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Selected References for Mandeep Mehra, M.D., Herbert Berger Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology

  1. Mehra MR, Feller E, Rosenberg S. The promise of protein-based and gene-based clinical markers in heart transplantation: from bench to bedside. Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2006 March;3(3):136-43.

  2. Kobashigawa JA, Tobis JM, Mentzer RM, Valantine HA, Bourge RC, Mehra MR, Smart FW, Miller LW, Tanaka K, Li H, Gjertson DW, Gordon RD. Mycophenolate mofetil reduces intimal thickness by intravascular ultrasound after heart transplant: reanalysis of the multicenter trial. Am J Transplant. 2006 May;6(5 Pt 1):993-7.

  3. Deng MC, Eisen HJ, Mehra MR. Methodological challenges of genomic research--the CARGO study. Am J Transplant. 2006 May;6(5 Pt 1):1086-7.

  4. Mehra MR, Uber PA, Kaplan B. Immunosuppression in cardiac transplantation: science, common sense and the heart of the matter. Am J Transplant. 2006 Jun;6(6):1243-5.

  5. Mehra MR. Contemporary concepts in prevention and treatment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Am J Transplant. 2006 Jun;6(6):1248-56.

  6. Packer M, Abraham WT, Mehra MR, Yancy CW, Lawless CE, Mitchell JE, Smart FW, Bijou R, O'Connor CM, Massie BM, Pina IL, Greenberg BH, Young JB, Fishbein DP, Hauptman PJ, Bourge RC, Strobeck JE, Murali S, Schocken D, Teerlink JR, Levy WC, Trupp RJ, Silver MA; Prospective Evaluation and Identification of Cardiac Decompensation by ICG Test (PREDICT) Study Investigators and Coordinators. Utility of impedance cardiography for the identification of short term risk of clinical decompensation in stable patients with chronic heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Jun 6;47(11):2245-52.

  7. Mehra MR, Lavie CJ, Ventura HO, Milani RV. Fish oils produce anti-inflammatory effects and improve body weight in severe heart failure. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Jul;25(7):834-8.

  8. Mehra MR, Uber PA, Walther D, Vesely M, Wohlgemuth JG, Prentice J, Tayama D, Billingham M. Gene expression profiles and B-type natriuretic peptide elevation in heart transplantation: more than a hemodynamic marker. Circulation. 2006 Jul 4;114(1 Suppl):I21-6.

  9. Milani RV, Mehra MR, Lavie CJ, Ventura HO. Comparison of cardiac and peripheral arterial stiffening and ventriculovascular uncoupling in patients with uncomplicated hypertension versus patients with hypertension after heart transplantation. Am J Cardiol. 2006 Sep 15;98(6):789-92.

  10. Kobashigawa JA, Starling RC, Mehra MR, Kormos RL, Bhat G, Barr ML, Sigouin CS, Kolesar J, Fitzsimmons W. Multicenter retrospective analysis of cardiovascular risk factors affecting long-term outcome of de novo cardiac transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Sep;25(9):1063-9.

  11. Greenberg BH, Mehra M, Teerlink JR, Ordronneau P, McCollum D, Gilbert EM. COMPARE: Comparison of the Effects of Carvedilol CR and Carvedilol IR on Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Patients with Heart Failure. Am J Cardiol. 2006 Oct 2;98(7A):53-9.

  12. Khanna AK, Mehra MR. Targeted in vitro and in vivo gene transfer into T Lymphocytes: potential of direct inhibition of allo-immune activation. BMC Immunol. 2006 Nov 10;7:26.

  13. Greenberg B, Mehra MR. All patients with heart failure and intraventricular conduction defect or dyssynchrony should not receive cardiac resynchronization therapy. Circulation. 2006 Dec 12;114(24):2685-91.

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