Alexander Morton, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery-GI, Trauma, and Endocrine Surgery

Publications

• Endoluminal Wound Vacuum Therapy for Gastrointestinal Leaks: Current State and Future Directions. Wikiel K, McConnell B, Bollinger D, Abbitt D, Ahrendt S, McCarter M, Morton, A, Pieracci F, Jones, E. Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery. July 2023;8:19
• "LAPAROSCOPIC COMMON BILE DUCT EXPLORATION IS AN EFFECTIVE, SAFE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE METHOD OF TREATING CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS" SAGES Annual Meeting. Cleveland, OH April 2024.
• "LAPAROSCOPIC COMMON BILE DUCT EXPLORATION: HOW A ROBUST SURGICAL TRAINING PROGRAM CAN HELP RECLAIM THE DUCT". ASE Annual Conference. Orlando, FL. April 2024
• CASE REPORT: MANAGEMENT OF A PERICARDIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA WITH ENDOLUMINAL WOUND VACUUM THERAPY. SAGES Annual Meeting. Cleveland, OH 2024.
• Hakimi AA, Sellers MM, Morton AP. Spontaneous Recurrent Pneumothorax during Pregnancy Secondary to Ectopic Deciduosis. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep. 2022 Nov 9;11(1):e67-e69. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1758115. PMID: 36389131; PMCID: PMC9646399.
• Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration by acute care surgeons saves time and money compared to ERCP. Morton A, Cralley A, Brooke-Sanchez M, Pieracci FM. Am J Surg. 2022 Jul;224(1 Pt A):116-119.
• Earlier liposomal bupivacaine blocks improve analgesia and decrease opioid requirements for bariatric surgery patients.Cralley AL, Hopman J, Leasia K, Robinson C, Morton A, Pieracci FM. Am J Surg. 2022 Jul;224(1 Pt A):75-79.
• The a-globin chain of hemoglobin potentiates tissue plasminogen activator induced hyperfibrinolysis in vitro. Morton AP, Hadley JB, Ghasabyan A, Kelher MR, Moore EE, Bevers S, Dzieciatkowska M, Hansen KC, Cohen MS, Banerjee A, Silliman CC. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Jan 1;92(1):159-166.
• Mundo W, Platnick C, Rozwadowski J, Bruman W, Morton A, Pieracci FM. Providing access to affordable bariatric surgery for uninsured Denver County residents: description of a successful public health initiative. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2021 Jan 11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33583733
• Fox CJ, Morton A, Watters A, Mehler PS. Abdominal Pain Associated With Anorexia Nervosa and Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome: A Rare Condition Shadowed by a Postoperative Conversion Disorder. Vasc Endovascular Surg. 2020 Aug;54(6):528-531. PubMed PMID: 32441203
• Samuels J, Lawson PJ, Morton AP, Moore HB, Hansen KC, Sauaia A, Schoen JA. Prospective assessment of fibrinolysis in morbid obesity: tissue plasminogen activator resistance improves after bariatric surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2019 Jul;15(7):1153-1159. PubMed PMID: 31128997
• Samuels J, Lawson PJ, Morton AP, Moore HB, Hansen KC, Sauaia A, Schoen JA. Prospective assessment of fibrinolysis in morbid obesity: tissue plasminogen activator resistance improves after bariatric surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2019 Jul;15(7):1153-1159. PubMed PMID: 31128997
• Morton AP, Moore EE, Moore HB, Gonzalez E, Chapman MP, Peltz E, Banerjee A, Silliman C. Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers promote systemic hyperfibrinolysis that is both dependent and independent of plasmin. J Surg Res. 2017 Jun 1;213:166-170. PubMed PMID: 28601310
• Chapman BC, Moore HB, Overbey DM, Morton AP, Harnke B, Gerich ME, Vogel JD. Fecal microbiota transplant in patients with Clostridium difficile infection: A systematic review. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 Oct;81(4):756-64. PubMed PMID: 27648772
• D'Alessandro A, Moore HB, Moore EE, Wither MJ, Nemkov T, Morton AP, Gonzalez E, Chapman MP, Fragoso M, Slaughter A, Sauaia A, Silliman CC, Hansen KC, Banerjee A. Plasma First Resuscitation Reduces Lactate Acidosis, Enhances Redox Homeostasis, Amino Acid and Purine Catabolism in a Rat Model of Profound Hemorrhagic Shock. Shock. 2016 Aug;46(2):173-82. PubMed PMID: 26863033
• Moore HB, Moore EE, Morton AP, Gonzalez E, Fragoso M, Chapman MP, Dzieciatkowska M, Hansen KC, Banerjee A, Sauaia A, Silliman CC. Shock-induced systemic hyperfibrinolysis is attenuated by plasma-first resuscitation. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Dec;79(6):897-903; discussion 903-4. PubMed PMID: 26680132
• Chapman MP, Moore EE, Moore HB, Gonzalez E, Morton AP, Chandler J, Fleming CD, Ghasabyan A, Silliman CC, Banerjee A, Sauaia A. The "Death Diamond": Rapid thrombelastography identifies lethal hyperfibrinolysis. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Dec;79(6):925-9. PubMed PMID: 26488324
• Moore HB, Moore EE, Lawson PJ, Gonzalez E, Fragoso M, Morton AP, Gamboni F, Chapman MP, Sauaia A, Banerjee A, Silliman CC. Fibrinolysis shutdown phenotype masks changes in rodent coagulation in tissue injury versus hemorrhagic shock. Surgery. 2015 Aug;158(2):386-92. PubMed PMID: 25979440
• Moore HB, Moore EE, Chapman MP, Gonzalez E, Slaughter AL, Morton AP, D'Alessandro A, Hansen KC, Sauaia A, Banerjee A, Silliman CC. Viscoelastic measurements of platelet function, not fibrinogen function, predicts sensitivity to tissue-type plasminogen activator in trauma patients. J Thromb Haemost. 2015 Oct;13(10):1878-87. PubMed PMID: 26256459
• Morton AP, Moore EE, Wohlauer MV, Lo K, Silliman CC, Burlew CC, Banerjee A. Revisiting early postinjury mortality: are they bleeding because they are dying or dying because they are bleeding?. J Surg Res. 2013 Jan;179(1):5-9. PubMed PMID: 23138049