Physician
Internal Medicine
Dr. Samir K. Ballas, MD
Doctor Samir K. Ballas, MD practices Internal Medicine. Samir Ballas is a published doctor. He published 53 publications, including: 'The paradox of the serrated sickle erythrocyte: The importance of the red blood cell membrane topography.'
Publications
- The paradox of the serrated sickle erythrocyte: The importance of the red blood cell membrane topography.
- Evidence gaps in the management of sickle cell disease: A summary of needed research.
- Safety and efficacy of blood exchange transfusion for priapism complicating sickle cell disease.
- Deafness and sickle cell disease: three case reports and review of the literature.
- Is the Medical Home for Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease a Reality or an Illusion?
- Pathophysiology and principles of management of the many faces of the acute vaso-occlusive crisis in patients with sickle cell disease.
- Primary Stroke in a Woman With Sickle Cell Anemia Responsive to Hydroxyurea Therapy.
- Management of sickle cell disease: summary of the 2014 evidence-based report by expert panel members.
- Practice Guideline for Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell: Direct Evidence Needed before Universal Adoption.
- Thinking beyond sickling to better understand pain in sickle cell disease.
- Characteristics of acute care utilization of a delaware adult sickle cell disease patient population.
- Alpha thalassaemia and response to hydroxyurea in sickle cell anaemia.
- Erratum to "Beyond the Definitions of the Phenotypic Complications of Sickle Cell Disease: An Update on Management"
- Transfusion medicine illustrated. The first Cardeza donor center: attracting donors who do not wsh to see blood.
- Beyond the definitions of the phenotypic complications of sickle cell disease: an update on management.
- Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease.
- Safety of iodinated intravenous contrast medium administration in sickle cell disease.
- More definitions in sickle cell disease: Steady state v base line data.
- Defining the Phenotypes of Sickle Cell Disease.
- Update on Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease.
- Mild haemorheological changes induced by a moderate endurance exercise in patients with sickle cell anaemia.
- The dark side of the discovery of sickle cell disease in the United States in 1910.
- Self-management of sickle cell disease: a new frontier.
- Leg ulcers in sickle cell disease.
- New era dawns on sickle cell pain.
- Neurocognitive complications of sickle cell anemia in adults.
- The cost of health care for patients with sickle cell disease.
- Corticosteroids and sickle cell disease.
- Meperidine for acute sickle cell pain in the emergency department: revisited controversy.
- Current issues in sickle cell pain and its management.
- Does purity of supplements count?
- Clinically significant differences in the visual analog pain scale in acute vasoocclusive sickle cell crisis.
- Bloodstream infections in hospitalized adults with sickle cell disease: a retrospective analysis.
- Utilization of the office, hospital and emergency department for adult sickle cell patients: a five-year study.
- Folate supplementation and twinning in patients with sickle cell disease.
- Secretory phospholipase A2 levels in patients with sickle cell disease and acute chest syndrome.
- Hyperhemolysis during the evolution of uncomplicated acute painful episodes in patients with sickle cell anemia.
- Blood samples collected under venous oxygen pressure from patients with sickle cell disease contain a significant number of a new type of reversibly sickled cells: con...
- Pain management of sickle cell disease.
- Hospital readmission for adult acute sickle cell painful episodes: frequency, etiology, and prognostic significance.
- Aggregation of normal and sickle hemoglobin in high concentration phosphate buffer.
- Management of acute chest wall sickle cell pain with nebulized morphine.
- Safety of purified poloxamer 188 in sickle cell disease: phase I study of a non-ionic surfactant in the management of acute chest syndrome.
- Sickle red cell microrheology and sickle blood rheology.
- Kinetics of increased deformability of deoxygenated sickle cells upon oxygenation.
- Hydroxyurea analogues as kinetic and mechanistic probes of the nitric oxide producing reactions of hydroxyurea and oxyhemoglobin.
- Effect of hydroxyurea on mortality and morbidity in adult sickle cell anemia: risks and benefits up to 9 years of treatment.
- Concordant fetal hemoglobin response to hydroxyurea in siblings with sickle cell disease.
- Effects of iron nitrosylation on sickle cell hemoglobin solubility.
- Iron nitrosyl hemoglobin formation from the reactions of hemoglobin and hydroxyurea.
- Treatment of painful sickle cell leg ulcers with topical opioids.
- Erythropoietin levels in patients with sickle cell disease do not correlate with known inducers of erythropoietin.
Doctors Specialties
- Blood Banking
- Hematology
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
Education
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Thomas Jefferson University -
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
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