2018
Isolated Left Ventricular Metastasis from Renal Cell Carcinoma: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma., Amirahwaty Abdullah, Manidhar Lekkala, Zachary Wolfe, Charumathi Raghu, Safi Ullah Khan, Mrinalini Krishnan, Lydia Winnicka, and Bradley Lash MD (Article)
EEG reactivity testing practices for cardiac arrest coma prognostication in North America, Nicholas Abend (Article)
Electroencephalography/Epilepsy: Clinical characteristics and outcomes of pediatric super refractory status epilepticus, Nicholas Abend (Article)
EEG Factors After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest., Nicholas S Abend, Douglas J Wiebe, Rui Xiao, Shavonne L Massey, Mark Fitzgerald, France Fung, and Alexis A Topjian (Article)
Stability of Early EEG Background Patterns After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest., Nicholas S Abend, Rui Xiao, Sudha Kilaru Kessler, and Alexis A Topjian (Article)
Beyond Borders: Our Middle Eastern Experience of International Collaboration to Run a Successful Heart Transplantation Program, Saif Abu-Baker (Article)
Her2 expression in small bowel adenocarcinoma, Samuel Adediran MD; Usman Shah MD; Shereen M F Gheith MD, PhD; P Singh-Kahlon; and B Fisher (Article)
Kleine-Levin Syndrome., Olufunke O. Afolabi-Brown MD and Thornton B A Mason (Article)
Novel Chitohexaose Compounds to Treat Abdominal Peritonitis Leading to Sepsis, Beamon Agarwal MD, PhD (Article)
Impact of family history of coronary artery disease on in-hospital clinical outcomes in ST-segment myocardial infarction., Manyoo A Agarwal, Lohit Garg MD, Carl J Lavie, Guy L Reed, and Rami N Khouzam (Article)
Impact of smoking in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement., Manyoo Agarwal MD, Sahil Agrawal MD, Lohit Garg MD, Guy L. Reed, Rami N. Khouzam, and Uzoma N. Ibebuogu (Article)
Relationship Between Obesity and Survival in Patients Hospitalized for Hypertensive Emergency., Manyoo A Agarwal, Mahek Shah MD, Lohit Garg MD, and Carl J Lavie (Article)
Association between Pulmonary Hypertension and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with Sickle Cell Disease., Manyoo A Agarwal, Mahek Shah MD, Brijesh Patel MD, Vikki G Nolan, Guy L Reed, Ronald J Oudiz, Gaurav Choudhary, and Bradley A Maron (Article)
Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Heart Failure: Temporal Trends and Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients, Manyoo Agarwal MD, Brijesh Patel MD, Lohit Garg MD, Mahek Shah MD, Rami Khouzam, and Rajesh Kabra (Article)
Meta-Analysis of Aspirin Versus Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting., Nayan Agarwal, Ahmed N Mahmoud, Nimesh Kirit Patel, Ankur Jain, Jalaj Garg MD, Mohammad Khalid Mojadidi, Sahil Agrawal, Arman Qamar, Harsh Golwala, Tanush Gupta, Nirmanmoh Bhatia, R David Anderson, and Deepak L Bhatt (Article)
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Use in Pediatric Neurologic Disorders at a Tertiary Care Center: A 10-Year Review., Sonika Agarwal, Jake R Keller, Chloe E Nunneley, Eyal Muscal, Michael C Braun, Poyyapakkam Srivaths, and Timothy E Lotze (Article)
Etirinotecan Pegol (NKTR-102) in Third-line Treatment of Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer: Results of a Phase II Study., Charu Aggarwal, Roger B Cohen, Eddy Yu MD, Wei-Ting Hwang, Joshua M Bauml, Evan Alley, Tracey L Evans, and Corey J Langer (Article)
Pseudopolyposis: A Manifestation of Isolated Upper Gastrointestinal Crohn's Disease P-120, Soorya N. Aggarwal, Y Cavanagh, S Oleg, M Grossman, and N Galeano (Article)
Occult BRAF-Positive Metastatic Melanoma of the Pancreas With Primary Diagnosis by EUS-FNB: A Case Report 1262, Soorya N. Aggarwal, Travis Magdaleno MD, Hiral N. Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Article)
Thirty-Day Readmissions After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in the United States: Insights From the Nationwide Readmissions Database., Sahil Agrawal, Lohit Garg MD, Mahek Shah MD, Manyoo Agarwal, Brijesh Patel MD, Amitoj Singh, Aakash Garg, Ulrich P Jorde, and Navin K Kapur (Article)
Arcuate Foramen: Anatomy, Embryology, Nomenclature, Pathology, and Surgical Considerations., Jay Ahn; Melissa Duran; Samantha Syldort; Asad Rizvi; Anthony V D'Antoni; Jaspreet Johal MD, MBA; Joe Iwanaga; Rod J Oskouian; and R Shane Tubbs (Article)
