Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: November 2022

Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see the November 2022 selections below. The complete list of publications by month with links to full articles is available on our Recent Publications page.


Lighting the way for necrosis excision through indocyanine green fluorescence-guided surgery.
Zajac JC, Liu A, Uselmann AJ, Lin C, Hassan SE, Faucher LD, Gibson AL.
J Am Coll Surg. 2022 Nov 1;235(5):743-755. Epub 2022 Oct 17.
[Pub Med ID: 36102554]

Systems of care factors should be considered in regionalization of congenital cardiac surgery.
Anagnostopoulos PV, Cartmill RS, Yang Q, Schumacher JR, Fernandes-Taylor S, Hermsen JL, DeCamp MM.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 Nov 12:S0003-4975(22)01429-1. Epub ahead of print.
[PubMed ID: 36379268]

Piezo1-expressing vocal fold epithelia modulate remodeling via effects on self-renewal and cytokeratin differentiation.
Foote AG, Lungova V, Thibeault SL.
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2022 Nov 14;79(12):591.
[PubMed ID: 36376494]

Increasing socioeconomically disadvantaged patients’ engagement in breast cancer surgery decision-making through a shared decision-making intervention (A231701CD): Protocol for a cluster randomised clinical trial.
Schumacher JR, Zahrieh D, Chow S, Taylor J, Wills R, Hanlon BM, Rathouz PJ, Tucholka JL, Neuman HB.
BMJ Open. 2022 Nov 17;12(11):e063895.
[PubMed ID: 36396308]

Use of preprocurement biopsy in donation after circulatory death liver transplantation.
Bolognese AC, Foley DP, Sparks CJ, Schneider AK, D’Alessandro AM, Neidlinger NA.
Liver Transpl. 2022 Nov;28(11):1709-1715. Epub 2022 Jun 12.
[PubMed ID: 35596660]

Factors associated with provision of non-beneficial surgery: A national survey of surgeons.
Zaza S 1st, Zimmermann CJ, Taylor LJ, Kalbfell EL, Stalter L, Brasel K, Arnold RM, Cooper Z, Schwarze ML.
Ann Surg. 2022 Nov 24. Epub ahead of print.
[PubMed ID: 36538626]

Impacts of a clinical research program for high school students from groups historically excluded from science and medicine.
Krecko LK, Jung S.
Health Equity. 2022 Nov 25;6(1):873-880.
[PubMed ID: 36479185]