Kambiz Etesami • USC Profiles

Kambiz Etesami, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor Of Clinical Surgery
School	Keck School of Medicine of Usc
Address	1520 San Pablo St. Health Sciences Campus Los Angeles CA 90033
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Overview

Dr. Etesami is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Dr. Etesami specializes in adult and pediatric liver, bowel, kidney and pancreas transplantation. He additionally performs HPB surgery (relating to the liver, pancreas, and biliary systems), incorporating both traditional and minimally invasive techniques for a variety of benign and malignant conditions.
His medical interests include the expansion of organ availability and transplantation with a focus on living donation and maximized utilization of extended criteria organs, and management of advanced hepatobiliary & pancreatic neoplasia.

He is an active member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and is an associate fellow with the American College of Surgeons.

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Kidney Transplantation in ≤15 kg Children: Outcomes and Prognostic Indicators-A Review of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Database. Pediatr Transplant. 2024 Aug; 28(5):e14801. Melikian R, Kwon Y, Kohrman N, Lo M, Emamaullee J, Zielsdorf S, Lestz R, Sher L, Etesami K. PMID: 38845603.

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Ped Pediatrics Tra Transplantation
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CHALF Score: A Novel Tool to Rapidly Risk Stratify Children in Need of Liver Transplant Evaluation During Acute Liver Failure. Transplantation. 2024 Apr 01; 108(4):930-939. Ascher-Bartlett JM, Bangerth S, Jordan S, Weaver C, Barhouma S, Etesami K, Kohli R, Emamaullee J. PMID: 37867246; PMCID: PMC10963165.

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Tra Transplantation
Translation:Humans
Response Regarding Application of the CHALF Score in Pediatric Acute Liver Failure. Transplantation. 2024 Apr 01; 108(4):e66-e67. Emamaullee J, Bartlett JMA, Bangerth S, Etesami K, Kohli R. PMID: 38526432; PMCID: PMC10965226.

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Tra Transplantation
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Evaluation of technical urinary tract complications in kidney transplantation recipients with a prolonged dialysis history. Surgery. 2023 08; 174(2):136-141. Martin SP, Lum C, Kushwaha K, Goldbeck C, Kwon Y, Etesami K, Kim J, Emamaullee J, Zielsdorf SM. PMID: 37031052.

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Gen General Surgery
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Model for End-Stage Liver Disease/Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease exception policy and outcomes in pediatric patients with hepatopulmonary syndrome requiring liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2023 Feb 01; 29(2):134-144. Raza MH, Kwon Y, Kobierski P, Misra AC, Lim A, Goldbeck C, Etesami K, Kohli R, Emamaullee J. PMID: 35876731; PMCID: PMC9868062.

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Gas Gastroenterology Tra Transplantation
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Living donor liver paired exchange between pediatric and adult recipients due to donor graft size mismatch. Am J Transplant. 2023 03; 23(3):440-442. Kwon YK, Kaur N, Etesami K, Zielsdorf S, Kim B, Kahn J, Yanni G, Padilla A, Han H, Genyk Y. PMID: 36695680.

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Tra Transplantation
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Liver Transpl. 2022 Aug 21; 134-144. Raza MH, Kwon Y, Kobierski P, Misra AC, Lim A, Goldbeck C, Etesami K, Kohli R, Emamaullee J. PMID: 37160070.

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Gas Gastroenterology Tra Transplantation
Clinical Value of Surveillance Biopsies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2022 05; 28(5):843-854. Rocque B, Zaldana A, Weaver C, Huang J, Barbetta A, Shakhin V, Goldbeck C, Yanni G, Zielsdorf S, Kwon Y, Etesami K, Genyk Y, Zhou S, Kohli R, Emamaullee J. PMID: 34954868; PMCID: PMC9078451.

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Gas Gastroenterology Tra Transplantation
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Immunologic benefits of maternal living donor allografts in pediatric liver transplantation: fewer rejection episodes and no evidence of de novo allosensitization. Pediatr Transplant. 2022 05; 26(3):e14197. Barbetta A, Meeberg G, Rocque B, Barhouma S, Weaver C, Gilmour S, Faytrouni F, Guttman O, Zielsdorf S, Etesami K, Kwon Y, Yanni G, Campbell P, Shapiro J, Emamaullee J. PMID: 34806273; PMCID: PMC9053650.

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Ped Pediatrics Tra Transplantation
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Pediatric kidney transplantation, a technical update. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2021 08 01; 26(4):356-359. Etesami K, Hogen R, Lestz R. PMID: 34148981.

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Tra Transplantation
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Re: Manuscript titled, "Liver transplantation for sickle cell disease: a systematic review". HPB (Oxford). 2021 07; 23(7):1135. Emamaullee J, Sher L, Etesami K, Kahn J, Kim J, Yanni G, Kaur N, Genyk Y. PMID: 33583735.

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Gas Gastroenterology
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Surgical shunts for extrahepatic portal vein obstruction in pediatric patients: a systematic review. HPB (Oxford). 2021 05; 23(5):656-665. Zielsdorf S, Narayanan L, Kantymyr S, Barbetta A, Kwon Y, Etesami K, Genyk Y, Emamaullee J. PMID: 33388243.

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Gas Gastroenterology
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Pediatric kidney transplantation in the United States. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2020 08; 25(4):343-347. Etesami K, Lestz R, Hogen R. PMID: 32692040.

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Tra Transplantation
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Biliary Internal Stents and Biliary Complications in Adult Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2021 Jan-Feb; 53(1):171-176. Yoon YC, Etesami K, Kaur N, Emamaullee J, Kim J, Zielsdorf S, Ahearn A, Sher L, Genyk Y, Kwon YK. PMID: 32684369.

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Tra Transplantation
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Should living donor liver transplant selection be subject to the same restrictions as deceased donor transplant? Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2020 02; 25(1):47-51. Kwon YK, Etesami K, Genyk Y. PMID: 31834006.

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Tra Transplantation
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The Increasingly Limited Basis for Portal Venous Pressure Modulation in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2018 11; 24(11):1506-1507. Etesami K, Genyk Y. PMID: 30260588.

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Gas Gastroenterology Tra Transplantation
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Reno-portal shunt for liver transplant, an alternative inflow for recipients with grade III-IV portal vein thrombosis: Tips for a better outcome. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2017; 41:251-254. Nazzal M, Sun Y, Okoye O, Diggs L, Evans N, Osborn T, Etesami K, Varma C. PMID: 29102862; PMCID: PMC5742012.

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Hospital Readmissions After Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2016 Jul-Aug; 48(6):2186-91. Kwon YK, Etesami K, Sharp AL, Matsumoto CS, Fishbein TM, Girlanda R. PMID: 27569969.

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Tra Transplantation
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Pseudolymphoma (reactive lymphoid hyperplasia) of the liver: A clinical challenge. World J Hepatol. 2015 Nov 18; 7(26):2696-702. Kwon YK, Jha RC, Etesami K, Fishbein TM, Ozdemirli M, Desai CS. PMID: 26609347; PMCID: PMC4651914.

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