Ciancio, G., Burke, G., Gaynor, J., Mattiazzi, A., D. Roth, Kupin, W., Nicolas, M., Ruiz,
P., Rosen, A. and J. Miller. A randomized long-term trial of tacrolimus/sirolimus vs
tacrolimus/mycophenolate mofetil vs cyclosporine (Neoral®)/sirolimus in renal
transplantation. I. Drug interactions and rejection at one year. Transplantation 77:24451, 2004.
Ciancio, G., Burke, G., Gaynor, J., Mattiazzi, A., D. Roth, Kupin, W., Nicolas, M., Ruiz,
P., Rosen, A. and J. Miller. A randomized long-term trial of tacrolimus/sirolimus vs
tacrolimus/mycophenolate mofetil vs cyclosporine (Neoral®)/sirolimus in renal
transplantation. II. Survival, function, and protocol compliance at one year.
Transplantation, 77:252-258, 2004.
Tryphonopoulos, P., Kato, T., Ruiz, P. and A. Tzakis. Epithelial and hematopoietic cell
tissue chimerism in the allograft of intestinal transplant recipients. Transplantation
Proceedings, 36:359-360, 2004.
Elliott, M.K., Jarmi, T., Ruiz, P., Holers, M. and G.S. Gilkeson. Effects of complement
factor D deficiency on the renal disease of MRL/lpr mice. Kidney International, 65:129138, 2004.
Garcia, M., Weppler, D., Mittal, N., Nishida, S., Kato, T., Tzakis, A. and P. Ruiz.
CAMPATH-1H immunosuppressive therapy reduces the incidence and intensity of
acute rejection in intestinal and multivisceral transplantation. Transplantation
Proceedings, 36:323-324, 2004.
Wasserberg, N., Tzakis, A., Santiago, S., Ruiz, P., and. S.K. Salgar. Anastomotic
healing in a small bowel transplantation model in the rat. World Journal of Surgery,
28:69-73, 2004.
Ruiz, P., Soares, M.F., Garcia, M., Nicolas, M., Kato, T., Mittal, N., Nishida, S., Levi,
D., Selvaggi, G., Madariaga, J. and A. Tzakis. Lymphoplasmacytic hyperplasia
(possible pre-PTLD) has varied expression and appearance in intestinal transplant
recipients receiving campath immunosuppression. Transplantation Proceedings,
36:386-387, 2004.
Salgar, S., Yang, D., Ruiz, P., Miller, J. and A. Tzakis. Viral interleukin-10 engineered
autologous hematopoietic stem cell therapy: a novel gene therapy approach to prevent
graft rejection. Human Gene Therapy, 15:131-144, 2004.
DeFaria, W., Tryphonopoulos, P., Kleiner, G., Santiago, S., Gandia, C., Ruiz, P. and A.
Tzakis. Study of the development and evolution of neo-intestine in a rat model.
Submitted for publication. Transplantation Proceedings, 36:375-376, 2004.
Delacruz, V., Garcia, M., Mittal, N., Nishida, S., Levi, D., Selvaggi, G., Madariaga, J.,
Weppler, D., Tzakis, A. and P. Ruiz. Immunoenzymatic and morphologic detection of
epithelial cell apoptotic stages in gastrointestinal allografts from multivisceral transplant
patients (MVTx). Transplantation Proceedings, 36:338-339, 2004.
Garcia, M., Delacruz, V., Ortiz, R., Bagni, A., Weppler, D., Kato, T., Tzakis, A. and P.
Ruiz. Acute rejection grading scheme for human gastric allografts. Human Pathology,
35:343-349, 2004.
Salgar, S.K., Yang, D., Ruiz, P., Miller, J. and A.G. Tzakis. Viral interleukin-10 gene
therapy to induce tolerance to solid organ transplants in mice. Transplantation
Proceedings, 36:397-398, 2004.
