Professional Publications and Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Ortega DG, Ghoreifi A, Chevinsky M, Perez LC, Ashrafi A, Koh K, Yip W, Medina LG, Gill IS, Djaladat H. Tips and Tricks for Robotic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection in Testicular Cancer. Videourology. 10.1089/vid.2022.0016. Online ahead of print.

  2. Yip W, Chen AB, Malekyan C, Widjaja W, Yan K, Stankey M, Sun X, Ashrafi AN, Graham JN, Dickerson SC, Eloustaz MH, Desai MM, Gill IS, Aron M, Kim MP. An Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol for robotic-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomies utilizing a quadratus lumborum block. J Robot Surg. 2022 Feb 10. doi: 10.1007/s11701-022-01379-9. Online ahead of print.

  3. David R, Chang S, Cohen P, Miller J, Ashrafi AN. Urachal adenocarcinoma following renal transplantation. Journal of Clinical Urology. 10.1177/20514158211041478. Online ahead of print.

  4. Ashrafi AN, Yip W, Graham JN, Yu V, Titus M, Widjaja W, Dickerson S, Berger AK, Desai MM, Gill IS, Aron M, Kim MP. Implementation of a multimodal opioid-sparing enhanced recovery pathway for robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy. J Robot Surg. 2021 Aug 24. doi: 10.1007/s11701-021-01268-7. Online ahead of print.

  5. Fujihara A, Iwata T, Shakir A, Tafuri A, Cacciamani GE, Gill K, Ashrafi A, Ukimura O, Desai M, Duddalwar V, Stern MS, Aron M, Palmer SL, Gill IS, Abreu AL. Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging facilitates reclassification during active surveillance for prostate cancer.BJU Int. 2021 Jun;127(6):712-721. doi: 10.1111/bju.15272. Epub 2020 Dec 10.

  6. Young E, Ashrafi AN, Kahokehr AA. Tri-tubular penile fracture: A case of complete rupture of urethra and bilateral corpus cavernosa. IJU Case Rep. 2021 Feb 19;4(3):143-145. doi: 10.1002/iju5.12264.

  7. David R, Traeger L, Kahokehr A, Miller J, Ashrafi A. A prospective case series of Fournier's gangrene at a tertiary centre involving adjacent organs. ANZ J Surg. 2021 Jun 14. doi: 10.1111/ans.17005. Online ahead of print.

  8. Ashrafi AN, Shin T, Marien A, Clifford T, Shoji S, Iwata T, Iwata A, Oishi M, Chopra S, Cai J, Ukimura O, Bahn D, Gill IS, Abreu AL. Five-alpha reductase inhibitors in men undergoing active surveillance for prostate cancer: impact on treatment and reclassification after 6 years follow-up. World J Urol. 2021 Mar 8. doi: 10.1007/s00345-021-03644-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33683411.

  9. Cacciamani GE, Medina L, Lin-Brande M, Tafuri A, Lee RS, Ghodoussipour S, Ashrafi AN, Winter M, Ahmadi N, Rajarubendra N, Miranda G, De Castro Abreu A, Berger A, Aron M, Gill IS, Desai M. Timing, Patterns and Predictors of 90-days Readmission Rate after Robotic Radical Cystectomy. J Urol. 2021 Feb;205(2):491-499.

  10. Ashrafi AN, Gill IS. Minimally invasive radical nephrectomy: a contemporary review. Transl Androl Urol. 2020; 9(6): 3112–3122.

  11. Ashrafi AN, Yip W, Aron M. Neoadjuvant Therapy in High-Risk Prostate Cancer. Indian J Urol. 2020; 36(4): 251–261.

  12. Yim K, Aron M, Rha KH, Simone G, Minervini A, Challacombe B, Schips L, Berardinelli F, Quarto G, Mehrazin R, Patel D, Patel S, Bindayi A, Ashrafi AN, Desai M, Alqahtani A, Gallucci M, Sulek J, Mari A, De Luyk N, Anele U, Autorino R, Porpiglia F, Sundaram CP, Gill IS, Perdona S, Derweesh IH. Outcomes of Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy for Clinical T3a Renal Masses: A Multicenter Analysis.Eur Urol Focus. 2020 Nov 25:S2405-4569(20)30295-9. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2020.10.011. Online ahead of print.