An unmet challenge of primary plasma cell leukemia: A systematic review of its unique biology, efficacy of conventional, and high dose therapy., Faisal Akbar (Article)
Factors Affecting the Survival of Therapy Related AML/MDS, Secondary AML and De Novo AML, Faisal Akbar (Article)
Needs Assessment for Creating a Patient-Centered, Community-Engaged Health Program for Homeless Pregnant Women., Tegan Ake, Sabina Diehr, Leslie Ruffalo, Emily Farias, Ashton Fitzgerald, Samuel D Good, Lindsay B. Howard MD, Stefan P Kostelyna, and Linda N Meurer (Article)
Adverse Reactions After Intravenous Iron Infusion Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients in the United States, 2010-2014., Eboselume Akhuemonkhan MD, Alyssa Parian, Kathryn A Carson, and Susan Hutfless (Article)
Subcutaneous Fat Fibrosis Links Obesity to Insulin Resistance in Chinese Americans., Diana L Alba, Jeffrey A Farooq, Matthew Y C Lin, Anne L Schafer, John Shepherd, and Suneil K Koliwad (Article)
A RARE CASE OF SYMPTOMATIC LOW-GRADE DAPSONE-INDUCED METHEMOGLOBINEMIA: A CASE REPORT, Abdul Aleem MD (Article)
CASE OF SPONTANEOUS TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME IN A PATIENT WITH ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE AND RECENTLY DIAGNOSED PANCREATIC CANCER, Abdul Aleem MD (Article)
MASSIVE FATAL INTRAPERITONEAL BLEEDING FROM GASTROHEPATIC LIGAMENT FOLLOWING PEG TUBE PLACEMENT: AN EXTREMELY RARE COMPLICATION, Abdul Aleem MD (Article)
Abiraterone acetate (AA) or docetaxel (D) in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC): A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs)., Zeeshan Ali MD (Article)
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma's Injury Control and Violence Prevention Committee's annual distracted driving outreach event: Evaluating attitude and behavior change in high school students., Lisa Allee, Tracey Dechert, Sowmya R Rao, Marie Crandall, Ashley Christmas, Alexander Eastman, Thomas Duncan, and Shannon M Foster MD (Article)
Outcome Analysis of Visual Acuity and Side Effect after Ruthenium-106 Plaque Brachytherapy for Medium-sized Choroidal Melanoma., Tahra AlMahmoud, Sean Quinlan-Davidson MD, Gregory R Pond, and Jean Deschênes (Article)
Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography as a Guide for Palliative Radiation Therapy for Spinal Metastases., Neil D Almeida, Crystal Adams, Gregory Davis MD, Robert M Starke, Justin Buro, Nadim Nasr, Don McRae, George Cernica, Anthony Caputy, Robert Hong, and Jonathan Sherman (Article)
Medulloblastoma in a toddler with Gorlin syndrome., Mohamad G Al-Rahawan, Sorleen Trevino, Roy Jacob, Jeffrey C Murray, and Mohamad M Al-Rahawan (Article)
T5 Multi-regional Utilization of a Mobile Device App for Triage and Transfer of Burn Patients, Hamed Amani MD (Article)
EEG Reactivity Evaluation Practices for Adult and Pediatric Hypoxic-Ischemic Coma Prognostication in North America., Edilberto Amorim, Emily J Gilmore, Nicholas S Abend, Cecil D Hahn, Nicolas Gaspard, Susan T Herman, Lawrence J Hirsch, Jong Woo Lee, Sydney S Cash, and M Brandon Westover (Article)
Impact of Exercise Training on Cardiac Function Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS., Vidhu Anand MD, Sushil Garg MD, Jalaj Garg MD, Shah Bano MD, and Marc Pritzker MD (Article)
Advances in Perioperative Quality and Safety., Kathryn T. Anderson MD, MPH, MS; Rachel Appelbaum BS; Marisa A. Bartz-Kurycki MD; KuoJen Tsao MD; and Marybeth Browne MD (Article)
Single Coronary Artery Arising from the Right Sinus of Valsalva and the Role of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography., Amornpol Anuwatworn MD, Pratima Karta, Jimmy Yee, Shenjing Li, Vishesh Kumar, and Kelly Steffen (Article)
Robotic-Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of a Saphenous Vein Graft Stenosis using a FilterWire EZ Embolic Protection., Amornpol Anuwatworn MD, Tomasz Stys, and Adam Stys (Article)
Parental Perceptions of interventions to Prevent and Manage Obesity in Children: Qualitative Analysis in underserved Inner-city Communities, María G Aramburú MD, MPH (Article)
Persistent Lactic Acidosis: Thinking Outside the Box., Hamza Arif, Sohaib Zahid, and Amit Kaura MD (Article)
Role of Poly Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose Polymerase Inhibitors in Advanced Stage Ovarian Cancer., Ena Arora MD, Muhammad Masab, Vishal Jindal, Iqra Riaz, Sorab Gupta, and Gabor Varadi (Article)
