Prashanth V. Sreeramoju

Prashanth V. Sreeramoju, M.B.,B.S.

  • Associate Professor, Department of Surgery

Area of research

  • Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Hernia Robotic Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgery

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  • Montefiore Medical Center 1250 Waters Place Tower 2 Bronx, NY 10461

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Selected Publications

1.     Lima DL, Nogueira R, Liu J, Claus C, Malcher F, Sreeramoju P, Cavazzola LT. How Appropriate Are Recommendations of Online Chat-Based Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) to Common Questions on Ventral Hernia Repair? J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2024 Feb 14. doi: 10.1089/lap.2023.0475. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38354285.

 

2.     Lima DL, Nogueira R, Dominguez Profeta R, Huang LC, Cavazzola LT, Malcher F, Sreeramoju P. Current trends and outcomes for unilateral groin hernia repairs in the United States using the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative database: A multicenter propensity score matching analysis of 30-day and 1-year outcomes. Surgery. 2024 Jan 12:S0039-6060(23)00899-1. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2023.11.033. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38218685.

 

3.     Lima DL, Nogueira R, Chin R, Claus C, Malcher F, Sreeramoju P, Cavazzola LT. Appropriateness of Online Chat-Based Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) Answers to Common Questions on Inguinal Hernia Repair. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2024 Feb;34(2):141-143. doi: 10.1089/lap.2023.0403. Epub 2023 Dec 21. PMID: 38126878.

 

4.     Lima DL, Viscarret V, Nogueira R, Kasakewitch JPG, Berk R, Sreeramoju P, Malcher F. Does the Weight Matter? Short-Term Outcomes of Lightweight Versus Heavyweight Three-Dimensional Anatomical Mesh in Minimally Invasive Inguinal Hernia Repair. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2023 Oct;33(10):944-948. doi: 10.1089/lap.2023.0185. Epub 2023 Sep 19. PMID: 37722032.

 

5.     Lima DL, de Figueiredo SMP, Pereira X, Murillo FR, Sreeramoju P, Malcher F, Damani T. Hiatal hernia repair with biosynthetic mesh reinforcement: a qualitative systematic review. Surg Endosc. 2023 Oct;37(10):7425-7436. doi: 10.1007/s00464-023-10379-1. Epub 2023 Sep 18. PMID: 37721592.

 

6.     Chin R, Tagerman D, Lima DL, Sreeramoju P. Twitter and surgery: how social media can impact surgical education. Minerva Surg. 2023 Dec;78(6):710-716. doi: 10.23736/S2724-5691.23.09898-2. Epub 2023 Sep 13. PMID: 37705390.

 

7.     Rodriguez-Quintero JH, Romero-Velez G, Mandujano C, Huang LC, Sreeramoju P, Malcher F. Slowly absorbable mesh in sublay ventral hernia repair in contaminated fields. Surg Endosc. 2023 Oct;37(10):8080-8090. doi: 10.1007/s00464-023-10362-w. Epub 2023 Sep 5. PMID: 37670192.

 

 

8.     Lima DL, Miranda LEC, Lima RNCL, Romero-Velez G, Chin R, Shadduck PP, Sreeramoju P. Factors Associated with Mortality after Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy. JSLS. 2023 Apr-Jun;27(2):e2023.00005. doi: 10.4293/JSLS.2023.00005.PMID: 3730492

 

 

9.     Pereira X, Lima DL, Huang LC, Salas-Parra R, Shah P, Malcher F, Sreeramoju P. Robotic versus open lateral abdominal hernia repair: a multicenter propensity score matched analysis of perioperative and 1-year outcomes. Hernia. 2023 Apr;27(2):293-304. doi: 10.1007/s10029-022-02713-8. Epub 2022 Nov 24.PMID: 36422725

 

10.  Rodriguez-Quintero JH, Romero-Velez G, Lima DL, Huang LC, Sreeramoju P, Malcher F. Permanent vs Absorbable Mesh for Ventral Hernia Repair in Contaminated Fields: Multicenter Propensity-Matched Analysis of 1-Year Outcomes Using the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative Database J Am Coll Surg. 2023 Feb 1;236(2):374-386. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000433. Epub 2022 Sep 27.PMID: 36165495

 

 

11.  Lima DL, Salas-Parra R, Lima RNCL, Sreeramoju P, Camacho D, Malcher F. Robotic Intracorporeal Rectus Aponeuroplasty: Early Experience of a New Surgical Technique for Ventral Hernia Repair. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2022 Oct;32(10):1092-1096. doi: 10.1089/lap.2022.0303. Epub 2022 Aug 25. PMID: 36036807

 

12.  Romero-Velez G, Lima DL, Pereira X, Farber BA, Friedmann P, Malcher F, Sreeramoju P. Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection in the Undeserved Population After Ventral Hernia Repair: A 3936 Patient Single-Center Study Using National Surgical Quality Improvement Project. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2022 Sep;32(9):948-954. doi: 10.1089/lap.2021.0856. Epub 2022 Mar 18.PMID: 35319294

 

 

13.  D Tagerman, X Pereira, D Lima, G Romero-Velez, P Friedman, Prashanth Sreeramoju, Flavio Malcher. Hernia Defect Closure With Barbed Suture: An Assessment of Patient-reported Outcomes in Extraperitoneal Robotic Ventral Hernia Repair.; Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques 32 (4), 494-500, 2022.

