5 results match your criteria: "University of Maryland School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center[Affiliation]"
Symptoms of Autonomic Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis Assessed by the COMPASS-31 Questionnaire.
J Rheumatol
August 2018
From the Department of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; the departments of Neurology, Anatomy, and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine; the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Objective: Autonomic dysfunction is a known complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc) that can affect vascular tone, gastrointestinal (GI) motility, heart rate, and blood pressure control. We sought to quantify autonomic symptom burden in SSc, and to define the characteristics of patients with SSc and autonomic dysfunction.
Methods: Patients with SSc were consecutively recruited during routine clinical visits at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center and asked to complete the Composite Autonomic Symptom Score (COMPASS)-31 questionnaire, a validated tool to assess symptoms of autonomic dysfunction.
Apolipoprotein C-III: The Small Protein With Sizeable Vascular Risk.
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
June 2017
From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Baltimore.
Optimizing donor heart outcome after prolonged storage with endothelial function analysis and continuous perfusion.
Ann Thorac Surg
October 2004
University of Maryland School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Baltimore, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Background: By minimizing tissue ischemia, continuous perfusion (CP) during organ transport may increase the safety of "marginal donors." My colleagues and I investigated whether an analysis of donor heart viability predicts recovery of grafts challenged with a 24-hour preservation interval.
Methods: Dog hearts underwent cold static storage (CS) for 8 hours (n = 8) or 24 hours (n = 2) or CP for 24 hours with cold asanguinous, oxygenated solution (n = 8).
Repression of bacterial motility by a novel fimbrial gene product.
EMBO J
September 2001
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, MA 21201, USA.
Proteus mirabilis is a common uropathogen in patients with long-term catheterization or with structural or functional abnormalities in the urinary tract. The mannose-resistant, Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbriae and flagellum are among virulence factors of P.mirabilis that contribute to its colonization in a murine model of ascending urinary tract infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effect of coenzyme Q10 in patients with congestive heart failure.
Ann Intern Med
April 2000
University of Maryland School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore 21201, USA.
Background: Coenzyme Q10 is commonly used to treat congestive heart failure on the basis of data from several unblinded, subjective studies. Few randomized, blinded, controlled studies have evaluated objective measures of cardiac performance.
Objective: To determine the effect of coenzyme Q10 on peak oxygen consumption, exercise duration, and ejection fraction.