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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Heart Failure Executive Committee, Peacock WF, Fonarow GC; Heart Failure Diagnosis Subcommittee, Ander DS, Maisel A, Hollander JE, Januzzi JL Jr, Yancy CW; Heart Failure Risk Stratification Subcommittee, Collins SP, Gheorghiade M, Weintraub NL, Storrow AB, Pang PS, Abraham WT, Hiestand B; Heart Failure Treatment Subcommittee, Kirk JD, Filippatos G, Gheorghiade M, Pang PS, Levy P, Amsterdam EA. 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. Crit Pathw Cardiol 2008; 7:83-86

Snyder GD, Oberley-Deegan RE, Goss KL, Romig-Martin SA, Stoll LL, Snyder JM, Weintraub NL. Surfactant protein D is expressed and modulates inflammatory responses in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2008; 294:H2053-H2059

Denning GM, Ackermann LW, Barna TJ, Armstrong JG, Stoll LL, Weintraub NL, Dickson EW. Proenkephalin expression and enkephalin release are widely observed in non-neuronal tissues. Peptides 2008; 29:83-92

Shaheen M, Weintraub NL. Osteopontin: a bona fide mediator of abdominal aortic aneurysm? Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2007; 27:439-441

McCormick ML, Gavrila D, Weintraub NL. Role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2007; 27:461-469

Stoll LL, Denning GM, Weintraub NL. Endotoxin, TLR4 signaling and vascular inflammation: potential therapeutic targets in cardiovascular disease. Curr Pharm Des 2006; 12:4229-4245

Thomas M, Gavrila D, McCormick ML, Miller FJ Jr, Daugherty A, Cassis LA, Dellsperger KC, Weintraub NL. Deletion of p47phox attenuates angiotensin II-induced abdominal aortic aneurysm formation in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Circulation 2006; 114:404-413

Coyle CH, Martinez LJ, Coleman MC, Spitz DR, Weintraub NL, Kader KN. Mechanisms of H202-induced oxidative stress in endothelial cells. Free Radic Biol Med 2006; 40:2206-2213

Fang X, Faraci FM, Kaduce TL, Harmon S, Modrick ML, Hu S, Moore SA, Falck JR, Weintraub NL, Spector AA. 20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid is a potent dilator of mouse basilar artery: role of cyclooxygenase. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 291:H2301-H2307

Fang X, Hu S, Xu B, Snyder GD, Harmon S, Yao J, Liu Y, Sangras B, Falck JR, Weintraub NL, Spector AA. 14,15-Dihyroxyeicosatrienoic acid activates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 290:H55-H63

Burger AJ, Han Y, Aronson D. The relationship between body mass index and mortality in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. Int J Cardiol 2008

Weinrauch LA, Burger AJ, Aepfelbacher F, Lee AT, Gleason RE, D'Elia JA. A pilot study to test the effect of pulsatile insulin infusion on cardiovascular mechanisms that might contribute to attenuation of renal compromise in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients with proteinuria. Metabolism 2007; 56:1453-1457

Burger AJ. Nesiritide treatment for acute decompensated heart failure. Previews in Cardiovascular Disease 2006; 7: 21-23.

Weinrauch LA, Burger AJ, Aronson D, Gleason RE, Lee AT, D'Elia JA. Regression of ventricular hypertrophy in diabetic nephropathy: loss of parasympathetic function predicts response to treatment. J Clin Hypertens 2006; 8:330-335.

Arif I, Callihan R, Helmy T. Novel use of Twin-Pass catheter in successful recanalization of a chronic coronary total occlusion. J Invasive Cardiol 2008; 20:309-311

McMullan J, Valento M, Attari M, Venkat A. Care of the pacemaker/implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patient in the ED. Am J Emerg Med 2007; 25:812-822

Yamokoski L, Hasselblad V, Moser DK, Binanay C, Conway GA, Glotzer JM, Hartman KA, Stevenson LW, Leier CV. Prediction of re-hospitalization and death in severe heart failure by physicians and nurses of the ESCAPE Trial. Journal of Cardiac Failure 2007; 13:8-13

Conway GA. Case management for heart failure in the emergency department. Critical Pathways in Cardiology, March 2006, Vol 5, #1