Tryphonopoulos, P., Espana, E., Scheffer, C.G., Tseng, C., Tzakis, A. and P. Ruiz. Rat
enterocyte cultures on human amniotic membranes. Transplantation Proceedings,
36:373-374, 2004.
Pappas, P.A., Tzakis, A.G., Saudubray, J-M., Gaynor, J., Carreno, M., Huijing, F.,
Kleiner, G., Rabier, D., Kato, T., Levi, D.M., Nishida, S., Gelman, B., Thompson, J.F.,
Mittal, N. and P. Ruiz. Trends in Serum Citrulline and Acute Rejection Among
Recipients of Intestinal Transplant. Transplantation Proceedings, 36:345-347, 2004.
Ruiz, P., Bagni, A., Brown, R., Cortina, G., Harpaz, N., Magid, M.S. and J. Reyes.
Histological criteria for the identification of acute cellular rejection in human small
bowel allografts - Results of the Pathology Workshop at the VIII International Small
Bowel Transplant Symposium. Transplantation Proceedings, 36:335-337, 2004.
Nishida, S., Hadjis, N., Levi, D., Kato, T., Vaidya, A., Nery, J., Madariaga, J.,
Nakamura, N., Ruiz, P., Neff, G., Byers, P. and A. Tzakis. Intestinal and multivisceral
transplantation following abdominal trauma. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection and
Critical Care 56:323-327, 2004.
Ciancio, G., Burke, G., Gaynor, J., Mattiazzi, A., Roohipour, R., Carreno, M., Roth, D.,
Ruiz, P., Kupin, W., Rosen, A., Esquenazi, V., Tzakis, A. and J. Miller. The use of
CAMPATH-1H as induction therapy in renal transplantation: preliminary results.
Transplantation 78:426-433, 2004.
Kato, T., Ruiz, P. And A. Tzakis. Exfoliative bowel rejection – a dangerous loss of
integrity. Pediatric Transplantation 8:426-427, 2004.
Fan, X., Ang, A., Pollack-Bar Ziv, S.M., Dipchand, A.I., Ruiz, P., Wilson, G. and L.J.
West. Donor-specific B cell tolerance after ABO-incompatible infant heart
transplantation. Nature Medicine, 10(11); 1227-1233, 2004.
Neff, G., O’Brien, C., Shire, N., Montalbano, M., Ruiz, P., Nery, C., Safdar, K., Medina,
M., Hung, O., Tzakis, A. and E.R. Schiff. Outcomes in liver transplant recipients with
hepatitis B virus: reistance and recurrence patterns from a large transplant center over
the last decade. Liver Transplantation 10:1372-8, 2004.
Zhang, X.K., Gallant, S., Molano, I., Moussa, O.M., Ruiz, P., Spyropoulos, D.D.,
Watson, D.K., and G. Gilkeson. Decreased expression of the Ets family transcription
factor Fli-1 markedly prolongs survival and significantly reduces renal disease in
MRL/lpr mice. Journal of Immunology, 173:6481-6489, 2004.
Walker, P., Cavallo, T., Bonsin, S. and the Ad Hoc Committee on Renal Biopsy
Guidelines of the Renal Pathology Society. Practice guidelines for the renal biopsy.
Contributor. Modern Pathology 17: 1555-1563, 2004.
Rosado, M., Morgansztern, D., Ruiz, P. and I. Lossos. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia –
associated nephrotic syndrome caused by focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
American Journal of Hematology 77:205-6, 2004.
Neff, G., O’Brien, C.B., Cirocco, R., Montalbano, M., Ruiz, P., Khaled, A., Bejarano, A.,
Safdar, K., Tzakis, A. and Schiff, E. Prediction of sustained Virological Response
(SVR) in Liver Transplant Recipients with recurrent Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Following
Combination Pegylated Interferon alfa-2b and Ribavirin Therapy Using Tissue hepatitis
C virus reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction testing. Liver Transplantation
10 (5): 595-598, 2004.
