Scholars@Duke

• Background
• 

  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1988
• 

  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Clinical Science Departments 2007 - 2010
  • Instructor, Temporary of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Clinical Science Departments 2007
  • Assistant Consulting Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic, Anesthesiology 2001 - 2006
  • Assistant Consulting Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Clinical Science Departments 1994 - 2001
• Publications & Artistic Works
• 

  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Morris, JJ, Hamm, DP, Pellom, GL, Abd-Elfattah, A, and Wechsler, AS. "Differential ventricular ischemic injury: an experimental model of right ventricular failure with a variable degree of left ventricular dysfunction." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 96, no. 4 (October 1988): 590-599.  Link to Item
    • Pasque, MK, Van Trigt, P, Pellom, GL, Freedman, BM, and Wechsler, AS. "Assessment of the intrinsic contractile status of the heart during sepsis by myocardial pressure-dimension analysis." Annals of Surgery 208, no. 1 (July 1988): 110-117.  Full Text
    • Morris, JJ, Pellom, GL, Murphy, CE, Salter, DR, Goldstein, JP, and Wechsler, AS. "Quantification of the contractile response to injury: assessment of the work-length relationship in the intact heart." Circulation 76, no. 3 (September 1987): 717-727.  Link to Item
    • Morris, JJ, Pellom, GL, Hamm, DP, Everson, CT, and Wechsler, AS. "Dynamic right ventricular dimension. Relation to chamber volume during the cardiac cycle." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 91, no. 6 (June 1986): 879-887.  Link to Item
    • Morris, JJ, Hamm, DP, Pellom, GL, Abd-Elfattah, A, and Wechsler, AS. "Right ventricular sensitivity to metabolic injury during cardiopulmonary bypass." Arch Surg 121, no. 3 (March 1986): 338-344.  Link to Item
    • Salter, DR, Pellom, GL, Murphy, CE, Brunsting, LA, Goldstein, JP, III, JMM, and Wechsler, AS. "Papillary-annular continuity and left ventricular systolic function after mital valve replacement." Circulation 74, no. 3 II MONOGR. 123 (1986): 121-129.
    • Freedman, BM, Pasque, MK, Pellom, GL, Deaton, DW, Frame, JR, and Wechsler, AS. "Effects of delay in administration of potassium cardioplegia to the isolated rat heart." The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 37, no. 4 (April 1984): 309-313.  Full Text
    • Morris, JJ, Hamm, DP, and Pellom, GL. "A canine model of acute differential ventricular global ischemic injury." Surgical Forum VOL. 35 (1984): 331-334.
    • Trigt, PV, Spray, TL, Pasque, MK, Peyton, RB, Pellom, GL, and Wechsler, AS. "The comparative effects of dopamine and dobutamine on ventricular mechanics after coronary artery bypass grafting: A pressure-dimension analysis." Circulation 70, no. 3 II (1984): I/112-I/117.
    • Van Trigt, P, Christian, CC, Fagraeus, L, Spray, TL, Peyton, RB, Pellom, GL, and Wechsler, AS. "Myocardial depression by anesthetic agents (halothane, enflurane and nitrous oxide): quantitation based on end-systolic pressure-dimension relations." Am J Cardiol 53, no. 1 (January 1, 1984): 243-247.  Link to Item
    • Pasque, MK, Murphy, CE, Van Trigt, P, Pellom, GL, Currie, WD, and Wechsler, AS. "Myocardial adenosine triphosphate levels during early sepsis." Arch Surg 118, no. 12 (December 1983): 1437-1440.  Link to Item
    • Van Trigt, P, Christian, CC, Fagraeus, L, Peyton, RB, Jones, RN, Spray, TL, Pasque, MK, Pellom, GL, and Wechsler, AS. "The mechanism of halothane-induced myocardial depression. Altered diastolic mechanics versus impaired contractility." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 85, no. 6 (June 1983): 832-838.  Link to Item
