Samstein, Benjamin

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Another Tool in the Quest for the Perfect Living Liver Donor Operation. Transplantation. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Advances and innovations in living donor liver transplant techniques, matching and surgical training: Meeting report from the living donor liver transplant consensus conference. Clinical transplantation. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Vibration Controlled Transient Elastography to Evaluate Steatosis in Candidate Living Donors for Liver Transplantation. Transplantation. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
CAQ Corner: Evaluation and management of the living donor recipient. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Practice patterns of the medical evaluation of living liver donors in the United States. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
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Safety and Efficacy of Robotic vs Open Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. JAMA surgery. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
[Not Available]. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Ten-Year Outcomes of Liver Transplant and Downstaging for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. JAMA surgery. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 6
Ex Vivo Liver Resection and Autotransplantation: Should It be Used More Frequently?. Annals of surgery. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Black patients and women have reduced access to liver transplantation for alcohol-associated liver disease. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Deceased donor liver transplantation in patients on direct oral anticoagulants at the time of transplant surgery: A case series. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Sociodemographic characteristics of living liver donors: Few changes over 20 years. Clinical transplantation. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Assessing motivations for non-living and living organ donation among individuals with and without a history of blood donation. Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England). 2022 Academic Article GET IT
The use of nondirected donor organs in living donor liver transplantation: Perspectives and guidance. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2022 Review GET IT
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Practices and Perceptions of Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Nondirected Donation, and Liver Paired Exchange: A National Survey. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 3
The Delicate Balance Between Donors and Recipients. Transplantation. 2021 Comment GET IT
Black Patients Have Unequal Access to Listing for Liver Transplantation in the United States. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 25
Can Living Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States Reach Its Potential?. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2021 Review GET IT
Times cited: 7
Dynamic α-Fetoprotein Response and Outcomes After Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. JAMA surgery. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 18
Rare Histological Variants of Liver Cancer and Their Management: A Single-Institution Experience. 2021 GET IT
SARS-CoV-2 infection increases tacrolimus concentrations in solid-organ transplant recipients. Clinical transplantation. 2021 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 12
Expert Consensus Guidelines on Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy for Living Donor Liver Transplantation From Innovation to Implementation: A Joint Initiative From the International Laparoscopic Liver Society (ILLS) and the Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA). Annals of surgery. 2021 Conference Paper GET IT
Times cited: 24
Ex Vivo Resection and Autotransplantation for Conventionally Unresectable Tumors - An 11-year Single Center Experience. Annals of surgery. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 14
Trinational Study Exploring the Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Organ Donation and Liver Transplantation at National and Unit Levels. Transplantation. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Living Donor Liver Transplant: Send in the Robots. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2020 Editorial Article GET IT
Times cited: 2
Minimally invasive donor hepatectomy, systemic review. International journal of surgery (London, England). 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
Hidden Carcinoma: Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Lymphoepithelioma-Like Cholangiocarcinoma. 2020 GET IT
Times cited: 4
COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: Initial report from the US epicenter. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 568
Whose Liver Is It Anyway? Two Centers Participating in One Living Donor Transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2019 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 4
Agree on much, except it is time for change. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Portal Cavernoma Cholangiopathy: Histologic Features and Differential Diagnosis. American journal of clinical pathology. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
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Is it Time to Abandon the Milan Criteria?: Results of a Bicoastal US Collaboration to Redefine Hepatocellular Carcinoma Liver Transplantation Selection Policies. Annals of surgery. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 66
Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomies: Ready for Widespread Adoption?. Annals of surgery. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
Durable Clinical and Immunologic Advantage of Living Donor Liver Transplantation in Children. Transplantation. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
Liver paired exchange: Can the liver emulate the kidney?. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 19
A liver for a kidney: Ethics of trans-organ paired exchange. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 9
Growth of liver allografts over time in pediatric transplant recipients. Pediatric transplantation. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Biliary reconstructive techniques and associated anatomic variants in adult living donor liver transplantations: The adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study experience. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 32
No country for old livers? Examining and optimizing the utilization of elderly liver grafts. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 38
Expanding the Margins: High Volume Utilization of Marginal Liver Grafts Among >2000 Liver Transplants at a Single Institution. Annals of surgery. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 40
Simultaneous Resection for Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastasis: the New Standard of Care?. Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 45
Recurrence After Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A New MORAL to the Story. Annals of surgery. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 176
Endoscopic management of recurrent pyogenic cholangitis. 2017 GET IT
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Additive value of non-contrast MRA in the preoperative evaluation of potential liver donors. Clinical imaging. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided transhepatic biliary drainage in altered anatomy: a two-step approach. 2016 GET IT
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Leaning to the Left: Increasing the Donor Pool by Using the Left Lobe, Outcomes of the Largest Single-center North American Experience of Left Lobe Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Annals of surgery. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
Ex vivo pancreaticoduodenectomy and liver autotransplantation for pancreatic head tumor with extensive involvement of the hepatoduodenal ligament. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2015 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 8
One Size Does Not Fit All--Regional Variation in the Impact of the Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 33
Laparoscopic Living Donor Left Lateral Sectionectomy: A New Standard Practice for Donor Hepatectomy. Annals of surgery. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 88
Complications and Their Resolution in Recipients of Deceased and Living Donor Liver Transplants: Findings From the A2ALL Cohort Study. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 44
Defining long-term outcomes with living donor liver transplantation in North America. Annals of surgery. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 110
Urine Metabolite Profiles Predictive of Human Kidney Allograft Status. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 49
Reply: To PMID 24954365. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2015 Letter GET IT
