Physician
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Robert M. Mentzer, MD
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Robert Mentzer practices Thoracic Surgery. He attended University of Maryland School of Medicine. University of Maryland School of Medicine is ranked 37 in research and 52 in primary care medicine He received 3 awards: "Fellow (FACC)", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Doctor Robert M. Mentzer, MD is a published doctor. He published 99 publications, including: 'A randomized active-controlled trial of mycophenolate mofetil in heart transplant recipients. Mycophenolate Mofetil Investigators.'
Publications
- Reduction of Infarct Size by the Therapeutic Protein TAT-Ndi1 In Vivo.
- Autophagy: an affair of the heart.
- Under-prescribing and non-adherence to medications after coronary bypass surgery in older adults: strategies to improve adherence.
- Impaired mitophagy at the heart of injury.
- New horizons in cardioprotection: recommendations from the 2010 national heart, lung, and blood institute workshop.
- Myocardial protection in heart surgery.
- Cardioprotection through autophagy: Ready for clinical trial?
- Acute induction of autophagy as a novel strategy for cardioprotection: Getting to the heart of the matter.
- Profound cardioprotection with chloramphenicol succinate in the swine model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
- Autophagy: definition, molecular machinery, and potential role in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
- Autophagy induced by ischemic preconditioning is essential for cardioprotection.
- Autophagy during cardiac stress: joys and frustrations of autophagy.
- Autophagy and protein kinase C are required for cardioprotection by sulfaphenazole.
- Perioperative nesiritide and possible renal protection in patients with moderate to severe kidney dysfunction.
- Oxidative stress and adenosine A1 receptor activation differentially modulate subcellular cardiomyocyte MAPKs.
- Risk-adjusted morbidity in teaching hospitals correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures of teamw...
- Multivariable predictors of postoperative cardiac adverse events after general and vascular surgery: results from the patient safety in surgery study.
- The A2a/A2b receptor antagonist ZM-241385 blocks the cardioprotective effect of adenosine agonist pretreatment in in vivo rat myocardium.
- National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) risk factors can be used to validate American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification (ASA PS...
- What do faculty observe of medical students' clinical performance?
- Aged rat myocardium exhibits normal adenosine receptor-mediated bradycardia and coronary vasodilation but increased adenosine agonist-mediated cardioprotection.
- Preoperative risk factors and surgical complexity are more predictive of costs than postoperative complications: a case study using the National Surgical Quality Impro...
- Delayed adenosine A1 receptor preconditioning in rat myocardium is MAPK dependent but iNOS independent.
- In vivo adenosine receptor preconditioning reduces myocardial infarct size via subcellular ERK signaling.
- Acute adenosine preconditioning is mediated by p38 MAPK activation in discrete subcellular compartments.
- Changing the paradigm for transfusing the anemic patient in an acute care environment.
- Adenosine A1/A2a receptor agonist AMP-579 induces acute and delayed preconditioning against in vivo myocardial stunning.
- Evaluating alternative risk-adjustment strategies for surgery.
- The p38 MAPK inhibitor SB203580 blocks adenosine A(1) receptor-induced attenuation of in vivo myocardial stunning.
- The preischemic combination of the sodium-hydrogen exchanger inhibitor cariporide and the adenosine agonist AMP579 acts additively to reduce porcine myocardial infarct...
- Replantation: past, present, and future.
- Surveillance venous duplex is not clinically useful after total joint arthroplasty when effective deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis is used.
- Sodium-hydrogen exchange inhibition attenuates in vivo porcine myocardial stunning.
- The intermediary metabolite pyruvate attenuates stunning and reduces infarct size in in vivo porcine myocardium.
- Attenuation of postcardioplegia injury with inhibitors of the sodium-hydrogen exchanger.
- Does size matter? What is your infarct rate after coronary artery bypass grafting?
- Molecular genetics and management strategies in hereditary cancer syndromes.
- Intracellular sodium hydrogen exchange inhibition and clinical myocardial protection.
- Oral/pharyngeal squamous carcinoma: treatment strategies.
- Faculty evaluation of surgery clerkship students: important components of written comments.
- The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in non-veterans administration hospitals: initial demonstration of feasibility.
- Pancreas transplantation: current status and experience at the University of Kentucky.
- Aspirin and postoperative bleeding after coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Effects of in vivo myocardial ischemia and reperfusion on interstitial nitric oxide metabolites.
- Cardiac myocyte adenosine A2a receptor activation fails to alter cAMP or contractility: role of receptor localization.
- Heart transplants: need versus availability.
- Translating novel strategies for cardioprotection: the Hatter Workshop Recommendations.
- Myocardial protection at a crossroads: the need for translation into clinical therapy.
