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Alfonso Tafur
Researcher at NorthShore University HealthSystem
Publications - 147
Citations - 5501
Alfonso Tafur is an academic researcher from NorthShore University HealthSystem. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 131 publications receiving 3584 citations. Previous affiliations of Alfonso Tafur include Cardiovascular Institute of the South & University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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Guidance for the management of patients with vascular disease or cardiovascular risk factors and COVID-19 position paper from vas-european independent foundation in angiology/vascular medicine
Grigoris T. Gerotziafas,Mariella Catalano,Mary-Paula Colgan,Zsolt Pecsvarady,Jean-Claude Wautrecht,Bahare Fazeli,D. Olinic,Katalin Farkas,Ismail Elalamy,Ismail Elalamy,Anna Falanga,Jawed Fareed,Chryssa Papageorgiou,Rosella S. Arellano,Petros Agathagelou,Darco Antic,Luciana Auad,Ljiljana Banfić,John R. Bartolomew,Bela Benczur,Melissa B. Bernardo,Francesco Boccardo,Renate Cifkova,Benilde Cosmi,Sergio De Marchi,Evangelos Dimakakos,Meletios A. Dimopoulos,Gabriel Dimitrov,Isabelle Durand-Zaleski,Michael Edmonds,Essam Abo El Nazar,Dilek Erer,Omar L. Esponda,Paolo Gresele,Michael Gschwandtner,Yongquan Gu,Mónica Heinzmann,Naomi M. Hamburg,Amer Hamadé,Noor-Ahmed Jatoi,Oguz Karahan,Debora Karetová,Thomas Karplus,Peter Klein-Weigel,Endre Kolossváry,Matija Kozak,Eleftheria Lefkou,Gianfranco Lessiani,Aaron Liew,Antonella Marcoccia,Peter Marshang,George Marakomichelakis,Jiri Matuska,Luc Moraglia,Sergio Pillon,Pavel Poredos,Manlio Prior,David Raymund K. Salvador,Oliver Schlager,Gerit Schernthaner,Alexander Sieron,Alexander Sieron,Jonas Spaak,Alex C. Spyropoulos,Muriel Sprynger,Dušan Šuput,Agata Stanek,Viera Štvrtinová,Andrzej Szuba,Alfonso Tafur,P Vandreden,Panagiotis Vardas,Dragan Vasic,Miikka Vikkula,Paul W. Wennberg,Zhenguo Zhai,Zhenguo Zhai +76 more
TL;DR: The VAS-European Independent Foundation in Angiology/Vascular Medicine draws attention to patients with vascular disease (VD) and presents an integral strategy for the management of patients with VD or cardiovascular risk factors (VD-CVR) and COVID-19.
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Predictors of active cancer thromboembolic outcomes: validation of the Khorana score among patients with lung cancer
Aaron S. Mansfield,Alfonso Tafur,Alfonso Tafur,Chihsiung E. Wang,Taxiarchis Kourelis,Ewa M. Wysokinska,Ping Yang +6 more
TL;DR: The Khorana Risk Score was not predictive of VTE but was independently associated with all‐cause mortality, stressing the need for a lung cancer‐specific VTE risk assessment model.
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Predictors of major bleeding in peri-procedural anticoagulation management.
Alfonso Tafur,Robert D. McBane,Waldemar E. Wysokinski,Scott C. Litin,Paul R. Daniels,Joshua P. Slusser,David O. Hodge,M. G. Beckman,John A. Heit +8 more
TL;DR: Factors predisposing to peri‐procedural bleeding are primarily patient‐specific, and Premature heparin re‐initiation is an avoidable provider‐specific variable to consider.
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Utilization of catheter-directed thrombolysis in pulmonary embolism and outcome difference between systemic thrombolysis and catheter-directed thrombolysis
Nish Patel,Nileshkumar J. Patel,Kanishk Agnihotri,Sidakpal S. Panaich,Badal Thakkar,Achint Patel,Chirag Savani,Nilay Patel,Shilpkumar Arora,Abhishek Deshmukh,Parth Bhatt,Carlos Alfonso,Mauricio G. Cohen,Alfonso Tafur,Mahir Elder,Tamam Mohamed,Ramak R. Attaran,Theodore Schreiber,Cindy L. Grines,Apurva Badheka +19 more
TL;DR: The aim of the study was to assess the utilization of catheter‐directed thrombolysis and its comparative effectiveness against systemic thromBOlysis in acute pulmonary embolism (PE).
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Stroke following Bothrops spp. snakebite
TL;DR: The prevalence of cerebrovascular complications related to Bothrops spp.