Reilly, C.M., Mishra, N., Miller, J., Joshi, D., Ruiz, P., Richon, V., Marks, P. and G.
Gilkeson. Modulation of renal disease in mRL/lpr mice by suberoylanilide hydroxamic
acid. Journal of Immunology 173(6):4171-8, 2004.
Tzakis, A.G., Tryphonopoulos, P., Kato, T., Nishida, S., Levi, D.M., Madariaga, J.R.,
Gaynor, J.J., DeFaria, W., Regev, A., Esquenazi, V., Weppler, D., Ruiz, P., and J.
Miller. Preliminary experience with Alemtuzumab (Campath 1H) and low-dose
tacrolimus immunosuppression in adult liver transplantation. Transplantation
77(8):1209-14, 2004.
Neff, G., Ruiz, P., Montalbano, M., Meyer, D. and C. O’Brien. Sirolimus-associated
hepatotoxicity in liver transplantation. Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 38(10):1593-6,
2004.
Montalbano, M., Neff, G.W., Yamashiki, N., Meyer, D., Bettiol, M., Slapak-Green, G.,
Ruiz, P., Mantan, E., Safdar, K., O’Brien, C. and A. Tzakis. A retrospective review of
liver transplant patients treated with sirolimus from a single center: an analysis of
sirolimus related complications. Transplantation 78(2):264-8, 2004.
Neff, G., Montalbano, M., O’Brien, C., Safdar, K., Bejarano, P., Khaled, A., Ruiz, P.,
Nery, J., Medina, M., Hung, O., Tzakis, A. and E.R. Schiff. Treatment of established
recurrent hepatitis C in liver-transplant recipients with pegylated interferon-alfa-2b and
ribavirin therapy. Transplantation. 78(9):1303-7, 2004.
Schena, S., Kurimoto, Y., Fukada, J., Tack, I., Ruiz, P., Pang, M., Aitouche, A., Striker,
L.J. and S.M. Pham. Effects of Ventricular Unloading on Apoptosis and Atrophy of
Cardiac Myocytes. Journal of Surgical Research 120(1):119-26, 2004.
Neff, G.W., Nery, J., Lau, D., O’Brien, C., Duncan, R., Ruiz, P., Montalbano, M., Muslu,
H., Safdar, K., Tzakis, A. and E.R. Schiff. Tenofovir therapy for Epivir resistance
following liver transplantation. Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 38(12):1999-2004, 2004.
Regev, A., Molina, E., Moura, R., Bejarano, P., Khaled, A., Ruiz, P., Arheart, K., Berho,
M., Drachenberg, C., Mendez, P., O’Brien, C., Jefferes, L., Tzakis, A. and E.R. Schiff.
Reliability of histopathological assessment for the differentiation of recurrent hepatitis
C from acute rejection after liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation 10(10):1233-9,
2004.
Neff, G., O’Brien, C., Nery, J., Shire, N.J., Nishida, S., delaGarza, J., Montalbano, M.,
Safdar, K., Ruiz, P., Rideman, E., Gascon, J.A., Tzakis, A., Madariaga, J. and S.M.
Rudich. Factors that identify survival after liver retransplantation for allograft failure
caused by recurrent hepatitis C infection. Liver Transplantation 10:1497-503, 2004.
Pappas, P.A., Tzakis, A.G., Gaynor, J., Carreno, M., Ruiz P., Huijing, F., Kleiner, G.,
Rabier, D., Kato, T., Levi, D.M., Nishida, S., Gelman, B., Thompson, J.F., Mittal, N.
and J-M Saudubray. An Analysis of the Association between Serum Citrulline and
Acute Rejection among 26 Recipients of Intestinal Transplant. American Journal of
Transplantation 4:1124-32, 2004.
