Scholars@Duke
Miguel Yaport

Miguel Yaport

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine

Selected Publications

A Scoping Review of Validated Echocardiographic Methods for Grading Right Ventricular Dysfunction: Proposal for an Evidence-Based Multiparametric Framework.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · November 2025 Assessing the severity of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction using echocardiography (echo) remains subjective, in part because current guidelines do not recommend how to synthesize various echo parameters to form a global assessment of RV dysfunction. To a ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Evidence-Based Echocardiographic Image Acquisition Protocol for Evaluating Right Ventricular Function.

Journal Article J Vis Exp · July 22, 2025 A major risk factor for morbidity and mortality in critical illness is the presence of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD). However, characterizing and grading the severity of RVD remains highly subjective, with significant inter-operator and intra-operato ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trends in the Utilization of Multiorgan Support Among Adults Undergoing High-risk Cardiac Surgery in the United States.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · September 2024 OBJECTIVES: To examine trends in the prevalence of multiorgan dysfunction (MODS), utilization of multi-organ support (MOS), and mortality among patients undergoing cardiac surgery with MODS who received MOS in the United States. DESIGN: Retrospective cohor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of Early Ketamine Sedation and Association With Clinical and Cost Outcomes Among Mechanically Ventilated Patients With COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Journal Article Crit Care Explor · July 1, 2024 OBJECTIVES: To describe the utilization of early ketamine use among patients mechanically ventilated for COVID-19, and examine associations with in-hospital mortality and other clinical outcomes. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Six hundred ten ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Ghosts of Cannulae Past.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · July 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

STBUR: Sleep trouble breathing and unrefreshed questionnaire: Evaluation of screening tool for postanesthesia care and disposition.

Journal Article Paediatr Anaesth · August 2019 BACKGROUND: The Snoring, Trouble Breathing, and Un-Refreshed (STBUR) questionnaire is a five-question screening tool for pediatric sleep-disordered breathing and risk for perioperative respiratory adverse events in children. The utility of this questionnai ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rho/Rock signal transduction pathway is required for MSC tenogenic differentiation

Journal Article Bone Research · October 6, 2015 Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-based treatments have shown promise for improving tendon healing and repair. MSCs have the potential to differentiate into multiple lineages in response to select chemical and physical stimuli, including into tenocytes. Cell elo ... Full text Cite

Association between anesthesiologist experience and mortality after orthotopic liver transplantation.

Journal Article Liver Transpl · January 2015 The anesthesiologist has been recognized as an integral member of the liver transplant team, and previous studies have demonstrated that inter-anesthesiologist variability can be a driver of outcomes for high-risk patients. We hypothesized that anesthesiol ... Full text Link to item Cite