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BACKGROUND: The benefit of retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) with profound hypothermic circulatory arrest has been subject to much debate. We examin…
Authors: Anthony L Estrera, Charles C Miller, Taek-Yeon Lee, Pallav Shah, Hazim J Safi
Source: Circulation. 2008 Sep 30
View Full TextThe major function of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) is contraction to regulate blood pressure and flow. SMC contractile force requires cyclic in…
Authors: Dong-Chuan Guo, Hariyadarshi Pannu, Van Tran-Fadulu, Christina L Papke, Robert K Yu, Nili Avidan, Scott Bourgeois, Anthony L Estrera, Hazim J Safi, Elizabeth Sparks,…
Source: Nature genetics. 2007 Dec
View Full TextThe vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC)-specific isoform of alpha-actin (ACTA2) is a major component of the contractile apparatus in SMCs located throug…
Authors: Dong-Chuan Guo, Christina L Papke, Van Tran-Fadulu, Ellen S Regalado, Nili Avidan, Ralph Jay Johnson, Dong H Kim, Hariyadarshi Pannu, Marcia C Willing, Elizabeth Sparks,…
Source: American journal of human genetics. 2009 May
View Free Full TextBACKGROUND: Recent studies have described the importance of renal glomerular filtration rate (GFR) as a determinant of perioperative mortality in pati…
Authors: Anthony L Estrera, Charles C Miller, Jaswanth Madisetty, Sebastian Bourgeois, Ali Azizzadeh, Martin A Villa, Hazim J Safi
Source: Annals of surgery. 2008 Mar
View Full TextBACKGROUND: Currently, the optimal treatment of acute type B aortic dissection remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to report early cl…
Authors: Anthony L Estrera, Charles C Miller, Hazim J Safi, Jennifer S Goodrick, Arash Keyhani, Eyal E Porat, Paul E Achouh, Riad Meada, Ali Azizzadeh, Jayesh Dhareshwar,…
Source: Circulation. 2006 Jul 4
View Full TextNon-syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections (TAADs) are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner in approximately 20% of cases. Familial …
Authors: Hariyadarshi Pannu, Van Tran-Fadulu, Christina L Papke, Steve Scherer, Yaozhong Liu, Caroline Presley, Dongchuan Guo, Anthony L Estrera, Hazim J Safi, Allan R Brasier,…
Source: Human molecular genetics. 2007 Oct 15
View Full TextBACKGROUND: A genetic predisposition for progressive enlargement of thoracic aortic aneurysms leading to type A dissection (TAAD) is inherited in an a…
Authors: Hariyadarshi Pannu, Van Tran Fadulu, Jessica Chang, Andrea Lafont, Sumera N Hasham, Elizabeth Sparks, Philip F Giampietro, Christina Zaleski, Anthony L Estrera, Hazim J Safi,…
Source: Circulation. 2005 Jul 26
View Full TextEndothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), important for endothelial regeneration and vasculogenesis, are reduced by cigarette smoking. To elucidate the mec…
Authors: Daming Tang, Jonathan Lu, Jeffrey P Walterscheid, Hsin-Hung Chen, David A Engler, Tatsuya Sawamura, Po-Yuan Chang, Hazim J Safi, Chao-Yuh Yang, Chu-Huang Chen
Source: Journal of lipid research. 2008 Jan
View Full TextOBJECTIVE: This paper reports our experience of a large series of elephant trunk patients accumulated over 12 years. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Extensiv…
Authors: Hazim J Safi, Charles C Miller, Anthony L Estrera, Tam T T Huynh, Eyal E Porat, Bradley S Allen, Roy Sheinbaum
Source: Annals of surgery. 2004 Oct
View Free Full TextBACKGROUND: Postoperative paraplegia and paraparesis have been the scourge of thoracoabdominal aortic repair since the inception of the procedure. MET…
Authors: Hazim J Safi, Anthony L Estrera, Ali Azizzadeh, Sheila Coogan, Charles C Miller
Source: World journal of surgery. 2008 Mar
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