  13. Abreu AL, Peretsman S, Iwata A, Shakir A, Iwata T, Brooks J, Tafuri A, Ashrafi A, Park D, Cacciamani GE, Kaneko M, Duddalwar V, Aron M, Palmer S, Gill IS. High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Hemigland Ablation for Prostate Cancer: Initial Outcomes of a United States Series. Urol. 2020;204(4):741-747.

  14. Ashrafi AN, Fay C, Yip W, de Freitas DM, Nabhani J, Aron M. Durable biochemical response following adrenal metastasectomy for oligometastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Urol Case Rep. 2020;32:101229.

  15. Asanad K, Nabhani J, Nassiri N, Ashrafi AN. Retained Bullet in the Prostate Causing Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms. Urology 2020;141:e27.

  16. Ashrafi AN, Sotelo R. Colovesical Fistula. New England Journal of Medicine 2019; 380:e51

  17. Tafuri A, Ashrafi AN*, Palmer S, Shakir A, Cacciamani GE, Iwata A, Iwata T, Cai J, Sali A, Gupta C, Medina LG, Stern MC, Duddalwar V, Aron M, Gill IS, Abreu A. One-Stop MRI and MRI/transrectal ultrasound fusion-guided biopsy: an expedited pathway for prostate cancer diagnosis. World J Urol. 2020;38(4):949-956. (*co-first author)

  18. Bradshaw AW, Autorino R, Simone G, Yang B, Uzzo RG, Porpiglia F, Capitanio U, Porter J, Bertolo R, Minervini A, Lau C, Jacobsohn K, Ashrafi A, Eun D, Mottrie A, White WM, Schips L, Challacombe BJ, De Cobelli O, Mir CM, Veccia A, Larcher A, Kutikov A, Aron M, Dasgupta P, Montorsi F, Gill IS, Sundaram CP, Kaouk J, Derweesh IH. Robotic Partial Nephrectomy versus Minimally Invasive Radical Nephrectomy for Clinical T2a Renal Mass: A Propensity Score Matched Comparison from the ROSULA (Robotic Surgery for Large Renal Mass) Collaborative Group. BJU Int. 2020;126(1):114-123.

  19. Veccia A, Antonelli A, Minervini A, Mottrie A, Dell'Oglio P, Ashrafi AN, Larcher A, Eun D, Bradshaw A, Amparore D, Brassetti A, Hampton LJ, Simeone C, Mari A, Carini M, De Naeyer G, Yang K, Capitanio U, Simone G, Porpiglia F, Derweesh I, Aron M, Autorino R. Upstaging to pT3a disease in patients undergoing robotic partial nephrectomy for cT1 kidney cancer: Outcomes and predictors from a multi-institutional dataset. Urol Oncol 202038(4):286-292.

  20. Abreu AL, Medina LG, Chopra S, Gill K, Cacciamani GE, Azhar RA, Ashrafi A, Winter M, Fay C, Weaver F, Duddalwar V, Desai M, Sotelo R, Gill IS. Robotic Renal Artery Aneurysm Repair. Eur Urol 2020;78(1):87-96.

  21. Cacciamani GE, Winter M, Medina LG, Ashrafi AN, Miranda G, Tafuri A, Landsberger H, Lin-Brande M, Rajarubendra N, De Castro Abreu A, Berger A, Aron M, Gill IS, Desai MM. Radical cystectomy pentafecta: A proposal for standardization of outcomes reporting following robot assisted radical cystectomy. BJU Int 2020;125(1):64-72.

  22. Loh-Doyle JC, Nazemi A, Ashrafi A, Doumanian LR, Ginsberg DA, Boyd SD. Predictors of Device-Related Complications After Exchange of the Pressure Regulating Balloon in Men with an Artificial Urinary Sphincter. Urology 2020;135:154-158.

