| Search | Site Index | Site Map | Directory | About |
"...Let us preserve health through knowledge and education."

Cardiovascular Research Institute and WHC Current Abstracts and Publications

ACC 2003
AHA 2002
Dr. Acio
Dr. Cooper
Dr. Epstein
Dr. Fuisz
 
Dr. Goldstein
Dr. Laird
Dr. Lindsay
Dr. O'Donoghue
Dr. Platia
Dr. Panza
 
Dr. Pichard
Dr. Satler
Dr. Sears-Rogan
Dr. Strickberger
Dr. Waksman
Dr. Weissman

ACC 2003

1. Arvind Sharma, Andrew Ajani, Edouard Cheneau, Nidhi Garg, Afework GebreEyesus, Lowell F. Satler, Augusto D. Pichard, Ellen Pinnow, Ron Waksman, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.  Percutaneous Interventions in Radial Artery Grafts: Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes

2. Marco T. Castagna, Gary S. Mintz, Jun-Ichi Kotani, Vivek M. Shah, Ellen E. Pinnow, Kenneth M. Kent, William O. Suddath, Ron Waksman, Lowell F. Satler, Chalak O. Berzingi, Augusto D. Pichard, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY. Fixing Chronic Stent Underexpansion Is Associated With a Low Rate of recurrence: An Intravascular Ultrasound Analysis

3. Edouard F. Cheneau, Gary S. Mintz, Laurent Leborgne, Jun-Ichi Kotani, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Neil Weissman, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Mechanisms of Abrupt Vessel Closure After Coronary Angioplasty: Results of a Systematic Intravascular Ultrasound Study

4. Jun-ichi Kotani, Gary S. Mintz, Jerzy Pregowski, Lukasz Kalinczuk, Augusto D. Pichard, Ron Waksman, Lowell F. Satler, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Daniel A. Canos, Natalie Gevorkian, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY. Does a Thrombotic Lesion Detected by Coronary Angiography Always Contain a Thrombus? An Intravascular Ultrasound Study

5. Ron Waksman, Ian Leitch, Ray Hunter, John Roessler, Tom Bulinski, Hamid Yazdi, Jana Fourdnajiev, Edouard F. Cheneau, Allister Wilson, Kevin Flores, Jane Yamada, Erik Petersen, Robert Scott, John Hill, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Miravant Medical Technologies, Santa Barbara, CA. Intravascular PhotoPoint™ Photodynamic Therapy With a New Photosensitizer (MV0633) Reduces Smoth Muscle Cells Proliferation Without Compromising Vessel Wall Mechanical Strength.

6. Shadi M. Hamwi, Arvind K. Sharma, Neil J. Weissman, Steven A. Goldstein, Sue Apple, Daniel A. Canos, Ellen E. Pinnow, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Unexplained Troponin-I Elevations in Patients With Increased Left Ventricular Mass.

7. Daniel A. Canos, Gary S. Mintz, Vivek M. Shah, Sue Apple, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Late In-Stent Restenosis Occurring After 12 Months Is Common and the Predictors Are Similar to Early In-Stent Restenosis.

8. Arvind K. Sharma, Andrew Ajani, Parimal Maniar, Shilen Lakhani, Joseph Lindsay, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Coronary Angioplasty With Stenting Preceding Major Noncardiac Surgery: When Is It Safe to Operate?

9. Shmuel Fuchs, Nabil Dib, Barry Cohen, Petros G. Okubagzi, Edward B. Diethrich, Ann Campbell, Jennifer Macko, Henrik Rasmussen, Stephen E. Epstein, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Arizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, AZ. A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Multicenter Pilot Study of the Safety and Feasibility of AdGVVEGF121.10 via an Intramyocardial Injection Catheter in Patients With Advanced Coronary Artery Disease.

10. Rajbabu Pakala, Mary Susan Burnett, Cindy P. Gulick, Jana Fournadjiev, Laurent Leborgne, Edouard Cheneau, David Hellinga, Stephen E. Epstein, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Oral Rapamycin Attenuates Progression of Atherosclerotic Plaque in ApoE Knock-Out Mice.

11. Ron Waksman, Edouard Cheneau, Robert Lew, Augusto Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, William Suddath, Laurent Leborgne, Regina Dieble, Rebecca Torguson, Maria Medina, Afework GebreEyesus, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. The Use of IIb/IIIa Inhibitors in Patients With In-Stent Restenosis Treated With Intracoronary Gamma Radiation: Results From the Clinical Trial INTEGRILIN WRIST.

