2008
Neurologic outcomes from high risk descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic operations in the era of endovascular repair., Steven R Messé, Joseph E. Bavaria MD, Michael Mullen, Albert T Cheung, Rebecca Davis, John G Augoustides, Jacob Gutsche, Edward Y Woo, Wilson Y Szeto, Alberto Pochettino, Y Joseph Woo, Scott E Kasner, and Michael McGarvey (Article)
Experience with "sports hernia" spanning two decades., William C Meyers, Alex McKechnie, Marc J Philippon, Marcia A Horner, Adam C Zoga, and Octavia N Devon (Article)
Bladder diverticulum arising adjacent to an ectopic ureter presenting as a cystic mass., Brett Michelotti, Jeffrey J Tomaszewski, Marc C Smaldone, and Ronald M Benoit (Article)
Using Quality of Life Information to Rationally, M Miften; O Gayou,; D Parda,; Robert G. Prosnitz MD, MPH; and L B. Marks (Article)
Dialkyl thioureas., Giuseppe Militello and Rebecca Marcus (Article)
Initial risk stratification and presenting characteristics of patients with evolving myocardial infarctions., C D Miller, G J Fermann, C J Lindsell, K W Mahaffey, W F Peacock, C V Pollack, J E Hollander, D B Diercks, W B Gibler, and J W Hoekstra (Article)
Getting to the Source of VAP, Kenneth Miller MEd, RRT-NPS (Article)
Freedom From Complications Related to Dual Ball-and-Cage Mechanical Valve Prostheses Despite Thirty Years Without Anticoagulation, Matthew M. Miller DO, Robert Hipp, and Martin E. Matsumura MD (Article)
Iatrogenic thrombosis of the deep inferior epigastric artery during diagnostic angiography—a rare complicating factor during rectus free flap harvest, Nathan F. Miller (Article)
Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, in Japanese patients with advanced refractory solid tumors., Hironobu Minami, Kenji Kawada, Hiromichi Ebi, Koichi Kitagawa, Yon-il Kim, Kazuhiro Araki, Hirofumi Mukai, Makoto Tahara, Hikaru Nakajima MD, and Keiko Nakajima (Article)
When should a resection sparing mesial structures be considered for temporal lobe epilepsy?, Scott Mintzer and Michael R Sperling (Article)
Evaluation of a novel temperature-sensitive polymer for temporary ureteral occlusion., Gabriella Mirabile, Courtney K Phillips, Andrew Edelstein, Alberto Romano, Zhamshid N Okhunov, Gregory W Hruby, Mantu Gupta, and Jaime Landman (Article)
Reducing birth-related trauma and liability exposure., F Miranda (Article)
Puzzles in practice. Eruptive xanthoma., Yehia Y. Mishriki MD (Article)
Puzzles in practice. Platelet satellitism., Yehia Y. Mishriki MD (Article)
Puzzles in practice. Pyomyositis., Yehia Y. Mishriki MD (Article)
Mitogenic effects of cytokines on smooth muscle are critically dependent on protein kinase A and are unmasked by steroids and cyclooxygenase inhibitors., Anna M Misior, Huandong Yan, Rodolfo M Pascual, Deepak A Deshpande, Reynold A Panettieri, and Raymond B Penn (Article)
Isolated popliteal vein entrapment by the popliteus muscle: a case report., Timothy S. Misselbeck, Dale A. Dangleben MD, and Victor J. Celani MD (Article)
Urgency classification methods for emergency department visits: do they measure up?, Rakesh D Mistry, David C Brousseau, and Evaline A Alessandrini (Article)
Compensated hepatitis C: unenhanced MR imaging correlated with pathologic grading and staging., Donald G Mitchell, Victor J Navarro, Steven K Herrine, Diane Bergin, Laurence Parker, Andrea Frangos, Peter McCue, and Raphael Rubin (Article)
