Open-access full-text journal articles from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston from 1999-present.
Submissions from 2020
Association of Visceral Adipose Tissue and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in US-Born Mexican Americans but not First Generation Immigrants, Clarence Gill, Miryoung Lee, Kristina P Vatcheva, Nahid Rianon, Beverly Smulevitz, David D McPherson, Joseph B McCormick, Susan P Fisher-Hoch, and Susan T Laing
Impact of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Survival in Cancer Patients: Do Not Resuscitate Before or After CPR?, Dana E Giza, Jordan Graham, Teodora Donisan, Dinu V Balanescu, John Crommet, Gregory Botz, Cristina Gutierrez, Mariberta Vidal, Rodrigo Mejia, and Cezar Iliescu
Everolimus-induced pneumonitis: A diagnostic challenge, Andrew Gulde, Elshad Hasanov, Kayla Krug, and Gus W Krucke
Characterization of Urinary Concentrations of Heavy Metals Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Black Pregnant Women, Inkyu Han, Kristina W Whitworth, Xueying Zhang, Masoud Afshar, Pamela D Berens, and Elaine Symanski
Lung Nodule in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma, William C Harding, Mathieu Marcoux, Roberto F Casal, Lara Bashoura, John Stewart, Hans C Lee, and Saadia A Faiz
Coaction Between Physical Activity and Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Racially Diverse, Obese Adults, Natalia I Heredia, Maria E Fernandez, Alexandra E van den Berg, Casey P Durand, Harold W Kohl, Belinda M Reininger, Kevin O Hwang, and Lorna H McNeill
Stabilizing Peri-Stent Restenosis Using a Novel Therapeutic Carrier, Patrick H Kee, Melanie R Moody, Shao-Ling Huang, Hyunggun Kim, Xing Yin, Tao Peng, Susan T Laing, Melvin E Klegerman, Mohammad H Rahbar, Deborah Vela, Curtis Genstler, Kevin J Haworth, Christy K Holland, and David D McPherson
Recent Advances in the Treatment of Clostridioides Difficile Infection: The Ever-changing Guidelines, Shruti Khurana, Alyssa Kahl, Kevin Yu, and Andrew W DuPont
Pitfalls in Quantitative Myocardial PET Perfusion I: Myocardial Partial Volume Correction, K Lance Gould, Linh Bui, Danai Kitkungvan, Tinsu Pan, Amanda E Roby, Tung T Nguyen, and Nils P Johnson
Adenosine at the Interphase of Hypoxia and Inflammation in Lung Injury, Xiangyun Li, Nathanial K Berg, Tingting Mills, Kaiying Zhang, Holger K Eltzschig, and Xiaoyi Yuan
Loss of Uncoupling Protein 3 Attenuates Western Diet-Induced Obesity, Systemic Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance in Rats, Tyler M Lomax, Sadia Ashraf, Gizem Yilmaz, and Romain Harmancey
Anesthesiology Resident Performance on the US Medical Licensing Examination Predicts Success on the American Board of Anesthesiology BASIC Staged Examination: An Observational Study, Travis H Markham, Johanna B de Haan, Sara Guzman-Reyes, John F Zaki, Semhar J Ghebremichael, Carlos Artime, and Evan G Pivalizza
Recurring pleural effusion secondary to walled-off pancreatic necrosis, Adwait Mehta, Gabriel Aisenberg, Roy Tomas DaVee, Eden Henry, and Nicole Thomason
Enrichment Strategy for Systemic Sclerosis Clinical Trials Targeting Skin Fibrosis: A Prospective, Multiethnic Cohort Study, Carina Mihai, Rucsandra Dobrota, Shervin Assassi, Maureen D Mayes, and Oliver Distler
Long noncoding RNA H19X is a key mediator of TGF-β-driven fibrosi, Elena Pachera, Shervin Assassi, Gloria A Salazar, Mara Stellato, Florian Renoux, Adam Wunderlin, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk, Robert Lafyatis, Fina Kurreeman, Jeska de Vries-Bouwstra, Tobias Messemaker, Carol A Feghali-Bostwick, Gerhard Rogler, Wouter T van Haaften, Gerard Dijkstra, Fiona Oakley, Maurizio Calcagni, Janine Schniering, Britta Maurer, Jörg Hw Distler, Gabriela Kania, Mojca Frank-Bertoncelj, and Oliver Distler