    • Van Trigt, P, Spray, TL, Pasque, MK, Peyton, RB, Pellom, GL, Christian, CM, Fagraeus, L, and Wechsler, AS. "The influence of time on the response to dopamine after coronary artery bypass grafting: assessment of left ventricular performance and contractility using pressure/dimension analyses." Ann Thorac Surg 35, no. 1 (January 1983): 3-13.  Link to Item
    • Peyton, RB, Van Trigt, P, Pellom, GL, Jones, RN, Sink, JD, and Wechsler, AS. "Improved tolerance to ischemia in hypertrophied myocardium by preischemic enhancement of adenosine triphosphate." The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 84, no. 1 (July 1982): 11-15.
    • Van Trigt, P, Spray, TL, Pasque, MK, Peyton, RB, Pellom, GL, Christian, CM, Fagraeus, L, and Wechsler, AS. "The effect of PEEP on left ventricular diastolic dimensions and systolic performance following myocardial revascularization." Ann Thorac Surg 33, no. 6 (June 1982): 585-592.  Link to Item
    • Pasque, MK, Spray, TL, Pellom, GL, Van Trigt, P, Peyton, RB, Currie, WD, and Wechsler, AS. "Ribose-enhanced myocardial recovery following ischemia in the isolated working rat heart." The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 83, no. 3 (March 1982): 390-398.
    • Van Trigt, P, Jones, RN, Olsen, CO, Peyton, RB, Currie, WD, Pellom, GL, and Wechsler, AS. "Sonomicrometric determination of ischemic contracture of the left ventricle." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 83, no. 2 (February 1982): 298-305.  Link to Item
    • Sink, JD, Pellom, GL, Currie, WD, Hill, RC, Olsen, CO, Jones, RN, and Wechsler, AS. "Response of hypertrophied myocardium to ischemia: correlation with biochemical and physiological parameters." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 81, no. 6 (June 1981): 865-872.  Link to Item
    • Trigt, PV, Olsen, CO, and Pellom, GL. "The effect of verapamil on the diastolic mechanics of the left ventricle." American Journal of Cardiology 47, no. 2 II (1981): 411--.  Full Text
    • Sink, JD, Attarian, DE, Chitwood, WR, Hill, RC, Pellom, GL, and Wechsler, AS. "An improved technique for producing ventricular hypertrophy with a subcoronary valvular aortic stenosis model." Ann Thorac Surg 30, no. 3 (September 1980): 285-290.  Link to Item
    • Hill, RC, Pellom, GL, Chitwood, WR, Sink, JD, and Wechsler, AS. "The relationship of transmural myocardial blood flow to midwall function." J Surg Res 28, no. 4 (April 1980): 306-313.  Link to Item
    • Sink, JD, Currie, WD, Pellom, GL, Hill, RC, Chitwood, WR, and Wechsler, AS. "Correlation of mitochondrial function and ischemic contracture." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 79, no. 4 (April 1980): 570-578.  Link to Item
    • Sink, JD, Wechsler, AS, Pellom, GL, and Thompson, WM. "Effect of B-15,000 (Iopamidol), a new nonionic contrast agent, on cardiac function of the isolated rat heart." Invest Radiol 14, no. 6 (November 1979): 508-512.  Link to Item
    • Sink, JD, Pellom, GL, Currie, WD, Jr, WRC, Hill, RC, and Wechsler, AS. "Protection of mitochondrial function during ischemia by potassium cardioplegia: Correlation with ischemic contracture." Circulation 60, no. 2 II (1979): I158-I163.
    • Sink, JD, Pellom, GL, Currie, WD, and Wechsler, AS. "Relationship between ischemic contracture and mitochondrial function." Surg Forum 29 (1978): 298-299.  Link to Item

Some information on this profile has been compiled automatically from Duke databases and external sources. (Our About page explains how this works.) If you see a problem with the information, please write to Scholars@Duke and let us know. We will reply promptly.