JuanCarlosAlejosMD

PubMed

• 1 citations
  Pediatric heart transplantation from donation after circulatory death using normothermic regional perfusion and cold storage from a distant donor: First US experience.
  Reshma Biniwale, Saba Lahar, Shyamasundar Balasubramanya, Carla Caraccio, Biliet Ngang
  JTCVS Techniques. 2023-08-01
• Early Postoperative Volume Overload is a Predictor of 1-Year Post-Transplant Mortality in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.
  Michelle J Lim, Myung-Shin Sim, Sylvia Pan, Juan Alejos, Myke Federman
  Pediatric Cardiology. 2023-06-01
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  Fontan-associated liver disease after heart transplant.
  Eric R Griffiths, Linda M Lambert, Zhining Ou, Akraam Shaaban, Maryam Rezvani
  Pediatric Transplantation. 2023-03-01

Journal Articles

• Use of OKT3 for Acute Myocarditis in Infants and Children.  
  Ahdoot J, Galindo A, Alejos JC, George B, Burch C, Marelli D, Sadeghi A, Laks H, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
• The Yield of Endomyocardial Biopsy as a Screen for Cellular Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients.  
  Levi DS, DeConde AS, Burch C, Alejos JC, Wetzel G, Pediatric Transplantation 2004, 8(1):22-28
• Predictors of Graft Longevity in Pediatric Heart Transplantation.  
  Leman NR, Levi, DS, Alejos JC, Wetzel GT, Pediatric Cardiology 2005, Nov-Dec;26(6):762-7
• Muronab-CD3 for Pediatric Acute Myocarditis.  
  Perens G, Levi DS, Alejos JC, Wetzel GT, Pediatr Cardiol. 2007 Jan-Feb;28(1):21-6
• Humoral Rejection in Pediatric Orthotopic Heart Transplantation.  
  Casarez T, Perens G, Williams RJ, Kutay ED, Fishbein MC, Reed EF, Alejos, JC, Levi DS, J Heart Lung Transplant. 2007 Feb;26(2):114-9
• Report from a consensus conference on the sensitized patient awaiting heart transplantation.  
  Kobashigawa J, Mehra M, West L, Kerman R, George J, Rose M, Zeevi A, Reinsmoen N, Patel J, Reed EF, J Heart Lung Transplant. 2009 Mar;28(3):213-25.
• Cardiorespiratory Response Before and After Repair of Secundum Atrial Septal Defect.  
  Marelli A and Alejos J, Progress in Pediatric Cardiology 1993, 2(3):20-23
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Books/Book Chapters