Conway GA. Discharge Planning for Heart Failure in the Short Stay Unit. In Peacock WF ed. Short Stay Management of Heart Failure. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 2006 (book chapter)

Min JK, Abbara S, Berman DS, Edgerton DM, Gerson MC, Halliburton S, Hines JL, Hodgson JM, Lesser JR, Lennon L, Taylor AJ, Wann LS, Ziffer JA, Cerqueira MD. Blueprint of the Certification Examination in Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. J Cardiovasc Computed Tomography 2008; 2:263-271

Zimmerman MJ, Gerson MC. To add amiodarone or not: That is the question. J Nucl Cardiol 2008; 15:7-9 (Editorial)

Schaeffer MW, Brennan TD, Hughes JA, Gibler WB, Gerson MC. Resting radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging in a chest pain center including an overnight delay image acquisition protocol. J Nucl Med Technol 2007; 35:242-245

Gerson MC. President's Message: 2006 - A Year of Change. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:131-132

Gerson MC. President's Message: Cost Savings in Medical Imaging - Will It Be Through Quality Initiatives or Rationing of Care? J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:733-734

Gerson MC. President's Message: Ensuring Appropriate Ordering of Tests and Eliminating Inconclusive Test Results. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:593-594

Gerson MC. President's Message: Cardiac Computed Tomography Educational Opportunities and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:441-442

Gerson MC. President's Message: The Promise of I-123 Radiotracers. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:302-305

Gerson MC. President's Message: Changing Times in Nuclear Cardiology. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:131-132

Mushtaq N, Gerson MC. I-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients with normal myocardial perfusion scans: New insights into their increased cardiac morbidity and mortality rates. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:8-10 (editorial).

El-Chami MF, Nicholson W, Helmy T. Blunt cardiac trauma. J Emerg Med 2008; 35:127-133

Schambelan M, Wilson PW, Yarasheski KE, Cade WT, D'Agostino RB Sr, Helmy T, Law M, Mondy KE, Nachman S, Peterson LR, Worm SW. Development of appropriate coronary heart disease risk prediction models in HIV-infected patients. Circulation 2008; 118:e48-53

Khalil A, Helmy T, Porembka D. Aortic pathology: Aortic trauma, debris, dissection, and aneurysm. Crit Care Med 2007; 35:S392-400

Choudary J, Arif I, Helmy T. Multivessel PCI versus CABG. one-year outcomes and cost analysis. J Invasive Cardiol 2007; 19:476-477

Helmy T, Callihan R. Broadening the applications of fractional flow reserve. J Invasive Cardiol 2006; 18:550-551

Helmy T, Effat M. Commentary: Alternative safe, effective and cost-efficient dosing for eptifibatide in low-risk patients. J Invasive Cardiol 2006; 18:492-493

Patel AD, Sola S, Caneer P, Cheema FA, Gupta D. Helmy T, Khan BV. Cocaine use in an urban medical population and the development of angiographically significant coronary artery disease. Prev Cardiol 2006; 9:144-147

Pohlel K. Grow P, Helmy T, Wenger NK. Treating dyslipidemia in the elderly. Curr Opin Lipidol 2006; 17:54-57

Nicholson WJ, Cates CU, Patel AD, Niazi K, Palmer S, Helmy T, Gallagher AG. Face and content validation of virtual reality simulation for carotid angiography: Results from the first 100 physicians attending the Emory neuroanatomy carotid training (ENACT) program. J Soc Simulation in Healthcare 2006; 1:147-150

Leesar MA. Myocardial protection with a beta blocker and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor during PCI: attractive concept, but limited evidence of benefit. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008; 72:498-499

Flaherty MP, Leesar MA, Dawn B. Acute myocardial infarction in a 19 year-old female owing to hypercoagulable state of pregnancy and the puerperium. J Invasive Cardiol 2008; 20:E262-264

Leesar MA. Fractional flow reserve: FFR B4 U stent. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008; 72:257-258

Leesar MA. Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors: is their future as bright as their past? Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008; 71:907-908

Leesar MA. A revisit: repeat stent placement versus angioplasty alone for renal in-stent restenosis. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2008; 71:706-707

Leesar MA, Mintz GS. Hemodynamic and intravascular ultrasound assessment of an ambiguous left main coronary artery stenosis. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2007; 70:721-730

