Chris Freise, MD
Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• Transplant Fellowship School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1995
• Post-Doc Fellow/Scholar School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1991
• M.D. School of Medicine University of Minnesota 1986

Grants and Projects

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• Living Donor Liver Transplant :Short & Long-Term Impact on Donors and Recipients, NIH, 2002-2015

Publications (124)

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Tissue and Organ HarvestingGraft RejectionKidney TransplantationTissue DonorsPancreas TransplantationGraft SurvivalHepatectomyLiver TransplantationLiving DonorsTissue and Organ ProcurementLaparoscopyNephrectomyTransplantationUreterUreteral Obstruction

• Ureteral avulsion after ureteroscopy treated with renal auto-transplantation.
  Urology case reports 2024 Sanampudi R, Velasquez MC, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Complications after Insertion by Surgeons, Radiologists, or Nephrologists.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2023 Ku E, Copeland T, McCulloch CE, Freise C, Legaspi S, Weinhandl E, Woo K, Johansen KL
• DCD liver transplant in patients with a MELD over 35.
  Frontiers in immunology 2023 Meier RPH, Nunez M, Syed SM, Feng S, Tavakol M, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Hirose R, Roll GR
• Advantages and Limitations of Clinical Scores for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation.
  Frontiers in surgery 2022 Meier RPH, Kelly Y, Yamaguchi S, Braun HJ, Lunow-Luke T, Adelmann D, Niemann C, Maluf DG, Dietch ZC, Stock PG, Kang SM, Feng S, Posselt AM, Gardner JM, Syed SM, Hirose R, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts…
• Motivations and outcomes of compatible living donor-recipient pairs in paired exchange.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Chipman V, Cooper M, Thomas AG, Ronin M, Lee B, Flechner S, Leeser D, Segev DL, Mandelbrot DA, Lunow-Luke T, Syed S, Hil G, Freise CE, Waterman AD, Roll GR

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• Retransplantation After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Data from the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.
  Transplantation 2021 Braun HJ, Grab JD, Dodge JL, Syed SM, Roll GR, Schwab MP, Liu IH, Glencer AC, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Biliary obstruction following ureteral revision of a transplanted kidney.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Thiessen C, Arslan G, Roberts J, Freise C
• Setting rules for the sandbox: A response to "Successfully sharing the sandbox: A perspective on combined DCD liver and heart donor procurement".
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Wisel SA, Thiessen C, Day R, Belin LJ, Syed SM, Hirose R, Ascher N, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Treatment of immunocompromised COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2020 Fung M, Nambiar A, Pandey S, Aldrich JM, Teraoka J, Freise C, Roberts J, Chandran S, Hays SR, Bainbridge E, DeVoe C, Roque Gardner A, Yokoe D, Henrich TJ, Babik JM, Chin-Hong P
• Opioid use prior to liver transplant is associated with increased risk of death after transplant.
  American journal of surgery 2020 Braun HJ, Schwab MP, Jin C, Amara D, Mehta NJ, Grace TR, Croci R, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Ascher NL
• Molecular Insights in Transmission of Cancer From an Organ Donor to Four Transplant Recipients.
  Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2020 Atreya CE, Collisson EA, Park M, Grenert JP, Behr SC, Gonzalez A, Chou J, Maisel S, Friedlander TW, Freise CE, Shoji J, Semrad TJ, Van Ziffle J, Chin-Hong P
• Contemporary Management of Hepatic Cyst Disease: Techniques and Outcomes at a Tertiary Hepatobiliary Center.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2020 Gomez A, Wisneski AD, Luu HY, Hirose K, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Freise CE, Nakakura EK, Corvera CU
• Impact of Sarcopenia on Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study.
  Transplantation direct 2020 Meier RPH, Noguchi H, Kelly YM, Sarwal M, Conti G, Ward C, Halleluyan R, Tavakol M, Stock PG, Freise CE
• Inferior Long-Term Graft Survival of Suboptimal Kidneys After Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 2020 Yamanaga S, Freise CE, Stock PG, Rosario A, Fernandez D, Kobayashi T, Tavakol M, Kang SM
• Rapid Modification of Workflows and Fellow Staffing at a Single Transplant Center to Address the COVID-19 Crisis.
  Transplantation proceedings 2020 Thiessen C, Wisel SA, Yamaguchi S, Dietch ZC, Feng S, Freise CE
• Living Donor Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Liver Disease: Data from the Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.
