Faculty Publications

In addition to contributing to over 1,000 book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific abstracts over the past decade, CRF faculty members have also authored numerous state-of-the-art medical textbooks, including the following:

Drs. Park and Mintz and their international team of contributors review the current understanding of the pathology, diagnosis, and catheter-based management of left main disease.

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Intracoronary Ultrasound is the result of more than 10 years of experience with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). It summarizes both Dr Mintz's own experiences as well as published and unpublished observations of others in the field.

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Latest Publications

CRF faculty members have authored or co-authored these recently published peer-reviewed articles. (check PubMed for further information):

1. Aoki J, Kirtane AJ, Dangas GD, et al. Clinical outcomes after heterogeneous overlap stenting with drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents for de novo coronary artery narrowings. Am J Cardiol. 2008 Jan 1;101(1):58-62.
2. De Luca G, Suryapranata H, Stone GW, Marino P. Reply to "Stenting versus plain old angioplasty in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: Understanding of the randomized trials". Int J Cardiol 2008 Jan 14
   [Epub ahead of print].
3. Missel E, Mintz GS, Carlier SG, et al. Necrotic Core and Its Ratio to Dense Calcium are Predictors of High-Risk Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome. Corrected Proof, 3 January 2008. Am J Cardiol DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.10.018.
4. Farkouh ME, Dangas G, Leon MB, et al. Design of the Future REvascularization Evaluation in patients with Diabetes mellitus: Optimal management of Multivessel disease (FREEDOM) Trial. Am Heart J 2008 Feb;155(2):215-23.
5. Gibson CM, Murphy SA, Pride YB, et al; TIMI Study Group. Effects of pretreatment with clopidogrel on nonemergent percutaneous coronary intervention after fibrinolytic administration for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a Clopidogrel as Adjunctive Reperfusion Therapy-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (CLARITY-TIMI) 28 study. Am Heart J 2008 Jan;155(1):133-9.
6. Iyer SS, White CJ, Hopkins LN, et al; BEACH Investigators. Carotid artery revascularization in high-surgical-risk patients using the Carotid WALLSTENT and FilterWire EX/EZ: 1-year outcomes in the BEACH Pivotal Group. J Am Coll Cardiol 2008 Jan 29;51(4):427-34.
7. Park SW, Lee SW, Koo BK, et al. Treatment of diffuse IN-stent restenosis with Drug-Eluting stents vs. intracoronary bEta-raDiation therapy: INDEED Study. Int J Cardiol 2008 Jan 9; [Epub ahead of print].
8. Pocock SJ, Lansky AJ, Mehran R, et al. Angiographic surrogate end points in drug-eluting stent trials: a systematic evaluation based on individual patient data from 11 randomized, controlled trials.  J Am Coll Cardiol 2008 Jan 1;51(1):23-32.
9. Pucelikova T, Dangas G, Mehran R. Contrast-induced nephropathy. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008 Jan 1;71(1):62-72.
10. Pucelikova T, Mehran R, Kirtane AJ, et al. Short- and long-term outcomes after stent-assisted percutaneous treatment of saphenous vein grafts in the drug-eluting stent era. Am J Cardiol 2008 Jan 1;101(1):63-8.
11. Kim Y-H, Dangas GD, Solinas E, et al. Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation for Patients With Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis. Am J Cardiol 21 January 2008 (DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.10.052).