  23. Yip W, Ashrafi A, Daneshmand S. High-grade T1 Urothelial Carcinoma: Where Do We Stand? Curr Urol Rep. 2019;20(12):79.

  24. Lin-Brande M, Pearce SM, Ashrafi AN, Nazemi A, Burg ML, Ghodoussipour S, Miranda G, Djaladat H, Schuckman A, Daneshmand S. Assessing the Impact of Time to Cystectomy for Variant Histology of Urothelial Bladder Cancer. Urology 2019;133:157-163.

  25. Oishi M, Gill IS, Tafuri A, Shakir A, Cacciamani GE, Iwata T, Iwata A, Ashrafi A, Park D, Cai J, Desai M, Ukimura O, Bahn DK, Abreu AL. Reply by Authors. J Urol. 2019;202(6):1198.

  26. Oishi M, Gill IS, Tafuri A, Shakir A, Cacciamani GE, Iwata T, Iwata A, Ashrafi A, Park D, Cai J, Desai M, Ukimura O, Bahn DK, Abreu AL. Hemigland Cryoablation for Localized Low-, Intermediate- and High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Oncologic and Functional Outcomes at 5 years. J Urol. 2019;202(6):1188-1198.

  27. Ahmadi N, Ashrafi AN, Hartman N, Cacciamani G, Shakir A, Freitas D, Fay C, Berger A, Desai M, Gill IS, Aron M. Use of Indocyanine Green to Minimize Uretero-Enteric Strictures After Robotic Radical Cystectomy. BJUI. 2019; 124(2):302-307.

  28. Anele UA, Marchioni M, Yang B, Simone G, Uzzo RG, Lau C, Mir MC, Capitanio U, Porter J, Jacobsohn K, de Luyk N, Mari A, Chang K, Fiori C, Sulek J, Mottrie A, White W, Perdona S, Quarto G, Bindayi A, Ashrafi A, Schips L, Berardinelli F, Zhang C, Gallucci M, Ramirez-Backhaus M, Larcher A, Kilday P, Liao M, Langenstroer P, Dasgupta P, Challacombe B, Kutikov A, Minervini A, Rha KH, Sundaram CP, Hampton LJ, Porpiglia F, Aron M, Derweesh I, Autorino R. Robotic versus Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy: A Large Multi-Institutional Analysis (ROSULA Collaborative Group). World Journal of Urology 2019;37(11):2439-2450.

  29. Tafuri A, Porcaro AB, Ashrafi AN, Cerruto MA, Amigoni N, Mariotto A, Sebben M, Marcer A, Bassi S, Medina LG, Cacciamani GE, Baccaglini W, Winter M, Verratti V, Monaco C, Migliorini F, Siracusano S, Artibani W. Multiple stones in neobladder: Case report and literature review. Urologia 2019;86(4):216-219.

  30. Thaker H, Ghodoussipour S, Saffarian M, Ashrafi A, Miranda G, Cai J, Schuckman AK, Aron M, Desai M, Gill IS, Daneshmand S, Djaladat H. Extended hospital stay after radical cystectomy with enhanced recovery protocol. Can J Urol. 2019;26(1):9654-9659

  31. Medina LG, Baccaglini W, Hernández A, Rajarubendra N, Winter M, Ashrafi AN, Tafuri A, Cacciamani GE, Sotelo R. Robotic intracorporeal ileal conduit: Technical aspects. Arch Esp Urol. 2019;72(3):299-308.

  32. Loh-Doyle JC, Ashrafi A, Nazemi A, Ghodoussipour S, Thompson E, Wayne K, Boyd SD. Dual Prosthetic Implantation After Radical Cystoprostatectomy and Neobladder: Outcomes of the Inflatable Penile Prosthesis and Artificial Urinary Sphincter in Bladder Cancer Survivors. Urology. 2019;127:127-132.