Unique Case of Anca-Negative Pauci-Immune Necrotizing Glomerulonephritis With Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage, Potentially Associated With Midostaurin, Jonathan D Pankow, Guillaume Richard-Carpentier, Naval G Daver, William F Glass, and Jaya Kala
Ablation of Refractory Papillary Muscle Ventricular Tachycardia Warranting Multiple Adjunctive Ablation Techniques: A Combined Approach for Success, Mark Pollet, Ben Jenny, Adwait Mehta, Austin Howard, and Nilesh Mathuria
The Correlation Between Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Safety Culture and Quality of Care, Jochen Profit, Paul J Sharek, Xin Cui, Courtney C Nisbet, Eric J Thomas, Daniel S Tawfik, Henry C Lee, David Draper, and J Bryan Sexton
Tracheostomy while on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Comparison of Percutaneous and Open Procedures, Ismael A Salas De Armas, Kha Dinh, Bindu Akkanti, Pushan Jani, Reshma Hussain, Lisa Janowiak, Kayla Kutilek, Manish K Patel, Mehmet H Akay, Rahat Hussain, Jayeshkumar Patel, Chandni Patel, Yafen Liang, John Zaki, Biswajit Kar, and Igor D Gregoric
Canakinumab to reduce deterioration of cardiac and respiratory function in SARS-CoV-2 associated myocardial injury with heightened inflammation (canakinumab in Covid-19 cardiac injury: The three C study), Calvin C Sheng, Debasis Sahoo, Siddharth Dugar, Robier Aguillon Prada, Tom Kai Ming Wang, Ossama K Abou Hassan, Danielle Brennan, Daniel A Culver, Prabalini Rajendram, Abhijit Duggal, A Michael Lincoff, Steven E Nissen, Venu Menon, and Paul C Cremer
Decomposing loss aversion from gaze allocation and pupil dilation, Feng Sheng, Arjun Ramakrishnan, Darsol Seok, Wenjia Joyce Zhao, Samuel Thelaus, Puti Cen, and Michael Louis Platt
Beyond an Updated Graded Prognostic Assessment (Breast GPA): A Prognostic Index and Trends in Treatment and Survival in Breast Cancer Brain Metastases From 1985 to Today, Paul W Sperduto, Shane Mesko, Jing Li, Daniel Cagney, Ayal Aizer, Nancy U Lin, Eric Nesbit, Tim J Kruser, Jason Chan, Steve Braunstein, Jessica Lee, John P Kirkpatrick, Will Breen, Paul D Brown, Diana Shi, Helen A Shih, Hany Soliman, Arjun Sahgal, Ryan Shanley, William Sperduto, Emil Lou, Ashlyn Everett, Drexell Hunter Boggs, Laura Masucci, David Roberge, Jill Remick, Kristin Plichta, John M Buatti, Supriya Jain, Laurie E Gaspar, Cheng-Chia Wu, Tony J C Wang, John Bryant, Michael Chuong, James Yu, Veronica Chiang, Toshimichi Nakano, Hidefumi Aoyama, and Minesh P Mehta
Estrogen/progesterone Receptor and HER2 Discordance Between Primary Tumor and Brain Metastases in Breast Cancer and Its Effect on Treatment and Survival, Paul W Sperduto, Shane Mesko, Jing Li, Daniel Cagney, Ayal Aizer, Nancy U Lin, Eric Nesbit, Tim J Kruser, Jason Chan, Steve Braunstein, Jessica Lee, John P Kirkpatrick, Will Breen, Paul D Brown, Diana Shi, Helen A Shih, Hany Soliman, Arjun Sahgal, Ryan Shanley, William Sperduto, Emil Lou, Ashlyn Everett, Drexell Hunter Boggs, Laura Masucci, David Roberge, Jill Remick, Kristin Plichta, John M Buatti, Supriya Jain, Laurie E Gaspar, Cheng-Chia Wu, Tony J C Wang, John Bryant, Michael Chuong, James Yu, Veronica Chiang, Toshimichi Nakano, Hidefumi Aoyama, and Minesh P Mehta
The MUC5B promoter variant does not predict progression of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis, Elizabeth R Volkmann, Donald P Tashkin, Michael D Roth, Ning Li, Julio Charles, Maureen Mayes, Grace Kim, Jonathan Goldin, Lila Pourzand, Philip J Clements, Daniel E Furst, Dinesh Khanna, Robert M Elashoff, and Shervin Assassi
Transcriptional insights into pathogenesis of cutaneous systemic sclerosis using pathway driven meta-analysis assisted by machine learning methods, Xiao Xu, Meera Ramanujam, Sudha Visvanathan, Shervin Assassi, Zheng Liu, and Li Li