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Ronald W. Busuttil is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in Surgery, Hepatology, Epidemiology, Transplantation, and Oncology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to organ transplantation and liver diseases. Key areas of study include:

  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies

Ronald W. Busuttil has published extensively, with recent papers in various high-impact journals. Some notable publications include:

  • Purification of HCC-specific extracellular vesicles on nanosubstrates for early HCC detection by digital scoring (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Ischemia-reperfusion injury and its relationship with early allograft dysfunction in liver transplant patients (2020, American Journal of Transplantation)
  • Ten-Year Outcomes of Liver Transplant and Downstaging for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (2022, JAMA Surgery)
  • Liver Transplantation Outcomes in a U.S. Multicenter Cohort of 789 Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting Beyond Milan Criteria (2020, Hepatology)
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Circulating Tumor Cells Expressing PD-L1 Are Prognostic and Potentially Associated With Response to Checkpoint Inhibitors (2020, Hepatology Communications)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Fady M. Kaldas
  • Vatche G. Agopian
  • Douglas G. Farmer
  • Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski
  • Takahiro Ito

Ronald W. Busuttil's research is regularly published in journals such as:

  • Liver Transplantation
  • Hepatology
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Clinical Transplantation
  • Hepatology Communications

The overall focus on transplantation techniques, particularly liver-related procedures and outcomes, along with hepatocellular carcinoma and related cancer studies, characterizes their body of work.

Best Publications

  • The international position on laparoscopic liver surgery: The Louisville Statement, 2008.

    Joseph F. Buell;Daniel Cherqui;David A. Geller;Nicholas O'Rourke

  • Efficacy and Safety of Monoclonal Antibody to Human Tumor Necrosis Factor α in Patients With Sepsis Syndrome: A Randomized, Controlled, Double-blind, Multicenter Clinical Trial

    E Abraham;R Wunderink;H Silverman;T M Perl

  • Surgical anatomy of the hepatic arteries in 1000 cases.

    Jonathan R. Hiatt;Joubin Gabbay;Ronald W. Busuttil

  • Ischaemia-reperfusion injury in liver transplantation--from bench to bedside.

    Yuan Zhai;Henrik Petrowsky;Johnny C. Hong;Ronald W. Busuttil

  • Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter, Controlled Trial of a Bioartificial Liver in Treating Acute Liver Failure

    Achilles A. Demetriou;Robert S. Brown;Ronald W. Busuttil;Jeffrey Fair

  • The utility of marginal donors in liver transplantation.

    Ronald W. Busuttil;Koichi Tanaka

  • Upregulation of heme oxygenase-1 protects genetically fat Zucker rat livers from ischemia/reperfusion injury.

    Farin Amersi;Roland Buelow;Hirohisa Kato;Bibo Ke

  • Bacteriologic and surgical determinants of survival in patients with mycotic aneurysms

    Spencer L. Brown;Ronald W. Busuttil;J.Dennis Baker;Herbert I. Machleder

  • Prophylaxis against hepatitis B recurrence following liver transplantation using combination lamivudine and hepatitis B immune globulin.

    Jay S. Markowitz;Paul Martin;Andrew J. Conrad;James F. Markmann

  • Hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury—a fresh look

    Constantino Fondevila;Ronald W Busuttil;Jerzy W Kupiec-Weglinski

  • Influence of large peritumoral vessels on outcome of radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors.

    David S.K. Lu;Steven S. Raman;Piyaporn Limanond;Donya Aziz

  • Liver ischemia and reperfusion injury: new insights into mechanisms of innate-adaptive immune-mediated tissue inflammation.

    Yuan Zhai;Ronald W. Busuttil;Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski

  • Cutting Edge: TLR4 Activation Mediates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Inflammatory Response via IFN Regulatory Factor 3-Dependent MyD88-Independent Pathway

    Yuan Zhai;Xiu Da Shen;Ryan O'Connell;Feng Gao

  • Liver transplantation criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma should be expanded: a 22-year experience with 467 patients at UCLA.

    John P. Duffy;Andrew Vardanian;Elizabeth Benjamin;Melissa Watson

  • Vascular complications of orthotopic liver transplantation: experience in more than 4,200 patients.

    John P. Duffy;Johnny C. Hong;Douglas G. Farmer;Rafik M. Ghobrial

  • Split liver transplantation.

    Ronald W. Busuttil;John A. Goss

  • Analysis of long-term outcomes of 3200 liver transplantations over two decades: a single-center experience.

    Ronald W. Busuttil;Douglas G. Farmer;Hasan Yersiz;Jonathan R. Hiatt

  • Identification of a Therapeutic Strategy Targeting Amplified FGF19 in Liver Cancer by Oncogenomic Screening

    Eric T. Sawey;Maia Chanrion;Chunlin Cai;Guanming Wu

  • Survival Benefit of Solid-Organ Transplant in the United States

    Abbas Rana;Angelika Gruessner;Vatche G. Agopian;Zain Khalpey

  • Radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma: treatment success as defined by histologic examination of the explanted liver.

    David S. K. Lu;Nam C. Yu;Steven S. Raman;Piyaporn Limanond

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski
Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski University of California, Los Angeles
Douglas G. Farmer
Douglas G. Farmer University of California, Los Angeles
Sammy Saab
Sammy Saab University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan R. Hiatt
Jonathan R. Hiatt University of California, Los Angeles
Abraham Shaked
Abraham Shaked University of Pennsylvania
Paul Martin
Paul Martin University of Miami
Myron J. Tong
Myron J. Tong University of California, Los Angeles
Marvin E. Ament
Marvin E. Ament University of California, Los Angeles
John A. Goss
John A. Goss Baylor College of Medicine
Kim M. Olthoff
Kim M. Olthoff University of Pennsylvania

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