Tryphonopoulos, P., Tzakis, A., Weppler, D., Garcia-Morales, R., Kato, T., Madariaga,
J.R., Levi, D., Nishida, S., Moon, J., Selvaggi, G., Regev, A., Nery, C., Bejarano, P.,
Khaled, A., Kleiner, G., Esquenazi, V., Miller, J., Ruiz, P. and C. Ricordi. The role of
donor bone marrow infusions in withdrawal of immunosuppression in adult liver
allotransplantation. American Journal of Transplantation, 5:608-613, 2005.
Kato, T., Gaynor, J.J., Selvaggi, G., Mittal, N., Thompson, J., McLaughlin, G.E.,
Nishida, S., Moon, J., Levi, D., Madariaga, J., Ruiz, P. and A. Tzakis. Intestinal
transplantation in children: a summary of clinical outcomes and prognostic factors in
108 patients from a single center. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 9(1):75-89,
2005.
Tryphonopoulos, P., Madariaga, J.R., Kato, T., Nishida, S., Levi, D., Moon, J.,
Selvaggi, G., De Faria, W., Regev, A., Bejarano, P., Khaled, A., Safdar, K., Esquenazi,
V., Weppler, D., Yoshida, H., Ruiz, P., Miller, J., and A. Tzakis. The impact of
Campath-1H induction in adult liver allotransplantation. Transplantation Proceedings.
37(2):1203-4, 2005.
Nakamura, N., Nishida, S., Vaidya, A., Levi, D., Kato, T., Madariaga, J., Neff, G., Ruiz,
P. and A. Tzakis. Intrahepatic Biliary Strictures without Hepatic Artery Thrombosis
Following Liver Transplantation: an analysis of 1113 liver transplantation at a single
center. Transplantation 79:427-32, 2005.
Kato, T., Yoshida, H., Sadfar, K., Martinez, E., Nishida, S., Moon, J., Madariaga, J.,
Selvaggi, G., Levi, D., Ruiz, P., Schiff, E. and A. Tzakis. Steroid-free induction and
preemptive antiviral therapy for liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C: a preliminary
report from a prospective randomized study. Transplantation Proceedings. 37(2):12179, 2005.
Denkinger, C., Harigopal, P., Ruiz, P., Tzakis, A. and L. Dowdy. Cryptosporidium
associated cholangitis in a liver transplant patient. Microbiology & Infection
Supplement. 11 2:282:923, 2005.
Tryphonopoulos, P., Weppler, D., Levi, DM., Nishida, S., Madariaga, JR., Kato, T.,
Mittal, N., Moon, J., Selvaggi, G., Esquenazi, V., Cantwell, P., Ruiz, P., Miller, J. and
AG Tzakis. Transplantation for the treatment of intra-abdominal fibromatosis.
Transplantation Proceedings. 37(2):1379-80, 2005.
Tzakis, A., Kato, T., Levi, D., DeFaria, W., Selvaggi, G., Weppler, D., Nishida, S.,
Moon, J., Madariaga, J., David, a., Thompson, J., Hernandez, E., Martinez, E.,
Cantwell, P., Augenstein, J., Gyamfi, A., Pretto, E., Gaynor, J., Dowdy, L.,
Tryphonopoulos, P. and P. Ruiz. One hundred cases of multivisceral transplantation.
Annals of Surgery, 242:480-493, 2005.
Cendales, L., Kirk, A., Moresi, J.M., Ruiz, P. and D.E. Kleiner. Composite tissue
allotransplantation: classification of clinical skin acute rejection. Transplantation
80:1676-1680, 2005.
Yu, H.C., Tuteja, S., Moon, J., Kleiner, G., Conanan, L., Gaynor, J., Kato, T., Levi, D.,
Nishida, S., Selvaggi, G., Gandia, C., Weppler, D., Esquenazi, V., Ruiz, P., Miller, J.
and A. Tzakis. Utilization of dried blood spot citrulline level as a noninvasive method
for monitoring allograft function following intestinal transplantion. Transplantation
80:1729-1733, 2005 .
