Scholars@Duke
Abigail Benkert

Abigail Benkert

House Staff
Surgery

Selected Publications

Early U.S. Heart Transplant Experience With Normothermic Regional Perfusion Following Donation After Circulatory Death.

Journal Article JACC Heart Fail · December 2024 BACKGROUND: Heart transplantation following donation after circulatory death (DCD HT) has short-term survival outcomes comparable to donation after brain death and has led to a significant increase in transplantation volume. The U.S. experience with the no ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of increased postoperative length of stay after complete atrioventricular canal repair.

Journal Article Cardiol Young · September 2023 BACKGROUND: The optimal timing of surgical repair for infants with complete atrioventricular canal defect remains controversial, as there are risks to both early and late repair. We address this debate by investigating the association of various risk facto ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sustained Total All-Region Perfusion During the Norwood Operation and Postoperative Recovery.

Journal Article Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · 2023 We developed a technique for the Norwood operation utilizing continuous perfusion of the head, heart, and lower body at mild hypothermia named Sustained Total All-Region (STAR) perfusion. We hypothesized that STAR perfusion would be associated with shorter ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cardiovascular mechanism of donor brain death and heart recipient survival.

Journal Article J Card Surg · December 2022 BACKGROUND: Heart donation after donor brain death from cardiac arrest despite successful resuscitation may be associated with worse recipient outcomes due to potential graft ischemia or underlying rhythmic/structural defects. However, selected grafts from ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integrated cardiothoracic surgery: Navigating interviews and the match.

Journal Article The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · May 2021 Full text Cite

Initial Medical Management of Acute Aortic Syndromes

Chapter · January 1, 2021 Acute aortic syndromes are part of a wide spectrum of arterial and aortic diseases. This life-threatening group of disorders requires rapid diagnosis and treatment to reduce the associated high mortality and morbidity. Regardless of whether definitive surg ... Full text Cite

Living related versus deceased donor liver transplantation for maple syrup urine disease.

Journal Article Molecular genetics and metabolism · March 2016 Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an inherited disorder of branched chain ketoacid (BCKA) oxidation associated with episodic and chronic brain disease. Transplantation of liver from an unrelated deceased donor restores 9-13% whole-body BCKA oxidation cap ... Full text Cite

Severe Salt-Losing 3β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Deficiency: Treatment and Outcomes of HSD3B2 c.35G>A Homozygotes.

Journal Article The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · August 2015 Context3-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD3B2) deficiency accounts for less than 5% of congenital adrenal hyperplasia worldwide, but is relatively common among the Old Order Amish of North America due to a HSD3B2 c.35G>A founder mutation.Obj ... Full text Cite

CODAS syndrome is associated with mutations of LONP1, encoding mitochondrial AAA+ Lon protease.

Journal Article American journal of human genetics · January 2015 CODAS syndrome is a multi-system developmental disorder characterized by cerebral, ocular, dental, auricular, and skeletal anomalies. Using whole-exome and Sanger sequencing, we identified four LONP1 mutations inherited as homozygous or compound-heterozygo ... Full text Cite

A population-based study of KCNH7 p.Arg394His and bipolar spectrum disorder.

Journal Article Human molecular genetics · December 2014 We conducted blinded psychiatric assessments of 26 Amish subjects (52 ± 11 years) from four families with prevalent bipolar spectrum disorder, identified 10 potentially pathogenic alleles by exome sequencing, tested association of these alleles with clinic ... Full text Cite