Publications

1. Gaurav Gupta, Ashley J. Limkemann, Martha Behnke, Luke Wolfe, Mili Jay Shah, Marc P Posner, Adrian Cotterell, Amit Sharma, Dhiren Kumar, and Anne L. King. Long term Outcomes of Kidney Transplants and Risk of Infection Transmission from High-Infectious Risk Donors.
2. Ravi Chhatrala M.D., M. Bilal Siddiqui M.D., R. Todd Stravitz M.D., Carolyn Driscoll R.N. PhD., Arun Sanyal M.D., Carol Seargent MPH. R.N., Velimir Luketic M.D., Amit Sharma M.D., Richard K. Sterling M.D., Scott Matherly M.D., Puneet Puri M.D., M. Shadab Siddiqui M.D. Evolution of the Serum Atherogenic Risk in Liver Transplant Recipients; Role of Lipoproteins, Metabolic and Inflammatory Markers.
3. Rajesh Ramanathan, Martha Behnke, Keri Quinn, Joohyun Kim, Adrian Cotterell, Gaurav Gupta,Marc Posner, Amit Sharma.Retroactive Application of the new Kidney Allocation System to Renal Transplants performed in the ECD/SCD era.
4. Amit Sharma, Anne King, Dhiren Kumar, Martha Behnke, Felecia Mcdougan and Pam Kimball. Novel Preemptive Desensitization Algorithym improves outcomes among sensitized renal transplant recipients.
5. Amit Sharma, Hanjoo Lee, Jake Adkins, Gaurav Gupta, Adrian Cotterell. Unusual Bilateral Renal Parenchymal Urine Leak After En Bloc Pediatric Kidney Transplantation in an Adult Recipient: First Case Report.
6. Amit Sharma, Matthew Kaspar, Mohammad Siddiqui, Joohyun Kim.Enucleation after Embolization of Giant Hepatic Hemangioma in a Septuagenarian with Impending Liver Failure.
7. A. Sharma, J.B.Shah, J. Pasnak, K. Payne, D. Kast,J. F. Butterworth, D. Maluf, R. A. Fisher. A comparison of epidural and local anesthetic wound infusion for pain control after living donor liver lobe donation.
8. Ramanathan R,Sharma A, Lee DD, Behnke M, Bornstein K, Stravitz RT, Sydnor M, Fulcher A, Cotterell A, Posner MP, Fisher RA. Multimodality therapy and liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: a 14-year prospective analysis of outcomes. Transplantation. 2014 Jul 15;98(1):100-106.
9. Todd L Teigeler, Amit Sharma, Heather Mullen,Marc Posner, Robert Fisher. Severe Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis after Renal Transplantation in the United States: First Case Report.Transplantation. 2013 May 27;95(10):e64-5.
10. Amit Sharma, Rajesh Ramanathan, Martha Behnke, Robert Fisher, Marc Posner. Single Pediatric Kidney Transplantation in to Adult Recipients: Comparable Outcomes with Standard Criteria Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation 2013 Jun 15;95(11):1354-9.
11. Sharma A, Ashworth A, Behnke M, Cotterell A, Posner M, Fisher RA. Donor Selection for Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Well Begun Is Half Done. Transplantation. 2013 Feb 15;95(3):501-6.
12. Amit Sharma, Amy E Armstrong, Marc P Posner, Pamela M Kimball, Adrian H Cotterell, Anne L King, Robert A Fisher, Kamar Godder. Graft-Versus-Host Disease after Solid Organ Transplantation: A Single Center Experience and Review of Literature. Ann Transplant. 2012 Dec 31;17(4):133-9.
13. Amit Sharma and Amy Armstrong. Giant cell tumor of rib arising anteriorly as a large infra-mammary mass: A case report and review of literature. Case Report Med. 2012;2012:850509. doi: 10.1155/2012/850509.
14. Amit Sharma, Todd L. Teigeler, Martha Behnke, Adrian Cotterell, Robert Fisher, Anne King, Todd Gehr and Marc Posner. The Mode of Pretransplant Dialysis Does Not Affect Postrenal Transplant Outcomes in African Americans.Journal of Transplantation, vol. 2012, Article ID 303596, 6 pages, 2012.
15. Jia X, Sharma A, Kumagai-Braesch M, Wernerson AM, Sörenby AK, Yamamoto S, Wang F, Tibell AB. Exendin-4 increases the expression of hypoxia inducible factor 1-alpha in rat islets and preserves the endocrine-cell volume of both free and macroencapsulated islet grafts.Cell Transplant. 2012;21(6):1269-83.
16. Amit Sharma, R.A. Fisher, A. H. Cotterell, A. King, D.G. Maluf, M. P. Posner. En Bloc Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Donors: Comparable outcomes with Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation. 2011 Sep 15;92(5):564-9.
17. Scian MJ, Maluf DG, Archer KJ, Suh JL, Massey D, Fassnacht RC, Whitehill B,Sharma A, King A, Gehr T, Cotterell A, Posner MP, Mas V. Gene Expression Changes Are Associated With Loss of Kidney Graft Function and Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy: Diagnosis Versus Prediction. Transplantation. 2011 Mar 27;91(6):657-65.
18. Amit Sharma, Adrian H Cotterell, Daniel G Maluf, Marc P Posner, Robert A Fisher. Living donor liver transplantation for neonatal hemochromatosis using non-anatomically resected segments II and III: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, 4:372.
19. Sharma A, King AL, Lee HM, Posner MP. Saphenous vein graft aneurysm after renal transplantation: a case report.Transplantation. 2010 May 15; 89(9):1162-3.
20. Sörenby A, Kumagai-Braesch M, Sharma A, Hultenby K, Wernerson A and Tibell A. Preimplantation of an immunoprotective device can lower the curative dose of islets to that of free islet transplantation– studies in a rodent model. Transplantation. 2008 Jul 27;86(2):364-6.
21. Kumagai-Braesch M, Ekberg H, Wang F, Osterholm C, Ehrnfelt C, Sharma A, Lindeborg E, Holgersson J and Corbascio M. Anti-LFA-1 improves pig islet xenograft function in diabetic mice when long-term acceptance is induced by CTLA4Ig/anti-CD40L. Transplantation. 2007 May 15;83(9):1259-67.
22. Sharma A.Strategies to improve outcome after islet transplantation using the GLP-1 receptor agonist, exendin-4. MPhil thesis published May 2007 at Karolinska University press, Stockholm, Sweden.
23. Sharma A, Sorenby A, Kumagai-Braesch M, Efendic S, Wernerson A and Tibell A. Exendin-4 treatment improves metabolic control after rat islet transplantation to athymic mice with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Diabetologia. 2006 Jun; 49(6): 1247-53.
24. Sharma A. Surgical options in management of Necrotizing Pancreatitis, Post-graduate degree thesis in general surgery, published Dec 2000 by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, India.
25. Goyal SC, Goyal R, Arora P and Sharma A. Huge Mesenteric Cyst –A rare occurrence. Indian Medical Gazette: Dec 1998, 385-386.