Journal articleSemin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · April 24, 2026
High-dose opioid use in cardiac anesthesia has been challenged due to its association with increased postoperative complications. We retrospectively compared postoperative opioid consumption in a cohort of adult cardiac surgery patients who received low, m ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2025
OBJECTIVES: Acute pain after cardiac surgery performed via midline sternotomy is reported to be moderate to severe in intensity in up to three-quarters of patients in the early postoperative period. This work was designed to describe different pain traject ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · August 2025
Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) programs have grown from their humble beginnings as a "fast-track recovery" pathway that was first described in 1994 and have now evolved into patient-centered, multidisciplinary, multimodal, comprehensive, e ...
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Journal articleClin Transplant · February 2024
INTRODUCTION: The nature, intensity, and progression of acute pain after bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation (BOLT) performed via a clamshell incision has not been well investigated. We aimed to describe acute pain after clamshell incisions using pai ...
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Journal articleJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · December 2023
BACKGROUND: Opioid-based anesthesia and analgesia is a traditional component of perioperative care for the cardiac surgery patient. Growing enthusiasm for Enhanced Recovery Programs (ERPs) coupled with evidence of potential harm associated with high-dose o ...
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Journal articleCirculation · October 24, 2023
BACKGROUND: Right ventricular failure (RVF) is a leading driver of morbidity and death after major cardiac surgery for advanced heart failure, including orthotopic heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device implantation. Inhaled pulmonary-sel ...
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Journal articlePerioper Med (Lond) · August 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Opioid use has come under increasing scrutiny, driven in part by the opioid crisis and growing concerns that up to 6% of opioid-naïve patients may become chronic opioid users. This has resulted in a revaluation of perioperative practice. For th ...
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Journal articleSemin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2022
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for liver transplant has historically been avoided due to concern it may cause bleeding from esophageal varices. However, several recent studies, as well as increasing clinical experience, have indicated that it may b ...
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Journal articleSemin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2022
Transesophageal echocardiography is frequently but not always used to guide anesthetic management during liver transplantation. We performed a systematic review of the literature to identify and summarize any studies reporting on the frequency and characte ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · September 2022
OBJECTIVES: Controlling moderate-to-severe pain remains a major challenge after cardiothoracic surgery. Several outcomes have been compared extensively after valve surgery performed via midline sternotomy versus mini-thoracotomy, but postoperative pain (PO ...
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Journal articleAnesthesiology · August 1, 2021
BACKGROUND: Excessive or inadequate fluid administration causes complications, but despite this, fluid administration during noncardiac surgery is highly variable. Goal-directed management helps optimize the amount and timing of fluid administration; howev ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · May 2021
OBJECTIVE: Conventional ultrafiltration (CUF) during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) serves to hemoconcentrate blood volume to avoid allogeneic blood transfusions. Previous studies have determined CUF volumes as a continuous variable are associated with posto ...
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Journal articlePerioper Med (Lond) · 2020
BACKGROUND: Optimal fluid therapy in the perioperative and critical care settings depends on understanding the underlying cardiovascular physiology and individualizing assessment of the dynamic patient state. METHODS: The Perioperative Quality Initiative ( ...
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Journal articleAnesth Analg · November 2019
Over the past decade, there has been a growing awareness of a new allergic syndrome known as alpha-gal allergy or alpha-gal syndrome, commonly recognized as a red meat allergy. We performed a review of the literature to identify articles that provide both ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · July 2019
OBJECTIVES: To analyze the perioperative management of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV ECMO) in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgical procedures, which is poorly described in the literature. In doing so, perioperative challenges ...
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Journal articleJ Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A · April 2019
BACKGROUND: An increasing number of end-stage heart failure patients are supported with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and must be maintained on consistent anticoagulation. These patients are experiencing prolonged survival and, in some ...
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Journal articleJ Am Heart Assoc · February 19, 2019
Background Prostaglandin E2 ( PGE 2) is a major prostanoid with multiple actions that potentially affect blood pressure ( BP ). PGE 2 acts through 4 distinct E-prostanoid ( EP ) receptor isoforms: EP 1 to EP 4. The EP 4 receptor ( EP 4R) promotes PGE 2-dep ...
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Journal articlePerioper Med (Lond) · 2019
BACKGROUND: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathways aim to standardize and integrate perioperative care, incorporating the best available evidence-based practice throughout the perioperative period targeted at attenuating the surgical stress respon ...
