Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Romania) 1995
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic, Anesthesiology 2010 - 2017
• Research
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  External Relationships

  • Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Cherry, Anne D., Jennifer N. Hauck, Benjamin Y. Andrew, Yi-Ju Li, Jamie R. Privratsky, Lakshmi D. Kartha, Alina Nicoara, Annemarie Thompson, Joseph P. Mathew, and Mark Stafford-Smith. “Intraoperative renal resistive index threshold as an acute kidney injury biomarker.” J Clin Anesth 61 (May 2020): 109626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinane.2019.109626.
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    • Barac, Yaron D., Alina Nicoara, Muath Bishawi, Jacob N. Schroder, Mani A. Daneshmand, Nazish K. Hashmi, Eric Velazquez, Joseph G. Rogers, Chetan B. Patel, and Carmelo A. Milano. “Durability and Efficacy of Tricuspid Valve Repair in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation.” Jacc Heart Fail, December 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2019.08.016.
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    • Nicoara, Alina. “The Added Power of the Third Dimension.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 33, no. 12 (December 2019): 3509–10. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2019.05.045.
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    • Drake, Daniel H., Alina Nicoara, and Karen G. Zimmerman. “Ring Annuloplasty versus Valve Replacement for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: Has Imaging Made the Binary Approach Obsolete?” J Am Soc Echocardiogr 32, no. 10 (October 2019): A25–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2019.08.007.
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    • Tawil, Justin N., Benjamin A. Adams, Alina Nicoara, and Michael L. Boisen. “Noteworthy Literature Published in 2018 for Thoracic Organ Transplantation.” Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 23, no. 2 (June 2019): 171–87. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089253219845408.
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    • Bottiger, Brandi A., Alina Nicoara, Laurie D. Snyder, Paul E. Wischmeyer, Jacob N. Schroder, Chetan B. Patel, Mani A. Daneshmand, Robert N. Sladen, and Kamrouz Ghadimi. “Frailty in the End-Stage Lung Disease or Heart Failure Patient: Implications for the Perioperative Transplant Clinician.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 33, no. 5 (May 2019): 1382–92. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2018.08.002.
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    • Alenezi, Fawaz, Marat Fudim, Jennifer Rymer, Allison Dunning, Karen Chiswell, Madhav Swaminathan, Brandi Bottiger, et al. “Predictors and Changes in Cardiac Hemodynamics and Geometry With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation.” Am J Cardiol 123, no. 5 (March 1, 2019): 813–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.11.038.
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    • Del Rio, J Mauricio, Loreta Grecu, and Alina Nicoara. “Right Ventricular Function in Left Heart Disease.” Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 23, no. 1 (March 2019): 88–107. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089253218799345.
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    • McCartney, Sharon L., Bradley S. Taylor, and Alina Nicoara. “Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation in Mitral Valve Disease.” Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 23, no. 1 (March 2019): 108–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089253218807922.
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    • Sigurdsson, Martin I., Benjamin Brockbank, John C. Haney, Jon Andrews, David B. MacLeod, Steven N. Vaslef, Kelli R. Brooks, Erin L. Manning, and Alina Nicoara. “Abdominal Gunshot Causing Ventricular Septal Injury Without Perforation into the Pericardium.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 33, no. 3 (March 2019): 772–75. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2018.02.038.
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    • Kochar, Ajar, Jennifer Rymer, Zainab Samad, and Zainab Duke Cardiovascular Education Group. “Disrupting Fellow Education Through Group Texting: WhatsApp in Fellow Education?” J Am Coll Cardiol 72, no. 25 (December 25, 2018): 3366–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.11.007.
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    • Andrew, Benjamin Y., Elias Y. Andrew, Anne D. Cherry, Jennifer N. Hauck, Alina Nicoara, Carl F. Pieper, and Mark Stafford-Smith. “Intraoperative Renal Resistive Index as an Acute Kidney Injury Biomarker: Development and Validation of an Automated Analysis Algorithm.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 32, no. 5 (October 2018): 2203–9. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2018.04.014.
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    • Kretzer, Adam, Hassan Amhaz, Alina Nicoara, Mark Kendall, Donald Glower, and Mandisa-Maia Jones. “A Case of Gerbode Ventricular Septal Defect Endocarditis.” Case (Phila) 2, no. 5 (October 2018): 207–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.case.2018.03.005.
