Department of Pediatrics

Division of Cardiology

Articles, Patents and Intellectual Property

Aly AM, Simpson PM, Humes RA. The Role of Transthoracic Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis in Children. Arch. Ped. Adolesc. Med. 1999;153:950-954.

Chin C, Naftel DC, Singh TP, Slume ED, Luikart H, Bernstein D, Morrow WR, and the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group.  Risk Factors for Recurrent Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplantation:  a Multicenter Experience.  J Heart Lung Transplant 2000 (Supplement).

Di Carli MF, Prcevski P, Singh TP, Leonen M, Muzik O, Vander Heide R.  Myocardial Blood Flow, Function, and Metabolism in Repetitive Stunning.  J Nucl Med 2000 (in press)

Fulton AB,  Morris EJ, Evason K, Wiand C,  LÕEcuyer TJ.  Mislocalization of vimentin messenger RNA alters cell morphology.  J Cell Science  (In Press).

Gutgesell HP, Atkins D, Barst RJ, Buck M, Franklin WH, Humes RA, Ringel R, Shaddy RE, Taubert K. Common Cardiovascular Monitoring of Children and Adolescents Receiving Psychotropic Drugs. A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Committee on Congenital Cardiac Defects, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, American Heart Association. Circulation 99: 979-982, 1999.

Keller LH, VanderHeide RS, Pebbles, KA, LÕEcuyer TJ.  Percutaneous pulmonary artery gene transfer using naked plasmid DNA delivered via angioplasty.  Pediatr Card (In Press).

Klein M, Eames C, Simpson P, Szof C, Humes R, Kauffman R. Information at the Point of Care: Effect on Patient Care and Resource Consumption. J. HealthCare and Information Management 13:67-81, 1999

Kurian MS, Reynolds ER, Humes RA, Klein MD. Cardiac Tamponade Due to Serous Pericardial Effusion in ECMO Patients. J. Ped. Surg. 1999, 34:1311-1314

L'Ecuyer TJ, and Fang H-L.  Protein binding by the 3Õ untranslated region of alphastriated tropomyosin. Pediatr Res (In Press).

L'Ecuyer TJ, Schutte BC, Mendel KA, Morris E, and Fulton AB.  Muscle-specific transcription factors in fibroblasts expressing the alpha-striated tropomyosin 3Õ untranslated region. Mol Genet Metab Vol 67, pp 213-226, 1999.

L'Ecuyer TJ, Poulik JM, Vincent JA. Myocardial infarction due to coronary abnormalities in pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum. Pediatr Card  (in press).

Prabhu AS, Singh TP, Morrow Wr, Muzik O, Di Carli MF.  Safety and Efficacy of Intavenous Adenosine for Pharmacologic Stress Testing in Childfren with Aortic Valve Disease or Kawasaki Disease.  Am J. Cardiol 1999;83:284-87

Rodriguez E, Humes RA. Assessing single ventricle anomalies. Pediatric Ultrasound Today, (in press.)

Rodriguez E, Ross RD:  Viral Myocarditis, eMedicine:  Pediatrics Online Text.  Boston:  eMedicine, Inc. (in press).

Karpawich PP, Rabah R, Padiyar N, Haas J: Altered Cardiac Histology Following Apical Right Ventricular Pacing in Patients with Congenital Atrioventricular Block. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology  22: 1372 - 1377, 1999

Tantengco MVT, Humes R, Clapp S, Lobdell K, Walters H, Hakimi M, Epstein M. Aortic Root Dilation after the Ross Procedure. Am J Cardiology 83: 915-920, 1999.

Turner D, Humes RA. Heterotaxia Syndromes Pediatric Ultrasound Today, (in press)

Tuzcu V, Karpawich P, Epstein ML. P-wave signal-averaged ECG. JACC (in press)

Books, Chapters and Reviews

Epstein ML:  Vascular rings and slings.  In:  Moller, Hoffman (eds):  Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine.  New York:  Churchill Livingstone (in press).

Epstein ML:  Congenital stenosis and insufficiency of the tricuspid valve.  In: Emmanouilides, Riemenschneider, Allen, Gutgesell (eds):  Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children and Adolescents (6th ed).  Baltimore:  Williams and Wilkins (in press).

Epstein ML:  Tricuspid atresia.  In: Emmanouilides, Riemenschneider, Allen, Gutgesell (eds):  Moss and AdamsÕ Heart Disease in Infants, Children and Adolescents (6th ed).  Baltimore:  Williams and Wilkins (in press).

Abstracts, Letters to the Editor and Articles in Non-Referred Journals

Singh TP, Humes RA, Muzik O, Sullivan NM, Karpawich PP, Di Carli MF.  Does Myocardial Flow Reserve Limit Exercise Performance in Patients with a Systemic Right Ventricle?  J Am Col Cardiol 2000 (Supplement).

Kugler J, Danford D, Felix G, Houston K, and Participating Pediatric EP Society Members (P.Karpawich, participating member) Current Associations and Trends. Pacing  and Clinical Electrophysiology 22: 781, 1999

Tantengco MV, Cavitt D, Thomas R, Epstein M, Karpawich PP: Progresive Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Chronic Right Ventricular-Apical Paced Young Patients. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 22: 905, 1999.

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