  Transplantation 2020 Braun HJ, Dodge JL, Grab JD, Syed SM, Roll GR, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Bi-organ paired exchange-Sentinel case of a liver-kidney swap.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Torres AM, Wong F, Pearson S, Weinberg S, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Lee BK
• Fatigue, Pain, and Other Physical Symptoms of Living Liver Donors in the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2018 Butt Z, DiMartini AF, Liu Q, Simpson MA, Smith AR, Zee J, Gillespie BW, Holtzman S, Ladner D, Olthoff K, Fisher RA, Hafliger S, Freise CE, Mandell MS, Sherker AH, Dew MA
• Splenic Vein Thrombosis Following Pancreas Transplantation: Identification of Factors That Support Conservative Management.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2017 Harbell JW, Morgan T, Feldstein VA, Roll GR, Posselt A, Kang SM, Feng S, Hirose R, Freise CE, Stock P
• Collagen XIV and a related recombinant fragment protect human vascular smooth muscle cells from calcium-/phosphate-induced osteochondrocytic transdifferentiation.
  Experimental cell research 2017 Freise C, Bobb V, Querfeld U
• Pancreas-After-Islet Transplantation in Nonuremic Type 1 Diabetes: A Strategy for Restoring Durable Insulin Independence.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2017 Wisel SA, Gardner JM, Roll GR, Harbell J, Freise CE, Feng S, Kang SM, Hirose R, Kaufman DB, Posselt AM, Stock PG
• Vascular complication rates in living donor liver transplantation: How low can we go?
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017 Freise CE
• A Single Perioperative Injection of Dexamethasone Decreases Nausea, Vomiting, and Pain after Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy.
  Journal of transplantation 2017 Yamanaga S, Posselt AM, Freise CE, Kobayashi T, Tavakol M, Kang SM
• De novo thyroid cancer following solid organ transplantation-A 25-year experience at a high-volume institution with a review of the literature.
  Journal of surgical oncology 2017 Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Mitmaker EJ, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Suh I, Freise CE, Duh QY
• Social and Financial Outcomes of Living Liver Donation: A Prospective Investigation Within the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study 2 (A2ALL-2).
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2016 DiMartini A, Dew MA, Liu Q, Simpson MA, Ladner DP, Smith AR, Zee J, Abbey S, Gillespie BW, Weinrieb R, Mandell MS, Fisher RA, Emond JC, Freise CE, Sherker AH, Butt Z
• Early Postoperative Pain and its Predictors in the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study.
  Transplantation 2016 Mandell MS, Smith AR, Dew MA, Gordon DB, Holtzman S, Howell T, DiMartini AF, Butt Z, Simpson MA, Ladner DP, Freise CE, McCluskey SA, Fisher RA, Guarrera JV, Olthoff KM, Pomfret EA
• Impact of Graft Selection on Donor and Recipient Outcomes After Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
  Transplantation 2016 Braun HJ, Dodge JL, Roll GR, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Psychosocial Outcomes 3 to 10 Years After Donation in the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study.
  Transplantation 2016 Dew MA, DiMartini AF, Ladner DP, Simpson MA, Pomfret EA, Gillespie BW, Merion RM, Zee J, Smith AR, Holtzman S, Sherker AH, Weinrieb R, Fisher RA, Emond JC, Freise CE, Burton JR, Butt Z
• 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 Samstein B, Smith AR, Freise CE, Zimmerman MA, Baker T, Olthoff KM, Fisher RA, Merion RM
• Defining long-term outcomes with living donor liver transplantation in North America.
  Annals of surgery 2015 Olthoff KM, Smith AR, Abecassis M, Baker T, Emond JC, Berg CL, Beil CA, Burton JR, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Grant DR, Humar A, Kam I, Merion RM, Pomfret EA, Samstein B, Shaked A
• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy with Autotransplantation: Safety, Efficacy and Long-Term Durability.
  The Journal of urology 2015 Tran G, Ramaswamy K, Chi T, Meng M, Freise C, Stoller ML
• Liver regeneration after living donor transplantation: adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Olthoff KM, Emond JC, Shearon TH, Everson G, Baker TB, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Everhart JE
• Long-term quality of life after liver donation in the adult to adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL).
  Journal of hepatology 2014 Ladner DP, Dew MA, Forney S, Gillespie BW, Brown RS, Merion RM, Freise CE, Hayashi PH, Hong JC, Ashworth A, Berg CL, Burton JR, Shaked A, Butt Z
• Restricting liver transplant recipients to younger donors does not increase the wait-list time or the dropout rate: the hepatitis C experience.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2014 Flemming JA, Vagefi PA, Freise CE, Yao FY, Terrault NA
• Emesis following laparoscopic left donor nephrectomy.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2014 Luu HY, Ulloa JG, Roll GR, Freise CE
• Ex vivo split-liver transplantation: the true right/left split.
  HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 2013 Vagefi PA, Parekh J, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Outcomes of living and deceased donor liver transplant recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma: results of the A2ALL cohort.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2012 Kulik LM, Fisher RA, Rodrigo DR, Brown RS, Freise CE, Shaked A, Everhart JE, Everson GT, Hong JC, Hayashi PH, Berg CL, Lok AS, A2ALL Study Group
• Risk factors for liver transplant waitlist dropout in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Clinical transplantation 2012 Park SJ, Freise CE, Hirose R, Kerlan RK, Yao FY, Roberts JP, Vagefi PA
• 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 Abecassis MM, Fisher RA, Olthoff KM, Freise CE, Rodrigo DR, Samstein B, Kam I, Merion RM, A2ALL Study Group
• Use of living donor liver transplantation varies with the availability of deceased donor liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2012 Vagefi PA, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Dodge JL, Roberts JP
• Outcomes with split liver transplantation in 106 recipients: the University of California, San Francisco, experience from 1993 to 2010.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Vagefi PA, Parekh J, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Liver transplantation for giant hepatic angiomyolipoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Vagefi PA, Eilers H, Hiniker A, Freise CE
• Experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy among more than 1000 cases: low complication rates, despite more challenging cases.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Ahearn AJ, Posselt AM, Kang SM, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Ten-year retrospective analysis of incisional herniorrhaphy following renal transplantation.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Chang EI, Galvez MG, Padilla BE, Freise CE, Foster RD, Hoffman WY
• Fibrin plug.
  Kidney international 2010 Vagefi PA, Freise CE
• Outcomes of surgical repair of bile leaks and strictures after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant.
  Clinical transplantation 2010 Melcher ML, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Comparison of biliary complications in adult living-donor liver transplants performed at two busy transplant centers.
  Clinical transplantation 2010 Melcher ML, Pomposelli JJ, Verbesey JE, McTaggart RA, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Pomfret EA
• Inguinal herniation of a transplant ureter.
  Kidney international 2010 Odisho AY, Freise CE, Tomlanovich SJ, Vagefi PA
• Emergent orthotopic liver transplantation for hemorrhage from a giant cavernous hepatic hemangioma: case report and review.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2010 Vagefi PA, Klein I, Gelb B, Hameed B, Moff SL, Simko JP, Fix OK, Eilers H, Feiner JR, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Bass NM
• Left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: small grafts and hemiportocaval shunts in the prevention of small-for-size syndrome.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2010 Botha JF, Langnas AN, Campos BD, Grant WJ, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Mercer DF, Roberts JP
• Open incisional hernia repair at an academic tertiary care medical center.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2009 Mohebali K, Young DM, Hansen SL, Shawo A, Freise CE, Chang DS, Maa J, Harris HW
• Prostate cancer screening and treatment in the transplant population: current status and recommendations.
  The Journal of urology 2009 Breyer BN, Whitson JM, Freise CE, Meng MV
• Genes involved in viral carcinogenesis and tumor initiation in hepatitis C virus-induced hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2008 Mas VR, Maluf DG, Archer KJ, Yanek K, Kong X, Kulik L, Freise CE, Olthoff KM, Ghobrial RM, McIver P, Fisher R
• Recipient morbidity after living and deceased donor liver transplantation: findings from the A2ALL Retrospective Cohort Study.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2008 Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Koffron AJ, Lok AS, Pruett TL, Emond JC, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Olthoff KM, Trotter JF, Ghobrial RM, Everhart JE, A2ALL Study Group
• Excellent outcome following down-staging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation: an intention-to-treat analysis.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2008 Yao FY, Kerlan RK, Hirose R, Davern TJ, Bass NM, Feng S, Peters M, Terrault N, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Outcomes of living donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure: the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2008 Campsen J, Blei AT, Emond JC, Everhart JE, Freise CE, Lok AS, Saab S, Wisniewski KA, Trotter JF, Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study Group
• Donor morbidity after living donation for liver transplantation.