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    • Mackensen, G Burkhard, and Alina Nicoara. “Improving the Quality and Reporting of Perioperative Echocardiography.” J Am Soc Echocardiogr 31, no. 8 (August 2018): A22–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2018.06.007.
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    • Sigurdsson, Martin I., Eun J. Eoh, Vinca W. Chow, Nathan H. Waldron, Jayne Cleve, Alina Nicoara, Madhav Swaminathan, and Madhav Multidisciplinary Echo Research Group for Enhancing Discovery (MERGED) team. “Utility of Angle Correction for Hemodynamic Measurements with Doppler Echocardiography.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 32, no. 4 (August 2018): 1768–74. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2018.04.020.
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    • Andrew, Benjamin Y., Anne D. Cherry, Jennifer N. Hauck, Alina Nicoara, Cory D. Maxwell, Ryan M. Konoske, Annemarie Thompson, Lakshmi D. Kartha, Madhav Swaminathan, and Mark Stafford-Smith. “The Association of Aortic Valve Pathology With Renal Resistive Index as a Kidney Injury Biomarker.” Ann Thorac Surg 106, no. 1 (July 2018): 107–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.01.020.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, David Ruffin, Mary Cooter, Chetan B. Patel, Annemarie Thompson, Jacob N. Schroder, Mani A. Daneshmand, et al. “Primary graft dysfunction after heart transplantation: Incidence, trends, and associated risk factors.” Am J Transplant 18, no. 6 (June 2018): 1461–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.14588.
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    • Privratsky, Jamie R., Sebastian Diaz, Alina Nicoara, and Mani A. Daneshmand. “In reply to: "Intra-aortic balloon pump protects against hydrostatic pulmonary oedema during peripheral venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation".” Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care, May 1, 2018, 2048872618779772. https://doi.org/10.1177/2048872618779772.
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    • Hahn, Rebecca T., Alina Nicoara, Samir Kapadia, Lars Svensson, and Randolph Martin. “Echocardiographic Imaging for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.” J Am Soc Echocardiogr 31, no. 4 (April 2018): 405–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2017.10.022.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, and G Burkhard Mackensen. “The Sound and Science of Perioperative Echocardiography.” J Am Soc Echocardiogr 31, no. 4 (April 2018): A21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2018.02.009.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, and Sushil Allen Luis. “The Perfect Storm: Carcinoid Heart Disease and Acute Right Ventricular Failure.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 32, no. 2 (April 2018): 846–47. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2017.12.053.
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    • Amhaz, Hassan, Adam Kretzer, Mihai Podgoreanu, Donald Glower, and Alina Nicoara. “Tricuspid Regurgitation Due to Absent Tricuspid Valve Leaflet: Utility of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography.” A a Pract 10, no. 2 (January 15, 2018): 45–48. https://doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000000700.
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    • Hai, Ting, Yannis Amador, Feroze Mahmood, Jelliffe Jeganathan, Arash Khamooshian, Ziyad O. Knio, Robina Matyal, et al. “Changes in Tricuspid Annular Geometry in Patients with Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 31, no. 6 (December 2017): 2106–14. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2017.06.032.
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    • Amhaz, Hassan, Adam Kretzer, Mihai Podgoreanu, Donald Glower, and Alina Nicoara. “Tricuspid Regurgitation Due to Absent Tricuspid Valve Leaflet: Utility of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography.” Anesth Analg, November 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000002307.
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    • Karhausen, Jörn A., Alan M. Smeltz, Igor Akushevich, Mary Cooter, Mihai V. Podgoreanu, Mark Stafford-Smith, Susan M. Martinelli, Manuel L. Fontes, and Miklos D. Kertai. “Platelet Counts and Postoperative Stroke After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery.” Anesth Analg 125, no. 4 (October 2017): 1129–39. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000002187.
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    • McCartney, Sharon L., Bradford Berndt, Muath Bishawi, Donald Glower, Madhav Swaminathan, and Alina Nicoara. “Left Atrial Appendage Membrane in a Patient Presenting with Stroke.” Case (Phila) 1, no. 5 (October 2017): 179–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.case.2017.07.004.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, and John Anderson-Dam. “Anesthesia for Lung Transplantation.” Anesthesiol Clin 35, no. 3 (September 2017): 473–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2017.05.003.
