Publications

PUBLICATIONS: Cardiovascular Medicine

Selected Publications 2012:

1. Bilchick KC, Stukenborg GJ, Kamath S, Cheng A. Prediction of mortality in clinical practice for Medicare patients undergoing defibrillator implantation for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;60(17):1647-55.
2. Camnitz W, Burdick MD, Strieter RM, Mehrad B, Keeley EC. Dose-dependent effect of statin therapy on circulating CXCL12 levels in patients with hyperlipidemia. Clin Transl Med. 2012;1(1):23.
3. Kennedy JL, Lapar DJ, Kern JA, Kron IL, Bergin JD, Kamath S, Ailawadi G Does the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ risk score accurately predict operative mortality for patients with pulmonary hypertension? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Sep 13. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.07.055. [Epub ahead of print]
4. Lipinski MJ, Campbell KA, Duong SQ, Welch TJ, Garmey JC, Doran AC, Skaflen MD, Oldham SN, Kelly KA, McNamara CA. Loss of Id3 increases VCAM-1 expression, macrophage accumulation, and atherogenesis in Ldlr-/- mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012;32(12):2855-61.
5. Pollak AW, Meyer CH, Epstein FH, Jiji RS, Hunter JR, Dimaria JM, Christopher JM, Kramer CM. Arterial spin labeling MR imaging reproducibly measures peak-exercise calf muscle perfusion: a study in patients with peripheral arterial disease and healthy volunteers. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012;5(12):1224-30.
6. Pollak AW, Norton PT, Kramer CM. Multimodality imaging of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease: current role and future directions. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012;5(6):797-807.
7. Ragosta M. The complexity involved in assessment of left main coronary artery disease. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2012;5(10):1026-8.
8. Salerno M, Sica C, Kramer CM, Meyer CH. Improved first-pass spiral myocardial perfusion imaging with variable density trajectories. Magn Reson Med. 2012 Dec 27. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24569. [Epub ahead of print]
9. Schutt RC, Burdick MD, Strieter RM, Mehrad B, Keeley EC. Plasma CXCL12 levels as a predictor of future stroke. Stroke. 2012;43(12):3382-6.

Selected Publications 2013:

1. Annex BH. Therapeutic angiogenesis for critical limb ischaemia. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2013;10:387-96.
2. Brooks J, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Markedly increased volume of distribution of gadolinium in cardiac amyloidosis demonstrated by T1 mapping. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Feb 28. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24078. [Epub ahead of print]
3. Dietz DM, Cleveland JD, Chewning KG, Dent JM, Kern JA, Keeley EC. Impending paradoxical embolism presenting as myocardial infarction. [case report] J Cardiol Cases. 2013;7(5): e145-8.
4. Hazarika S, Farber CR, Dokun AO, Pitsillides AN, Wang T, Lye RJ, Annex BH. MicroRNA-93 controls perfusion recovery after hindlimb ischemia by modulating expression of multiple genes in the cell cycle pathway. Circulation. 2013;127(17):1818-28.
5. Hussain SK, Ferguson JD. Cool enough–halving pulmonary vein isolation time with the cryoballoon catheter. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2013;24(6):699-700.
6. Jiji RS, Pollak AW, Epstein FH, Antkowiak PF, Meyer CH, Weltman AL, Lopez D, DiMaria JM, Hunter JR, Christopher JM, Kramer CM. Reproducibility of rest and exercise stress contrast-enhanced calf perfusion magnetic resonance imaging in peripheral arterial disease. Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2013;15:14.
7. Keeley EC, Mehrad B, Kramer CM Response to Van Koppen et al. J Hypertens. 2013;31(5):1054-5.
8. Kloepfer AM, Lipson LC, Keeley EC. The presence of angiographic collaterals in non-ST elevation myocardial infarction is a predictor of long-term clinical outcomes. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2013 May 22. doi: 10.1002/ccd.25021. [Epub ahead of print]
9. Kramer CM, Chandrashekhar Y, Narula J. T1 mapping by CMR in cardiomyopathy: a noninvasive myocardial biopsy? JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013;6(4):532-4.
10. Lipinski MJ, McVey CM, Berger JS, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Prognostic value of stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 May 29. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.03.080. [Epub ahead of print]
11. Lopez D, Kramer CM. Oxygenation and flow in the limbs: Novel methods to characterize peripheral artery disease. Curr Cardiovasc Imaging Rep. 2013;6(2):150-7.
12. Moorman LP, Moorman JR, Dimarco JP, Malhotra R, Darby A, Bilchick K, Ferguson JD, Mangrum JM, Kamath S, Mason PK. Increasing lead burden correlates with externalized cables during systematic fluoroscopic screening of Riata leads. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2013;37(1):63-8.
13. Pollak AW, Kramer CM. MRI in lower extremity peripheral arterial disease: recent advancements. Curr Cardiovasc Imaging Rep. 2013;6(1):55-60.
14. Salerno M, Janardhanan R, Jiji RS, Brooks J, Adenaw N, Mehta B, Yang Y, Antkowiak P, Kramer CM, Epstein FH. Comparison of methods for determining the partition coefficient of gadolinium in the myocardium using T(1) mapping. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013;38(1):217-24.