Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., Johns Hopkins University 2002
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2011 - 2013
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine 2010
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • The Role of Ankyrin-B Mutations in Premature Senescence awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2013
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • Pokorney, SD, Rao, M, Nilsson, KR, and Piccini, JP. "Atrial fibrillation complicating acute coronary syndromes." Journal of Atrial Fibrillation 5, no. 3 (October 1, 2012): 98-109. (Review)
    • Nilsson, KR, and Jackson, KP. "Hemiazygous coil placement for high-defibrillation thresholds in a patient with a right-sided implantable cardioverter defibrillator." Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 35, no. 1 (January 2012): e10-e12.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Sun, AY, and Nilsson, KR. "Early repolarization: A sword in the haystack?." Heart Rhythm 9, no. 8 (2012): 1301-1302.  Full Text
    • Sun, AY, Koontz, JI, Shah, SH, Piccini, JP, Nilsson, KR, Craig, D, Haynes, C, Gregory, SG, Hranitzky, PM, and Pitt, GS. "The S1103Y cardiac sodium channel variant is associated with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator events in blacks with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction." Circ Cardiovasc Genet 4, no. 2 (April 2011): 163-168.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Nilsson, KR, Al-Khatib, SM, Zhou, Y, Pieper, K, White, HD, Maggioni, AP, Kober, L, Granger, CB, Lewis, EF, McMurray, JJV, Califf, RM, and Velazquez, EJ. "Atrial fibrillation management strategies and early mortality after myocardial infarction: results from the Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction (VALIANT) Trial." Heart 96, no. 11 (June 2010): 838-842.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Healy, JA, Nilsson, KR, Hohmeier, HE, Berglund, J, Davis, J, Hoffman, J, Kohler, M, Li, L-S, Berggren, P-O, Newgard, CB, and Bennett, V. "Cholinergic augmentation of insulin release requires ankyrin-B. (Published online)" Sci Signal 3, no. 113 (March 16, 2010): ra19-.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Koontz, JI, Haithcock, D, Cumbea, V, Waldron, A, Stricker, K, Hughes, A, Nilsson, K, Sun, A, Piccini, JP, Kraus, WE, Pitt, GS, Shah, SH, and Hranitzky, P. "Rationale and design of the Duke Electrophysiology Genetic and Genomic Studies (EPGEN) biorepository." Am Heart J 158, no. 5 (November 2009): 719-725.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Nilsson, KR, and Bennett, V. "Ankyrin-based patterning of membrane microdomains: new insights into a novel class of cardiovascular diseases." J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 54, no. 2 (August 2009): 106-115. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Nilsson, KR, Sewell, PM, Blunden-Kasdorf, P, Starkey, K, Grant, AO, and Wagner, GS. "The influence of cardiograph design and automated algorithms on the incidence and detection of electrode cable reversals in an academic electrocardiogram laboratory." J Electrocardiol 41, no. 5 (September 2008): 382-387.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Nilsson, KR, Duscha, BD, Hranitzky, PM, and Kraus, WE. "Chronic heart failure and exercise intolerance: the hemodynamic paradox." Curr Cardiol Rev 4, no. 2 (May 2008): 92-100.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Jr, KRN, and Hranitzky, P. "To the Editor." Heart Rhythm 5, no. 1 (2008): 168-169.  Full Text
    • Nilsson, KR, Berenholtz, SM, Garrett-Mayer, E, Dorman, T, Klag, MJ, and Pronovost, PJ. "Association between venous thromboembolism and perioperative allogeneic transfusion." Archives of Surgery 142, no. 2 (2007): 126-132.  Full Text
    • Nilsson, KR, Gharacholou, SM, Sketch, MH, and Krucoff, MW. "Simultaneous restenosis of Taxus and Cypher drug-eluting stents." J Invasive Cardiol 18, no. 11 (November 2006): 557-560.  Link to Item
    • Antinori, S, Morelli, P, Nilsson, KR, Bakken, JC, and Mani, S. "A 57-year-old man with a 6-day headache and fatigue [5] (multiple letters)." American Journal of Medicine 118, no. 12 (2005): 1441-1453.  Full Text
    • Baken, J, Nilsson, KR, Mani, S, and Wiener, CM. "A 57-year-old man with a 6-day headache and fatigue." American Journal of Medicine 118, no. 3 (2005): 219-221.  Full Text
    • Cunha, BA, Bakken, JC, Nilsson, KR, and Mani, S. "Malaria or typhoid fever: A diagnostic dilemma? [6] (multiple letters)." American Journal of Medicine 118, no. 12 (2005): 1442-1444.  Full Text
    • Nilsson, K, and Mani, S. "Cases from the osler medical service at johns hopkins university." American Journal of Medicine 116, no. 1 (2004): 54-56.  Full Text
    • Nilsson, KR, Berenholtz, SM, Dorman, T, Garrett, E, Lipsett, P, Kaujman, HS, and Pronovost, PJ. "Preoperative predictors of blood transfusion in colorectal cancer surgery." Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 6, no. 5 (2002): 753-762.  Full Text
    • Gonzalez, J, Koontz, JI, Hodges, LM, Nilsson, KR, Neely, LK, Myers, WH, Sabat, M, and Harman, WD. "Osmium-promoted dipolar cycloadditions with pyrroles: An efficient, stereoselective synthesis of 7-azanorbornanes." Journal of the American Chemical Society 117, no. 12 (1995): 3405-3421.  Full Text

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