12. Ron Waksman, Laurent Leborgne, Rufus Seabron, David Hellinga, Robert Scott, Travis Moore, John Franco, Steven Rychnovsky, Pauline McEwan, Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, Mirvant Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA. Novel Photopoint™ Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Atherosclerotic Plaques.

13. Robert Lew, Ron Waksman, Andrew E. Ajani, Rebecca Torguson, Lowell F. Satler, William Suddath, Nai-Chuen Yang, Ellen Pinnow, Barbara Pearson, Michael Parrazzo, Olga Walter, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Repeat Vascular Brachytherapy for Patients With In-Stent Restenosis Who Failed Radiation Therapy.

14. Arvind K. Sharma, Andrew E. Ajani, Robert Lew, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Ellen Pinnow, Regina Deible, George Aggrey, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Totally Occluded In-Stent Restenotic Lesions Treated With Gamma Intracoronary Radiation: Six-Month Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes.

15. Roswitha Wolfram, Laurent Leborgne, Edouard Cheneau, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Daniel Canos, Sivakunar Lingam, Rebecca Howery, Petros Okubagzi, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Saphenous Vein Graft In-Stent Restenotic and De Novo Lesions: Is There a Difference in Enzyme Release and Clinical Outcome?

16. Tareq S. Harb, John R. Laird, Donna Whitman, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Augusto D. Pichard, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Renal Artery Stenting Using Gadolinium-Based Arteriography in Patients With Baseline Renal Insufficiency

17. Jun-ichi Kotani, Gary S. Mintz, Marco T. Castagna, Lukasz Kalinczuk, Jerzy Pregowski, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY. What Are the Differences Between Culprit and Nonculprit Lesions in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction?

18. Edouard F. Cheneau, Michael C. John, Jana Fournadjiev, Rosanna C. Chan, Han-Soo Kim, Rajbabu Pakala, Laurent Leborgne, Renu Virmani, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC. Time Course of Stent Endothelialization After Intravascular Radiation Therapy.

19. Jerzy Pregowski, Lukasz Kalinczuk, Gary S. Mintz, Christian E. Dilcher, Rosanna Chan, Jun-ichi Kotani, Vivek Shah, Ron Waksman, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Late Stent Malapposition After Brachytherapy: An Assessment of the Incidence and Mechanisms Using Volumetric Intravascular Ultrasound.

20. Tim D. Kinnaird, Eugenio Stabile, Mary Susan Burnett, Yi Fu Zhou, Richard Baffour, Cheol Whan Lee, Shmuel Fuchs, Stephen E. Epstein, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington, DC. Constitutive Over-expression of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1a/VP-16 Enhances the In Vitro Angiogenic/Arteriogenic Effects of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells.

21. Laurent Leborgne, Jana Fournadjiev, Rajbabu Pakala, Deena Weber, Hamid Yazdi, Edouard Cheneau, David Hellinga, Renu Virmani, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC. Increased Atherosclerotic Plaque Burden After Intravascular Radiation in an Atherosclerotic Rabbit Model.

22. Jun-ichi Kotani, Gary S. Mintz, Chalak O. Berzingi, Marco T. Castagna, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY. Pre-procedural Lesion Morphology as Assessed by Intravascular Ultrasound Predicts Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Frame Counts Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for the Infarct-Related Artery.

23. Jun-ichi Kotani, Gary S. Mintz, Chalak O. Berzingi, Jerzy Pregowski, Lukasz Kalinczuk, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY. Mechanisms of Lumen Enlargement During Stenting of Acute Myocardial Infarction Lesions: A Volumetric Intravascular Ultrasound Study.

24. Jun-ichi Kotani, Gary S. Mintz, Marco T. Castagna, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Neil J. Weissman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY. Lesion Characteristics Affect TIMI Flow in Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Intravascular Ultrasound Study.

25. Laurent Leborgne, Edouard Cheneau, Roswitha Wolfram, Daniel Canos, Rajbabu Pakala, Robert Lew, Augusto Pichard, Lowell Satler, George Aggrey, Natalie Gevorkian, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes of Patients Treated With Primary or Rescue Angioplasty in Saphenous Vein Graft for Acute Myocardial Infarction.

26. Tim D. Kinnaird, Eugenio Stabile, Mary Susan Burnett, Matie Shou, Yi Fu Zhou, Richard Baffour, Cheol Whan Lee, Shmuel Fuchs, Stephen E. Epstein, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington, DC. Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Transplantation Contributes to Collateral Response in Tissue Ischemia Through Release of Arteriogenic Cytokines.

