrease opioid prescriptions after thoracic surgery. We sought to determine which patient or procedural factors were associated with the need for prescription opioid medications after thoracic surgical procedures.
• Ferguson, R., Hodges, J., Harness-Brumley, C., Girod, C., Bartolome, S., & DiMaio, J. M. (2013). Thoracic Cavernous Lymphangioma Provoking Massive Chyloptysis: A Case Report. Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports, 1(3), 2324709613503315.
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  Chyloptysis is a relatively rare embodiment of disease that encompasses a lengthy differential and provides many diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Presented here is the case of a young woman with massive chyloptysis due to a thoracic cavernous lymphangioma arising in the peripartum period. The severity of her condition mandated the use of cardiopulmonary bypass to resect her lymphangioma. We believe that the extent of her symptoms, etiology of disease, and surgical management represent a unique scenario in the literature.
• Lockard, K. L., Allen, C., Lohmann, D., Severyn, D. A., Schaub, R. D., Kauffman, K. E., Hodges, J. R., Woodhall, L., Ramanathan, R., Teuteberg, J. J., Eckert, C. E., & Kormos, R. L. (2013). Bariatric surgery for a patient with a HeartMate II ventricular assist device for destination therapy. Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), 23(1), 28-32.
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  A patient with a HeartMate II left ventricular assist device who had a body mass index of 52 needed gastric bypass surgery in order to qualify for a heart transplant. Unlike previous experience in which the surgery was performed at the implant hospital, the gastric bypass surgery in this case was performed at a bariatric center of excellence that was a separate facility from the implant hospital. The artificial heart program of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center worked with the bariatric center of excellence in scheduling the gastric bypass surgery using a multidisciplinary team approach at 2 hospitals to coordinate safe, high-quality patient care in a unique situation.