A new tool for hospital/ physician strategic alignment: the subsidiary physician corporation., Joseph W Mitlyng and Robert J Laskowski (Article)
Site-specific atherogenic gene expression correlates with subsequent variable lesion development in coronary and peripheral vasculature., Emile R Mohler, Lea Sarov-Blat, Yi Shi, Damir Hamamdzic, Andrew Zalewski, Colin Macphee, Raul Llano, Dan Pelchovitz, Sumeet K Mainigi, Hashim Osman, Troy Hallman, Klaudia Steplewski, Zachary Gertz, Min Min Lu, and Robert L Wilensky (Article)
Stereospecificity of retinol saturase: absolute configuration, synthesis, and biological evaluation of dihydroretinoids., Alexander R Moise, Marta Domínguez, Susana Alvarez, Rosana Alvarez, Michael Schupp, Ana G Cristancho, Philip D Kiser, Angel R de Lera, Mitchell A Lazar, and Krzysztof Palczewski (Article)
Self-disclosure of sexually transmitted diseases: an integrative review., Kymberlee A Montgomery, Elizabeth W Gonzalez, and Owen C Montgomery (Article)
Potential role of mind-body therapies in cancer survivorship., Daniel A Monti, Meryl Sufian, and Caroline Peterson (Article)
Extension of type 2 diabetes genome-wide association scan results in the diabetes prevention program., Allan F Moore, Kathleen A Jablonski, Jarred B McAteer, Richa Saxena, Toni I Pollin, Paul W Franks, Robert L Hanson, Alan R Shuldiner, William C Knowler, David Altshuler, and Jose C Florez (Article)
Statin pretreatment is protective despite an association with greater coronary artery disease burden in patients presenting with a first ST-elevation myocardial infarction., Lynn Moran, Tyler Fugate, Yufei Xiang, Christopher Cianci, and Martin E. Matsumura MD (Article)
ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION PREDICTS RESPONSE TO CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION INDEPENDENT OF QRS WIDTH AND DYSSYNCHRONY, Lynn Moran and Martin E. Matsumura MD (Article)
Three isolated superior mesenteric artery dissections: update of previous case reports, diagnostics, and treatment options., John T Morris, John Guerriero DO, Joseph G Sage, and M Ashraf Mansour (Article)
PNL2 melanocytic marker in immunohistochemical evaluation of primary mucosal melanoma of the head and neck., Luc G Morris, Yong Hannah Wen, Daisuke Nonaka, Mark D DeLacure, David I Kutler, Youming Huan MD, and Beverly Y Wang (Article)
PNL2 melanocytic marker in immunohistochemical evaluation of primary mucosal melanoma of the head and neck., Luc G Morris, Yong Hannah Wen, Daisuke Nonaka, Mark D DeLacure, David I Kutler, Youming Huan MD, and Beverly Y Wang (Article)
MRI-guided cryotherapy., Paul R Morrison, Stuart G Silverman, Kemal Tuncali, and Servet Tatli MD (Article)
Age and motor score predict osteoprotegerin level in chronic spinal cord injury., L R Morse, H P Nguyen, N Jain, S Williams, C G Tun, R A Battaglino, P Stashenko, and E Garshick (Article)
Can Surgeons Improve Survival in Stage IV Melanoma?, Paul J. Mosca MD, PhD; Erik J. Teicher MD; Suresh G. Nair MD; and Barbara A. Pockaj (Article)
Revisiting anaplastic astrocytomas I: an expansive growth pattern is associated with a better prognosis., Hugh D Moulding, David P Friedman, Mark Curtis, Lawrence Kenyon, Adam E Flanders, Sun Ha Paek, and David W Andrews (Article)
Stem cells in airway smooth muscle: state of the art., Jaime Murphy, Ross Summer, and Alan Fine (Article)
The prolonged life-span of alveolar macrophages., Jaime Murphy, Ross Summer, Andrew A Wilson, Darrell N Kotton, and Alan Fine (Article)
