Andra L. Blomkalns

It's about time: the evolution of acute coronary syndrome evaluation in the emergency department.

Can electrocardiographic criteria predict adverse cardiac events and positive cardiac markers?

Evaluation of chest pain and heart failure in the emergency department: impact of multimarker strategies and B-type natriuretic peptide.

Emergency department crowding: emergency physicians and cardiac risk stratification as part of the solution.

Development of the chest pain center: rationale, implementation, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness.

Achieving standardization in clinical research: changing cacophony into harmony.

Standardized reporting guidelines for studies evaluating risk stratification of emergency department patients with potential acute coronary syndromes.

Standardized reporting guidelines for studies evaluating risk stratification of ED patients with potential acute coronary syndromes.

Residency training in emergency medicine: the challenges of the 21st century.

Gender disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: large-scale observations from the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines) National Quality Improvement Initiative.

Practical implementation of the guidelines for unstable angina/non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the emergency department: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Acute Cardiac Care), Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, and Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group, in Collaboration With the Society of Chest Pain Centers.

Practical implementation of the Guidelines for Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the emergency department.

Chest pain unit concept: rationale and diagnostic strategies.

Frequency and consequences of recording an electrocardiogram >10 minutes after arrival in an emergency room in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (from the CRUSADE Initiative).

Evaluation of dyslipidemia in the emergency department: impact of cholesterol testing on subsequent therapy.

Guideline implementation research: exploring the gap between evidence and practice in the CRUSADE Quality Improvement Initiative.

Proinflammatory phenotype of perivascular adipocytes: influence of high-fat feeding.

Academic emergency medicine faculty and industry relationships.

Society of Chest Pain Centers recommendations for the evaluation and management of the observation stay acute heart failure patient-parts 1-6.

Safety and efficacy of bivalirudin in high-risk patients admitted through the emergency department.

The usage patterns of cardiac bedside markers employing point-of-care testing for troponin in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: results from CRUSADE.

Crosstalk between perivascular adipose tissue and blood vessels.

Turning ACS outside in: linking perivascular adipose tissue to acute coronary syndromes.

The time dependence of antithrombin initiation in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: subgroup analysis from the ACUITY trial.

Low level bacterial endotoxin activates two distinct signaling pathways in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Histone deacetylase 9 is a negative regulator of adipogenic differentiation.

CD14 directs adventitial macrophage precursor recruitment: role in early abdominal aortic aneurysm formation.

Human coronary artery perivascular adipocytes overexpress genes responsible for regulating vascular morphology, inflammation, and hemostasis.

HDAC9 knockout mice are protected from adipose tissue dysfunction and systemic metabolic disease during high-fat feeding.

Transplanted perivascular adipose tissue accelerates injury-induced neointimal hyperplasia: role of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1.

Five-year mortality and coronary heart disease development after normal coronary angiogram.