Brian F Gilmore

Journal Article J Am Coll Surg · January 1, 2026 BACKGROUND: Gender gaps in surgery exist across multiple domains. We sought to analyze the progress made during the last 20 years by comparing the representation of women among moderators, oral presentations, and research awards at the American College of ... Full text Link to item Cite

First-in-Human Explantation for Infection of the Novel Thoracic Branched Endograft

Journal Article Jacc Case Reports · October 29, 2025 Background: The Gore TAG thoracic branched endoprosthesis (W.L. Gore & Associates) is the only branched thoracic stent graft available in the U.S. First-in-Human/Early Reports Summary: A 67-year-old man underwent thoracic branched endograft (TBE) placement ... Full text Cite

Implementation of an acute care vascular surgery "Surgeon of the Week" model improves efficiency of inpatient care delivery.

Journal Article J Vasc Surg · October 2025 OBJECTIVE: Acute care vascular surgery (ACVS) comprises a significant proportion of modern vascular surgery practice. Given the burden of ACVS at our institution, we have transitioned from a traditional "on call" model to a "Surgeon of the Week" (SOW) mode ... Full text Link to item Cite

Understanding the Time Investment of Program Directors and Core Faculty in Surgical Specialties.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · September 2025 BACKGROUND: Surgical training has evolved considerably over the past decade. Both program directors (PDs) and surgical faculty have had to adapt to novel training paradigms and innovations in surgical techniques, while balancing resident education with adm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting the future caretakers of traumatic vascular injury management via operative exposure among surgical trainees.

Journal Article J Vasc Surg · January 2025 BACKGROUND: The management of vascular trauma requires specialized training and expertise. Although traumatic vascular injury is treated currently by both vascular and trauma surgeons in modern practice, it remains unclear who will inherit the role of mana ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting the future caretakers of traumatic vascular injury management via operative exposure among surgical trainees

Journal Article European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery · January 2025 Full text Cite

The current status of aortic training among vascular surgery trainees in the United States

Journal Article Jvs Vascular Insights · January 1, 2025 Background: The recent advent of endovascular aneurysm repair has shifted the landscape of abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment from an open to a primarily endovascular approach. Previous studies have reported a decline in open abdominal aortic aneurysm rep ... Full text Cite

Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations of Medical Students on Surgical Subinternships: A Modified Delphi Consensus Study.

Journal Article Acad Med · August 1, 2024 PURPOSE: Surgical subinternships are important rotations for students preparing for a career in general surgery; however, these rotations often vary by institution and service. This modified Delphi study was conducted to reach a consensus set of roles, res ... Full text Link to item Cite

Temporal Trends and Outcomes of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Care in the United States.

Journal Article Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes · June 2024 BACKGROUND: Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) has had a dynamic impact on abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) care, often supplanting open AAA repair (OAR). Accordingly, US AAA management is often highlighted by disparities in patient selection and gu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Muscle progenitor cells are required for skeletal muscle regeneration and prevention of adipogenesis after limb ischemia.

Journal Article Front Cardiovasc Med · 2023 Skeletal muscle injury in peripheral artery disease (PAD) has been attributed to vascular insufficiency, however evidence has demonstrated that muscle cell responses play a role in determining outcomes in limb ischemia. Here, we demonstrate that genetic ab ... Full text Link to item Cite

Retrograde Transamputation Revascularization: A Case Report.

Journal Article Ann Vasc Surg · July 2021 Below-knee amputation remains the most common level of amputation in patients with lower extremity gangrene and critical limb ischemia. Failure to heal, requiring additional operative debridement or conversion to an above-knee amputation remains a signific ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gonadal vein transposition is a safe and effective treatment of nutcracker syndrome.

Journal Article J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord · May 2021 BACKGROUND: Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) is a pelvic venous disorder that results from outflow obstruction of the left renal vein, most often due to a decreased aortomesenteric angle, leading to gonadal vein reflux, pain, and varices. Although a number of ope ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evolution of minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer: update from the national cancer database.

Journal Article Surg Endosc · January 2021 BACKGROUND: As the use of minimally invasive techniques in colorectal surgery has become increasingly prevalent, concerns remain about the oncologic effectiveness and long-term outcomes of minimally invasive low anterior resection (MI-LAR) for the treatmen ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Novel Model for a Student-Led Surgical Anatomy Seminar.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · 2021 OBJECTIVE: We describe a novel educational model for a student-led anatomy interest group that utilizes an efficient method of knowledge sharing among peers in order to supplement the standard gross anatomy curriculum and expose medical students to advance ... Full text Link to item Cite

Safety and Feasibility of Simultaneous Transcarotid Revascularization With Flow Reversal and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Concomitant Carotid Artery Stenosis and Coronary Artery Disease.