Nishida, S., Gaynor, J., Nakamura, N., Butt, F., Illanes, H., Kadano, J., Neff, G., Levi,
D., Moon, J., Selvaggi, G., Kato, T., Ruiz, Tzakis, A., and J. Madariaga. Refractory
ascites after liver transplantation: an analysis of 1058 liver transplants at a single
center. American Journal of Transplantation 6:140-149, 2006.
Rosado, M., Byrne, G.E., Ding, F., Fields, K., Ruiz, P., Dubovy, S., Walker, G.,
Markoe, A. and I.S. Lossos. Ocular Adnexal Lymphoma: a Clinicopathological Study of
a Large Cohort of Patients With no Evidence for an Association with Chlamydia
psittaci. Blood 107:467-472, 2006.
Rosenfeld, P.J., Murray, T.G., Viciana, A.L., Ruiz, P., Markoe, A. and S.R. Toledano.
Diagnostic flow cytometry of vitreous and bone marrow biopsies in acute lymphoblastic
leukemia. (submitted for publication).
Snyder, J., Gilkeson, G.S., Pisetsky, D.S., Ruiz, P. and M. Kopke Wloch. Influence of
background genes on the expression of pathogenic anti-DNA and glomerulonephritis in
Faslpr mice. (submitted for publication).
Nishida, S., Nakamura, N., Vaidya, A., Levi, D., Kato, T., Nery, J., Madariaga, J.,
Molina, E., Ruiz, P., Gyamfi, A. and A. Tzakis. Effect of routine use of the piggyback
technique compared with the conventional technique in adult orthotopic liver
transplantation: retrospective study of 1067 liver transplants at a single center.
Accepted for publication.
Neff, G.W., Reddy, K.R., Safdar, K., Ruiz, P., Bernstein, J., Tzakis, A.G. and E.R.
Schiff. Fulminant hepatic failure due to ephedra (ma huang) ingestion for weight loss.
Submitted for publication.
Wasserberg, N., Pileggi, A., Salgar, S.K., De Faria, W., Ruiz, P., Ricordi, C., Inverardi,
L. and A.G. Tzakis. Heme oxygenase-1 upregulation protects intestine from
ischemia/reperfusion injury. Submitted for publication.
Kato, T., Salveggi, G., Mittal, N., Nishida, S., Levi, D., Madariaga, J., Thompson, J.,
Ruiz, P. and A. Tzakis. Use of zoom video endoscopy in intestinal graft surveillance.
Submitted for publication.
Neff, G.W., Shire, N., Ruiz, P., O’Brien, C., Garcia, M., Montalbano, M., DelaGarza, J.,
Rudich, S.R. and R. Reddy. The importance of clinical parameters when differentiating
cholestatic hepatitis C virus from allograft rejection. Submitted for publication.
Pappas, P., Tzakis, A., Saudubray, J-M., Gaynor, J., Carreno, M., Huijing, F., Kleiner,
G., Rabier, D., Kato, T., Levi, D., Nishida, S., Gelman, B., Thompson, J., Mittal, N. and
P. Ruiz. Trends in serum citrulline and acute rejection among recipients of small bowel
transplant. Submitted for publication.
Sekine, H., Graham, K.L., Zhao, S., Elliot, M.K., Ruiz, P., Morel, L., Holers, M., Utz,
P.J. and G. Gilkeson. Critical role for MHC-linked genes in immunoglobulin isotype and
autoantigen selection in a murine model of SLE. Submitted for publication.
Martinez, E., Ruiz, P., Tzakis, A. Reversible sclerosing cholangitis due to
cryptosporidiosis in a liver transplant patient. Submitted for publication.
Davis, J., Miller, D.M., and P. Ruiz. Diagnostic testing of vitrectomy specimens.
