Professor, Pediatrics, University of Tennessee, Memphis, College of Medicine

Neonat/Perinatology

Massroor Pourcyrous, MD practices Neonat/Perinatology. She received awards:"Fellow (FAAP)". Massroor Pourcyrous, MD is also a published doctor. She has 45 paper published. The most recent paper is: Prognostic significance of cerebrospinal fluid cyclic adenosine monophosphate in neonatal asphyxia.

Publications

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• Ethanol lock therapy: a pilot infusion study in infants.
• Brain-derived circulating endothelial cells in peripheral blood of newborn infants with seizures: a potential biomarker for cerebrovascular injury.
• Fecal short-chain Fatty acids of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants fed expressed breast milk or formula.
• Contributions of KATP and KCa channels to cerebral arteriolar dilation to hypercapnia in neonatal brain.
• Adjusting for Bias in C-Reactive Protein Levels When Using a Vitros Slide Method in Infants.
• A triple threat: down syndrome, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, and hirschsprung disease.
• Phenocopy of Warfarin Syndrome in an Infant Born to a Mother With Sickle Cell Anemia and Severe Transfusional Iron Overload.
• Primary immunization of premature infants with gestational age <35 weeks: cardiorespiratory complications and C-reactive protein responses associated with administrati...
• Mode changes of cerebrovascular pressure transmission induced by cerebral vasodilation.
• C-reactive protein in the diagnosis, management, and prognosis of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
• Epileptic seizures cause extended postictal cerebral vascular dysfunction that is prevented by HO-1 overexpression.
• Chronic prenatal exposure to cocaine alters cerebrovascular responses in newborn pigs.
• Assessment of cerebrovascular autoregulation: changes of highest modal frequency of cerebrovascular pressure transmission with cerebral perfusion pressure.
• Endogenous heme oxygenase prevents impairment of cerebral vascular functions caused by seizures.
• Intracranial pressure dynamics: changes of bandwidth as an indicator of cerebrovascular tension.
• COX-1 and COX-2 contributions to basal and IL-1 beta-stimulated prostanoid synthesis in human neonatal cerebral microvascular endothelial cells.
• Consequences of maternal cocaine on cerebral microvascular functions in piglets.
• Cerebrovasodilatory contribution of endogenous carbon monoxide during seizures in newborn pigs.
• Dynamics of nuclear localization sites for COX-2 in vascular endothelial cells.
• Preservation of cerebrovascular tone and reactivity by sodium channel inhibition in experimental prolonged asphyxia in piglets.
• Cerebral hemodynamic measurements in acute versus chronic asphyxia.
• Cerebrovascular responses to therapeutic dose of indomethacin in newborn pigs.
• Prognostic significance of cerebrospinal fluid cyclic adenosine monophosphate in neonatal asphyxia.
• Interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, and abnormal cardiorespiratory responses to immunization in premature infants.
• The effects of intraventricular/periventricular blood on cerebral 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate concentration and cerebrovascular reactivity in newborn pigs.
• Changes in cerebral cyclic nucleotides and cerebral blood flow during prolonged asphyxia and recovery in newborn pigs.
• Significance of serial C-reactive protein responses in neonatal infection and other disorders.
• Overestimation of neonatal PO2 by collection of arterial blood gas values with the butterfly infusion set.
• Brain superoxide anion generation in asphyxiated piglets and the effect of indomethacin at therapeutic dose.
• Cerebral blood flow responses to indomethacin in awake newborn pigs.
• Indwelling umbilical arterial catheter: a preferred sampling site for blood culture.
• Acetylcholine dramatically increases prostanoid synthesis in piglet parietal cortex.
• Platelet activating factor: a potent constrictor of cerebral arterioles in newborn pigs.
• Postasphyxial increases in prostanoids in cerebrospinal fluid of piglets.
• Hyperthermia increases cerebral metabolic rate and blood flow in neonatal pigs.
• Indomethacin reduces the risks of severe intraventricular hemorrhage.
• Role of prostanoids in cerebrovascular responses to asphyxia and reventilation in newborn pigs.
• Mean arterial blood pressure changes in premature infants and those at risk for intraventricular hemorrhage.
• Frequent handling in the neonatal intensive care unit and intraventricular hemorrhage.
• Brain superoxide anion generation during asphyxia and reventilation in newborn pigs.
• Activated oxygen species do not mediate hypercapnia-induced cerebral vasodilation in newborn pigs.
• Acute phase reactants in neonatal bacterial infection.
• Effects of pancuronium bromide on cerebral blood flow changes during seizures in newborn pigs.
• Asymptomatic syndrome of polycythemic hyperviscosity: effect of partial plasma exchange transfusion.

Doctors Specialties

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• Neonatal Medicine
• Neonat/Perinatology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• University of Tennessee
• Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Hospital

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• Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
• University of Tennessee Medical Center

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