Journal Article Vasc Endovascular Surg · July 2020 OBJECTIVE: The management of patients with combined severe carotid artery and coronary artery disease (CAD) is controversial. Transcarotid stenting with flow reversal (TCAR) is a novel hybrid technique for carotid revascularization. We sought to investigat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medical Student Involvement and Learning Objectives in Morbidity and Mortality Conferences: A National Survey of the Association for Surgical Education's Committee of Clerkship Directors.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · 2020 BACKGROUND: Despite implementation of Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Conference across surgical graduate medical education, sparse literature exists regarding the attendance and involvement of medical students. We sought to examine student involvement and l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Elderly Donors in Transplantation

Chapter · January 1, 2020 The disparity between supply and demand of donor organs remains a major limitation in the field of transplantation. Increased utilization of organs from older donors has significant potential to expand the pool of donor organs; however, utilization of such ... Full text Cite

New innovations in anal fistula surgery

Journal Article Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery · December 1, 2019 The management of anal fistula remains a source of frustration for patients and surgeons alike. The continued challenge posed by this condition has led to considerable innovation and investigation with the ongoing refinement of surgical techniques, the dev ... Full text Cite

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by transanal local excision for T2 rectal cancer confers equivalent survival benefit as traditional transabdominal resection.

Journal Article Surgery · June 2019 BACKGROUND: Despite clinical guidelines classifying T2 rectal cancer as a contraindication for transanal local excision attributable to unacceptably high rates of local recurrence, it is a practice that persists clinically. Recent clinical trials have sugg ... Full text Link to item Cite

Outcomes of laparoscopic resection of Meckel's diverticulum are equivalent to open laparotomy.

Journal Article J Pediatr Surg · March 2019 PURPOSE: Meckel's diverticulum (MD) is a common congenital anomaly caused by failure of involution of the omphalomesenteric duct. Enthusiasm for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in children has burgeoned as technologies have advanced, but the outcomes of l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improved contemporary outcomes of liver transplantation for pediatric hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Journal Article Pediatr Transplant · December 2018 PURPOSE: Improvement in outcomes of LT for pediatric HB and HCC has been reported in small series. We analyzed national outcomes and changes in donor, recipient, and perioperative factors over time that may contribute to survival differences. METHODS: The ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Omni: A Novel, Multimodality, and Longitudinal Surgical Skills Assessment.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · November 2018 OBJECTIVE: The breadth of technical skills included in general surgery training continues to expand. The current competency-based training model requires assessment tools to measure acquisition, learning, and mastery of technical skill longitudinally in a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Local excision results in comparable survival to radical resection for early-stage rectal carcinoid.

Journal Article J Surg Res · October 2018 BACKGROUND: Controversy exists regarding current National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, which recommend local excision for rectal carcinoids ≤2 cm and radical resection for tumors >2 cm. Given the limited data examining optimal surgical approach ... Full text Link to item Cite

Jejunal arterial access for retrograde mesenteric stenting.

Journal Article J Vasc Surg · May 2018 Endovascular approaches have replaced open surgical revascularization in most patients with mesenteric ischemia; however, flush ostial occlusions may not be amenable to traditional antegrade access. Retrograde mesenteric stenting has been previously descri ... Full text Link to item Cite

Low mortality rates after endovascular aortic repair expand use to high-risk patients.

Journal Article J Vasc Surg · February 2018 OBJECTIVE: The 2010 endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) trial 2 (EVAR 2) reported that patients with comorbidity profiles rendering them unfit for open aneurysm repair who underwent EVAR did not experience a survival advantage compared with those who did n ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robot-assisted repair of diaphragmatic hernias following ventricular assist device implantation.

Journal Article J Surg Case Rep · February 2018 Use of ventricular assist devices (VADs) is increasingly common, as is the need for surgeons to be familiar with the management of common complications in this population. Nonetheless, repair of diaphragmatic hernias which commonly develop following VAD im ... Full text Link to item Cite

Instituting a Surgical Skills Competition Increases Technical Performance of Surgical Clerkship Students Over Time.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · 2018 INTRODUCTION: Surgical skills training varies greatly between institutions and is often left to students to approach independently. Although many studies have examined single interventions of skills training, no data currently exists about the implementati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Renal medullary carcinoma: A national analysis of 159 patients.