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    • Dunkman, W Jonathan, Alina Nicoara, Jacob Schroder, Momen M. Wahidi, Aimen El Manafi, Desiree Bonadonna, Coral X. Giovacchini, and Frederick W. Lombard. “Elective Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Resection of Endotracheal Tumor: A Case Report.” A a Case Rep 9, no. 4 (August 15, 2017): 97–100. https://doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000000537.
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    • Vega, Eleanor, Jacob Schroder, and Alina Nicoara. “Postoperative management of heart transplantation patients.” Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 31, no. 2 (June 2017): 201–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpa.2017.06.002.
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    • Mauricio Del Rio, J., Alina Nicoara, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Neuroendocrine stress response: implications for cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury.” Rom J Anaesth Intensive Care 24, no. 1 (April 2017): 57–63. https://doi.org/10.21454/rjaic.7518.241.hav.
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    • Wang, Alice, Sharon L. McCartney, Judson B. Williams, Asvin Ganapathi, Donald D. Glower, Alina Nicoara, and Jeffrey G. Gaca. “Use of Adjuncts Reduces Cardiopulmonary Bypass Time During Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement.” J Heart Valve Dis 26, no. 2 (March 2017): 155–60.
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    • Keenan, Jeffrey E., Ehsan Benrashid, Emily Kale, Alina Nicoara, Aatif M. Husain, and G Chad Hughes. “Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring During Aortic Arch Surgery.” Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 20, no. 4 (December 2016): 273–82. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089253216672441.
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    • Cherry, Anne D., Cory D. Maxwell, and Alina Nicoara. “Intraoperative Evaluation of Mitral Stenosis by Transesophageal Echocardiography.” Anesth Analg 123, no. 1 (July 2016): 14–20. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000001276.
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    • Maxwell, Cory, and Alina Nicoara. “Echocardiographic Confirmation of Coronary Blood Flow.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 30, no. 3 (June 2016): e27. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2015.12.009.
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    • Whitener, George, Jeff McKenzie, Igor Akushevich, William D. White, Ishwori B. Dhakal, Alina Nicoara, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Discordance in Grading Methods of Aortic Stenosis by Pre-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Transesophageal Echocardiography.” Anesth Analg 122, no. 4 (April 2016): 953–58. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000001099.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, and Mandisa Jones-Haywood. “Diastolic heart failure: diagnosis and therapy.” Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 29, no. 1 (February 2016): 61–67. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACO.0000000000000276.
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    • Maxwell, Cory, Anne Cherry, Mani Daneshmand, Madhav Swaminathan, and Alina Nicoara. “Assessment of Coronary Blood Flow by Transesophageal Echocardiography.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 30, no. 1 (January 2016): 258–60. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2015.08.030.
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    • Maxwell, Cory D., Sean M. Daley, Madhav Swaminathan, and Alina Nicoara. “Intraoperative, Real-Time Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography for the Transcatheter Placement of an Edwards SAPIEN Aortic Valve in the Mitral Position for Severe Mitral Stenosis.” Anesth Analg 121, no. 6 (December 2015): 1456–59. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000000973.
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    • Cherry, Anne D., Alina Nicoara, Scott H. McQuilkin, Jeffrey G. Gaca, and J Mauricio Del Rio. “Multimodal Evaluation of Aortic Regurgitation After Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repairs.” Anesth Analg 121, no. 2 (August 2015): 319–22. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000000739.
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    • Konoske, Ryan, George Whitener, and Alina Nicoara. “Intraoperative Evaluation of Paravalvular Regurgitation by Transesophageal Echocardiography.” Anesth Analg 121, no. 2 (August 2015): 329–36. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000000787.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Diastolic dysfunction, diagnostic and perioperative management in cardiac surgery.” Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 28, no. 1 (February 2015): 60–66. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACO.0000000000000141.
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    • Bottiger, Brandi, Sharon McCartney, Igor Akushevich, Alina Nicoara, Mamata Yanamadala, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Use of mobile tablet devices and reduction in time to perioperative transesophageal echocardiography reporting: a historical cohort study.” Can J Anaesth 62, no. 1 (January 2015): 31–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-014-0250-6.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, Fredrik Holmquist, Chad Raggains, and Joseph P. Mathew. “Anesthesia for catheter ablation procedures.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 28, no. 6 (December 2014): 1589–1603. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2014.05.030.
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    • Swaminathan, Madhav, and Alina Nicoara. “Quality in perioperative echocardiography: it's about time.” J Am Soc Echocardiogr 27, no. 7 (July 2014): A20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2014.05.002.
