Pearl Ma, MD, FACS
Assistant Clinical Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Publications (16)

Top publication keywords:
Postoperative ComplicationsReoperationObesity, MorbidBupivacaineHernia, HiatalAnesthetics, LocalPeptic UlcerOpioid-Related DisordersBariatric SurgeryPain, PostoperativeAnalgesics, OpioidGastroesophageal RefluxDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2LaparoscopyGastric Bypass

• A Matched Comparative Analysis of Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Remission Between Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy.
  Surgical innovation 2024 Hage K, Ma P, Ghusn W, Ikemiya K, Acosta A, Vierkant RA, Abu Dayyeh BK, Higa KD, Ghanem OM
• FIB-4 Reliability in Patients With Severe Obesity: Lower Cutoffs Needed?
  Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2023 Green V, Lin J, McGrath M, Lloyd A, Ma P, Higa K, Roytman M
• Type 2 diabetes remission after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a multicentered experience with long-term follow-up.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2023 Hage K, Ikemiya K, Ghusn W, Lu L, Kennel KA, McKenzie TJ, Kellogg TA, Abu Dayyeh BK, Higa KD, Spaniolas K, Ma P, Ghanem OM
• The role of diabetes severity scores in predicting disease remission in patients with BMI > 50 kg/m2 undergoing Roux-En-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy: a multi-centered study.
  Surgical endoscopy 2023 Ghusn W, Ma P, Ikemiya K, Hage K, Abboud DM, Vierkant RA, Kendrick ML, Higa K, Acosta A, Ghanem OM
• Diabetes Mellitus Remission in Patients with BMI > 50 kg/m2 after Bariatric Surgeries: A Real-World Multi-Centered Study.
  Obesity surgery 2023 Ghusn W, Ikemiya K, Al Annan K, Acosta A, Dayyeh BKA, Lee E, Spaniolas K, Kendrick M, Higa K, Ma P, Ghanem OM

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• Effect of metabolic surgery on immunosuppressive medication use in patients with rheumatic diseases.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2022 Ma P, Vahibe A, McKenzie T, Hurtado Andrade MD, Vierkant RA, Higa K, Kendrick M, Ghanem OM
• Biography: Pearl Ma, MD FACS FASMBS ABOM.
  Obesity surgery 2022 Ma P
• Laparoscopic modified Nissen fundoplication over Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and hiatal hernia repair for intractable gastroesophageal reflux.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2020 Ma P, Higa K
• Laparoscopic resection of intussusception after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: comparison between the conventional and a simplified approach.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2020 Shuchleib A, Ma P, Boone K, Higa K
• Complications of Roux-En-O gastric bypass.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2020 Ma P, Higa K
• Laparoscopic revision of a transected silastic vertical gastric bypass (Fobi pouch) with totally hand sewn gastrojejunostomy for complicated marginal ulcer.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2020 Abunnaja S, Ma P, Higa K
• Reduction of opioid use after implementation of enhanced recovery after bariatric surgery (ERABS).
  Surgical endoscopy 2019 Ma P, Lloyd A, McGrath M, Moore R, Jackson A, Boone K, Higa K
• Efficacy of liposomal bupivacaine versus bupivacaine in port site injections on postoperative pain within enhanced recovery after bariatric surgery program: a randomized clinical trial.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2019 Ma P, Lloyd A, McGrath M, Shuchleib Cung A, Akusoba I, Jackson A, Swartz D, Boone K, Higa K
• Reversal of Roux en Y gastric bypass: largest single institution experience.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2019 Ma P, Ghiassi S, Lloyd A, Haddad A, Boone K, DeMaria E, Higa K
• Conversion of standard Roux-en-Y gastric bypass to distal bypass for weight loss failure and metabolic syndrome: 3-year follow-up and evolution of technique to reduce nutritional complications.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2018 Ghiassi S, Higa K, Chang S, Ma P, Lloyd A, Boone K, DeMaria EJ
• Revisional Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery: What Dictates Its Indications?
  Current atherosclerosis reports 2016 Ma P, Reddy S, Higa KD