  33. Lin-Brande M, Nazemi A, Pearce SM, Thompson ER, Ashrafi AN, Djaladat H, Schuckman A, Daneshmand S. Assessing Trends in Urinary Diversion after Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer in the United States. Urol Oncol. 2019;37(3):180.e1-180.e9.

  34. Oishi M, Gill IS, Ashrafi AN, Lin-Brande M, Nassiri N, Shin T, Bove A, Cacciamani GE, Ukimura O, Bahn DK, Abreu ALC. Primary Whole-gland Cryoablation for Prostate Cancer: Biochemical Failure and Clinical Recurrence at 5.6 Years of Follow-up. Eur Urol. 2019;75(2):208-214

  35. Oishi M, Shin T, Ohe C, Nassiri N, Palmer SL, Aron M, Ashrafi AN, Cacciamani GE, Chen F, Duddalwar V, Stern MC, Ukimura O, Gill IS, Abreu ALC. Which Patients with Negative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Safely Avoid Biopsy for Prostate Cancer? J Urol. 2019;201(2):268-27

  36. Medina LG, Hernandez A, Sevilla C, Cacciamani GE, Winter M, Ashrafi A, Gill I, Sotelo R. Robotic uterine-sparing vesicovaginal fistula repair. Int Urogynecol J. 2018;29(12):1845-1847.

  37. Medina LG, Cacciamani GE, Hernandez A, Landsberger H, Doumanian L, Ashrafi AN, Winter M, Gill I, Sotelo R. Robotic Management of Rectourethral Fistulas After Focal Treatment for Prostate Cancer. Urology. 2018;118:241.

  38. Ashrafi AN, Tafuri A, Cacciamani GE, Park D, de Castro Abreu AL, Gill IS. Focal therapy for prostate cancer: concepts and future directions. Curr Opin Urol. 2018;28(6):536-43.

  39. Ashrafi AN, Nassiri N, Gill IS, Gulati M, Park D, de Castro Abreu AL. Contrast-Enhanced Transrectal Ultrasound in Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer. Curr Urol Rep. 2018;19(10):87.

  40. Desai MM, Singh A, Abhishek S, Laddha A, Pandya H, Ashrafi AN, Ganpule AP, Roehrborn CG, Thomas AJ, Desai M, Sabnis RB. Aquablation therapy for symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia: a single-centre experience in 47 patients. BJU Int. 2018;121(6):945-51.

  41. de Castro Abreu AL, Ashrafi AN, Gill IS, Oishi M, Winter MW, Park D, et al. Contrast-Enhanced Transrectal Ultrasound for Follow-up After Focal HIFU Ablation for Prostate Cancer. Journal of Ultrasound Medicine. 2018.

  42. Cacciamani GE, Gill T, Medina L, Ashrafi A, Winter M, Sotelo R, Gill IS. Impact of Host Factors on Robotic Partial Nephrectomy Outcomes: Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Urol. 2018;200(4):716-30.

  43. Medina LG, Cacciamani GE, Hernandez A, Landsberger H, Doumanian L, Ashrafi AN, Winter M, Gill I, Sotelo R. Robotic Management of Rectourethral Fistulas After Focal Treatment for Prostate Cancer. Urology. 2018;118:241.

  44. Cacciamani GE, Medina LG, Ashrafi AN, Landsberger H, Winter M, Aron M, Desai MM, Berger AK. Transvesical robotic simple prostatectomy with 360° circumferential reconstruction: step-by-step technique. BJU Int. 2018;122(2):344-8.

  45. Ashrafi AN, Lodh SP, Lee DP. Arterio-ureteric fistula: a rare but important cause of haematuria. ANZ J Surg. 2018;88(3):E224-E5.

  46. Mekhail P, Ashrafi A, Mekhail M, Hatcher D, Aron M. Robotic parastomal hernia repair with biologic mesh. Urology. 2017;110:262.

  47. Ashrafi A, Winkle D. Lower urinary tract symptoms: thinking beyond the urinary tract. BMJ Case Rep 2014.

  48. Keller A, Ashrafi A, Ali A. Causes of elective surgery cancellation and theatre throughput efficiency in an Australian urology unit. F1000Research 2014;3:197.