  Gastroenterology 2008 Ghobrial RM, Freise CE, Trotter JF, Tong L, Ojo AO, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Emond JC, Koffron AJ, Pruett TL, Olthoff KM, A2ALL Study Group
• Organ donation and utilization in the United States, 1997-2006.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2008 Sung RS, Galloway J, Tuttle-Newhall JE, Mone T, Laeng R, Freise CE, Rao PS
• HIV-infected liver and kidney transplant recipients: 1- and 3-year outcomes.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2007 Roland ME, Barin B, Carlson L, Frassetto LA, Terrault NA, Hirose R, Freise CE, Benet LZ, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Murphy B, Keller MJ, Olthoff KM, Blumberg EA, Brayman KL, Bartlett ST, Davis CE, McCune …
• Long-term outcomes and late complications of laparoscopic nephrectomy with renal autotransplantation.
  The Journal of urology 2007 Eisenberg ML, Lee KL, Zumrutbas AE, Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Catheter-directed therapy for DVT after pancreas transplantation.
  Clinical transplantation 2007 Mahanty HD, Posselt AM, Lipshutz GS, Schneider DB, Freise CE
• Laparoscopic nephrectomy, ex vivo partial nephrectomy followed by allograft renal transplantation.
  Urology 2007 Whitson JM, Stackhouse GB, Freise CE, Meng MV, Stoller ML
• Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation.
  Gastroenterology 2007 Berg CL, Gillespie BW, Merion RM, Brown RS, Abecassis MM, Trotter JF, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Ghobrial RM, Shaked A, Fair JH, Everhart JE, A2ALL Study Group
• Hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence and death following living and deceased donor liver transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2007 Fisher RA, Kulik LM, Freise CE, Lok AS, Shearon TH, Brown RS, Ghobrial RM, Fair JH, Olthoff KM, Kam I, Berg CL, A2ALL Study Group
• Glutamine donor pretreatment in rat kidney transplants with severe preservation reperfusion injury.
  The Journal of surgical research 2007 Fuller TF, Rose F, Singleton KD, Linde Y, Hoff U, Freise CE, Dragun D, Niemann CU
• Predicting biliary complications in right lobe liver transplant recipients according to distance between donor's bile duct and corresponding hepatic artery.
  Radiology 2007 Yeh BM, Coakley FV, Westphalen AC, Joe BN, Freise CE, Qayyum A, McTaggart RA, Roberts JP
• Effect of mycophenolate mofetil on rat kidney grafts with prolonged cold preservation.
  Kidney international 2006 Fuller TF, Hoff U, Rose F, Linde Y, Freise CE, Dragun D, Feng S
• A prospective study on downstaging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2005 Yao FY, Hirose R, LaBerge JM, Davern TJ, Bass NM, Kerlan RK, Merriman R, Feng S, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• End stage polycystic kidney disease: indications and timing of native nephrectomy relative to kidney transplantation.
  The Journal of urology 2005 Fuller TF, Brennan TV, Feng S, Kang SM, Stock PG, Freise CE
• More than 500 consecutive laparoscopic donor nephrectomies without conversion or repeated surgery.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2005 Melcher ML, Carter JT, Posselt A, Duh QY, Stoller M, Freise CE, Kang SM
• Outcomes of 385 adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant recipients: a report from the A2ALL Consortium.
  Annals of surgery 2005 Olthoff KM, Merion RM, Ghobrial RM, Abecassis MM, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Kam I, Pruett TL, Everhart JE, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Gillespie BW, Emond JC, A2ALL Study Group
• Laparoscopic procurement of kidneys with multiple renal arteries is associated with increased ureteral complications in the recipient.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2005 Carter JT, Freise CE, McTaggart RA, Mahanty HD, Kang SM, Chan SH, Feng S, Roberts JP, Posselt AM
• H-NMR-based metabolic signatures of mild and severe ischemia/reperfusion injury in rat kidney transplants.
  Kidney international 2005 Serkova N, Fuller TF, Klawitter J, Freise CE, Niemann CU
• BKV in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients: a leading cause of renal graft loss in first 2 years post-transplant.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2005 Lipshutz GS, Mahanty H, Feng S, Hirose R, Stock PG, Kang SM, Posselt AM, Freise CE
• Laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: a large single-center experience.
  Transplantation 2004 Posselt AM, Mahanty H, Kang SM, Stoller ML, Meng MV, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• Increased rejection in living unrelated versus living related kidney transplants does not affect short-term function and survival.
  Transplantation 2004 Fuller TF, Feng S, Brennan TV, Tomlanovich S, Bostrom A, Freise CE
• Laparoscopic nephrectomy, ex vivo excision and autotransplantation for complex renal tumors.
