Cardiothoracic Surgery
Publications
Division Publications
Adachi I, Burki S, Zafar F, Morales DL. Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices. J Thorac Dis . 2015; 7:2194-202.
Blume ED, Rosenthal DN, Rossano JW, Baldwin JT, Eghtesady P, Morales DL, Cantor RS, Conway J, Lorts A, Almond CS, Naftel DC, Kirklin JK, PediMACS Investigators. Outcomes of Children Implanted with Ventricular Assist Devices in the United States: First Analysis of the Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (Pedimacs). J Heart Lung Transplant . 2016; 35:578-84.
Buelow MW, Earing MG, Hill GD, Cohen SB, Bartz PJ, Tweddell JS, Ginde S. The Impact of Obesity on Postoperative Outcomes in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Pulmonary Valve Replacement. Congenit Heart Dis . 2015; 10:E197-202.
Castleberry C, Zafar F, Thomas T, Khan M, Bryant R, Chin C, Morales D, Lorts A. Allosensitization Does Not Alter Post-Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Patients Bridged to Transplant with a Ventricular Assist Device. Pediatr Transplant . 2016; 20:559-64.
Castleberry CD, Zafar F, Dipchand AI, Edwards L, Chin C. Early Initiation of Mtor Inhibitors in Children with Heart Transplantation: A Propensity-Based Registry Analysis. J Heart Lung Transplant . 2016; 35:253-5.
Cooper DS, Morales DL, Corral M, Paden MT, RR. Databases for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Ventricular Assist Devices . In: P Barach, JP Jacobs, S Lipschultz, P Laussen, eds. Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 1: Outcomes Analysis . New York: Springer; 2015:211-18.
Elderie A, Reddy A, Zafar F, Hirsch R, Morales DL. Ventricular Septal Defect Creation: A Viable Option to Decompress a Large Nonsystemic Left Ventricle in a Fontan Patient. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg . 2016.
Flores S, Moore RA, Statile CJ, Michelfelder EC, Wanstrath SG, Knilans TK, Morales DL, Cooper DS. Critical Care for Patients with Congenital Abnormalities of the Coronary Arteries. Cardiol Young . 2015; 25:1561-6.
Guzman-Pruneda FA, Orr Y, Trost JG, Zhang W, Das S, Melicoff E, Maddox J, Nugent M, Mery CM, Adachi I, Schecter MG, Mallory GB, Morales DL, Heinle JS, McKenzie ED. Bronchial Artery Revascularization and En Bloc Lung Transplant in Children. J Heart Lung Transplant . 2016; 35:122-9.
Hoffman GM, Brosig CL, Bear LM, Tweddell JS, Mussatto KA. Effect of Intercurrent Operation and Cerebral Oxygenation on Developmental Trajectory in Congenital Heart Disease. Ann Thorac Surg . 2016; 101:708-16.
Jacobs JP, Mayer JE, Jr., Mavroudis C, O'Brien SM, Austin EH, 3rd, Pasquali SK, Hill KD, He X, Overman DM, St Louis JD, Karamlou T, Pizarro C, Hirsch-Romano JC, McDonald D, Han JM, Dokholyan RS, Tchervenkov CI, Lacour-Gayet F, Backer CL, Fraser CD, et al. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Outcomes and Quality. Ann Thorac Surg . 2016; 101:850-62.
Jacobs JP, O'Brien SM, Pasquali SK, Gaynor JW, Mayer JE, Jr., Karamlou T, Welke KF, Filardo G, Han JM, Kim S, Quintessenza JA, Pizarro C, Tchervenkov CI, Lacour-Gayet F, Mavroudis C, Backer CL, Austin EH, 3rd, Fraser CD, Tweddell JS, Jonas RA, et al. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Mortality Risk Model: Part 2-Clinical Application. Ann Thorac Surg . 2015; 100:1063-8; discussion 68-70.
Karkhanis T, Rao M, Zafar F, Morales D, Haridas B. Tracheal Cartilage Ring Biomechanical Properties for Pediatric Exostent Design. J Med Devices . 2016; 10:1-2.
Khan M, Yeager M, Bryant R, Lorts A, Morales D. Coronary Artery Reconstruction Using a Bioengineered Patch and Epicardial Tunnel. Ann Thorac Surg . 2016; 101:363-65.
Khan MS, Zhang W, Taylor RA, Dean McKenzie E, Mallory GB, Schecter MG, Morales DL, Heinle JS, Adachi I. Survival in Pediatric Lung Transplantation: The Effect of Center Volume and Expertise. J Heart Lung Transplant . 2015; 34:1073-81.
Kimura N, Khan MS, Schecter M, Rizwan R, Bryant R, 3rd, Wells E, Towe C, Zafar F, Morales DL. Changing Demographics and Outcomes of Lung Transplantation Recipients with Cystic Fibrosis. J Heart Lung Transplant . 2016.