Quality of life and surgical satisfaction after vaginal reconstructive vs obliterative surgery for the treatment of advanced pelvic organ prolapse., Miles Murphy, Gina Sternschuss, Robin Haff, Heather van Raalte, Stephanie Saltz, and Vincent Lucente (Article)
Incontinence-related quality of life and sexual function following the tension-free vaginal tape versus the "inside-out" tension-free vaginal tape obturator., Miles Murphy, Heather van Raalte, Eduardo Mercurio, Robin Haff, Barbara Wiseman, and Vincent R Lucente (Article)
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's experience with donation after cardiac death., Maryam Y Naim, K Sarah Hoehn, Richard D Hasz, Lori S White, Mark A Helfaer, and Robert M Nelson (Article)
The micrornas mir-373 and mir-520c promote tumor migration, invasion and metastasis, Suresh G. Nair MD (Article)
Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: an insight into pathogenesis., Sudip Nanda, Surya Prakash Bhatt, and Thompson H Dale (Article)
Inferior vena cava anomalies-a common cause of DVT and PE commonly not diagnosed., Sudip Nanda, Surya Prakash Bhatt, and Mohamed A Turki (Article)
Conundrum of elevated HbA1C and hypoglycemia-a rare cause., Sudip Nanda, Shree Gopal Sharma, Surya Prakash Bhatt, John Pamula, and Mohammad I Arastu (Article)
Osteochondral lesions about the ankle., Ketan N Naran and Adam C Zoga (Article)
Progression of traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage: a prospective observational study., Raj K Narayan, Andrew I R Maas, Franco Servadei, Brett E Skolnick, Michael N Tillinger, Lawrence F Marshall, and Mark Cipolle MD (Article)
Resident duty-hour limits., Thomas J Nasca and Ingrid Philibert (Article)
Necrotizing and crescentic lupus nephritis with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody seropositivity., Samih H Nasr, Vivette D D'Agati, Hye-Ran Park, Paul L Sterman, Juan D Goyzueta, Robert M Dressler, Shawn M Hazlett DO, Robert N Pursell, Christopher Caputo, and Glen S Markowitz (Article)
Variations in surgical treatment of cervical facet dislocations., Ahmad Nassr, Joon Y Lee, Marcel F Dvorak, James S Harrop, Andrew T Dailey, Christopher I Shaffrey, Paul M Arnold, Darrel S Brodke, Raja Rampersaud, Jonathan N Grauer, Corbett Winegar, and Alexander R Vaccaro (Article)
Barriers and Facilitators for Colorectal Cancer Screening Practices in the Latino Community: Perspectives From Community Leaders, Ana Natale-Pereira MD, MPH; Jonnie Marks PhD; Marielos Vega RN, BSN; Dawne Mouzon MPH; Shawna V. Hudson PhD; and Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH (Article)
Urologic laser types and instrumentation., Ricardo A Natalin, Courtney K Phillips, Ralph V Clayman, and Jaime Landman (Article)
Abstract 6242: Comparison of Facilitated and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Meta-Analysis, Yassir Nawaz MD (Article)
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin mediates 13-cis retinoic acid-induced apoptosis of human sebaceous gland cells., Amanda M Nelson, Wei Zhao, Kathryn L Gilliland, Andrea L Zaenglein, Wenlei Liu, and Diane M Thiboutot (Article)
Typical atrial flutter as a risk factor for the development of atrial fibrillation in patients without otherwise demonstrable atrial tachyarrhythmias., Daniel W C Ng, Gregory T Altemose, Qing Wu, Komandoor Srivasthan, and Luis R P Scott (Article)
