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People
Sue Sendelbach, RN, MS, cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist, has
been appointed as a mentor for the 2001 American Associa-tion of Critical-Care
Nurses (AACN) Wyeth-Ayerst Nursing Fellow Program. Ms. Sendelbach, RN, MS joins
a distinguished cohort of 175 AACN leaders who have been mentors or fellows
since the program began in 1992.
Articles
Kit Arom, MD, Thomas Flavin, MD, Robert Emery, MD, Vibhu Kshettry, MD,
Rebecca Peterson, RN and Pat Janey, RN co-authored "Is Low Ejection
Fraction Safe for Off-pump Coronary Bypass Operation?" It appeared in the
Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2000;70:1021-1025.
Robert Emery, MD co-authored "A Retro-spective Assessment of Safety,
Efficacy, and Pharmacoeconomics of Generic Azathioprine in Heart Transplant
Recipients." It appeared in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
2001;19:372-374.
Fredarick Gobel, MD and others co-authored "The Role of Clinical
Opinion Leaders in Guideline Implementation and Quality Improvement." It
appeared in CHEST 2000;118:24S-32S.
Fredarick Gobel, MD, Michael Mooney, MD and Kevin Graham, MD
co-authored "Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Degenerative Disease." It appeared in
Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine 2001;3:47-54.
Charles Gornick, MD authored "Anticoagu-lant Use in Non-valvular
Atrial Fibrillation. Determining Risk and Choosing the Safest Course." It
appeared in Postgraduate Medicine 2000;108:113-116, 119-121, and 125-126.
Charles Gornick, MD co-authored "The Utility of Ultrasound to
Determine Ventricular Capture in External Cardiac Pacing." It appeared in the
American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2001;19:134-136.
Kevin Harris, MD and Barry Maron, MD co-authored "Flail Mitral Valve
and Sudden Cardiac Death." It appeared in the Journal of American College of
Cardiology 2000; 36:2014-2015.
Kevin Harris, MD authored "A Case of Confirmed Nonbacterial Thrombotic
Endocarditis with Correlative Transesophageal Echocardiographic Findings." It
appeared in Echocardiography 2000;17:45-48.
Kevin Harris, MD co-authored "Thoracic Lymphatic Pumping and the
Efficacy of Influenza Vaccination in Healthy Young and Elderly Populations." It
appeared in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
2001;101:21-25.
Robert Hauser, MD and Adrian Almquist, MD co-authored "Feasibility and
Initial Results of an Internet-based Pacemaker and ICD Pulse Generator and Lead
Registry." It appeared in Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology
2001;24:82-87.
David Hurrell, MD co-authored "Infarct Size Determination by
Technetium 99m Sestamibi Single-photon Emission Computed Tomography Predicts
Survival in Patients with Chronic Coronary Artery Disease." It appeared in the
American Heart Journal 2000;140:61-66.
Lyle Joyce, MD co-authored "Myxoid Leio-myosarcoma of the Descending
Thoracic Aorta." It appeared in the Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular
Surgery 2001;121:590-592.
Barry Maron, MD and Adrian Almquist, MD co-authored "Efficacy of
Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators for the Preven-tion of Sudden Death in
Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy." It appeared in the New England
Journal of Medicine 2000;342:365-373.
Barry Maron, MD, Mark Leyhe, RN, Susan Casey, RN, Tom Gohman, Casey
Lawler, MD and Morrison Hodges, MD co-authored "Assessment of QT
Dispersion as a Prog-nostic Marker for Sudden Death in a Regional Non-referred,
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cohort." It appeared in the American Journal of
Cardiology 2001;87:114-115.
Barry Maron, MD authored the following: "Ventricular Arrhythmias,
Sudden Death, and Prevention in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy." It
appeared in Current Cardiology Reports
2000;2:522-528.
"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Sudden Death: New
Perspectives on Risk Stratification and Prevention with the Implantable
Cardioverter-defibrillator." It appeared in the European Heart Journal
2000;21:1979-1982.
"Clinical Trials Report. Implantable Defibrillator for
Prevention of Sudden Death in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy." It
appeared in Current Cardiology Reports 2001;3:139-140.
Barry Maron, MD co-authored the following:
"Spontaneously
Occurring Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy in the Domestic Cat: A
New Animal Model of the Human Disease." It appeared in Circulation
2000;102:1863-1870.
"Preparticipation Cardiovascular Screening for Young
Athletes." It appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association
2000;284:957-958.
"Recommendations for Preparticipation Screening and the
Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease in Masters Athletes: An Advisory for
Healthcare Professionals from the Working Groups of the World Heart Federation,
the International Federation of Sports Medicine, and the American Heart
Association Committee on Exercise, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Prevention." It
appeared in Circulation (online) 2001;103:327-334.
"Clinical
Significance of Atrial Fibrilla-tion in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy." It
appeared in Current Cardiology Reports 2001;3:141-146.
"Athlete's
Heart Electrocardiogram Mimicking Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy." It appeared in
Current Cardiology Reports 2001;3:147-151.
"Impact Directly over
the Cardiac Silhouette is Necessary to Produce Ventricular Fibrillation in an
Experimental Model of Commotio Cordis." It appeared in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology 2001;37:649-654.
"Apical Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy Developing at a Relatively Advanced Age." It appeared in
Circulation 2001;203:1605.
Sue Sendelbach, RN, MS co-authored "Heart Smart Drugs for
Resuscitation." It appeared in the American Journal of Nursing May
2001(Suppl.);42-44.