Loomba R, Bowman J, Cao Y, Tweddell J, Dearani J, Simpson P, Cetta F, Pelech A. Is Aortic Valve Leaflet Morphology Predictive of Outcome in Pediatric Aortic Valve Stenosis? Congenit Heart Dis . 2015; 10:552-60.
Lorts A, Villa C, Morales D. Children Are Not Small Adults: Options for Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices. Curr Pediatr Rep . 2015; 3:245-54.
Moore RA, Lorts A, Madueme PC, Taylor MD, Morales DL. Virtual Implantation of the 50cc Syncardia Total Artificial Heart. J Heart Lung Transplant . 2016; 35:824-7.
Morales D, Zafar F, Jacobs J. Use of National Death Registries to Empower Databases in Reporting Longitudinal Follow-Up . In: Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 1: Outcomes Analysis . New York: Springer; 2015.
Nandi D, Lin KY, O'Connor MJ, Elci OU, Kim JJ, Decker JA, Price JF, Zafar F, Morales DL, Denfield SW, Dreyer WJ, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW. Hospital Charges for Pediatric Heart Failure-Related Hospitalizations from 2000 to 2009. Pediatr Cardiol . 2016; 37:512-8.
Niebler RA, Shah TK, Mitchell ME, Woods RK, Zangwill SD, Tweddell JS, Berger S, Ghanayem NS. Ventricular Assist Device in Single-Ventricle Heart Disease and a Superior Cavopulmonary Anastomosis. Artif Organs . 2016; 40:180-4.
Niebler RA, Woods KJ, Murkowski K, Ghanayem NS, Hoffman G, Mitchell ME, Punzalan RC, Scott JP, Simpson P, Tweddell JS. A Pilot Study of Antithrombin Replacement Prior to Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Neonates. Artif Organs . 2016; 40:80-5.
Pigula F, Naim, Backer C, Fraser C, Tweddell J, Hirsch-Romano J, Gandhi S, Gaynor J, Neirotti R, Walters H. Subclinical Seizures Identified by Postoperative Electroencephalographic Monitoring Are Common after Neonatal Cardiac Surgery Discussion. J Thorac Cardiov Sur . 2015; 150:178-80.
Ramachandran P, Woo JG, Ryan TD, Bryant R, Heydarian HC, Jefferies JL, Towbin JA, Lorts A. The Impact of Concomitant Left Ventricular Non-Compaction with Congenital Heart Disease on Perioperative Outcomes. Pediatr Cardiol . 2016; 37:1307-12.
Rosenthal DN, Almond CS, Jaquiss RD, Peyton CE, Auerbach SR, Morales DR, Epstein DJ, Cantor RS, Kormos RL, Naftel DC, Butts RJ, Ghanayem NS, Kirklin JK, Blume ED. Adverse Events in Children Implanted with Ventricular Assist Devices in the United States: Data from the Pediatric Interagency Registry for Mechanical Circulatory Support (Pedimacs). J Heart Lung Transplant . 2016; 35:569-77.
Siddiqui NA, Sophie Z, Zafar F, Soares D, Naz I. Predictors for the Development of Post-Thrombotic Syndrome in Patients with Primary Lower Limb Deep Venous Thrombosis: A Case-Control Study. Vascular . 2016.
Sosa T, Goldstein B, Cnota J, Bryant R, Frenck R, Washam M, Madsen N. Melody Valve Bartonella Henselae Endocarditis in an Afebrile Teen: A Case Report. Pediatrics . 2016; 137.
Tweddell J. Advances in Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: Recent Advances, the Low-Hanging Fruit, What Is on the Horizon and the Next Moonshot. Curr Opin Cardiol . 2016; 31:109-16.
Tweddell J. Are Stem Cells the Next Frontier for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome? What Are the Promise, the Reality, and the Future? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 2015; 150:1023-25.
Tweddell J. Where Do We Go Now? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 2015; 150:1453-54.
Tweddell J, Hoffman G, Ghanayem N, Frommelt M, Mussatto K, Berger S. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome . In: H Allen, R Shaddy, D Penny, T Feltes, F Cetta, eds. Moss & Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult Ninth Edition . Philadelphia PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2016:1125-62.
Tweddell JS. Historical Perspectives of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Thomas L. Spray. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 2016; 152:945-9.
Tweddell JS. Invited Commentary. Ann Thorac Surg . 2015; 100:180.
Zafar F, Hinton R, Moore R, Baker R, Bryant R, Narmoneva D, Taylor M, Morales D. Physiological Growth, Remodeling Potential, and Preserved Function of a Novel Bioprosthetic Tricuspid Valve Tubular Bioprosthesis Made of Small Intestinal Submucosa-Derived Extracellular Matrix. J Am Coll Cardiol . 2015; 66:877-88.