• New Technologies for the Perioperative Physician. 
  Chapter: Critical Care Transition: The Anesthesiologist’s Role. Anesthesiology Clinics of North America 
  Porembka DT and Hanson CWEditors: Lumb P. WB Saunders.Philadelphia, PA
• Critical Care Medicine Supplement. 
  Porembka DT and Hoit BD (Guest Editors)
• Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Refresher Course 
  Porembka DT
• Critical Care Symposium Textbook. 
  Porembka DT
• Aortic Aneurysm, Trauma and Dissection. 
  Chapter: Critical Care Clinics: Controversies in Critical Care Medicine 
  Page 733 - 766Porembka DTEditors: Dudlick B, Leibowitz AB, Guest Editor.WB Saunders Company
• Critical Care Clinics-Transesophageal Echocardiography and Innovative Echocardiography Technology 
  Porembka DTWB Saunders, Philadelphia
• Critical Care: State of the Art. 
  Porembka DTWilliams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD
• Echocardiography. 
  Porembka DTEditors: Gabriella, Layon.Critical Care, Lippncott, Williams, & WilkinsEdition 5th,
• Echocardiography 
  Chapter: Civetta, Taylor and Kirby’s Critical Care 
  Porembka DTEditors: Gabrielli, Layon, Yu.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 4th,
• Postoperative Respiratory Failure. 
  Chapter: Complications in Anesthesia 
  Porembka DTEditors: Atlee J.Lippincott, Williams & WilkinsEdition 2nd,
• Immunomodulatory Effects of Transfusion. 
  Chapter: Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain 
  Porembka DTEditors: Katz RL.W.B. Saunders Company
• ICU Emergencies. 
  Chapter: Textbook of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology 
  Porembka DT and Nacht AEditors: Thys DM.The McGraw-Hill Companies
• New Interventions in Postoperative Respiratory Failure. 
  Porembka DT
• Use of Transesophageal and Transthoracic Echocardiography for Monitoring and Diagnosis of Critical Illness 
  Porembka DT
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Myocardial Ischemia. 
  Chapter: Anesthesiology Residents' Guide to Learning in the ICU 
  Porembka DTEdition 2nd,
• Valvular Heart Disease. 
  Chapter: Anesthesiology Residents' Guide to Learning in the ICU 
  Porembka DTEdition 2nd,
• Sixteen –Year Experience with 1,000 Heart Transplants at UCLA. 
  Marelli D, Laks H, Bresson J, Houston E, Tsai FC, Hamilton M, Moriguchi J, Fonarow GC, Ardehali A, Camara R, Burch C, Alejos JC, George B, Kawata N, Kobashigawa JClinical Transplants
• Hemodynamic Assessment in the Critically Ill Patient. 
  Chapter: Critical Care Medicine-Perioperative Management 
  Page 85 - 98Porembka DT, Vender JSEditors: Murray MJ, Coursin DB, Pearl RG and Prough DS.Raven Press, New York
• Cardiopulmonary ICU Monitoring: State-of-the Art. 
  Chapter: The Critically Ill Cardiac Patient: Multisystem Dysfunction and Management 
  Porembka DT, Eissa TNEditors: Dantzker D and Kvetan V.Lippincott
• Transesophageal Echocardiography in Trauma. 
  Chapter: Postoperative Management of the Cardiac Surgical Patient 
  Porembka DTChurchill Livingstone
• Critical Care in Trauma: Focus on Cardiac. 
  Chapter: TOP ‘96 Course Manual, International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society 
  Porembka DT
• Valvular Heart Disease. 
  Chapter: Anesthesiology Residents' Guide to Learning in the ICU 
  Porembka DT
• Transesophageal Echocardiography and Cardiac Critical Care. 
  Chapter: Postoperative Management of the Cardiac Surgical Patient 
  Page 257 - 299Porembka DTEditors: Williams JP. Churchill Livingstone.New York, NY
• in Cardiopulmonary Assessment in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  Chapter: The Critically Ill Cardiac Patient 
  Page 300 - 320Porembka DTEditors: Kvetan V and Dantzker DR.Lippincott-Raven
• Echocardiography. 
  Porembka DTEditors: Gabriella, Layon.Critical Care, Lippncott, Williams, & Wilkins
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Abstracts/Posters

• Predictors of Pulmonary Hypertensive Complications after Heart Transplantation in Pediatric Patients with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.
  Shindo T, Alejos JC, Halnon NJ, 30th International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation meeting, Chicago, IL
• Neoplasia and PTLD Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation- Incidence and Outcome.
  Odim J, Kunitake H, Mendoza F, Alejos J, Plunkett M, Alikhani A, Laks H, ASTS Conference, Miami, FL
• Monitoring of CD4 Cell Activity in Stable and Rejecting Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients.
  Perens GS, Williams RJ, Reiss J, Korin Y, Reed EF, Alejos JC, Halnon NJ, World Transplant Congress, Boston, Massachusetts
• Elevated Doppler Tissue Imaging-Derived Indices Reflect Cellular and Humoral Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.
  Alejos Behera Sk, Trang J, Drant S, Alejos JC, 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society, San Francisco, CA
• Screening for Rejection in Symptomatic Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients: The Sensitivity of BNP.
  Harake DE, Geiger MK, Levi DS, Halnon NJ, Alejos JC, 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society, San Francisco, CA
• Novel Therapies for Pediatric Patients Elevated Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Undergoing Heart Transplantation.
  Daftari B, Perens GS, Halnon NJ, Alejos JC, 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society, San Francisco, CA
• Can Serum BNP Levels Predict Dysrhythmias in Children with Cardiomyopathy in the Pediatric ICU?
  Geracht J, Levi D, Alejos JC, Epstein D, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Elevated Serum BNP Levels Predict the Requirement of Mechanical Cardiac Assistance in Children with Cardiomyopathy in the Pediatric ICU.
  Geracht J, Levi D, Alejos JC, Epstein D, American Thoracic Society (ATS) meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Use of Bosentan in Children with Single Ventricle Physiology and Elevated Pulmonary Pressures to Improve Fontan Candidacy.
  Seltzer S, Reemtsen B, Alejos J, 46th Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL
• A Non-Invasive Assessment of Cardiac Output in Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients.
  Likes ML, Alejos JC, 30th International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation meeting, Chicago, IL
• Humoral Rejection in Pediatric Heart Transplantation.
  Casarez T, Levi DS, Alejos JC, American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting
• Distinguishing Tachycardia-Mediated Cardiomyopathy and Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
  Patel P, Moore J, Alejos JC, the 32nd International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support after Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Long-Term Survival Trends.
  Su J, Kelly R, Alejos JC, 32nd International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support after Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Predictors of Survival to Hospital Discharge.
  Su J, Kelly R, Alejos JC, 32nd International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support after Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Predicators of Survival to Hospital Discharge.
  Su J, Kelly R, Alejos JC, Pediatric Academic Societies, Boston, Massachussetts
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support after Pediatric Orthotopic Heart Transplantation.
  Su J, Kelly R, Alejos JC, Pediatric Academic Societies, Boston, Massachussetts
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support after Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Long-Term Survival Trends.
  Su J, Kelly R, Alejos JC, Pediatric Academic Societies, Boston, Massachussetts
• In Vivo Testing of a Novel Parachute-Stent for Adjustable Vessel Occlusion.
  Levi DS, Sim JY, Myers J, Alejos J, Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 2002
• Predictors of Graft Longevity in Pediatric Heart Transplantation.
  Levi DS, Leman N, Burch C, Wetzel GT, Alejos JC, Pediatric Cardiology
• The Utility of Surveillance Endomyocardial Biopsies in Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients.
  Levi DS, DeConde AS, Burch C, Alejos JC, Wetzel G, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
• Pediatric Heart Transplantation Experience at a Single Center: A Fifteen-year Experience.
  Odim J, Laks H, Sadeghi A, Drinkwater D, Alejos J, Galindo A, Komanapalli C, 20th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society, Osaka, Japan
• Outcome following Pediatric Heart Transplantation for Congenital Heart Diseases.
  Ardehali A, Grant PW, Laks H, Drinkwater D, Alejos J, Galindo A, George B, American Heart Association, Atlanta, Georgia
• Effects of Enalapril on Exercise and End Systolic Ventricular Wall Stress in the Fontan Patient.
  Troutman WB, Galindo AJ, Alejos JC, Cooper DM, American Pediatric Society/ Society for Pediatric Research
• Early and Late Results of the Fontan Procedure with an Adjustable ASD.
  Laks H, Blitz A, Drinkwater DC, Lam L, Aharon AS, Alejos JC, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic
• Biventricular Repair after Unifocalization in Patients with Pulmonary Atresia, Ventricular Septal Defect, and Major Aortopulmonary Collaterals.
  Laks H, Blitz A, Alejos JC, Balagtas A, Aharon AS, Drinkwater DC, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic
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Lectures