Intravenous bevacizumab causes regression of choroidal neovascularization secondary to diseases other than age-related macular degeneration., Quan Dong Nguyen, Syed Mahmood Shah, Gulnar Hafiz, Diana V Do, Julia A Haller, Roberto Pili, Ingrid E Zimmer-Galler, Kashif Janjua, R C Andrew Symons, and Peter A Campochiaro (Article)
Morphine sulfate extended-release capsules for the treatment of chronic, moderate-to-severe pain., Bruce Nicholson MD (Article)
Effect of cervical spine immobilization technique on pediatric advanced airway management: a high-fidelity infant simulation model., Akira Nishisaki, Louis Scrattish, John Boulet, Mandip Kalsi, Matthew Maltese, Thomas Castner, Aaron Donoghue, Roberta Hales, Lisa Tyler, Peter Brust, Mark Helfaer, and Vinay Nadkarni (Article)
Nursing Attitudes Regarding Suicidal Patients Before and After Staff Education in Preparation for Hospital-Wide Suicide Assessments, Edward R. Norris MD, FAPA, FAPM; Ralph A. Primelo MD; Gail Stern MSN; Karen Burke RN; Joanna L. Bokovoy DrPH, RN; Michael Kaufmann MD; and Terry A. Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, NE-BC, FACHE (Article)
Can Staff Education Change Nursing Attitudes Towards Suicidal Patients, Edward R. Norris MD, FAPA, FAPM; Ralph A. Primelo MD; Gail Stern MSN; Karen Burke RN, BSN; Michael Kaufmann MD; Carol A. Foltz PhD; and Terry A. Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, NE-BC, FACHE (Article)
67: Increased Morbidity but Decreased Diabetes Mellitus following Central Pancreatectomy for Small Neck Lesions, Lee Ocuin MD (Article)
Comparison of central and extended left pancreatectomy for lesions of the pancreatic neck., Lee Ocuin MD, Juan M Sarmiento, Charles A Staley, John R Galloway, Colin D Johnson, William C Wood, and David A Kooby (Article)
A new classification and guide for surgical treatment of spinal tuberculosis., E Oguz, A Sehirlioglu, M Altinmakas, C Ozturk, M Komurcu, C Solakoglu, and A R Vaccaro (Article)
Synthesis and application of fluorescein- and biotin-labeled molecular probes for the chemokine receptor CXCR4., Shinya Oishi, Ryo Masuda, Barry Evans, Satoshi Ueda, Yukiko Goto, Hiroaki Ohno, Akira Hirasawa, Gozoh Tsujimoto, Zixuan Wang, Stephen C Peiper, Takeshi Naito, Eiichi Kodama, Masao Matsuoka, and Nobutaka Fujii (Article)
National Growth in Simulation Training Within Emergency Medicine Residency Programs, 2003-2008, Yasuharu Okuda MD; William Bond MD, MS; Gary Bonfante DO; Steve A. McLaughlin MD; Linda L. Spillane MD; Ernest Wang MD; John A. Vozenilek III MD; and James A. Gordon MD, MPA (Article)
Racial and ethnic disparities in nontraumatic dental-condition visits to emergency departments and physician offices: a study of the Wisconsin Medicaid program., Christopher Okunseri, Nicholas M Pajewski, David C Brousseau, Sandy Tomany-Korman, Andrew Snyder, and Glenn Flores (Article)
Integral care for pregnant adolescents: impact on offspring., Guilherme Sciascia Oliva, Rodrigo Góes Medéa de Mendonça, Maria José C Sant'Anna, Maria Lucia Passarelli, Verônica Coates, and Hatim Omar MD (Article)
Variants in Hormone Biosynthesis Genes and Risk of Endometrial Cancer., Sara H. Olson, Irene Orlow, Sharon Bayuga, Camelia Sima, Elisa V. Bandera, Katherine Pulick, Shameka Faulkner, Diana Tommasi, Daniel Egan, Pampa Roy, Homer Wilcox, Ali Asya, Ippolito Modica, Haider Asad MD, Robert A. Soslow, and Ann G. Zauber (Article)
Significant reduction of repeat teen pregnancy in a comprehensive young parent program., Hataim Omar MD, A Fowler, and K K McClanahan (Article)