Accepted for publication, American Journal of Opthalmology.
Brickey, W.J., Griffiths, R., Felix, N., Ruiz, P., Coffman, T.M. and J.P. Ting. An
alternate and vigorous CIITA-independent MHCII induction pathway in kidney allograft
rejection. Submitted for publication.
Tryphonopoulos, P., Weppler, D., Garcia-Morales, R., Kato, T., Madariaga, J.R., Levi,
D., Nishida, S., Moon, J., Selvaggi, G., Regev, A., Nery, C., Bejarano, P., Khaled, A.,
Esquenazi, V., Miller, J., Ruiz, P., Ricordi, C. and A. Tzakis. Perioperative donor bone
marrow infusions and weaning of immunosuppression in liver allograft recipients.
Submitted for publication.
Kato, T., Gaynor, J.J., Nishida, S., Mittal, N., Selvaggi, G., Kleiner, G., O’Brien, C.,
Thompson, J., Ruiz, P. And A. Tzakis. Zoom endoscopic monitoring of small bowel
allograft rejection. Submitted for publication.
Liu, J., Karypis, G., Hippen, K., Vegoe, A., Ruiz, P., Gilkeson, G. and T. Behrens. A
genomic view of systemic autoimmunity in MRL lpr/lpr mice reveals a central role for
the interferon pathway. Submitted for publication.
Gaynor, J.J., Kato, T., Selvaggi, G., Moon, J.I., Levi, D., Nishida, S., Weppler, D., Ruiz,
P. and A. Tzakis. The importance of analyzing graft and patient survival by cause of
failure in pediatric small intestine transplantation. Submitted for publication.
Crowley, S., Vasievich, M., Ruiz, P., Pazmino, K., Tran, T., Pisetsky, D., Foster, M.
and T.M. Coffman. Anti-inflammatory effects of AT1 receptors in MRL/lpr mice.
Submitted for publication.
Banff Working Group. Liver Biopsy Interpretation for Causes of Late Liver Allograft
Dysfunction. Submitted for publication.
Sarkar, S., Selvaggi, G., Mittal, N., Acar, B.C., Weppler, D., Kato, T., Tzakis, A. and P.
Ruiz. Gastrointestinal tract ulcers in pediatric intestinal transplantation patients:
etiology and management. Accepted for publication.
Garcia, M., Bejarano, P.A., Rodriguez, M., Ruiz, P. and A.G. Tzakis. Idiopathic lafora
body like inclusions in transplanted patients. The differential diagnosis of ground-glass
hepatocytes. Submitted for publication.
Kato, T., Tzakis, A.G., Selvaggi, G., Gaynor, J., David, A., Bussotti, A., Moon, J.,
Ueno, O., DeFaria, W., Santiago, S., Levi, D., Nishida, S., Gonzalez, M., McLaughlin,
G., Hernandez, E., Thompson, J., Cantwell, P., Halliday, N.,MD; Livingstone, A., and
P. Ruiz. Intestinal transplantation in children. Submitted for publication.
Ciancio, G., Burke, G.W., Gaynor, J., Ruiz, P., Roth, D., Kupin, W., Rosen, A. and J.
Miller. A randomized long-term trial of tacrolimus/sirolimus versus
tacrolimus/mycophenolate versus cyclosporine (neoral®)/sirolimus in renal
transplantation: three year analysis. Submitted for publication.
Crowley, S., Gurley, S., Herrera, M., Ruiz, P., Griffiths, R., Kumar, A., Kim, H-S.,
Smithies, O., Le, T. and T.M.Coffman. Hypertension and Cardiac Hypertrophy Are
Mediated by Angiotensin Receptors in the Kidney. Submitted for publication.
Cheng, O., Ruiz, P., Zhang, X., Yeun, P., Grotendorst, G. And R.B. Mannon.
Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CTGF) is associated with chronic allograft
nephropathy. Submitted for publication.