Hariharan Thangarajah

Title(s)	Associate Clinical Professor, Surgery
School	Vc-health Sciences-schools
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
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Recurrence Following Operative vs. Non-Operative Management of Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Children: A Multi-center Prospective Observational Study. Ann Surg. 2025 Feb 10. Patwardhan UM, Ignacio RC, Pickett-Nairne K, Russell KW, Lee J, Padilla B, Melhado C, Kelley-Quon LI, Rothstein DH, Thangarajah H, Ibarra-Meraz A, Barq RM, Larsen KE, Fowler KL, Hunteman Z, Valencia-Bradd M, Lofberg K, Jensen A, Pandya S, Acker SN, Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium. PMID: 39925301.

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Gen General Surgery
Evaluating the Benefits of Ventriculostomy Compared to Intracranial Pressure Monitoring for Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Jan; 60(1):161895. Patwardhan UM, Calvo R, Jackson L, Erwin CR, Havko B, Krzyzaniak A, Sise MJ, Bansal V, Keller B, Ravindra VM, Thangarajah H, Ignacio RC. PMID: 39349344.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Evaluating Outcomes of Nonaccidental Trauma in Military Children. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 May 01; 238(5):801-807. Joskowitz K, Patwardhan UM, Floan GM, Heflinger M, Cruz S, David M, Jadhav P, Nienow S, Thangarajah H, Ignacio RC. PMID: 38372360.

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Gen General Surgery Gyn Gynecology Obs Obstetrics
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Utility of Enteral Contrast Protocols in Pediatric Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study. Ann Surg. 2024 Jan 23. Acker SN, Ignacio R, Russell KW, Kelley-Quon L, Lofberg K, Lee J, Jensen AR, Pickett-Nairne K, Prendergast C, Iantorno SE, Thangarajah H, Patwardhan U, Melhado C, Zhong A, Padilla B, Rothstein DH, Nicassio L, Pandya S, Valencia M, Wang K, Inge TH, Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium. PMID: 38258558; PMCID: PMC11263503.

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A Comparative Study of Laparoscopic versus Open Management of Index Small Bowel Obstruction in Children. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Mar; 59(3):416-420. Patwardhan UM, Floan GM, Calvo RY, Acker SN, Choi PM, Prieto JM, Bansal V, Sise MJ, Thangarajah H, Fairbanks TJ, Lazar DA, Ignacio RC. PMID: 37978001.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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A Window of Opportunity: Understanding Pediatric Falls Using Area Deprivation Index. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Feb; 59(2):331-336. de Cos V, Galvez A, Rooney AS, Sykes A, Krzyzaniak A, Lazar D, Thangarajah H, Bansal V, Sise M, Ignacio RC. PMID: 37953160.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Trends in Management of Index Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Children. J Surg Res. 2023 Dec; 292:258-263. Patwardhan UM, Floan GM, Calvo RY, Acker SN, Prieto JM, Thangarajah H, Bansal V, Sise MJ, Fairbanks TJ, Lazar DA, Ignacio RC. PMID: 37660549.

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Estimates of Treatable Deaths Within the First 20 Years of Life from Scaling Up Surgical Care at First-Level Hospitals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. World J Surg. 2022 09; 46(9):2114-2122. Sykes AG, Seyi-Olajide J, Ameh EA, Ozgediz D, Abbas A, Abib S, Ademuyiwa A, Ali A, Aziz TT, Chowdhury TK, Abdelhafeez H, Ignacio RC, Keller B, Klazura G, Kling K, Martin B, Philipo GS, Thangarajah H, Yap A, Meara JG, Bundy DAP, Jamison DT, Mock CN, Bickler SW, On behalf of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery. PMID: 35771254; PMCID: PMC9334432.

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Integrating traffic safety data with area deprivation index: A method to better understand the causes of pediatric pedestrian versus automobile collisions. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 11 01; 93(5):650-655. de Cos V, Rooney AS, Sykes AG, Ghetti CB, Henry OS, Krzyzaniak A, Thangarajah H, Bickler SW, Bansal V, Martin M, Lazar D, Ignacio RC. PMID: 35545801.

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Gen General Surgery Tra Traumatology
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Balloons for kids: Anatomic candidacy and optimal catheter size for pediatric resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 04 01; 92(4):743-747. Sykes AG, Sisson WB, Wang LJ, Martin MJ, Thangarajah H, Naheedy J, Fernandez N, Nelles ME, Ignacio RC. PMID: 35001025.