Elghoul Z, Leesar MA. Iatrogenic fistula between the left anterior descending coronary artery and anterior interventricular vein following stenting. J Invasive Cardiol 2007; 19:E188-191

Giugliano RP, Wiviott SD, Stone PH, Simon DI, Schweiger MJ, Bouchard A, Leesar MA, Goulder MA, Deitcher SR, McCabe CH, Braunwald E; ANTHEM-TIMI-32 Investigators. Recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein c2 in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: the ANTHEM-TIMI-32 trial. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007; 49:2398-2407

Leesar MA, Jneid H, Tang XL, Bolli R. Pretreatment with intracoronary enalaprilat protects human myocardium during percutaneous coronary angioplasty. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007; 49:1607-1610

Siddiqui TS, Elghoul Z, Reza ST, Leesar MA. Renal hemodynamics: theory and practical tips. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2007; 69:894-901

Satran A, Dawn B, Leesar MA. Congenital ostial left main coronary artery stenosis associated with a bicuspid aortic valve in a young woman. J Invasive Cardiol 2006; 18:E114-116

Qin Z, Reszka KJ, Fukai T, Weintraub NL. Extracellular superoxide dismutase (ecSOD) in vascular biology - an update on exogenous gene transfer and endogenous regulators of ecSOD. Transl Res 2008; 151:68-78 (Review)

Yao C, Qin Z, Works KN, Austin GE, Young AY. C/EBP and C-Myb sites are important for the functional activity of the human myeloperoxidase upstream enhancer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2008; 371:309-314

Qin Z, Itoh S, Jeney V, Ushio-Fukai M, Fukai T. Essential role for the Menkes ATPase in activation of extracellular superoxide dismutase: implication for vascular oxidative stress. FASEB J 2006; 20:334-336

Gongora MC, Qin Z, Laude K. Kim HW, McCann L, Folz JR, Dikalov S, Fukai T, Harrison DG. Role of extracellular superoxide dismutase in hypertension. Hypertension 2006; 48:473-481

Ripplinger CM, Li W, Hadley J, Chen J, Rothenberg F, Lombardi R, Wickline SA, Marian AJ, Efimov IR. Enhanced transmural fiber rotation and Cx43 heterogeneity are associated with an increased upper limit of vulnerability in a transgenic rabbit model of human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation Research 2007; 101:1049-1057

Jenkins MW, Gargesha M, Wilson DL, Rollins AM, Belding J, Watanabe M, Rothenberg F, Adler DC, Huber R, Fujimoto JG. Ultrahigh-speed optical coherence tomography imaging and visualization of the embryonic avian heart using a buffered Fourier domain mode locked laser. Optics Express 2007; 15:6251-6267

Jenkins M, Rothenberg F, Roy D, Wilson D, Efimov IR, Rollins AM. Physiologic investigations of beating embryonic hearts with gated optical coherence tomography. Optics Express 2006; 14:736-748

Rothenberg F, Efimov IR. Three-dimensional anatomy of the conduction system of the early embryonic rabbit heart. Anatomical Record 2006; 288A: 3-7

Shizukuda Y, Bolan CD, Tripodi DJ, Yau Y-Y, Smith KP, Arena R, Waclawiw MA, Leitman SF, Rosing RR. Exercise capacity of cardiac asymptomatic hereditary hemochromatosis subjects. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2007; 39:3-7

Sachdev V, Rao Y, Sidenko S, Ernst I, St. Peter M, Shizukuda Y, Coles W, Kato G, Machado R, Rosing DR, Blackwelder B, Gladwin M. Diastolic dysfunction is an independent risk factor for death in patients with sickle cell disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007; 49:472-479

Arena R, Shizukuda Y, Bolan CD, Tripodi DJ, Yau Y-Y, Smith KP, Waclawiw MA, Leitman SF, Rosing RR. Heart rate recovery is lower following supine exercise in asymptomatic hereditary hemochromatosis patients. J Cardiovasc Rehab Prevention 2007; 27:157-160

Taveira-Desaliva AM, Mary RM, Hathaway OM, Sachdev V, Shizukuda Y, Birdsall CW, Moss J. Relationship between systolic pulmonary artery pressure and exercise-induced hypoxemia in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Chest 2007; 132:1573-1578