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Selected Journal Articles

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Ahmed S, Kirmani JD, Janjua N, Alkawi A, Khatri I, Yahia AM, Souyah N, Qureshi AI.  “An update on myasthenic crisis.”  Curr Treat Options Neurol 2005;7:129-141.

Alkawi A, Kirmani JF, Janjua N, Khatri I, Ahmed S, Divani AA, Qureshi AI.  “Advances in thrombolyrics and mechanical devices for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke.”  Neurol Res 2005;27:S42-S49.

Ances BM, Vitaliani R, Taylor RA, Liebeskind DS, Voloschin A, Houghton DJ, Galetta SL, Dichter M, Alavi A, Rosenfeld MR, Dalmau J.  “Treatment-responsive limbic encephalitis identified by neuropil antibodies: Clinical, MRI, and PET correlates.”  Brain.  128(8):1764-1777, August 2005.

Biondi A. Katz JM, Janardhan V, Segal AZ, Gobin YP.  “Progressive symptomatic carotid dissection treated with multiple stents.” Stroke 2005 Sep;36(9):e80-2. Epub 2005 Aug. 11.

Cohen AB, Taylor RA, Messé SR, Kasner SE.  “Serum creatinine does not improve early classification of ischemic stroke due to small vessel occlusion.”  Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases.  15(3):96-100, May-June, 2006.

Cucchiara B, Messé S, Taylor R, Clarke J, Pollak E.  “Utility of D-dimer in the diagnosis of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.”  Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.  3(2):387-9, Feb 2005.

Cucchiara BL, Messé SR, Taylor RA, Pacelli J, Maus D, Shah Q, Kasner SE.  “Is the ABCD score useful for the risk-stratification of patients with acute transient ischemic attack?”  Stroke.  37:1710-1714, July 2006.

Divani AA, Tholany CR, Siddiqui AU, Alkawi A, Hussain MS, Kirmani JF, Qureshi AI.  “Comparison of 1-and 2-marker techniques for calculating system magnification error for angiographic measurement of intercranial vessels.”  J Neuroimaging 2005;15:356-361.

Hussain MS, Qureshi AI, Kirmani JF, Divani AA, Hopkins LN.  “Update on endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular diseases.”  J Endovasc Ther 2004: 11 (Suppl II):32-42.

Ionita CC, Xavier AR, Kirmani JF, Dash S, Divani AA, Qureshi AI.  “What proportion of stroke is not explained by classic risk factors?”  Prev Cardiol 2005;8:41-46.

Janardhan V, Biondi A, Riina HA, et al.  “Vasospasm in aneurysmal sub-arachnoid hemorrhage: diagnosis, prevention, and management.” Neuroimaging Clin N AM 2006 Aug; 16(3):483-96.

Janardhan V, Qureshi AI. “Mechanisms of ischemic brain injury.”  Curr Cardiol Rep. 2004;6(2):117-123.

Janardhan V, Wolf PA, Kase CS, Massaro JM, D’Agostino RB, Franzblau C, Wilson PWP.  “Anti-cardiolipin Antibodies and risk of Ischemic stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: The Framingham Cohort and Offspring Study.” Stroke 2004;Feb 5 (Epub).

Janjua N, Qureshi AI, Kirmani JF, Lanzino G, Gene S, Suarez JI, Ebrahimi A, Divani AA.  “A 70-year-old woman with poor grade subarachnoid hemorrhage complicated by carotid stenosis, cerebral vasospasm, and cerebral rebleed.”  Neurocritical Care 2005;3:183-188.

Khatri IA, Mian N, Alkawi A, Janjua N, Kirmani JF, Saric M, Levine JC, Qureshi AI.  “Catheter-based aortography fails to identify aortic atherosclerotic lesions detected on transesophageal echocardiography.”  J Neuroimaging 2005;15:261-265.

Kirmani JF, Alkawi A, Ahmed S, Janjua N, Khatri I, Divani AA, Qureshi AI.  “Endovascular treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage.”  Neurol Res 2005;27:S103-S107.

Kirmani JF, Janjua N, Alkawi A Khatri I, Ahmed S, Ebrahimi A, Divani AA, Qureshi AI.  “Therapeutic advances in interventional neurology.”  NeuroRx 2005;2:304-323.

Levine JM, Taylor RA, Elman LB, Bird SJ, Lavi E, Stolzenberg ED, McGarney ML, Asbury AK, Jimenez AS.  “Involvement of Skeletal Muscle in Dialysis-Associated Systemic Fibrosis (Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy).”  Muscle and Nerve.  30(5):569-77, November 2004.