  The Journal of urology 2004 Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Early graft function after living donor kidney transplantation predicts rejection but not outcomes.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2004 Brennan TV, Freise CE, Fuller TF, Bostrom A, Tomlanovich SJ, Feng S
• Laparoscopic-assisted upper pole ureterocalicostomy using renal inversion and autotransplantation.
  Urology 2004 Greene KL, Meng MV, Abrahams HM, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Experience with steroid-free maintenance immunosuppression in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 2004 Freise CE, Kang SM, Feng S, Posselt A, Hirose K, Hirose R, Stock P
• Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy in simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant recipients: a single-center experience.
  Transplantation proceedings 2004 Lipshutz GS, Mahanty H, Feng S, Hirose R, Stock PG, Kang SM, Freise CE
• Technique, indications and outcomes of pure laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy.
  The Journal of urology 2004 Abrahams HM, Freise CE, Kang SM, Stoller ML, Meng MV
• Pure laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: step-by-step approach.
  Journal of endourology 2004 Abrahams HM, Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Influence of donor pretreatment with N-acetylcysteine on ischemia/reperfusion injury in rat kidney grafts.
  The Journal of urology 2004 Fuller TF, Serkova N, Niemann CU, Freise CE
• Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for pediatric recipients: outcomes analysis.
  Urology 2004 Abrahams HM, Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Sirolimus delays recovery of rat kidney transplants after ischemia-reperfusion injury.
  Transplantation 2003 Fuller TF, Freise CE, Serkova N, Niemann CU, Olson JL, Feng S
• Excellent short-term results with steroid-free maintenance immunosuppression in low-risk simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2003 Freise CE, Kang SM, Feng S, Hirose R, Stock P
• Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for suspected renal cell carcinoma in dialysis-dependent patients.
  Urology 2003 Gulati M, Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Kidney and liver transplantation in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients: a pilot safety and efficacy study.
  Transplantation 2003 Stock PG, Roland ME, Carlson L, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Hirose R, Terrault NA, Frassetto LA, Palefsky JM, Tomlanovich SJ, Ascher NL
• Management of lymphoceles after renal transplantation: laparoscopic versus open drainage.
  The Journal of urology 2003 Fuller TF, Kang SM, Hirose R, Feng S, Stock PG, Freise CE
• Sclerosing peritonitis.
  Urology 2003 Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Expanded experience with laparoscopic nephrectomy and autotransplantation for severe ureteral injury.
  The Journal of urology 2003 Meng MV, Freise CE, Stoller ML
• Techniques to optimize vascular control during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
  Urology 2003 Meng MV, Freise CE, Kang SM, Duh QY, Stoller ML
• Anti-lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 monoclonal antibody inhibits CD40 ligand-independent immune responses and prevents chronic vasculopathy in CD40 ligand-deficient mice.
  Transplantation 2002 Corbascio M, Mahanty H, Osterholm C, Qi Z, Pearson TC, Larsen CP, Freise CE, Ekberg H
• Successful long-term outcomes using pediatric en bloc kidneys for transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2002 Hiramoto JS, Freise CE, Randall HR, Bretan PN, Tomlanovich S, Stock PG, Hirose R
• A calcineurin inhibitor-sparing regimen with sirolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and anti-CD25 mAb provides effective immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients with delayed or impaired graft function.
  Clinical transplantation 2000 Chang GJ, Mahanty HD, Vincenti F, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Ascher NL, Stock PG, Hirose R
• Experience with the use of sirolimus in liver transplantation--use in patients for whom calcineurin inhibitors are contraindicated.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2000 Chang GJ, Mahanty HD, Quan D, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Stock PG, Hirose R
• Prolonged cold ischemia time obviates the benefits of 0 HLA mismatches in renal transplantation.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2000 Lee CM, Carter JT, Alfrey EJ, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Freise CE
• The effect of age and prolonged cold ischemia times on the national allocation of cadaveric renal allografts.
  The Journal of surgical research 2000 Lee CM, Carter JT, Randall HB, Hiose R, Stock PG, Melzer JS, Dafoe DC, Freise CE, Alfrey EJ
• Flow cytometry crossmatching as a predictor of acute rejection in sensitized recipients of cadaveric renal transplants.
  Clinical transplantation 2000 O'Rourke RW, Osorio RW, Freise CE, Lou CD, Garovoy MR, Bacchetti P, Ascher NL, Melzer JS, Roberts JP, Stock PG
• Liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis: rejection and recurrence.