• Coronary Artery Abnormalities in Children. 
  Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea at Yonsei Medical Center
• Cardiac Catheterization: Evaluation and Intervention for Patients with Single Ventricle. 
  Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea at Yonsei Medical Center
• Selection and Management of Patients for Heart Transplantation. 
  “Innovations in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology” conference at UCLA Medical Center
• Risk Factors for the Bidirectional Glenn. 
  California Society of Pediatric Cardiology in Monterey, California
• Selection Criteria for Bidirectional Glenn. 
  Instituto de Salud del Nino in Lima, Peru
• Coronary Artery Abnormalities. 
  Instituto de Salud del Nino in Lima, Peru
• The Failing Ventricle. 
  at “Taking Pediatric Cardiology into the 21st Century” in Marina del Rey, California
• Pediatric Heart Failure. 
  “International Symposium on Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation” in Anaheim, California
• Risk Factors in Pediatric Heart Transplantation. 
  Child Psychiatry grand Rounds sponsored by UCLA Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Pediatric Heart Transplantation and Allograft Rejection. 
  Pediatric Intensive Care Update
• Diagnosis of the Failing Ventricle. 
  Pediatric Intensive Care Update
• Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies. 
  Pediatric Grand Rounds
• Treatment of Cardiac Allograft Rejection. 
  Critical Care Transport Conference
• Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies. 
  Emergency Medicine Department
• Options for treating the Failing Ventricle. 
  “Heart Update: Meeting the Clinical Challenge” in Bakersfield, California
• Care of Newborn with Single Ventricle Physiology. 
  “First International Congress of Cardiology in the Child and Adolescent” in Lima, Peru
• The Fontan Procedure – The UCLA Experience, Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Transplantation in Children. 
  “First International Congress of Cardiology in the Child and Adolescent” in Lima, Peru
• Interventional Cardiac Catheterization: Future and Directions; Medical and Surgical Management of the Patient with Single Ventricle. 
  “Advances in Pediatric Cardiology” in Arequipa, Peru
• Development of UCLA/ PAMS Cardiovascular Team and their Work in Lima, Peru. 
  AIPEUC (Association of Peruvian Institutions in the US and Canada)
• Role of the UCLA Cardiac Team in Third World Country. 
  Pediatric Grand Rounds at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA
• Evaluation of the Newborn with Cyanosis; Acute Treatment of the Failing Ventricle. 
  UCLA Critical Care Transport Conference at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA
• Pediatric Heart Failure. 
  Sunrise Hospital Pediatric Grand Rounds Conference at Sunrise Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas, Neva
• The Failing Heart. 
  Kaiser Permanente Pediatric Grand Rounds Conference at Kaiser Permanente- West Los Angeles
• Experience with Tacrolimus Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation. 
  at 2nd European Investigators’ Workshop on Tacrolimus in Thoracic Transplantation in Munich, Germany
• Current Selection Criteria and Success Rates. 
  the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, Georgia
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Other