- Three-year results of a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of mycophenolate mofetil versus azathioprine in cardiac transplant recipients.
- Mycotic carotid artery aneurysm.
- A randomized active-controlled trial of mycophenolate mofetil in heart transplant recipients. Mycophenolate Mofetil Investigators.
- Experimental prosthetic vein valve.
- Ryanodine receptor dysfunction in porcine stunned myocardium.
- Diagnosis and successful treatment of a unique form of malfunction of the heartmate left ventricular assist device.
- Safety, tolerance, and efficacy of adenosine as an additive to blood cardioplegia in humans during coronary artery bypass surgery.
- Infarct size reduction with the nucleoside transport inhibitor R-75231 in swine.
- Donor-derived human leukocyte antigen class I proteins in the serum of heart transplant recipients.
- Adenosine reduces postbypass transfusion requirements in humans after heart surgery.
- Different effects of an adenosine A1 analogue and ischemic preconditioning in isolated rabbit hearts.
- Myofibrillar calcium sensitivity of isometric tension is increased in human dilated cardiomyopathies: role of altered beta-adrenergically mediated protein phosphorylat...
- Efficacy of a partnership in enhancing Veterans Affairs cardiac transplantation activity.
- The effects of intraoperative autologous whole blood sequestration on the need for transfusion of allogenic blood and blood products in coronary bypass operations.
- Adenosine and the stunned heart.
- Cellular and subcellular aspects of myocardial stunning.
- Adenosine increases lactate release and delays onset of contracture during global low flow ischaemia.
- Adenosine enhanced preservation of myocardial function and energetics. Possible involvement of the adenosine A1 receptor system.
- Involvement of intracellular Ca2+ release mechanism in adenosine-induced cardiac Ca2+ current inhibition.
- Ischaemic and hypoxic preconditioning enhance postischaemic recovery of function in the rat heart.
- Pertussis toxin blocks adenosine A1 receptor mediated protection of the ischemic rat heart.
- The role of open lung biopsy in early and late survival of ventilator-dependent patients with diffuse idiopathic lung disease.
- The role of adenosine in extended myocardial preservation with the University of Wisconsin solution.
- Prolonging myocardial preservation with a modified University of Wisconsin solution containing 2,3-butanedione monoxime and calcium.
- Metabolically based treatment of stunned myocardium.
- Forty-hour preservation of the rabbit heart: optimal osmolarity, [Mg2+], and pH of a modified UW solution.
- Sex hormone receptors in non-small-cell lung cancer in human beings.
- Changes in interstitial adenosine during hypoxia: relationship to oxygen supply:demand imbalance, and effects of adenosine deaminase.
- Color-flow duplex ultrasound assessment of internal thoracic artery graft after coronary bypass.
- Adenosine attenuates phorbol ester-induced negative inotropic and vasoconstrictive effects in rat hearts.
- Protective effects of adenosine in the reversibly injured heart.
- Salutary effects of exogenous adenosine administration on in vivo myocardial stunning.
- Preconditioning and its potential role in myocardial protection during cardiac surgery.
- Effects of ischemic and adenosine preconditioning on interstitial fluid adenosine and myocardial infarct size.
- Myocardial stunning: a therapeutic conundrum.
- Slowing of shortening velocity of rat cardiac myocytes by adenosine receptor stimulation regardless of beta-adrenergic stimulation.
- Emergency carotid endarterectomy for fluctuating neurologic deficits.
- Myocardial reactive hyperemia in the newborn.
- The acute effects of AICAR on purine nucleotide metabolism and postischemic cardiac function.
- Allopurinol enhanced adenine nucleotide repletion after myocardial ischemia in the isolated rat heart.
- Adenosine stimulates glucose uptake in the isolated rat heart.
- Baffle obstruction following the Mustard operation: cause and treatment.
- Response of lamb ductus arteriosus to nitroglycerin and nitroprusside.
- Renal transplantation experience. A historical review and analysis.
- Role of cyclic nucleotides in relaxation of fetal lamb ductus arteriosus.
- Hypoxia-induced release of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) from the isolated rat and rabbit heart.
- Acute coronary occlusion with exercise testing after initially successful coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction.
- Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the region of the aortic bifurcation. The two-balloon technique with results and long-term follow-up study.
- Effect of pyruvate on regional ventricular function in normal and stunned myocardium.
- Combined antegrade/retrograde cardioplegia for myocardial protection: a clinical trial.
Schools
University of Maryland At Baltimore Professional Schools
University Va Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Cofinity PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Preferred PPO
- Sagamore Plus
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
- Fellow (FACS)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Virginia -
University of Maryland School of Medicine
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