Nepolitano E, Elovic EP, Qureshi AI.  “Pharmacological stimulant treatment of neurocognitive and functional deficits after traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury.”  Med Sci Monitor 2005;11:212-220.

Qureshi AI.  “Editorial: Endovascular revascularization of symptomatic acute extracranial internal carotid artery occlusion.”  Stroke 2005;36:2335-2356.

Qureshi AI.  “HIV infection and stroke: if not protein S deficiency then what explains the relationship?”  J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2005;76:1331.

Qureshi AI, Kirmani JD, Divani AA, Hobson RW.  “Carotid angioplasty with or without stent placement versus carotid endarterectomy for treatment of carotid stenosis: A meta-analysis.”  Neurosurgery 2005;56:1171-1179.

Qureshi AI, Kirmani JF, Sayed MA, Safdar A, Ahmed S, Ferguson R, Hershey LA, Qazi KJ, for the Buffalo Metropolitan Area and Erie County Stroke Study Group.  “Time to hospital arrival, use of thrombolytics and in-hospital outcomes in ischemic stroke.”  Neurology 2005;64:2115-2120.

Qureshi AI, Kirmani JF, Siddiqui AM, Hanel RA, Kim SH, Hopkins LN.  “Outcomes in acute ischemic stroke patients without angiographically documented arterial occlusion.”  J Neuroimaging 2005;15:37-42.

Qureshi AI, Mohammad YM, Yahia AM, Suarez JI, Siddiqui AM, Kirmani JF, Suri MFK, Kolb J, Zaidat OO.  “A prospective multicenter study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of aggressive antihypertensive treatment in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage.”  J Intensive Care Med 2005;20:34-42.

Qureshi AI, Suri MFK, Ali Z, Ringer AJ, Boulos AS, Nakada MT, Alberico RA, Marin LBE, Guterman LR, Hopkins LN.  “Intraarterial reteplase and intravenous abciximab for treatment of acute ischemic stroke.  A preliminary feasibility and safety study in a non-human primate model.”  Neuroradiology 2005;47:845-854.

Qureshi AI, Suri MFK, Kirmani JF, Divani AA.  “Cigarette smoking among spouses: another risk factor for stroke in women.”  Stroke 2005;36:e74-6.

Qureshi AI, Suri MFK, Kirmani JF, Divani AA.  “Prevalence and trends of prehypertension and hypertension in United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 1976 to 2000.”  Med Sci Monitor 2005;205:CR403-409.

Qureshi AI, Suri MFK, Kirmani JF, Divani AA, Mohammad Y.  “Is prehypertension a risk factor for cardiovascular disease?”  Stroke 2005;36:1859-63.

Qureshi AI, Suri MFK, Nasar A, He W, Kirmani JF, Divani AA, Prestigiacomo CJ, Low RB.  “Thrombolysis for ischemic stroke in the United States.  Data from National Hospital Discharge Survey 1999-2001.”  Neurosurgery 2005;57:647-654.

Qureshi AI, Suri MFK, Nasar A, Kirmani JF, Divani AA, Wei He MD, Hopkins LN.  “Trends in hospitalization and morality for subarachnoid hemorrhage and unruptured intracranial aneurysms in the United States.”  Neurosurgery 2005;57:1-8.

Qureshi AI, Suri, MFK, Siddiqui AM, Kim SH, Boulos AS, Ringer AJ, Lopes DK, Guterman LF, Hopkins LN.  “Clinical and angiographic results of dilatation procedures for symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease.”  J Neuroimaging 2005;15:240-249.

Taylor RA, Levine JM, Jiménez SA.  “Case 35-2004: Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy.”  New England Journal of Medicine.  352(16):1723-24, April 21, 2005, Correspondence.

Taylor R, Wu G, Hurst R, Kasner S, Cucchiara B.  “Transient Global Amnesia Heralding Basilar Artery Thrombosis.” Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.  108:60-62, December 2005.

Tejada JG, Taylor RA, Ugurel MS, Hayakawa M, Lee SK, Chaloupka JC.  “Safety and feasibility of intraarterial nicardipine for the treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage-associated vasospasm: initial clinical experience with high-dose infusions.  AJNR.  Accepted for May 2007.

Wells-Roth D, Biondi A, Janardhan V, Chapple K, Gobin YP, Riina HA.  “Endovascular procedures for treating wide-necked aneurysms.” Neurosurg Focus 2005;18(2):E7(Pg 1-3).