Original Studies

Zarich S, Luciano C, Hulford J, Abdullah A. Prevalence of metabolic Syndrome in Young Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: Does Framingham Risk Score Underestimate Cardiovascular Risk in this Population. Accepted Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research 2006.

Sivasakaran S, Pollard-Quintner S, Sachdeva R, Pugeda J, Hoq S, Zarich S. The Effect of a Six-Week Program of Yoga and Meditation on Brachial Artery Reactivity: Do Psychosocial Interventions Affect Vascular Tone? Accepted Clinical Cardiology 2006

Nicolasora N, Pannala R, Mountantanakis S, Shanmugan Bala, Amoateng-Adjepong Y, Manthous CA.  Hospitalized patients want to choose whether to receive life-sustaining therapies.  J Hosp Med 2006; 1:  161-167. 

Case Reports

Deepak B, Alsous F, Mathur R, Zarich S. Congential Left Ventricular Diverticulum Presenting as Ventricular Tachycardia in an Elderly Subject. Accepted Geriatric Cardiology 2006.

Book Chapters/Review Articles

Manthous CA.  ARDS Redux.  Clin Pulm Med 2006; 13:  121-127.

Manthous CA, Schmidt GA, Hall JB.  Liberation from mechanical ventilation, Principles of Critical Care:  Hall, Wood and Schmidt, (eds) McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Manthous CA, Jackson WL. The 9-11 commision’s invitation to imagine: critical care of nuclear explosion victims. Crit Care Med 2006; (in press).

Mehta R, Kellum J, Shah S, Molitoris B, Ronco C, Warnock D, Levin A (on behalf of participants). AKIN: Acute kidney injury network: Report of an initiative. 2006 (in press).

Schunemann HJ, Jaeschke R, Cook DJ, Bria WF, El-Solh AA, Ernst A, Fahy BF, Gould MK, Horan KL, Krishnan JA, Manthous CA, Maurer JR, McNicholas WT, Oxman AD, Rubenfeld G, Turino GM, Guyatt G; ATS Documents Development and Implementation Committee. An official ATS statement: grading the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in ATS guidelines and recommendations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006; 174(5):605-14.

Antonelli M, Levy M, Andrews PJD, Chastre J, Hudson LD, Manthous CA, Meduri UG, Moreno RP, Putesnen C, Stewart T, Torres A. International consensus conference: Hemodynamic monitoring in shock and implications for management. Intens Care Med 2006; (in press).

Zarich S. Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes and cardiovascular Events: Current Controversies and recommendations. Minerva Cardioangiolitica 2006; 54: 1-20.

Abstracts

N Dainiak.  Management of mass casualties from a radiologic event.  Presented in Upton, Long Island (Brookhaven National Lab) at Pathophysiology and Molecular Biology of Hematopoiesis, Malignancy and Radiation Response Conference, May 2006.

N Dainiak.  Acute radiation syndrome: clinical signs and symptoms.  Presented in Bethesda at 2^nd International Conference on Biodosimetry and 7^th International Conference on EPR Dosimetry and Applications.  July 2006.

N Dainiak.  Rationale and recommendations for treatment of radiation injury with cytokines.  Presented in Albuquerque at the 9^th Annual Force Health Protection Conference.  August 2006.

J Albanese, S K Schrier, J Fostel, N Dainiak.  Examination of gene expression data using dimensional reduction methodology: a comparative study between principal component analysis and projection pursuit.  Presented in Minneapolis, September 2006, 35^th Annual Meeting of Experimental Hematology, Exp Hematol 34: 70, 2006.

N Dainiak.  Medical treatment of radiological emergencies.  Presented in Houston at workshop on Space Radiation Medical Emergencies, NASA, October 2006.

N Dainiak, D Christensen, S Sugarman, J Albanese, K Martens, W Golini, S Powsner.  Radiation near-miss incident in Rhode Island: variability of psychological response.  Presented in Philadelphia at the 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society, November 2006.

M.Afaq, S Adigopula, D Blendea, S Upadhyay, G Lancaster. A novel index of ST elevation in lead aVR as a predictor of myocardial viability using exercise SPECT myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2006 13; s21 (16.30). (Poster presentation at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology meeting Montreal, Canada 2006)

Hussain M, Quintner-Pollard S, Zarich S. The Disconnect Between Awareness and Self Perception of Cardiovascular Risk in Healthy Women. Accepted AHA 2006.

Blendea D, Banker, J, McPherson CA. Clinical significance of elevated serum Troponin-T after spontaneous and induced implantable cardioverter defibrillator discharges. Europace 2006;8: 99PW/7.

Afaq M, Azadeh S, Ivanov O, Srinivasan J, Mayall I, Berstein L, Choi Y, Zarich S. Diagnostic utility of NT-proBNP in the Evaluation of Congestive Heart Failure in the Emergency Department in Elderly patients with multiple co-morbidities. JACC 2006;70A: 986-987

Daggubati R, Upadya S, Hoq S, Upadhaya S, Rovinelli S, Srinivasan J, Driesman M, Zarich S, Fishman R. Comparison of Angiojet Rheolytic Therapy versus Aspiration Thrombectomy in Acute Myocardial Infarction. SCA&I 2006.

Published Articles/Book Contributions

N Dainiak, D Delli Carpini, M Bohan, M Werdman, E Wilds, A Barlow, C Beck, D. Cheng, N Daly, P Glazer, P Mas, R Nath, G Piontek, K Price, K Roberts, Al Salner, S Rockwell.  Development of a statewide hospital plan for radiologic emergencies.  Int J Radiot Oncol, Bio, Physics (in press) 2006.

D. Weisdorf, N Chao, JK Waselenko, N Dainiak, JO Armitage, I McNiece, D. Confer.  Acute radiation injury: contingency planning for triage, supportive care and transplantation.  Biol Blood and Marrow Transpl (in press) 2006.

J. Albanese, K. Martens, LV Karkanitsa, N. Dainiak.  Multivariate analysis of low-dose radiation-associated changes in cytokine gene expression profiles using microarray technology.  Exp Hematol (in press) 2006.

L N. Dainiak, RD Sedlak, J. Albanese.  Assessment and treatment of radiation injury based on clinical triage and dosimetric analysis.  Exp Hematol (in press) 2006.

J. Albanese, K. Martens, J. Arnold, N. Dainiak.  Building Connecticut’s clinical laboratory surge capacity to mitigate the health consequences of radiological and nuclear disasters.  Radiation Measurements (in press) 2006.

GA Alexander, HM Swartz, SA Amudson, WF Blakely, B. Buddemeier, B. Gallez, N. Dainiak, et al.  BiodosEPR-2006 meeting acute dosimetry consensus committee recommendations on biodosimetry applications in events involving terrorist uses of radioactive materials and radiation accidents.  Radiation Measurements (in press) 2006.

Other

Manthous CA.  Sound and the fury.  Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006; Jun 15;173(12):141.

Manthous CA.  Introducing the primer on medical ethic.  Chest 2006 (in press). 

Manthous CA.  Informed consent for CPR.  J Hosp Ethics 2006 (in press).