Richard L. Leask

Chronic aortic dissection: 27 years after aortic valve replacement.

Clinical and pathophysiological implications of a bicuspid aortic valve.

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Pulmonary site bioprosthesis: failure at 15 years.

Pulmonary site porcine bioprosthesis: evaluation at 14 years.

Genetic abnormalities of the endothelium.

Endothelium and valvular diseases of the heart.

Mechanical heart valve prostheses: identification and evaluation.

Stentless porcine valves: new mode of failure.

Host tissue overgrowth in a mitral valve conserving procedure.

Biological replacement heart valves. Identification and evaluation.

Primary cardiac sarcoma involving the pulmonary artery and valve.

Mechanical heart valve prostheses: identification and evaluation (erratum).

The relationship between wall shear stress distributions and intimal thickening in the human abdominal aorta.

Hemodynamic effects of clot entrapment in the TrapEase inferior vena cava filter.

Intimal thickness is not associated with wall shear stress patterns in the human right coronary artery.

Artificial chordae tendinae: long-term changes.

Human saphenous vein coronary artery bypass graft morphology, geometry and hemodynamics.

Image based biomechanics of coronary plaque.

Morphological findings in explanted Toronto stentless porcine valves.

Invited commentary.

Normal wound healing in mice deficient for fibulin-5, an elastin binding protein essential for dermal elastic fiber assembly.

Morphological findings in 192 surgically excised native mitral valves.

Pathologic analysis of 19 heart valves with silver-coated sewing rings.

Effects of diffusion coefficients and struts apposition using numerical simulations for drug eluting coronary stents.

Mechanical properties and microscopic findings of a Dacron graft explanted 27 years after coarctation repair.

Impact of degradation products of sulfamethoxazole on mammalian cultured cells.

Local mechanical and structural properties of healthy and diseased human ascending aorta tissue.

Time-dependent 3D simulations of the hemodynamics in a stented coronary artery.

Second harmonic generation microscopy to investigate collagen configuration: a pericarditis case study.

A comparison of mechanical properties of materials used in aortic arch reconstruction.

The development of 3-D, in vitro, endothelial culture models for the study of coronary artery disease.

Concentration and time effects of dextran exposure on endothelial cell viability, attachment, and inflammatory marker expression in vitro.

Neutrophil adhesion on endothelial cells in a novel asymmetric stenosis model: effect of wall shear stress gradients.

Regional dependency of the vascular smooth muscle cell contribution to the mechanical properties of the pig ascending aortic tissue.

Effect of simvastatin on Kruppel-like factor2, endothelial nitric oxide synthase and thrombomodulin expression in endothelial cells under shear stress.

The response of human aortic endothelial cells in a stenotic hemodynamic environment: effect of duration, magnitude, and spatial gradients in wall shear stress.

Endothelial cell morphologic response to asymmetric stenosis hemodynamics: effects of spatial wall shear stress gradients.

Differential response of endothelial cells to simvastatin when conditioned with steady, non-reversing pulsatile or oscillating shear stress.

Laminar shear stress prevents simvastatin-induced adhesion molecule expression in cytokine activated endothelial cells.

Effects of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and four of its metabolites on steroidogenesis in MA-10 cells.

Regional variations in canine descending aortic tissue mechanical properties change with formalin fixation.

Use of inert gas jets to measure the forces required for mechanical gene transfection.

Designing green plasticizers: influence of alkyl chain length on biodegradation and plasticization properties of succinate based plasticizers.

Statin therapy influences endothelial cell morphology and F-actin cytoskeleton structure when exposed to static and laminar shear stress conditions.