Abstracts 2014

O24 – Invariant Natural Killer T-cells modulate the Gamma-Delta-Lymphocyte response to polymicrobial sepsis

Presentation Number: O24
Author(s):

Whitney Young, John Young, Mai Tran, Shiang Chung, William Cioffi, Alfred Ayala, Daithi Heffernan, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital

Basic, Eligible for the Resident Award

O23 – Association of Inflammasomes and Caspase-1 Mediated Cardiac Dysfunction with Sepsis

Presentation Number: O23
Author(s):

Deborah Carlson, Steven Wolf, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Clinical

O22 – Oncostatin M modulates immune cell recruitment and bacterial translocation in a murine model of sepsis

Presentation Number: O22
Author(s):

Pang Young, Saad Salim, Catherine Compston, Thomas Mueller, Rachel Khadaroo, University of Alberta

Clinical; Eligible for the Resident Award

O21 – Complex pelvic surgery and additional organ resection independently increase the risk of wound infection after elective colorectal surgery: an ACS-NSQIP analysis

Presentation Number: O21
Author(s):

Mary Kwaan, Genevieve Melton, Robert Madoff, Jeffrey Chipman, University of Minnesota

Basic; Eligible for the New Member Award

O20 – Hypoalbuminemia in Obese Surgical Patients is Disproportionately Associated With Infectious Complications

Presentation Number: O20
Author(s):

Zachary Dietch, Christopher Guidry, Timothy McMurry, Rhett Willis, Stephen Davies, Robert Sawyer, University of Virginia

Clinical; Eligible for the Resident Award

O19 – Vancomycin-Associated Nephrotoxicity; the Obesity Factor

Presentation Number: O19
Author(s):

Stephen Davies, Christopher Guidry, Zachary Dietch, Rhett Willis, Sara Hennessy, Robert Sawyer, University of Virginia (UVa)

Basic; Eligible for the New Member Award and Resident Award

O18 – Microbial Analysis to Predict Anastomotic Leak in Humans

Presentation Number: O18
Author(s):

Preston Luong, Benjamin Shogan, Natalia Belogortseva, Simon Lax, Jack Gilbert, Olga Zaborina, John Alverdy, University of Chicago

Clinical; Eligible for the New Member Award

O17 – A randomized, prospective study of surgical site infections following vascular reconstructive surgery: untreated vs. silver-impregnated dressings

Presentation Number: O17
Author(s):

Amani Politano, Margaret Tracci, David Strider, Robert Sawyer, John Kern, Gilbert Upchurch, Kenneth Cherry, University of Virginia

Basic; Eligible for the Resident Award

O16 – Can nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening be used to avoid empiric vancomycin use in intra-abdominal infection?

Presentation Number: O16
Author(s):

Puja Shah, Sara Hennessy, Christopher Guidry, Robert Sawyer, Stephen Davies, Tjasa Hranjec, University of Virginia

Clinical; Eligible for the Resident Award

O15 – Mitigation of Splenocyte Apoptosis by Th2-Polarized Invariant Natural Killer T Cells Reduces Disease Severity in Intra-abdominal Sepsis

Presentation Number: O15
Author(s):

Ram Anantha, Delfina Mazzuca, Stacey Xu, Brad Shrum, Tina Mele, Douglas Fraser, Claudio Martin, S.M. Mansour Haeryfar, John McCormick, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University

Basic; Eligible for the Resident Award