Thomas Ryan

Changing patient characteristics and the effect on mortality in endocarditis.

Highlights of latest American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association Guidelines for Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Standardized myocardial segmentation and nomenclature for tomographic imaging of the heart: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Cardiac Imaging Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association.

ACC/AHA guideline update for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery).

ACC/AHA guideline update for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery---executive summary a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery).

Three-dimensional structure of human gamma -glutamyl hydrolase. A class I glatamine amidotransferase adapted for a complex substate.

ACC/AHA Guideline Update for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery--Executive Summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery).

Use of hepatitis B core antibody-positive donors in orthotopic liver transplantation.

Standardized myocardial segmentation and nomenclature for tomographic imaging of the heart: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Cardiac Imaging Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association.

Echocardiographic evaluation of pulmonary artery pressure with clinical correlates in predominantly obese adults.

The coronary angiogram and its seminal contributions to cardiovascular medicine over five decades.

Lactic acidosis after cardiac surgery is associated with polymorphisms in tumor necrosis factor and interleukin 10 genes.

Standardized myocardial segmentation and nomenclature for tomographic imaging of the heart. A statement for healthcare professionals from the Cardiac Imaging Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association.

Understanding individual and small area variation in the underuse of coronary angiography following acute myocardial infarction.

The coronary angiogram and its seminal contributions to cardiovascular medicine over five decades.

Correction of phenotype in a thalassemia mouse model using a nonmyeloablative marrow transplantation regimen.

Distinguishable live erythroid and myeloid cells in beta-globin ECFP x lysozyme EGFP mice.

Minimal access closure of patent foramen ovale: is it also recommended for patients with paradoxical emboli?

Nitric oxide-dependent generation of reactive species in sickle cell disease. Actin tyrosine induces defective cytoskeletal polymerization.

Effect of fenfluramine-derivative diet pills on cardiac valves: a meta-analysis of observational studies.

Open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for the morbidly obese in the era of laparoscopy.

Gender-related changes in the practice and outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions in Northern New England from 1994 to 1999.

Revascularization of a thrombosed aortopulmonary shunt with the use of the AngioJet thrombectomy system.

Safety of concomitant therapy with eptifibatide and enoxaparin in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: results of the Coronary Revascularization Using Integrilin and Single bolus Enoxaparin Study.

Percutaneous coronary interventions without on-site cardiac surgery: a stretch for much-needed evidence.

Exercise echocardiographic comparison of pulmonary autograft and aortic homograft replacements for aortic valve disease in adults.

Electrosurgery-induced generation of gases: comparison of in vitro rates of production using bipolar and monopolar electrodes.

Predicting vascular complications in percutaneous coronary interventions.

Coaching and the ability to simulate mild traumatic brain injury symptoms.

Outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention among elderly patients in cardiogenic shock: a multicenter, decade-long experience.

Do hospitals and surgeons with higher coronary artery bypass graft surgery volumes still have lower risk-adjusted mortality rates?

Predictors of readmission for complications of coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Correction of a mouse model of sickle cell disease: lentiviral/antisickling beta-globin gene transduction of unmobilized, purified hematopoietic stem cells.

Infection with chronic hepatitis C virus and liver transplantation: a role for interferon therapy before transplantation.

Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human gamma-glutamyl hydrolase gene and characterization of promoter polymorphisms.

Importance of echocardiography in patients with severe nonischemic heart failure: the second Prospective Randomized Amlodipine Survival Evaluation (PRAISE-2) echocardiographic study.

A comparison of short- and long-term outcomes after off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery with sternotomy.

Economic impact of drug-eluting stents on hospital systems: a disease-state model.

A recombinant human hemoglobin with anti-sickling properties greater than fetal hemoglobin.

Usefulness of myocardial viability or ischemia in predicting long-term survival for patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing revascularization.

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention without nearby surgical capability: a reassuring response from rural America.

Gene expression alterations in prostate cancer predicting tumor aggression and preceding development of malignancy.

Is the impact of hospital and surgeon volumes on the in-hospital mortality rate for coronary artery bypass graft surgery limited to patients at high risk?

The thrombolysis in myocardial infarction risk index: a formula with a future.

Rapid tagging of endogenous mouse genes by recombineering and ES cell complementation of tetraploid blastocysts.

Should coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients with mild or moderate aortic stenosis undergo concomitant aortic valve replacement? A decision analysis approach to the surgical dilemma.

Medical costs and quality of life 10 to 12 years after randomization to angioplasty or bypass surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease.

Task force 6: Code of conduct for staff and volunteer leadership.

A time of accelerated change in academic cardiovascular medicine: implications for academic divisions of cardiology and their training programs.

Real-Time, label-free monitoring of tumor antigen and serum antibody interactions.

Ligand rebinding: self-consistent mean-field theory and numerical simulations applied to surface plasmon resonance studies.

A mixed self-assembled monolayer-based surface plasmon immunosensor for detection of E. coli O157:H7.

Long-term outcomes of coronary-artery bypass grafting versus stent implantation.

Plant gamma-glutamyl hydrolases and folate polyglutamates: characterization, compartmentation, and co-occurrence in vacuoles.

Comparing long-term survival of patients with multivessel coronary disease after CABG or PCI: analysis of BARI-like patients in northern New England.

Diagnosis of a solitary cardiac metastasis from ocular melanoma.

Real-time analysis of enzymatic surface-initiated polymerization using surface plasmon resonance (SPR).

Chemokine receptor CXCR3 desensitization by IL-16/CD4 signaling is dependent on CCR5 and intact membrane cholesterol.

Microwave ablation: results with a 2.45-GHz applicator in ex vivo bovine and in vivo porcine liver.