 

14.  DL Lima, A Estrada, X Pereira, A Alcabes, P Sreeramoju, F Malcher. VERSATILITY OF POLY-4-HYDROXYBUTYRATE (PHASIX™) MESH IN ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY. Arquivos de Gastroenterologia 59, 226-230, 2022.

 

15.  RL Chin, DL Lima, X Pereira, G Romero-Velez, P Friedmann, G Dawodu, Kaitlin Sterbenz, Jaclyn Yamada, Prashanth Sreeramoju, Vance Smith, Flavio Malcher. Assessing outcomes in laparoscopic vs open surgical management of adhesive small bowel obstruction. Surgical Endoscopy, 1-8, 2022

 

 

16.  G Romero-Velez, DL Lima, X Pereira, BA Farber, P Friedmann, F Malcher, Prashanth   Sreeramoju. Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection in the Undeserved Population After Ventral Hernia Repair: A 3936 Patient Single-Center Study Using National Surgical Quality Improvement Project. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques, 2022.

 

17.  DL Lima, X Pereira, LT Cavazzola, P Sreeramoju, Flavio Malcher. Robotic Inguinal Hernia Repair After Prostatectomy: How to Navigate Safely. RD Salas-Parra. Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques 32 (1), 66-72, 2022.

 

 

18.  Malcher F,  Lima DL,  Lima RNCL,  Sreeramoju P. Robotic-assisted approach for complex inguinal hernias. Mini-invasive Surg 2021;5:31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2574-1225.2021.48.

 

19.  Malcher F, Lima DL, Lima RNCL, Cavazzola LT, Claus C, Dong CT, Sreeramoju P. Endoscopic onlay repair for ventral hernia and rectus abdominis diastasis repair: Why so many different names for the same procedure? A qualitative systematic review. Surg Endosc. 2021 May 24. doi: 10.1007/s00464-021-08560-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34031740.

 

20.  Dong CT, Sreeramoju P, Pechman DM, Weithorn D, Camacho D, Malcher F. SubCutaneous OnLay endoscopic Approach (SCOLA) mesh repair for small midline ventral hernias with diastasis recti: An initial US experience. Surg Endosc. 2020 Nov 18.

 

21.  J Bliton, MK Parides, F Malcher, P Sreeramoju, H In. Racial Differences in the Receipt of Surgery for Appendicitis, Cholecystitis and Gallstone Pancreatitis - Gastroenterology, 2019 

 

22.  Sreeramoju, P., Libutti SK. Strategies for targeting tumors and tumor vasculature for cancer therapy. Advances in Genetics 2010; 69:135-52.

 

23.  Ziqiang Yuan, Mohsin Ali, Joongho Shin, Kenneth Fordyce, Hyeja Kim, Sean Clearly, Prashanth Sreeramoju, Claire Cupples, Victoria Lai, Noam White, Steven Gallinger, Robert Bristow and Thomas Weber. A Q324H germline sequence variant of the MutY Homolog (MYH) gene is associated with increased risk of early age onset colorectal polyp formation among African Americans and is functionally significant.  Cancer Res May 1 2008 (68) (9 Supplement) 4705.

 

 

24.  J. Shin, Z. Yuan, K. Fordyce, P. Sreeramoju, T. Kent, J. Kim, V. Wang, D. Schneyer, T. Weber.  A del T poly T (8) mutation in the 3’ untranslated region (UTR) of the CDK2-AP1 gene is functionally significant causing decreased mRNA stability resulting in decreased CDK2-AP1 expression in human microsatellite unstable (MSI) colorectal cancer (CRC).  Journal of Surgical Research, 2007; Volume 137, Issue 2, Pages 166-166.

 

25.  Ziqiang Yuan, MD, Prashanth Sreeramoju MD, Benjamin Legendre Jr., PhD, Christina Lowes, MS, Davis Reynolds, MS, Anna Bennett, MS, Tara Sotsky Kent, MD, Agnes Miller, MD, Jim Zhu, PhD, Thomas K. Weber, MD. A novel mutation detection technique for hMLH1 and hMSH2 genes for screening of colorectal cancer.   Cancer Epidemiology, 2006; Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 333-340.