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Journal articleSurg Clin North Am · December 2018
Enhanced recovery after surgery is an evidence-based, multimodal approach to the perioperative care of a patient undergoing surgery. These pathways seek to attenuate the stress response to surgery facilitating postoperative recovery. Analgesia is a critica ...
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Journal articleJ Oral Maxillofac Surg · September 2018
PURPOSE: An increasing number of patients with end-stage heart failure are supported with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and must be maintained on a consistent anticoagulation regimen. Pre-emptive extraction of carious teeth in these pa ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · February 2018
Health care reimbursement models are transitioning from volume-based to value-based models. Value-based models focus on patient outcomes both during the hospital admission and postdischarge. These models place emphasis on cost, quality of care, and coordin ...
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Journal articlePerioper Med (Lond) · 2018
Opioid use has risen dramatically in the past three decades. In the USA, opioid overdose has become a leading cause of unintentional death, surpassing motor vehicle accidents. A patient's first exposure to opioids may be during the perioperative period, a ...
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Journal articleAnesth Analg · October 2017
BACKGROUND: Declining platelet counts may reveal platelet activation and aggregation in a postoperative prothrombotic state. Therefore, we hypothesized that nadir platelet counts after on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery are associated w ...
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Journal articleJ Surg Oncol · October 2017
Goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) seeks to improve outcomes through individualized optimization of oxygen delivery using IV fluid and vasoactive infusions. Trials of GDFT show clinical benefits over traditional liberal fluid administration, but fail to de ...
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Journal articleAnn Thorac Surg · July 2017
BACKGROUND: Perioperative use of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEis) in patients undergoing cardiac operations remains controversial. The current practice of discontinuing renin-angiotensin-system inhib ...
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Journal articleAnal Chem · July 15, 2003
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) occur in 5-7% of people over age 60 in the United States. Early intervention in the disease process could have a significant impact on the incidence of complications and on patient survival, but identifying incipient aneur ...
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Journal articleArterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol · March 1, 2003
OBJECTIVE: Angiotensin II (AngII) infusion into hyperlipidemic mice leads to the rapid formation of atherosclerotic lesions and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). To define the role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the development of these vascular p ...
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Journal articleVasc Med · February 2002
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) have a high prevalence in aged populations and are responsible for a large number of deaths. Despite the widespread nature of the disease, relatively little is known regarding mechanisms for formation and progression of aor ...
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Journal articleBr J Pharmacol · October 2001
1. We have recently demonstrated that chronic infusion of Angiotensin II into apoE-/- mice promotes the development of abdominal aortic aneurysms. To determine the involvement of specific Angiotensin II receptors in this response, we co-infused Angiotensin ...
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Journal articleAnn N Y Acad Sci · September 2000
Repeated methamphetamine (METH) administration to animals can result in long-lasting decreases in striatal dopamine (DA) release and content. Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has pronounced effects on dopaminergic systems in vivo, includi ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Invest · June 2000
Increased plasma concentrations of angiotension II (Ang II) have been implicated in atherogenesis. To examine this relationship directly, we infused Ang II or vehicle for 1 month via osmotic minipumps into mature apoE(-/-) mice. These doses of Ang II did n ...
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Journal articleJ Neurosci · September 1, 1999
Repeated administration of methamphetamine (METH) to animals can result in long-lasting decreases in striatal dopamine (DA) content. In addition, the evoked overflow of striatal DA is reduced in rats 1 week after neurotoxic doses of METH. However, whether ...
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Journal articleBrain Res · May 8, 1999
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) can attenuate the dopamine (DA)-depleting effects of neurotoxic doses of methamphetamine (METH) when given 1 day prior to the METH. The neurotoxic effects of METH may be due, in part, to sustained increase ...
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Journal articleJ Neurosci · February 15, 1999
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), when administered before 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), has been shown to prevent the reduction in nigral dopamine (DA) levels and tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons normally observed after 6-OHDA lesions ...
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Journal articleNeurosci Lett · June 5, 1998
The effects of neurotoxic doses of methamphetamine on basal and evoked overflow of dopamine in the striatum were examined in awake rats using microdialysis. Male Fischer-344 rats were administered methamphetamine (5 mg/kg s.c.) or saline four times in 1 da ...
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