• Effects of body temperature on accuracy of continuous cardiac measurements. 
  Luchette FA, Porembka DT, Davis Jr K, Branson RD, James L, Hurst JM, Johannigman JA, Campbell RS
• A comparison of the imposed work of breathing with endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes in a lung model. 
  Davis K Jr, Branson RD, Porembka DT
• Echocardiographic evaluation of bupivacaine cardiotoxicity. 
  Coyle DE, Porembka DT, Sehlhorst CS, Wan L, Behbehani MM
• A model for technology assessment as applied to closed loop infusion systems. 
  The Technology Assessment Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (Porembka DT)
• Transesophageal echocardiography. 
  Porembka DT
• Assessment of left ventricular function and hemodynamics with transesophageal echocardiography. 
  Troianos CA, Porembka DT
• Comparison of volume control and pressure control ventilation: is flow waveform the difference? 
  Davis K Jr., Branson RD, Campbell RS, Porembka DT
• Analysis of catecholamine and vasoactive peptide release in intracranial arterial venous. 
  Bloomfield EL, Porembka DT, Ebrahim ZY, Grimes-Rice M, Secic M, Little JR, Lockrem JD
• Avoidance of nitrous oxide and increased isoflurane during an alfentanil based anesthetic decrease the incidence of postoperative nausea. 
  Bloomfield E, Porembka DT, Grimes-Rice M
• Anaesthesia circuits, humidity output, and mucociliary structure and function. 
  Branson RD, Campbell RS, Davis K, Porembka DT
• Effects of inhaled nitric oxide in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. 
  Dellinger, RP, Zimmerman JL, Taylor RW, Straube, RC, Hauser DL, Criner GJ, Davis K Jr., Hyers TM, Papadakos P and the Inhaled Nitric Oxide in ARDS Study Group (Porembk...
• Prolonged use of heat and moisture exchangers does not affect device efficiency or frequency rate of nosocomial pneumonia. 
  Davis K Jr, Evans SL, Campbell RS, Johannigman JA, Luchette FA, Porembka DT, Branson, RD
• Heat-moisture exchangers and risk of nosocomial pneumonia. 
  Davis K Jr, Evans SL, Campbell RS, Johannigman JA, Luchette FA, Porembka DT
• Disadvantages of prolonged propofol sedation in the critical care unit. 
  Valente JF, Anderson GL, Branson RD, Johnson DJ, Davis K Jr, Porembka DT
• Comparison of three remifentanil dose-finding regimens for coronary artery surgery. 
  Howie MB, Michelsen LG, Hug CC Jr, Porembka DT, Jopling MW, Warren SM, Shaikh S
• Pain management for postoperative patients. 
  Caudell RW, Chernyak G, Porembka DT
• Accidental self-inflicted nail gun injury to the heart. 
  Pritts TA, Knight D, Davis BR, Porembka DT, Cuschieri J
• A correlation of catecholamine and vasoactive peptide release with hemodynamics in patients undergoing resection of arteriovenous malformations. 
  Bloomfield EL, Secic M, Porembka DT
• Poor inter-rater reliability on mock anesthesia oral examination. 
  Jacobsohn E, Klock PA, Avidan M and the Oral Examinations Group (Porembka DT)
• Importance of transesophageal echocardiography in the critically ill and injured patient. 
  Porembka DT
• Aortic pathology: aneurysm, dissection, trauma and debris. 
  Khalil A. Helmy T, Porembka DT
• Echocardiographic evaluation of hemodynamics parameters. 
  Ahmed SN, Syed FM, Porembka DT
• A suggested curriculum in echocardiography for critical care physicians. 
  Mazraeshahi RM, Farmer JC, Porembka DT
• Confirming a potential killer clinical diagnosis: TRALI. 
  Ledford DM, Porembka DT
• Acquired factor VIII hemophilia in a trauma patient: case report and literature review. 
  Robinson BR, Mueller, EW, Burns JB, Maccallum MJ, McCarthy AP, Porembka DT
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