What do our adolescent patients expect from us?, Hatim Omar MD (Article)
Athletic pubalgia and "sports hernia": optimal MR imaging technique and findings., Imran M Omar, Adam C Zoga, Eoin C Kavanagh, George Koulouris, Diane Bergin, Angela G Gopez, William B Morrison, and William C Meyers (Article)
Percutaneous balloon compression for the treatment of recurrent trigeminal neuralgia: long-term outcome in 29 patients., Ibrahim Omeis, David Smith, Susan Kim, and Raj Murali (Article)
Twelve-Month Follow-up of Lumbar Spine Range of Motion Following Intervertebral Disc Replacement Using Radiostereometric Analysis., Nathaniel R Ordway, Amir H Fayyazi, Celeste Abjornson, Jerry Calabrese, Soo-An Park, Bruce Fredrickson, Kenneth Yonemura, and Hansen A Yuan (Article)
Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for recurrence of aneurysms treated by endosaccular occlusion., Rafael Ortiz, Michael Stefanski, Robert Rosenwasser, and Erol Veznedaroglu (Article)
The hyperbaric oxygen preconditioning-induced brain protection is mediated by a reduction of early apoptosis after transient global cerebral ischemia., Robert P Ostrowski, Gerhart Graupner, Elena Titova, Jennifer Zhang, Jeffrey Chiu, Neal Dach, Dalia Corleone, Jiping Tang, and John H Zhang (Article)
Pharmacokinetics & drug resistance of melphalan in regional chemotherapy: ILP versus ILI., James C Padussis, Samuel N Steerman, Douglas S Tyler, and Paul J Mosca (Article)
Management of high-grade dysplasia., Francesco Palazzo, Piero M Fisichella, and Marco G Patti (Article)
Thoracoscopic treatment of barium-induced lung entrapment complicating esophageal perforation., Francesco Palazzo and Scott C Silvestry (Article)
The Combined Approach to Lysis Utilizing Eptifibatide and RT-PA in Acute Ischemic Stroke: The CLEAR Stroke Trial, Arthur M. Pancioli MD, Joseph Broderick MD, Thomas G. Brott MD, Thomas Tomsick MD, Jane Khoury PhD, Judy Bean PhD, Gregory Del Zoppo MD, Dawn Kleindorfer MD, Daniel Woo MD, Pooja Khatri MD, James Frey MD, John Castaldo MD, James Gebel Jr. MD, Scott Kasner MD, Chelsea Kidwell MD, Thomas Kwiatkowski MD, Richard Libman MD, Phillip Scott MD, Richard S. MacKenzie MD, Sidney Starkman MD, and R Jason Thurman MD (Article)
Low incidence of symptomatic strokes after carotid stenting without embolization protection devices for extracranial carotid stenosis: a single-institution retrospective review., Aditya S Pandey, Christopher J Koebbe, Kenneth Liebman, Robert H Rosenwasser, and Erol Veznedaroglu (Article)
Design and rationale of the URGENT Dyspnea study: an international, multicenter, prospective study., Peter S Pang, Miguel Tavares, Sean P Collins, John G F Cleland, Judd Hollander, Markku Nieminen, Chadwick Miller, D Mark Courtney, J Douglas Kirk, Josep Masip, Alexander Parkhomenko, Cezar Macarie, W Frank Peacock, Jindrich Spinar, Richard Nowak, Dimitar Raev, Alan B Storrow, Vladimir Spisak, Ahmed Hamdy, Alexandre Mebazaa, and Mihai Gheorghiade (Article)
Measurement of paradoxical and coupled motions following lumbar total disc replacement., Soo-An Park, Nathaniel Ordway, Amir Fayyazi, Bruce Fredrickson, and Hansen A Yuan (Article)
Aliskiren combined with losartan in type 2 diabetes and nephropathy., Hans-Henrik Parving; Frederik Persson; Julia B Lewis; Edmund J Lewis; Norman K Hollenberg; AVOID Study Investigators; and Nelson Kopyt DO, FASN, FACP (Article)
Vascular injuries after total joint arthroplasty., Javad Parvizi, Luis Pulido, Nicholas Slenker MD, Margaret Macgibeny, James J Purtill, and Richard H Rothman (Article)