Journal Article Pediatr Blood Cancer · November 2017 BACKGROUND: Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is an aggressive malignancy seen predominantly in young males with sickle cell trait. RMC is poorly understood, with fewer than 220 cases described in the medical literature to date. We used a large national regi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Children Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation are at Increased Risk of Onychocryptosis Requiring Surgical Management.

Journal Article J Pediatr Hematol Oncol · October 2017 PURPOSE: At our institution, a high proportion of children with onychocryptosis (ingrown toenail) requiring surgical intervention were noted to have a history of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We analyzed the characteristics of patients wh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adjuvant Chemotherapy After Preoperative Chemoradiation Improves Survival in Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer.

Journal Article Dis Colon Rectum · October 2017 BACKGROUND: Practice guidelines differ in their support of adjuvant chemotherapy use in patients who received preoperative chemoradiation for rectal cancer. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of adjuvant chemotherapy among pati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Management of a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma overlying an AV fistula.

Journal Article BMJ Case Rep · May 6, 2017 Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) currently affects over 700 000 patients per year in the USA alone, and its incidence continues to rise in recent years. A known risk factor for cSCC is chronic inflammation; a cSCC that develops at a site of chronic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Acuity Shorthand System: a standardized classification tool to facilitate handoffs.

Journal Article J Surg Res · May 1, 2017 BACKGROUND: The handoff of medical information from one provider to another can be inefficient and error prone, potentially undermining patient safety. Although several tools for structuring handoffs exist, none provide a brief, standardized framework for ... Full text Link to item Cite

How Can We Effectively Address the Medical and Psychological Concerns of Survivors of Pelvic Malignancies?

Journal Article Oncology (Williston Park) · April 15, 2017 Sexual and urinary morbidities resulting from treatment of pelvic malignancies are common. These treatment sequelae are significantly bothersome to patients and challenging to address. Awareness of these complications is critical in order to properly couns ... Link to item Cite

Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Colectomy Improves Perioperative Outcomes Without Increasing Operative Time Compared to the Open Approach: a National Analysis of 8791 Patients.

Journal Article J Gastrointest Surg · April 2017 INTRODUCTION: Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) is often used in procedures too complex for completely minimally invasive approaches. However, there are concerns for whether this hybrid approach abrogates perioperative benefits of the completely mi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Onychocryptosis in the Pediatric Patient.

Journal Article Clin Pediatr (Phila) · February 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Molecular alterations in skeletal muscle in rheumatoid arthritis are related to disease activity, physical inactivity, and disability.

Journal Article Arthritis Res Ther · January 23, 2017 BACKGROUND: To identify molecular alterations in skeletal muscle in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that may contribute to ongoing disability in RA. METHODS: Persons with seropositive or erosive RA (n = 51) and control subjects matched for age, gender, race, bod ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Versus Standard Laparoscopic Colectomy: Are Outcomes and Operative Time Different?

Journal Article J Gastrointest Surg · November 2016 BACKGROUND: HAL colectomy is a technique perceived to provide the benefits of laparoscopic surgery while improving tactile feedback and operative time. Published data are largely limited to small, single-institution studies. METHODS: The 2012-2013 National ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robotic-Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Colectomy Results in Increased Operative Time Without Improved Perioperative Outcomes.

Journal Article J Gastrointest Surg · August 2016 BACKGROUND: Interest in robotic technology is burgeoning within the field of colorectal surgery. However, benefits of robotic-assisted colectomy (RAC) compared with laparoscopic colectomy (LC) remain ambiguous. STUDY DESIGN: Patients who underwent minimall ... Full text Link to item Cite

Urinary Dysfunction in the Rectal Cancer Survivor

Journal Article Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports · June 1, 2016 Improvements in diagnosis and treatment have resulted in significant improvement in survival rates for rectal cancer. This has led to increasing focus on post-treatment quality of life. One common sequela of treatment for rectal cancer is urinary dysfuncti ... Full text Cite

Paradoxical embolus following percutaneous thrombectomy of hemodialysis reliable outflow graft.

Journal Article J Vasc Access · 2015 Percutaneous interventions to maintain or re-establish patent vascular access are common and often necessary for patients on hemodialysis. This case illustrates an extremely rare but potentially devastating complication of one of these procedures: cerebrov ... Full text Link to item Cite