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Gen General Surgery Tra Traumatology
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Modified laparoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in children: Does subcutaneous suture type matter? J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Jun; 57(6):1145-1148. Sykes AG, Prieto JM, Thangarajah H, Keller BA, Kling KM, Ignacio RC, Lazar DA. PMID: 35304024.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Just Stick a Scope in: Laparoscopic Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement in the Pediatric Reoperative Abdomen. J Surg Res. 2022 01; 269:212-217. Sykes AG, Sisson WB, Gonda DD, Kling KM, Ignacio RC, Thangarajah H, Bickler SW, Levy ML, Lazar DA. PMID: 34600330.

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Gen General Surgery
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Attitudes Affecting Decision-Making for Use of Radiologic Enteral Contrast in the Management of Pediatric Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Survey Study of Pediatric Surgeons. J Surg Res. 2021 11; 267:536-543. Acker SN, Diaz-Miron J, Ignacio RC, Russell KW, Lofberg K, Shew SB, Peterson PN, Kelley-Quon LI, Jensen AR, Lee J, Padilla B, Smith CA, Kastenberg ZJ, Azarow KS, Ostlie DJ, Wang KS, Inge TH, Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium, Thangarajah H. PMID: 34256196.

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Gen General Surgery
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Extremes of age are associated with differences in the expression of selected pattern recognition receptor genes and ACE2, the receptor for SARS-CoV-2: implications for the epidemiology of COVID-19 disease. BMC Med Genomics. 2021 05 24; 14(1):138. Bickler SW, Cauvi DM, Fisch KM, Prieto JM, Sykes AG, Thangarajah H, Lazar DA, Ignacio RC, Gerstmann DR, Ryan AF, Bickler PE, De Maio A. PMID: 34030677; PMCID: PMC8142073.

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Gen Genetics
Translation:Humans Cells
An Analysis of Essential Pediatric Surgical Cases Encountered During a Decade of Large-Scale Military Humanitarian Aid Missions. Mil Med. 2020 12 30; 185(11-12):e2143-e2149. Gaidry AD, Lizardo RE, Prieto JM, Brill JB, Hernandez AA, Moore HN, Henry MC, Ricca RL, Thangarajah H, Bickler SW, Ignacio RC. PMID: 32856051.

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Mil Military Medicine
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Patience is a virtue: Multiple preoperative visits are associated with decreased recurrence in pediatric pilonidal disease. J Pediatr Surg. 2021 May; 56(5):888-891. Prieto JM, Thangarajah H, Ignacio RC, Bickler SW, Kling KM, Saenz NC, Garcia SV, Lazar DA. PMID: 33046223.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Leveraging the Incidence, Burden, and Fiscal Implications of Unplanned Hospital Revisits for the Prioritization of Prevention Efforts in Pediatric Surgery. Ann Surg. 2020 01; 271(1):191-199. Cameron DB, Serres SK, Glass CC, Milliren CE, Graham DA, Anandalwar S, Thangarajah H, Goldin AB, Hall M, Rangel SJ. PMID: 29927779.

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Gen General Surgery
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Patient-oriented online resources in pediatric surgery: Are we failing the readability test? J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Oct; 55(10):2048-2051. Prieto JM, West-Santos C, Montgomery AS, Patwardhan U, Lazar DA, Thangarajah H, Bickler SW, Huang EY, Fairbanks TJ, Ignacio RC. PMID: 31952681.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Estimates of number of children and adolescents without access to surgical care. Bull World Health Organ. 2019 Apr 01; 97(4):254-258. Mullapudi B, Grabski D, Ameh E, Ozgediz D, Thangarajah H, Kling K, Alkire B, Meara JG, Bickler S. PMID: 30940982; PMCID: PMC6438256.

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Pub Public Health
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Operative treatment for intussusception: Should an incidental appendectomy be performed? J Pediatr Surg. 2019 Mar; 54(3):495-499. Wang A, Prieto JM, Ward E, Bickler S, Henry M, Kling K, Thangarajah H, Ignacio R. PMID: 30583859.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Preemptive Ladd Procedure in congenital diaphragmatic hernia and Abdominal Wall defects does not reduce the risk of future volvulus. J Pediatr Surg. 2017 Dec; 52(12):1956-1961. Ward EP, Wang A, Thangarajah H, Lazar D, Bickler S, Fairbanks T, Kling KM. PMID: 28966009.

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Plasma D-dimer safely reduces unnecessary CT scans obtained in the evaluation of pediatric head trauma. J Pediatr Surg. 2018 Apr; 53(4):752-757. Langness S, Ward E, Halbach J, Lizardo R, Davenport K, Bickler S, Kling K, Thangarajah H, Grabowski J, Fairbanks T. PMID: 29555324.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Primary laparoscopic gastrojejunostomy tubes as a feeding modality in the pediatric population. J Pediatr Surg. 2017 Sep; 52(9):1421-1425. Onwubiko C, Weil BR, Bairdain S, Hall AM, Perkins JM, Thangarajah H, McSweeney ME, Smithers CJ. PMID: 28549684.