Outcomes for trauma: is there an end (result) in sight?, Michael D. Pasquale MD, FACS, FCCM (Article)
Revision strategies in lumbar total disc arthroplasty., Alpesh A Patel, Darrel S Brodke, Luiz Pimenta, Christopher M Bono, Alan S Hilibrand, James S Harrop, K Daniel Riew, Jim A Youssef, and Alexander R Vaccaro (Article)
Acute cervical osteomyelitis and prevertebral abscess after routine tonsillectomy., Alpesh A Patel, Luke Madigan, Kornelis A Poelstra, Peter G Whang, Alexander R Vaccaro, and James S Harrop (Article)
Spinal epidural abscess mimicking lymphoma: a case report., Deepan Patel, Eli M Baron, W Steven Enochs, Cory Ruth, James S Harrop, and Alexander R Vaccaro (Article)
Hematuria: etiology and evaluation for the primary care physician., Jitesh V Patel, Christopher V Chambers, and Leonard G Gomella (Article)
Intracoronary abciximab use in patients undergoing PCI at a community hospital: a single operator experience., Sandeep S Patel, Hiralal Rana, and Daniel A N Mascarenhas (Article)
Gastroesophageal reflux disease and connective tissue disorders: pathophysiology and implications for treatment., Marco G Patti, Warren J Gasper, Piero M Fisichella, Ian Nipomnick, and Francesco Palazzo (Article)
Donor deficiency of decay-accelerating factor accelerates murine T cell-mediated cardiac allograft rejection., Vasile Pavlov, Hugo Raedler, Shuguang Yuan, Staci Leisman, Wing-Hong Kwan, Peter N Lalli PhD, M Edward Medof, and Peter S Heeger (Article)
The effect of acute pain crisis on exhaled nitric oxide levels in children with sickle cell disease., Sachin S Pawar, Julie A Panepinto, and David C Brousseau (Article)
Morphine and outcomes in acute decompensated heart failure: an ADHERE analysis., W F Peacock, J E Hollander, D B Diercks, M Lopatin, G Fonarow, and C L Emerman (Article)
Society of Chest Pain Centers Recommendations for the evaluation and management of the observation stay acute heart failure patient: a report from the Society of Chest Pain Centers Acute Heart Failure Committee., W Frank Peacock, Gregg C Fonarow, Douglas S Ander, Alan Maisel, Judd E Hollander, James L Januzzi, Clyde W Yancy, Sean P Collins, Mihai Gheorghiade, Neal L Weintraub, Alan B Storrow, Peter S Pang, William T Abraham, Brian Hiestand, J Douglas Kirk, Gerasimos Filippatos, Mihai Gheorghiade, Peter S Pang, Phillip Levy, and Ezra A Amsterdam (Article)
Effect of Progesterone on Proinflammatory Cytokine Production by Monocytes Stimulated with Pathogens Associated with Preterm Birth, Morgan R. Peltier PhD; Siew C. Tee; and John C. Smulian MD, MPH (Article)
Robotic dismembered pyeloplasty in a horseshoe kidney after failed endopyelotomy., Mark L Pe, Steven N Sterious, Ji-Bin Liu, and Costas D Lallas (Article)
Embracing emerging paradigms of G protein-coupled receptor agonism and signaling to address airway smooth muscle pathobiology in asthma., Raymond B Penn (Article)
Regulation of heterotrimeric G protein signaling in airway smooth muscle., Raymond B Penn and Jeffrey L Benovic (Article)
Weighing obese patients in the emergency department., Jeanmarie Perrone, Anna Marie Chang, Andy Silverman, Julie Kauffman, Roy Campisi, and Judd E Hollander (Article)
Temozolomide rechallenge in recurrent malignant glioma by using a continuous temozolomide schedule: the "rescue" approach., James R Perry, Philippe Rizek, Rosemary Cashman, Meredith Morrison, and Tara Morrison MD (Article)