  49. Li R, Buxey K, Ashrafi A, Drummond KJ. Assessment of the role of a student-led surgical interest group in surgical education. J Surg Educ 2013;70:55-8.

  50. Niewiadomski O, Ashrafi A, Stella DL, Hebbard G. Education and Imaging. Gastrointestinal: Gastric perforation from long-term ventriculo-peritoneal shunt after insertion of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2013;28(1):204.

  51. Ashrafi AN, Chakrabarti R, Laidlaw J. Terson syndrome: the need for fundoscopy in subarachnoid haemorrhage. Med J Aust 2012; 97:152.

  52. Wijffels N, Angelucci G, Ashrafi A, Jones O, Cunningham C, Lindsey I. Rectal hyposensitivity is uncommon in patients with obstructed defaecation and high-grade internal rectal prolapse. Neurogasteroenterology and Motility 2011; 23:151-154.

  53. Bridgman P, Ashrafi AN, Mann S, Whalley GA. Current Practice Patterns in Echocardiography: A Prospective Survey of Clinical Echocardiography around New Zealand (SCANZ). NZ Med J 2008; 121:34-44

  54. Ashrafi AN, Pochin R. ‘Nil By Mouth’ post gastrointestinal surgery: is there any evidence? NZ Med J 2006; 119(1243):U2271.

 

Surgical Video Presentations and Publications

  1. Akbar Ashrafi, Rene Sotelo. Endoscopic inguinal lymph node dissection for penile cancer, February 2019, Edmondson Faculty Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  2. Akbar Ashrafi, Luis Medina, Rutveej Patel, Rene Sotelo, Inderbir Gill, Monish Aron, Mihir Desai. Robotic-Assisted Intracorporeal Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion: Avoiding Pitfalls and Improving Efficiency, 2019 North American Robotic Urological Symposium (NARUS), Las Vegas, USA

  3. Akbar Ashrafi, Rutveej Patel, Mihir Desai. Robotic-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: Tips and Tricks for Challenging Scenarios, 2019 NARUS meeting, Las Vegas, USA

  4. Rutveej Patel, Akbar Ashrafi, Mihir Desai. Super Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection: Pearls/Pitfalls, 2019 NARUS meeting, Las Vegas, USA

  5. Ashrafi A, Rajarubendra N, Nguyen H, Brandina R, Hwang D, Duddalwar V, Gill, I. Robotic-assised inferior vena cava tumor thrombectomy with intracaval balloon occlusion: A Step-by-Step technique, 2018 American Urological Association (AUA) annual meeting, San Francisco, USA

  6. Ashrafi A, Thaker H, Gill I, Djaladat H. Robot-assisted retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for advanced testicular cancer, 2018 AUA annual meeting, San Francisco, USA

  7. Medina L, Cacciamani G, Abreu A, Ashrafi A, Winters M, Chopra S, Gill I. Robotic renal aneurysm repair: USC Experience, 2018 AUA annual meeting, San Francisco, USA

  8. Rene Sotelo, Luis Medina, Akbar Ashrafi, David Hatcher, Giovanni Cacciamani, Fatima Husain, Angelica Hernandez, Inderbir Gill. Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Repair of a Rectovesical Fistula After Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure, 2018 North American Robotic Urological Symposium (NARUS) meeting, Las Vegas, USA

  9. Luis Medina, Giovanni Cacciamani, Akbar Ashrafi, Andre Abreu, Sameer Chopra, Carlos Fay, Hannah Landsberger, Rene Sotelo, Inderbir Gill. Robotic Renal Aneurysm Repair: USC Experience, 2018 NARUS meeting, Las Vegas, USA

  10. Luis Medina, Giovanni Cacciamani, Akbar Ashrafi, Angelica Hernandez, Leo Doumanian, Hannah Landsberger, Fatima Husain, Inderbir Gill, Rene Sotelo. Management of Recto-Urethral Fistulas After Focal Treatment For Prostate Cancer, 2018 NARUS meeting, Las Vegas, USA