Fully laparoscopic left-sided donor hepatectomy is safe and associated with shorter hospital stay and earlier return to work: A comparative study. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 66
Reply: To PMID 24954365. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2015 Letter GET IT
Phase I trial of sorafenib following liver transplantation in patients with high-risk hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver cancer. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Changes in liver and spleen volumes after living liver donation: a report from the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL). Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 20
Delayed gastric emptying after living donor hepatectomy for liver transplantation. Case reports in transplantation. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 33
Hypothermic machine preservation facilitates successful transplantation of "orphan" extended criteria donor livers. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 249
Serum adiponectin is associated with worsened overall survival in a prospective cohort of hepatocellular carcinoma patients. Oncology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 34
Standing the test of time: outcomes of a decade of prioritizing patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, results of the UNOS natural geographic experiment. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 92
Early Graft Dysfunction in Living Donor Liver Transplantation and the Small for Size Syndrome. Current transplantation reports. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 14
Kidneys at higher risk of discard: expanding the role of dual kidney transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 98
Functional distal splenorenal shunt and splenic artery ligation as portal flow modulation in left lobe living donor transplantation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2014 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 9
Urinary-cell mRNA profile and acute cellular rejection in kidney allografts. The Journal of urology. 2013 Comment GET IT
Times cited: 4
Totally laparoscopic full left hepatectomy for living donor liver transplantation in adolescents and adults. 2013 GET IT
Times cited: 79
Urinary-cell mRNA profile and acute cellular rejection in kidney allografts. The New England journal of medicine. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 251
Recombinant activated factor VII in patients with acute liver failure with UNOS Status 1A: a single tertiary academic centre experience. Vox sanguinis. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 5
Morphine three-dimensional T1 gadoxetate MR cholangiography of potential living related liver donors. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
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A 59-year-old woman who is awake yet unresponsive and stuporous after liver transplantation. 2013 GET IT
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Complex hepatectomy under total vascular exclusion of the liver: impact of ischemic preconditioning on clinical outcomes. World journal of surgery. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 12
Immunoglobulin g4-associated cholangitis can mimic cholangiocarcinoma on radiologic and cholangioscopic findings. Gastroenterology & hepatology. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Development, management, and resolution of biliary complications after living and deceased donor liver transplantation: a report from the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study consortium. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 84
Hypothermic machine preservation reduces molecular markers of ischemia/reperfusion injury in human liver transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 120
Complications of living donor hepatic lobectomy--a comprehensive report. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 250
The deceased organ donor with an "open abdomen": proceed with caution. 2012 GET IT
Times cited: 23
Molecular expression of acute phase mediators is attenuated by machine preservation in human liver transplantation: preliminary analysis of effluent, serum, and liver biopsies. Surgery. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 33
The Ngal reporter mouse detects the response of the kidney to injury in real time. Nature medicine. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 341
Validation of a current definition of early allograft dysfunction in liver transplant recipients and analysis of risk factors. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Digital imaging of extended criteria donor livers to facilitate placement and utilization. 2010 GET IT
Times cited: 6
Hypothermic machine preservation attenuates ischemia/reperfusion markers after liver transplantation: preliminary results. The Journal of surgical research. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 77
Hypothermic machine preservation in human liver transplantation: the first clinical series. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 418
Polycystic liver disease treated with therapeutic excision. 2009 GET IT
'When good kidneys pump badly': outcomes of deceased donor renal allografts with poor pulsatile perfusion characteristics. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation. 2009 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 28
Primary follicular lymphoma of the extrahepatic bile duct mimicking a hilar cholangiocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature. 2009 GET IT
Times cited: 12
Transplantation-mediated alloimmune thrombocytopenia: Guidelines for utilization of thrombocytopenic donors. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2008 Review GET IT
Times cited: 21
Survival outcomes following liver transplantation (SOFT) score: a novel method to predict patient survival following liver transplantation. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 325
Utility of liver allograft biopsy obtained at procurement. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 43
Discovery of diffuse biliary microhamartomas during liver procurement. 2007 GET IT
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Choosing between immunity and tolerance after transplantation. Cellular immunology. 2007 Review GET IT
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Microscopic intrarenal particles after pulsatile machine preservation do not adversely affect outcomes after renal transplantation. Transplantation proceedings. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 9
Extended-donor criteria liver allografts. Seminars in liver disease. 2006 Review GET IT
Times cited: 82
Medical student entry into general surgery increases with early exposure to surgery and to surgeons. Current surgery. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 30
New insight into the pathogenesis of sepsis and the sepsis syndrome. Surgery. 2005 Review GET IT
Times cited: 30
A critical evaluation of hepatic resection in cirrhosis: optimizing patient selection and outcomes. World journal of surgery. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Work Hours Assessment and Monitoring Initiative (WHAMI) under resident direction: a strategy for working within limitations. Current surgery. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
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Toll-like receptor-4 and allograft responses. Transplantation. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 35
Looking forward to the unknown. Current surgery. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Xenotransplantation and tolerance. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2001 Review GET IT
Times cited: 17
Liver transplants from living related donors. Annual review of medicine. 2001 Review GET IT
Times cited: 39
Physiologic and immunologic hurdles to xenotransplantation. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 2001 Review GET IT
Times cited: 89
IL-6 stimulation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-1 production. Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 1996 Academic Article GET IT
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A Liver for a Kidney: Exploring the Feasibility and Ethics of Trans-organ Exchanges awarded by American Society of Transplatation Principal Investigator Subaward 2022 - 2023

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Background

education and training

M.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, School of Medicine 1997
A.B., Cornell University 1992

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Benjamin Samstein

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samstei@med.cornell.edu

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Clinical Profile

VIVO Weill Cornell Medical College

Benjamin Samstein Professor of Surgery

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Background

education and training

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