Correction of sickle cell disease by homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells.

Letter regarding article by Tomic et al, "transcriptomic and proteomic patterns of systemic inflammation in on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting".

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-10 gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells after cardiac surgery.

Gamma-glutamyl hydrolase and drug resistance.

Gene polymorphism and requirement for vasopressor infusion after cardiac surgery.

Characterization of Human gamma-glutamyl hydrolase in solution demonstrates that the enzyme is a non-dissociating homodimer.

Septic shock is correlated with asymmetrical dimethyl arginine levels, which may be influenced by a polymorphism in the dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase II gene: a prospective observational study.

Comparative analysis of 10 small molecules binding to carbonic anhydrase II by different investigators using Biacore technology.

Enhanced insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) cell association at reduced pH is dependent on IGF binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) interaction.

The occurrence of severe sepsis and septic shock are related to distinct patterns of cytokine gene expression.

JunB and JunD regulate human heme oxygenase-1 gene expression in renal epithelial cells.

Left ventricular eccentric remodeling and matrix loss are mediated by bradykinin and precede cardiomyocyte elongation in rats with volume overload.

Contribution of surgical evacuation of a large subgaleal hematoma to the resolution of severe conjugated hyperbilirubinemia in a neonate. Case report.

3D echocardiography: a review of the current status and future directions.

Active integration: new strategies for transgenesis.

To understand cardiac surgical report cards: look both ways.

Coagulopathy after cardiac surgery may be influenced by a functional plasminogen activator inhibitor polymorphism.

Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: the patient and public perspective.

Evolving trends in the use of echocardiography: a study of Medicare beneficiaries.

The use of artificial neural networks to stratify the length of stay of cardiac patients based on preoperative and initial postoperative factors.

The RON receptor tyrosine kinase mediates oncogenic phenotypes in pancreatic cancer cells and is increasingly expressed during pancreatic cancer progression.

President's message: demonstrating competency.

Training cardiovascular specialists in imaging: a curriculum based on fundamental concepts required for multimodal imaging.

Long-term survival after surgery versus percutaneous intervention in octogenarians with multivessel coronary disease.

Venous thrombosis in patients with short- and long-term central venous catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

Stress echocardiography from 1979 to present.

Gamma-glutamyl hydrolase: kinetic characterization of isopeptide hydrolysis using fluorogenic substrates.

Task force 4: training in echocardiography endorsed by the American Society of Echocardiography.

Serious renal dysfunction after percutaneous coronary interventions can be predicted.

The human response to infection is associated with distinct patterns of interleukin 23 and interleukin 27 expression.

Echocardiographer as patient advocate: lessons from the contrast debate.

Implications of the mechanical (PCI) vs thrombolytic controversy for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction on the organization of emergency medical services: the Boston EMS experience.

Clinical, procedural, and pharmacologic correlates of acute and subacute stent thrombosis: results of a multicenter case-control study with 145 thrombosis events.

Urothelial carcinogenesis in the urinary bladder of rats treated with naveglitazar, a gamma-dominant PPAR alpha/gamma agonist: lack of evidence for urolithiasis as an inciting event.

Looking back, looking forward.

Mortality in humans with pneumonia and sepsis is related to an uncompensated anti-inflammatory response to infection.

Natural selection and the molecular basis of electrophoretic variation at the coagulation F13B locus.

The dos and don'ts of selecting an avian/exotic pet.

Humanized Mouse Model of Cooley's Anemia.

ACCF 2008 Training Statement on Multimodality Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training Developed in Collaboration With the American Society of Echocardiography, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and the Society for Vascular Medicine.

A global benchmark study using affinity-based biosensors.

Preclinical transfusion-dependent humanized mouse model of beta thalassemia major.

The multimodality imager: reality or fantasy?

Management of acute post-operative portal venous thrombosis.

Neoplastic and non-neoplastic changes in F-344 rats treated with Naveglitazar, a gamma-dominant PPAR alpha/gamma agonist.

Chemokine receptor CXCR4 enhances proliferation in pancreatic cancer cells through AKT and ERK dependent pathways.

Significantly improved vascular complications among women undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: a report from the Northern New England Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Registry.

Silencing of RON receptor signaling promotes apoptosis and gemcitabine sensitivity in pancreatic cancers.

Current concepts in the surgical management of pancreatic cancer.

Transforming growth factor beta-1 and interleukin-17 gene transcription in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and the human response to infection.

The RON tyrosine kinase receptor regulates vascular endothelial growth factor production in pancreatic cancer cells.

The value of motor response versus neuroimaging in predicting outcome post cardiac arrest: a retrospective study.

Large cardiac registries: the path to higher quality and lower cost in our healthcare system.

Interstitial microwave transition from hyperthermia to ablation: historical perspectives and current trends in thermal therapy.

Humanized mouse models of Cooley's anemia: correct fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switching, disease onset, and disease pathology.

Hospital-acquired pneumonia after lung resection surgery is associated with characteristic cytokine gene expression.

Human globin knock-in mice complete fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switching in postnatal development.

Confidential testing of cardiac examination competency in cardiology and noncardiology faculty and trainees: a multicenter study.

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on chest pain, suggestive of acute coronary syndrome.

Recent changes in practice of elective percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina.

The myeloid transcription factor KLF2 regulates the host response to polymicrobial infection and endotoxic shock.

Post-operative infection and sepsis in humans is associated with deficient gene expression of γc cytokines and their apoptosis mediators.

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® chronic chest pain--high probability of coronary artery disease.

Automated quantification of mitral inflow and aortic outflow stroke volumes by three-dimensional real-time volume color-flow Doppler transthoracic echocardiography: comparison with pulsed-wave Doppler and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.