Role of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer., Ena Arora MD, Muhammad Masab, Priyanka Mittar, Vishal Jindal, Sorab Gupta, and Claudia Dourado (Article)
Macrophages: Their role, activation and polarization in pulmonary diseases., Shweta Arora; Kapil Dev; Beamon Agarwal MD, PhD; Pragnya Das; and Mansoor Ali Syed (Article)
A Circulating MicroRNA Signature Serves as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Indicator in Sarcoidosis., Christian Ascoli, Yue Huang, Cody Schott, Benjamin A Turturice, Ahmed Metwally, David L Perkins, and Patricia W Finn (Article)
Techniques and outcomes of secondary open repair for chronic dissection after acute repair of type A aortic dissection., Roland Assi, Joseph E. Bavaria MD, and Nimesh D Desai (Article)
Acute ischemic stroke with tandem lesions: technical endovascular management and clinical outcomes from the ESCAPE trial., Zarina Assis, Bijoy K Menon, Mayank Goyal, Andrew M Demchuk, Jai Shankar, Jeremy L Rempel, Daniel Roy, Alexander Y Poppe, Victor Yang, Cheemun Lum, Dar Dowlatshahi, John Thornton, Hana Choe, Paul A Burns, Donald F Frei, Blaise W Baxter, and Blaise W. Baxter MD (Article)
A comparison of two stroke cohorts cared for by two different specialties in a practice-based tele-stroke population., Elias Atallah, Kimon Bekelis, Hassan Saad, Nohra Chalouhi, Sophia Dang, Jonathan Li, Ayan Kumar, Justin Turpin, Randa Barsoom, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, David Hasan, Maureen Deprince, Giuliana Labella, Robert H Rosenwasser, and Pascal Jabbour (Article)
Rare case of diffuse spinal arachnoiditis following a complicated vertebral artery dissection., Elias Atallah, Sophia Dang, Sage Rahm, James Feghali, Chalouhi Nohra, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Robert H Rosenwasser, Hekmat Zarzour, Nabeel Herial, Michael Reid Gooch, and Pascal Jabbour (Article)
The use of alternatives to clopidogrel in flow-diversion treatment with the Pipeline embolization device., Elias Atallah, Hassan Saad, Kimon Bekelis, Nohra Chalouhi, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, David Hasan, Jorge Eller, David Stidd, Robert H Rosenwasser, and Pascal Jabbour (Article)
Acute Recanalization of a Partially Thrombosed Large Intracranial Aneurysm., Elias Atallah, Edison Valle-Giler, Turki Elarjani, Nohra Chalouhi, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Robert H Rosenwasser, Nabeel Herial, Michael Reid Gooch, Hekmat Zarzour, and Pascal Jabbour (Article)
(194) - Outcomes After Isolated Durable Right Ventricular Assist Device, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(196) - Outcomes in Late Right Heart Failure after LVAD:A Contemporary Analysis of the New Intermacs 4.0 Definition, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(304) - Survival in Intermacs 1 & 2 Patients After LVAD Therapy: Does Chronicity of Heart Failure Matter?, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(361) - The Evolving (In)significance of Panel Reactive Antibody on Cardiac Transplantation Outcomes in the Modern Era, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(694) - Change in Heart Rate from Pre-Implant to Discharge in Destination Therapy is Associated with Mortality and Admissions in LVAD Patients- A Substudy of the ENDURANCE trial, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(701) - Left Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge-to-Transplant Therapy May Mitigate Elevated Pulmonary Vascular Resistance, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(872) - Potential Transplant Recipient Sequence Numbers Do Not Correlate with Worse Patient Outcomes, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(885) - Cardiac Allograft Survival Stratified by Preservation Solution: A Multi-Institutional Analysis, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(938) - Predictors for Left Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(939) - Pump Exchange after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: Indications and Outcomes, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(940) - Prognostic Significance of Red Cell Distribution Width in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
(953) - Durability of Medical Therapy for Heartware LVAD Thrombosis, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