27. Laurent Leborgne, Jana Fournadjiev, Rajbabu Pakala, Hamid Yazdi, Edouard Cheneau, Elias Rivera, Roswitha Wolfram, David Hellinga, Rufus Seaborn, Renu Virmani, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC. Transepicardial Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation in a Porcine Nonreperfused Myocardial Infarction Model: Angiogenesis or Myogenesis?

28. Ron Waksman, Andrew Ajani, Larry R. White, Edouard Cheneau, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Regina Deible, Verne Mattox, Ellen Pinnow, Peter Iloanya, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Five-Year Follow-Up After Intracoronary Gamma Radiation Therapy for In-Stent Restenosis: Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial.

29. Ron Waksman, Arvind K. Sharma, Andrew E. Ajani, Edouard Cheneau, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ellen Pinnow, Afework GebreEyesus, Rebecca Torguson, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Does Periprocedural Creatine Kinase Release Predict Adverse Outcomes After Intracoronary Radiation Therapy for In-Stent Restenosis?

30. Ron Waksman, Andrew E. Ajani, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Michael Parrazzo, Neil Weissman, Robert Lew, Rebecca Torguson, Edouard Cheneau, Ellen Pinnow, Daniel Canos, Augusto D. Pichard, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Repeat Intracoronary Gamma Radiation for Patients With In-Stent Restenosis Who Failed Radiation Therapy.

31. Edouard F. Cheneau, Andrew Ajani, Roswitha Wolfram, Rebecca Torguson, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Regina Deible, Ellen Pinnow, Afework GebreEyesus, Joseph Lindsay, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Cumulative Effect of High Radiation Dose and Prolonged Antiplatelet Therapy in Improving Outcomes of Patients Treated With Vascular Brachytherapy.

32. Howard A. Cooper, James A. deLemos, Marc S. Sabatine, David A. Morrow, Graham C. Wong, Carolyn H. McCabe, Sabina A. Murphy, Michael Gibson, Robert P. Giugliano, Elliott M. Antman, Eugene Braunwald, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. A Simple Electrocardiographic Method to Predict Patency of the Infarct-Related Artery After Fibrinolytic Therapy.

33. Ron Waksman, Andrew Ajani, Augusto D. Pichard, Ellen Pinnow, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Neil Weissman, Rebecca Torguson, Louise Gambone, Maureen Abbott, Peter Iloanya, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Oral Rapamune to Inhibit Restenosis in Patients With Multi De-Novo Coronary Lesions Requiring Stenting.

34. Ali Tabrizchi, Arvind K. Sharma, Sue Apple, Fady Kassem, Elmo Acio, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Rest Redistribution Imaging: A Novel Standard for Assessing ECG Criteria for Myocardial Infarction.

35. Edouard F. Cheneau, Laurent Leborgne, Daniel Canos, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, William O. Suddath, Neil Weissman, Ron Waksman, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC Impact of Direct Stenting Guided by Intravascular Ultrasound on Clinical Outcome of Patients Treated for Native Coronary Disease.


AHA 2002

1. A NOVEL PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES
Ron Waksman, Hamid Yazdi, Edouard Cheneau, David Hellinga, Rufus Seabron, Jana Alexieva-Fournadjiev, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Pauline E McEwan, Travis Moore, Julie Burgher, John Franco, Steven Rychnovsky, Robert Grove, Robert Scott, Miravant Medical Technologies, Santa Barbara, CA

2. A RANDOMIZED PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON OF ALCOHOL SEPTAL ABLATION AND DUAL CHAMBER PACEMAKER THERAPY IN OBSTRUCTIVE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG-REFRACTORY SYMPTOMS
Saidi A Mohiddin, NHLBI, National Inst of Health, Bethesda, MD; Kenneth Kent, Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC; David A Begley, Eric Leifer, NHLBI, National Inst of Health, Bethesda, MD; Fayez Shawl, Washington Adventist Hosp, Washington, DC; Steven Goldstein, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Vandana Sachdev, Kwabena Ageyman, Andrew Arai, Lameh Fananapazir, NHLBI, National Inst of Health, Bethesda, MD

3. ACUTE HYPERINSULINEMIA IMPAIRS FLOW-MEDIATED DILATION INDEPENDENT OF INSULIN SENSITIVITY OR LIPID PROFILE
Umberto Campia, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Gail Sullivan, Melissa B Bryant, Michael J Quon, National Inst of Health, Bethesda, MD; Julio A Panza, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