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    • Ferreira, Renata G., Alina Nicoara, Barbara G. Phillips-Bute, Mani Daneshmand, Jochen D. Muehlschlegel, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Diastolic dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: the role of gender and age-gender interaction.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 28, no. 3 (June 2014): 626–30. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2013.11.010.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, George Whitener, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Perioperative Diastolic Dysfunction: A Comprehensive Approach to Assessment by Transesophageal Echocardiography.” Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 18, no. 2 (June 2014): 218–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089253213505686.
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    • Dobbs, Heather A., Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, William White, Stanton K. Shernan, Alina Nicoara, J Mauricio Del Rio, Mark Stafford-Smith, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Multinational institutional survey on patterns of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography use in adult cardiac surgery.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 28, no. 1 (February 2014): 54–63. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2013.09.014.
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    • Maxwell, Cory, and Alina Nicoara. “New developments in the treatment of acute pain after thoracic surgery.” Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 27, no. 1 (February 2014): 6–11. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACO.0000000000000029.
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    • Bartels, Karsten, Mani A. Daneshmand, Joseph P. Mathew, Donald D. Glower, Madhav Swaminathan, and Alina Nicoara. “Delayed postmyectomy ventricular septal defect.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 27, no. 2 (April 2013): 381–84. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2012.10.009.
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    • Swaminathan, Madhav, Alina Nicoara, Barbara G. Phillips-Bute, Nicolas Aeschlimann, Carmelo A. Milano, G Burkhard Mackensen, Mihai V. Podgoreanu, et al. “Utility of a simple algorithm to grade diastolic dysfunction and predict outcome after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.” Ann Thorac Surg 91, no. 6 (June 2011): 1844–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.008.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, Sherif Assaad, Arnar Geirsson, Anthony Rousou, and Farid Jadbabaie. “Unexpected intraoperative diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by transesophageal echocardiography.” J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 24, no. 4 (August 2010): 639–40. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2009.05.015.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, Uptal D. Patel, Barbara G. Phillips-Bute, Andrew D. Shaw, Mark Stafford-Smith, Carmelo A. Milano, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Mortality trends associated with acute renal failure requiring dialysis after CABG surgery in the United States.” Blood Purif 28, no. 4 (2009): 359–63. https://doi.org/10.1159/000235856.
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    • Nicoara, Alina, G Burkhard Mackensen, Mihai V. Podgoreanu, Carmelo A. Milano, Joseph P. Mathew, and Madhav Swaminathan. “Malpositioned left ventricular assist device cannula: diagnosis and management with transesophageal echocardiography guidance.” Anesth Analg 105, no. 6 (December 2007): 1574–76. https://doi.org/10.1213/01.ane.0000286065.39763.bc.
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    • Shah, Arti N., Jayanthi Koneru, Alina Nicoara, Lara B. Goldfeder, Kurian Thomas, and Frederick A. Ehlert. “Dexmedetomidine related cardiac arrest in a patient with permanent pacemaker; a cautionary tale.” Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 30, no. 9 (September 2007): 1158–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00829.x.
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    • Rosen, Daniel J., Alina Nicoara, Ninan Koshy, and Raymond V. Wedderburn. “Too much of a good thing? Tracing the history of the propofol infusion syndrome.” J Trauma 63, no. 2 (August 2007): 443–47. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0b013e31809fe910.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Bishawi, Muath, Soraya Voigt, Yash Bhatnagar, Alina Nicoara, Madhav Swaminathan, George Truskey, and Olaf von Ramm. “ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT OF CARDIAC TWIST: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.” In Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 71:A1667–A1667. Elsevier BV, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0735-1097(18)32208-3.
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    • Alenezi, Fawaz, Miklos Kerati, John Hunting, Tara Holder, Yi-Ju Li, Madhav Swaminathan, Jennifer Rymer, Eric Velazquez, Zainab Samad, and Alina Nicoara. “Left Atrial Appendage Strain and New-onset Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery.” In Circulation, Vol. 136. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2017.
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    • Zhang, Zhiquan, Qing Ma, Alina Nicoara, Quintin Quinones, Matthew Hirschey, and Mihai V. Podgoreanu. “Sex-Specific Cardioprotective Effects of Annexin A1 Peptide Mimetic Involve the Sirtuin 3 Signaling Pathway.” In Circulation, Vol. 134. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2016.
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