Abstract 16818: Frozen in Time: Endothelial Progenitor Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Maintain Therapeutic Efficacy for Clinically Translatable Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction After Long Term Storage, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
Impact of Elevated Pulmonary Hypertension in LVAD Patients on Post-Transplant Outcomes, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
Privileged or Not?: Immunologic Properties of Allogenic Endothelial Progenitor Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles, Pavan Atluri MD (Article)
Incidence of Occult Intrahepatic Metastasis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated With Transplantation Corresponds to Early Recurrence Rates After Partial Hepatectomy., David D Aufhauser, Eran Sadot, Douglas R Murken, Kevin C. Eddinger MD, Maarouf Hoteit, Peter L Abt, David S Goldberg, Ronald P DeMatteo, and Matthew H Levine (Article)
Nontoxic Targeting of Energy Metabolism in Preclinical VM-M3 Experimental Glioblastoma., Zachary M Augur, Catherine M Doyle, Mingyi Li, Purna Mukherjee, and Thomas N Seyfried (Article)
Type I Endoleak Post-Endovascular Aneurysm Repair, Successfully Treated With Excluder Cuff and Fixation Screws., Omar A Ayah, Jordan Klein, Muhammad Raza, and Daniel J McCormick (Article)
COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF AN EXERCISE PROGRAM WITH ENRICHMENT ON PATIENTS WHO HAVE SUFFERED A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Babatunde Babalola MD (Article)
DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA, CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS VS IMAGING IN MANAGEMENT OF SUBACUTE COMBINED SPINAL CORD DEGENERATION, Babatunde Babalola MD (Article)
Hemangioblastomatosis-associated negative-pressure hydrocephalus managed with improvised shunt., Abdul Badran, Matthew J Shepard, Alexander Ksendzovsky, Roger Murayi, Christina Hayes, DeeDee Smart, and Prashant Chittiboina (Article)
Hypercalcemia, hyperkalemia and supraventricular tachycardia in a patient with subcutaneous fat necrosis, Kandy A. Bahadur, Stacey Beckford MD, Benjamin Lentzner, Mariam Gangat, Joann Carlson, and Sadana Balachandar (Article)
Use of Quality Improvement Strategies Among Small to Medium-Size US Primary Care Practices, Bijal A. Balasubramanian MBBS, PhD; Miguel Marino PhD; Deborah J. Cohen PhD; Rikki L. Ward MPH; Alex Preston MPH; Rachel J. Springer MS; Stephan R. Lindner PhD; Samuel T. Edwards MD, MPH; K. John McConnell PhD; Benjamin F. Crabtree PhD; William L. Miller MD, MA; Kurt C. Stange MD, PhD; and Leif I. Solberg MD (Article)
Mumps: Resurgence of a once-dormant disease., Alanna Balbi BS, Amanda A. Van Sant, Eric W. Bean DO, and Jeanne L. Jacoby MD (Article)
Age- and sex-based resource utilisation and costs in patients with acute chest pain undergoing cardiac CT angiography: pooled evidence from ROMICAT II and ACRIN-PA trials., Fabian Bamberg, Thomas Mayrhofer, Maros Ferencik, Daniel O Bittner, Travis R Hallett, Sumbal Janjua, Christopher L Schlett, John T Nagurney, James E Udelson, Quynh A Truong, Pamela K Woodard, Judd E Hollander, Harold Litt, and Udo Hoffmann (Article)
Determinants of Successful Weight Loss in Low-Income African American Women: A Positive Deviance Analysis., Elaine Banerjee MD, MPH; Sharon J. Herring MD, MPH; Katelyn E. Hurley MPH; Katherine Puskarz MPH; Kyle Yebernetsky MD; and Marianna LaNoue PhD (Article)
Overcoming Obesity: A Mixed Methods Study of the Impact of Primary Care Physician Counseling on Low-Income African American Women Who Successfully Lost Weight., Elaine S. Banerjee MD, MPH; Sharon J. Herring MD, MPH; Katelyn E. Hurley MPH; Katherine Puskarz MPH; Kyle Yebernetsky MD; and Marianna LaNoue PhD (Article)
Association Between Carotid Artery Perivascular Fat Density and Cerebrovascular Ischemic Events., Hediyeh Baradaran, Pavan K Myneni, Praneil Patel, Gulce Askin, Gino Gialdini, Khalid Al-Dasuqi, Hooman Kamel, and Ajay Gupta (Article)
Ten years of active middle ear implantation for sensorineural hearing loss., Maurizio Barbara, Chiara Filippi, Edoardo Covelli, Luigi Volpini, and Simonetta Monini (Article)
A new semi-implantable middle ear implant for sensorineural hearing loss: three-years follow-up in a pilot patient's group., Maurizio Barbara, Luigi Volpini, Chiara Filippi, Francesca Atturo, and Simonetta Monini (Article)
The quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) identifies septic patients in the out-of-hospital setting., Paul Barbara, Christopher Graziano, William Caputo, Ilya Litvak DO, Dominick Battinelli, and Barry Hahn (Article)
Phenome-wide association studies uncover hierarchy of autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus, April Barnado, Robert J. Carroll, Carolyn Casey, Joshua C. Denny, and Leslie J. Crofford (Article)
Phenome-wide association studies uncover a novel association of increased atrial fibrillation in males with systemic lupus erythematosus., April Barnado, Robert J. Carroll, Carolyn Casey, Lee Wheless, Joshua C. Denny, and Leslie J. Crofford (Article)
Phenome-wide association study identifies marked increased in burden of comorbidities in African Americans with systemic lupus erythematosus., April Barnado, Robert J. Carroll, Carolyn Casey, Lee Wheless, Joshua C. Denny, and Leslie J. Crofford (Article)
Role of the Anti-Aging Hormone Klotho in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, J W. Barnes, D Duncan, D Kurundkar, S Hutcheson, N J. Logsdon, M L. Locy, Scott Blumof DO, S Helton, G King, V J. Thannickal, and S Krick (Article)
Acrokeratoelastoidosis and knuckle pads coexisting in a child., Carl Barrick DO, Joshua Moran BS, Christian Oram, and Stephen Purcell DO (Article)
Enteral Nutrition for the Intubated Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Prior to General Anesthesia: a Scoping Review Protocol., Christy Barrick and Mary W Stewart (Article)
Impact of Trajectory Planning With Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging for Intracranial Electrode Implantation., Guilherme Barros, Michael J Lang, Nikolaos Mouchtouris, Ashwini D Sharan, and Chengyuan Wu MD (Article)
Clinical and In Vitro Evidence That Subclinical Hemolysis Contributes to LVAD Thrombosis., Carlo R Bartoli, David Zhang, Jooeun Kang, Samson Hennessy-Strahs, David Restle, Jessica Howard, Gretchen Redline, Christian Bermudez, Pavan Atluri MD, and Michael A Acker (Article)
Clinical and In Vitro Evidence That Left Ventricular Assist Device-Induced von Willebrand Factor Degradation Alters Angiogenesis., Carlo R Bartoli, David M Zhang, Samson Hennessy-Strahs, Jooeun Kang, David J Restle, Christian Bermudez, Pavan Atluri MD, and Michael A Acker (Article)
Derivation and Validation of the CREST Model for Very Early Prediction of Circulatory Etiology Death in Patients Without ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction After Cardiac Arrest., Karen E. Bascom MBChB; John Dziodzio BA; Samip Vasaiwala MD, MSc; Michael R. Mooney MD; Nainesh C. Patel MD; John A. McPherson MD; Paul W. McMullan MD; Barbara Unger RN; Niklas Nielsen MD, PhD; Hans Friberg MD, PhD; Richard R. Riker MD; Karl B. Kern MD; Christine W. Duarte PhD; and David B. Seder MD (Article)
Rethinking gender: The nonbinary approach., Megan Bass, Luis J Gonzalez, Leslie A. Colip MD, Nathaniel Sharon, and Jessica Conklin (Article)
Bethanechol in Tracheomalacia: Two Case Series and a Review of the Literature, R Bass; M Santiago; L Smith; Courtney M. Quinlan DO, MS; H Panitch; T Giordano; and J Piccione (Article)
Impact of Right-sided Primary Tumor Location Among Patients With Oligometastatic Colorectal Cancer Treated With Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy., James E Bates, Gyujae Choi, Kenneth Y Usuki, Alan W Katz, and Michael T Milano (Article)
Endoscopic Dilation of Bariatric RNY Anastomotic Strictures: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis., Alexandra J Baumann, Lazarus Katana Mramba, Russell B Hawkins, Anne-Marie Carpenter, Max S Fleisher MD, Alexander L Ayzengart, and David S Estores (Article)
Abstract 14878: Surgery for Type A Aortic Dissection in Patients With Cerebral Malperfusion. Results From the International Registry of Aortic Dissections, Joseph E. Bavaria MD (Article)
Abstract 16744: Advanced Glycation End Products and the Pathophysiology of Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Structural Degeneration, Joseph E. Bavaria MD (Article)
Abstract 18851: RAGE/sRAGE Antagonism Unveils a Novel Therapeutic Target and Biomarker of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection, Joseph E. Bavaria MD (Article)