  Transplantation proceedings 1999 Narumi S, Hakamada K, Sasaki M, Freise CE, Stock PG, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Effect of systemic cyclosporine on tumor recurrence after liver transplantation in a model of hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Transplantation 1999 Freise CE, Ferrell L, Liu T, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: an overview of indications, complications, and outcomes.
  The Western journal of medicine 1999 Freise CE, Narumi S, Stock PG, Melzer JS
• Hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm with hemobilia following angioplasty after liver transplantation.
  Clinical transplantation 1998 Narumi S, Osorio RW, Freise CE, Stock PG, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Risks associated with conversion of stable patients after liver transplantation to the microemulsion formulation of cyclosporine.
  Transplantation 1998 Freise CE, Galbraith CA, Nikolai BJ, Ascher NL, Lake JR, Stock PG, Roberts JP
• Increased morbidity and mortality of simultaneous pancreas-renal transplantation in patients over 49 years of age.
  Transplantation proceedings 1998 Freise CE, Stock PG, Melzer JS
• Liver transplantation improves survival of rats bearing hepatoma-3924A.
  The Journal of surgical research 1996 Roberts JP, Liu T, Freise CE, Mielczarek J, Ferrell L, Randall H, Ascher NL
• Hepatotoxins and liver transplantation decrease pulmonary metastases in rats with hepatoma.
  The Journal of surgical research 1996 Freise CE, Liu T, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Low postoperative wound infection rates are possible following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 1995 Freise CE, Stock PG, Roberts JP, Melzer JS
• Increased efficacy of CSA following rearterialization in the rat OLTX model.
  The Journal of surgical research 1995 Freise CE, Liu T, Osorio RW, Ferrell L, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• The increased efficacy and decreased nephrotoxicity of a cyclosporine liposome.
  Transplantation 1994 Freise CE, Liu T, Hong K, Osorio RW, Papahadjopoulos D, Ferrell L, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Major histocompatibility complex class I deficiency prolongs islet allograft survival.
  Diabetes 1993 Osorio RW, Ascher NL, Jaenisch R, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Stock PG
• Nonoperative management of biliary leaks after orthotopic liver transplantation.
  Transplantation 1993 Osorio RW, Freise CE, Stock PG, Lake JR, Laberge JM, Gordon RL, Ring EJ, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Maintenance immunosuppression with prednisone and RS-61443 alone following liver transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 1993 Freise CE, Hebert M, Osorio RW, Nikolai B, Lake JR, Kauffman RS, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Isolation of functional MHC class I-deficient islet cells.
  Transplantation proceedings 1993 Osorio RW, Ascher NL, Jaenisch R, Natuzzi ES, Freise CE, Roberts JP, Stock PG
• Orthotopic liver transplantation for end-stage alcoholic liver disease.
  Transplantation proceedings 1993 Osorio RW, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP, Avery M, Lake JR
• Acute liver rejection: evaluation with cell-directed MR contrast agents in a rat transplantation model.
  Radiology 1993 Mühler A, Freise CE, Kuwatsuru R, Rosenau W, Liu T, Mintorovitch J, Clement O, Vexler V, Mahboubi S, Lang P
• A modified vascular "sleeve" anastomosis for rearterialization in orthotopic liver transplantation in rats.
  Transplantation 1992 Liu T, Freise CE, Ferrell L, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Similar clinical presentation of neurotoxicity following FK 506 and cyclosporine in a liver transplant recipient.
  Transplantation proceedings 1991 Freise CE, Rowley H, Lake J, Hebert M, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Wound healing after anorectal surgery in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1991 Burke EC, Orloff SL, Freise CE, Macho JR, Schecter WP
• Demonstration of local immunosuppression with methylprednisolone in the sponge matrix allograft model.
  Transplantation 1991 Freise CE, Clemmings S, Clemens LE, Alan T, Ashby T, Ashby E, Burke EC, Roberts JP, Ascher NL
• Characterization of a cyclosporine-containing liposome.
  Transplantation proceedings 1991 Freise CE, Hong K, Clemens LE, Papahadjopoulos D, Burke E, Martinez O, Lake J, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Comparison of three regimens for cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in 147 liver transplant recipients.
  Transplantation proceedings 1991 Freise CE, Pons V, Lake J, Burke E, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• MHC expression on human hepatocytes before and after isolation.
  Transplantation proceedings 1991 Burke EC, Martinez OM, Freise CE, McVicar J, Roberts JP, Ascher NL