January 6, 2009 IN THE NEWS PUBLICATIONS IN THE NEWS James St. Louis, M.D., was featured in a story about a two-year old St. Paul boy, a patient of Dr. St. Louis’s at the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, whose heart healed with the use of a new assist device called the Berlin Heart. See story below. http://www.twincities.com/ci_11317283?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com Top of page PUBLICATIONS Marcu L, Jo JA, Fang Q, Papaioannou T, Reil T, Qiao JH, Baker JD, Freischlag JA, Fishbein MC. Detection of rupture-prone atherosclerotic plaques by time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy. Atherosclerosis. 2008 Sept 6; [Epub ahead of print] Groth SS, Whitson BA, Maddaus MA. Radiographic staging of mediastinal lymph nodes in non-small cell lung cancer patients. Thorac Surg Clin. 2008 Nov;18(4):349-61. Schmitz CC, Chipman JG, Luxenberg MG, Beilman GJ. Professionalism and communication in the intensive care unit: reliability and validity of a simulated family conference. Simul Healthc. 2008 Winter;3(4):224-38. Moore FA, Nelson T, McKinley BA, Moore EE, Nathens AB, Rhee P, Puyana JC, Beilman GJ, Cohn SM; StO2 Study Group. Is there a role for aggressive use of fresh frozen plasma in massive transfusion of civilian trauma patients? Am J Surg. 2008 Dec;196(6):948-58; discussion 958-60. McCue JD, Cunningham BL. Asian rhinoplasty. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008 Dec;122(6):1972-3. Ferrer J, Scott WE 3rd, Weegman BP, Suszynski TM, Sutherland DE, Hering BJ, Papas KK. Pig pancreas anatomy: implications for pancreas procurement, preservation, and islet isolation. Transplantation. 2008 Dec 15;86(11):1503-10. Sutherland DE, Gruessner AC, Carlson AM, Blondet JJ, Balamurugan AN, Reigstad KF, Beilman GJ, Bellin MD, Hering BJ. Islet autotransplant outcomes after total pancreatectomy: a contrast to islet allograft outcomes. Transplantation. 2008 Dec 27;86(12):1799-802. Dries DJ, Perry JF Jr. Key Questions in Ventilator Management of the Burn-Injured Patient (First of Two Parts). J Burn Care Res. 2008 Dec 3; [Epub ahead of print] Harvey SB, Zhang Y, Wilson-Grady J, Monkkonen T, Nelsestuen GL, Kasthuri RS, Verneris MR, Lund TC, Ely EW, Bernard GR, Zeisler H, Homoncik M, Jilma B, Swan T, Kellogg TA. O-Glycoside Biomarker of Apolipoprotein C3: Responsiveness to Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, and Therapy with Metformin, to Chronic or Severe Liver Disease and to Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Graft vs Host Disease. J Proteome Res. 2008 Dec 5; [Epub ahead of print] Jensen EH, Abraham A, Habermann EB, Al-Refaie WB, Vickers SM, Virnig BA, Tuttle TM. A Critical Analysis of the Surgical Management of Early-Stage Gallbladder Cancer in the United States. J Gastrointest Surg. 2008 Dec 13; [Epub ahead of print] 2/5/16 Tetteh HA, Groth SS, Kast T, Whitson BA, Radosevich DM, Klopp AC, D'Cunha J, Maddaus MA, Andrade RS. Primary palmoplantar hyperhidrosis and thoracoscopic sympathectomy: a new objective assessment method. Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Jan;87(1):267-74; discussion 274-5. Foker JE, Kendall Krosch TC, Catton K, Munro F, Khan KM. Long-gap esophageal atresia treated by growth induction: the biological potential and early follow-up results. Semin Pediatr Surg. 2009 Feb;18(1):23-9. Top of page For further information on research activities within the Department of Surgery, visit our website at http://www.surg.umn.edu/surgery/Research.html. The University of Minnesota Department of Surgery Update is sent to department faculty, fellows, residents, and staff. To submit an item for publication in Update, email Giesel Arnold (arnol331@umn.edu). Past issues of Update may be found online at http://www.surg.umn.edu/surgery/Surg_Pubs.html. 2/5/16