Abstracts presented for the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Surgery

This meeting contains abstracts of 112 papers, written in English on a variety of topics on surgery such as; factor VIII expression after in utero gene therapy, root cause analysis in a liver transplant program, dexamethasone and protein degradation, cecal ligation and adrenal insufficiency in rats, vitamin E succinate and lung cancer tumor growth in mice, carotid angioplasty, warfarin and cardiopulmonary bypass, vein wall remodeling and deep vein thrombosis, trauma evaluation and management, plasmin and smooth muscle cell proliferation, gallbladder perforation outcome and surgical management of renal cell carcinoma.