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Publications of the Heart Institute of the Cascades

Darius Azin, MD
Vascular Surgery

Rao RK, Azin GD, Hood DB, Rowe VL, Kohl RD, Katz SG, Weaver FA. 
Basilic vein transposition fistula: a good option for maintaining hemodialysis access site options?
J Vasc Surg. 2004 May;39(5):1043-7.

John Blizzard, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Schultz JM, Blizzard JD, Ravichandran PS, Slater MS.
Traumatic occlusion of the thoracic aorta: case report and review of the literature.
J Trauma. 2003 Jul;55(1):147-50.

Bruce Brundage, MD
Cardiology

Fuster V, Hirshfeld JW Jr, Brown AS, Brundage BH, Fye WB, Lewis RP, Nash IS, Sketch MH Jr, Vetrovec GW. 
Working group 8: Defining the different types of cardiovascular specialists and developing a new model for training general clinical cardiologists.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Jul 21;44(2):267-71.

Oudiz RJ, Widlitz A, Beckmann XJ, Camanga D, Alfie J, Brundage BH, Barst RJ.
Micrococcus-associated central venous catheter infection in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Chest. 2004 Jul;126(1):90-4.

Cao TS, Yuan LJ, Duan YY, Wang ZJ, Zhuang L, Shapiro SM, Brundage BH. [Clinical study on long-term treatment of primary pulmonary hypertension with continuous intravenous epoprostenol infusion]
Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi. 2003 Feb;42(2):106-9. Chinese. 

Lamont DH, Budoff MJ, Shavelle DM, Shavelle R, Brundage BH, Hagar JM. Coronary calcium scanning adds incremental value to patients with positive stress tests.
Am Heart J. 2002 May;143(5):861-7.

Budoff MJ, Yang TP, Shavelle RM, Lamont DH, Brundage BH.
Ethnic differences in coronary atherosclerosis.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Feb 6;39(3):408-12.

Georgiou D, Budoff MJ, Kaufer E, Kennedy JM, Lu B, Brundage BH. Screening patients with chest pain in the emergency department using electron beam tomography: a follow-up study.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001 Jul;38(1):105-10.

Oudiz RJ, Budoff MJ, Brundage BH.
Safety of EBCT contrast injection studies in severe pulmonary hypertension.
Int J Card Imaging. 2000 Oct;16(5):399-403.

Baik HK, Budoff MJ, Lane KL, Bakhsheshi H, Brundage BH.
Accurate measures of left ventricular ejection fraction using electron beam tomography: a comparison with radionuclide angiography, and cine angiography.
Int J Card Imaging. 2000 Oct;16(5):391-8.

Mao S, Budoff MJ, Oudiz RJ, Bakhsheshi H, Wang S, Brundage BH.
A simple single slice method for measurement of left and right ventricular enlargement by electron beam tomography.
Int J Card Imaging. 2000 Oct;16(5):383-90.

Riley MS, Porszasz J, Engelen MP, Brundage BH, Wasserman K.
Gas exchange responses to continuous incremental cycle ergometry exercise in primary pulmonary hypertension in humans.
Eur J Appl Physiol. 2000 Sep;83(1):63-70.  

Bakhsheshi H, Mao S, Budoff MJ, Bin L, Brundage BH.
Preview method for electron-beam CT scanning of the coronary arteries.
Acad Radiol. 2000 Aug;7(8):620-6.

Riley MS, Porszasz J, Engelen MP, Shapiro SM, Brundage BH, Wasserman K.
Responses to constant work rate bicycle ergometry exercise in primary pulmonary hypertension: the effect of inhaled nitric oxide.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000 Aug;36(2):547-56. 

O'Rourke RA, Brundage BH, Froelicher VF, Greenland P, Grundy SM, Hachamovitch R, Pohost GM, Shaw LJ, Weintraub WS, Winters WL Jr, Forrester JS, Douglas PS, Faxon DP, Fisher JD, Gregoratos G, Hochman JS, Hutter AM Jr, Kaul S, Wolk MJ.
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Expert Consensus document on electron-beam computed tomography for the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease.
Circulation. 2000 Jul 4;102(1):126-40.

Budoff MJ, Lane KL, Bakhsheshi H, Mao S, Grassmann BO, Friedman BC, Brundage BH.
Rates of progression of coronary calcium by electron beam tomography.
Am J Cardiol. 2000 Jul 1;86(1):8-11.

O'Rourke RA, Brundage BH, Froelicher VF, Greenland P, Grundy SM, Hachamovitch R, Pohost GM, Shaw LJ, Weintraub WS, Winters WL Jr. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Expert Consensus Document on electron-beam computed tomography for the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000 Jul;36(1):326-40.

Shavelle DM, Budoff MJ, LaMont DH, Shavelle RM, Kennedy JM, Brundage BH.
Exercise testing and electron beam computed tomography in the evaluation of coronary artery disease.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000 Jul;36(1):32-8. 

Badesch DB, Tapson VF, McGoon MD, Brundage BH, Rubin LJ, Wigley FM, Rich S, Barst RJ, Barrett PS, Kral KM, Jobsis MM, Loyd JE, Murali S, Frost A, Girgis R, Bourge RC, Ralph DD, Elliott CG, Hill NS, Langleben D, Schilz RJ, McLaughlin VV, Robbins IM, Groves BM, Shapiro S, Medsger TA Jr. Continuous intravenous epoprostenol for pulmonary hypertension due to the scleroderma spectrum of disease. A randomized, controlled trial.
Ann Intern Med. 2000 Mar 21;132(6):425-34. 

Tim Hanlon, MD
Cardiology

Grines CL, Westerhausen DR Jr, Grines LL, Hanlon JT, Logemann TL, Niemela M, Weaver WD, Graham M, Boura J, O'Neill WW, Balestrini C; Air PAMI Study Group.
A randomized trial of transfer for primary angioplasty versus on-site thrombolysis in patients with high-risk myocardial infarction: the Air Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction study.

Hanlon JT, Lowe RI, Funary A.
Substernal epicardial echocardiography: a new ultrasonic window to the postoperative heart.
J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2000 Jan;13(1):35-8.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002 Jun 5;39(11):1713-9.

Bruce McLellan, MD
Cardiology

McLellan, BA, Hatlestad C, Doolan, K, Brundage BH.
The effect of one year of Chelation Therapy on coronary calcium score. 
J Am Coll Cardiol.  2006 Mar (Suppl A):  126A.
Abstract poster.

James Ritchie, MD
Cardiology

Ritchie JL, Wolk MJ, Hirshfeld JW Jr, Messer JV, Peterson ED, Prystowsky EN, Gardner TJ, Kimball HR, Popp RL, Smaha L, Smith SC Jr, Wann LS. Task force 4: Appropriate clinical care and issues of "self-referral".
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Oct 19;44(8):1740-6.

Ritchie JL, Goldschlager NF, Labroo A, Nagel MR, Weaver WD, Williams ES. Working group 7: Enhancing the job "matching" process.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Jul 21;44(2):261-6.

Angelo Vlessis, MD, PhD
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Vlessis AA, Hanlon T.
Repair of acute postinfarction ventricular septal defect by endocardial patch exclusion through the aortic valve orifice.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005 Jan;129(1):223-4. 

Stuesse DC, Giraud GD, Vlessis AA, Starr A, Trunkey DD. 
Hemodynamic effects of S-nitrosocysteine, an intravenous regional vasodilator.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 Aug;122(2):371-7.