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Gen General Surgery Ped Pediatrics
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Quantifying the Burden of Interhospital Cost Variation in Pediatric Surgery: Implications for the Prioritization of Comparative Effectiveness Research. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 02 06; 171(2):e163926. Cameron DB, Graham DA, Milliren CE, Glass CC, Feng C, Sidhwa F, Thangarajah H, Hall M, Rangel SJ. PMID: 27942727.

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Ped Pediatrics
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Diabetes irreversibly depletes bone marrow-derived mesenchymal progenitor cell subpopulations. Diabetes. 2014 Sep; 63(9):3047-56. Januszyk M, Sorkin M, Glotzbach JP, Vial IN, Maan ZN, Rennert RC, Duscher D, Thangarajah H, Longaker MT, Butte AJ, Gurtner GC. PMID: 24740572; PMCID: PMC4429348.

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End Endocrinology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
An information theoretic, microfluidic-based single cell analysis permits identification of subpopulations among putatively homogeneous stem cells. PLoS One. 2011; 6(6):e21211. Glotzbach JP, Januszyk M, Vial IN, Wong VW, Gelbard A, Kalisky T, Thangarajah H, Longaker MT, Quake SR, Chu G, Gurtner GC. PMID: 21731674; PMCID: PMC3120839.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
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Splenic rupture after uncomplicated colonoscopy. Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Mar; 30(3):515.e1-2. Sachdev S, Thangarajah H, Keddington J. PMID: 21450434.

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Eme Emergency Medicine
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Akt-mediated mechanotransduction in murine fibroblasts during hypertrophic scar formation. Wound Repair Regen. 2011 Jan-Feb; 19(1):49-58. Paterno J, Vial IN, Wong VW, Rustad KC, Sorkin M, Shi Y, Bhatt KA, Thangarajah H, Glotzbach JP, Gurtner GC. PMID: 21134033.

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Der Dermatology
Translation:Animals Cells
Lipid-induced conformational transition of amyloid beta peptide fragments. J Mol Neurosci. 2010 Jul; 41(3):368-82. Sureshbabu N, Kirubagaran R, Thangarajah H, Malar EJ, Jayakumar R. PMID: 20480256.

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Mol Molecular Biology Neu Neurology
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HIF-1alpha dysfunction in diabetes. Cell Cycle. 2010 Jan 01; 9(1):75-9. Thangarajah H, Vial IN, Grogan RH, Yao D, Shi Y, Januszyk M, Galiano RD, Chang EI, Galvez MG, Glotzbach JP, Wong VW, Brownlee M, Gurtner GC. PMID: 20016290.

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Cel Cell Biology
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The molecular basis for impaired hypoxia-induced VEGF expression in diabetic tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Aug 11; 106(32):13505-10. Thangarajah H, Yao D, Chang EI, Shi Y, Jazayeri L, Vial IN, Galiano RD, Du XL, Grogan R, Galvez MG, Januszyk M, Brownlee M, Gurtner GC. PMID: 19666581; PMCID: PMC2726398.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
SDF-1 alpha expression during wound healing in the aged is HIF dependent. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2009 Feb; 123(2 Suppl):65S-75S. Loh SA, Chang EI, Galvez MG, Thangarajah H, El-Ftesi S, Vial IN, Lin DA, Gurtner GC. PMID: 19182665.

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Gen General Surgery
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Mesenchymal stem cells can participate in ischemic neovascularization. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2009 Feb; 123(2 Suppl):45S-55S. Hamou C, Callaghan MJ, Thangarajah H, Chang E, Chang EI, Grogan RH, Paterno J, Vial IN, Jazayeri L, Gurtner GC. PMID: 19182663; PMCID: PMC2878772.

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Gen General Surgery
IFATS collection: Adipose stromal cells adopt a proangiogenic phenotype under the influence of hypoxia. Stem Cells. 2009 Jan; 27(1):266-74. Thangarajah H, Vial IN, Chang E, El-Ftesi S, Januszyk M, Chang EI, Paterno J, Neofytou E, Longaker MT, Gurtner GC. PMID: 18974212.

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Cel Cell Biology Emb Embryology
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Hypoxia, hormones, and endothelial progenitor cells in hemangioma. Lymphat Res Biol. 2007; 5(4):237-43. Chang EI, Chang EI, Thangarajah H, Hamou C, Gurtner GC. PMID: 18370914.

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All Allergy and Immunology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Gastric H-K-ATPase and acid-resistant surface proteins. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2002 Jun; 282(6):G953-61. Thangarajah H, Wong A, Chow DC, Crothers JM, Forte JG. PMID: 12016120.

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Gas Gastroenterology Phy Physiology
Translation:Animals Cells