4. ADDITIONAL STENTING PROMOTES INTIMAL PROLIFERATION AND COMPROMISES THE RESULTS OF INTRAVASCULAR RADIATION THERAPY: AN INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND STUDY
Edouard Cheneau, Zhiyong Wu, Laurent Leborgne, Akiko Mehera, Taya McMillian, Olga Walter, Kenneth M Kent, Gary S Mintz, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

5. "BACKGROUND" INCIDENCE OF LATE MALAPPOSITION IN BARE METAL STENTS
Vivek M Shah, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Gary Mintz, Lenox Hill Hosp, New York, NY; Sue Apple, Neil J Weissman, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

6. BETA RADIATION FOR DE NOVO AND IN-STENT RESTENOTIC LESIONS IN SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFTS: THE SVG BRITE TRIAL
Gregg W Stone, Roxana Mehran, CV Research Fdn; Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, New York, NY; Mark Midei, St Joseph's Medical Ctr, Townson, MD; Ron Waksman, CV Research Institute, Washington, DC; Gary Schaer, Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Ctr, Chicago, IL; Alexandra J Lansky, CV Research Fdn; Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, New York, NY; Maurice Buchbinder, Fdn for CV Medicine, San Diego, CA

7. CATHETER-BASED AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW MYOCARDIAL INJECTION IN NO-OPTION PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE - A FEASIBILITY AND SAFETY STUDY
Shmuel Fuchs, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Giora Weisz, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, New York, NY; Ran Kornowski, Rabin Medical Ctr, Petach Tikva, Israel; Lowell F Satler, Petros Okubagzi, Richard Baffour, Ron Waksman, Neil J Weissman, Manuel Cerqueira, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Martin B Leon, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, New York, NY; Stephen E Epstein, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

8. CORRELATES OF RADIATION FAILURE FOR IN-STENT RESTENOSIS
Andrew E Ajani, Daniel Canos, Natalie Gevorkian, Becca Howery, Augusto D Pichard, Regina Deible, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

9. EARLY SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT FAILURE:ANGIOGRAPHIC AND INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND FEATURES WITH EARLY AND LATE RESULTS OF INTERVENTION
Chalak O Berzingi, Sue Apple, Daniel A Canos, Jun-ichi Kotani, John Schnabel, Neil J Weissman, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

10. IMPAIRED ANGIOGENIC RESPONSE TO ACUTE HINDLIMB ISCHEMIA IN CD4 KNOCKOUT MICE.
Eugenio Stabile, CV Research Institute, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Mary Susan Burnett, CV Research Institute, Washington, DC; Craig A Watkins, Tim Kinnaird, CV Research Institute, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Jonathan M Miller, CV Research Institute, Washington, DC; Stephen E Epstein, Shmuel Fuchs, CV Research Institute, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

11. IN-STENT RESTENOSIS OF SMALL VESSELS RESPOND FAVORABLY TO INTRACORONARY RADIATION: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE INHIBIT TRIALS
Andrew E Ajani, Ron Waksman, Petros Okubagzi, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Alan C Yeung, Stanford Univ Medical Ctr, Stanford, CA; Lynn Vandertie, Guidant Corp, Houston, TX; Alexandra J Lansky, CV Research Fdn, New York, NY; Albert E Raizner, The Methodist Hosp, Houston, TX

12. RENAL FUNCTION AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: AN INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND STUDY.
Luis Gruberg, Rambam Medical Ctr, Haifa, Israel; Son G Kim, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC; Gary S Mintz, CV Research Fdn, New York, NY; Daniel A Canos, Taya McMillan, Augusto D Pichard, Kenneth M Kent, Lowell F Satler, Ellen E Pinnow, Neil J Weissman, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

13. THE EFFECTS OF IN VIVO ADMINISTRATION OF ANGIOPOIETIN-1 AND VEGF ON TISSUE PERFUSION IN A CHRONIC ISCHEMIC RABBIT EAR MODEL
Yifu Zhou, Jill Walker, Eugenio Stabile, Matie Shou, Richard Baffour, Sophia Rushton-Reid, David Rott, Stephen E Epstein, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

14. THE IMPACT OF RACE ON CLINICAL OUTCOME AFTER PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION
Laurent Leborgne, Edouard Cheneau, Rajbabu Pakala, Roswita Wolfram, Umberto Campia, Daniel Canos, Sue Apple, George Aggrey, Joseph Lindsay, Washington Hosp Ctr, Washington, DC

| Dept of Medicine | Medical Center | GU Hospital | Dahlgren | PubMed | School of Medicine |

© 1999-08 Georgetown University Department of Medicine / Peter Shields MD, Interim Chair Richard Morrisey MD, Interim Chief of Service
Web Design: NuevoDesign, Inc.