A
Ana Barac
Researcher at Georgetown University
Publications - 158
Citations - 8236
Ana Barac is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 126 publications receiving 5347 citations. Previous affiliations of Ana Barac include MedStar Georgetown University Hospital & MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Cardiovascular Disease After Aromatase Inhibitor Use.
Reina Haque,Jiaxiao Shi,Joanne E. Schottinger,Joanie Chung,Chantal Avila,Britta Amundsen,Xiaoqing Xu,Ana Barac,Rowan T. Chlebowski +8 more
TL;DR: The risk of the most serious cardiovascular events (cardiac ischemia or stroke) was not elevated in AI-only users compared with tamoxifen users, but the finding that other CVD events combined were greater in AI users requires further study.
Journal ArticleDOI
Cardiovascular Complications Associated With Novel Cancer Immunotherapies
TL;DR: There is a need for future studies focused on prospective identification of biomarkers and clinical standards for treatment and long-term follow-up of cardiovascular toxicity to successfully continue the treatment of cancer while preventing the adverse outcomes with novel immune therapies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy for Cancer and Heart: JACC Council Perspectives
Sarju Ganatra,Joseph R. Carver,Salim S. Hayek,Bonnie Ky,Monika Leja,Daniel J. Lenihan,Carrie Lenneman,Negaresh Mousavi,Jae H. Park,Miguel-Angel Perales,Thomas J. Ryan,Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie,Richard M. Steingart,Eric H. Yang,Vlad G. Zaha,Ana Barac,Jennifer E. Liu,Jennifer E. Liu +17 more
TL;DR: As the use of CAR T-cell therapy expands to include a wider patient population, careful patient selection, pre-treatment cardiac evaluation, and CV risk stratification should be considered within theCAR T- cell treatment protocol.
Journal ArticleDOI
ACC 2015 Core Cardiovascular Training Statement (COCATS 4) (Revision of COCATS 3): A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee
Jonathan L. Halperin,Eric S. Williams,Valentin Fuster,Consultative Task Force : Training in Ambulatory,Nancy R. Cho,William Iobst,Debabrata Mukherjee,Prashant Vaishnava,Sidney C. Smith,Vera Bittner,J. Michael Gaziano,John C. Giacomini,Quinn R. Pack,Donna M. Polk,Neil J. Stone,Stanley S. Wang,Exercise Testing,Gary J. Balady,Vincent J. Bufalino,Martha Gulati,Jeffrey T. Kuvin,Lisa A. Mendes,Joseph L. Schuller,Task Force : Training in Multimodality Imaging,Jagat Narula,Y.S. Chandrashekhar,Vasken Dilsizian,Mario J. Garcia,Christopher M. Kramer,Shaista Malik,Thomas J. Ryan,Soma Sen,Joseph C. Wu,Task Force : Training in Echocardiography,Kathryn Berlacher,Jonathan R. Lindner,Sunil Mankad,Geoffrey A. Rose,Andrew Wang,Task Force : Training in Nuclear Cardiology,James A. Arrighi,Rose S. Cohen,Todd D. Miller,Allen J. Solomon,James E. Udelson,Ron Blankstein,Matthew J. Budoff,John M. Dent,Douglas E. Drachman,John R. Lesser,Maleah Grover-McKay,Jeffrey M. Schussler,Szilard Voros,L. Samuel Wann,W. Gregory Hundley,Raymond Y. Kwong,Matthew W. Martinez,Subha V. Raman,R. Parker Ward,Mark A. Creager,Heather L. Gornik,Bruce H. Gray,Naomi M. Hamburg,Emile R. Mohler,Christopher J. White,Task Force : Training in Cardiac Catheterization,Spencer B. King,Joseph D. Babb,Eric R. Bates,Michael H. Crawford,George Dangas,Michele D. Voeltz,Task Force : Training in Arrhythmia Diagnosis,Hugh Calkins,Eric H. Awtry,Thomas J Bunch,Sanjay Kaul,John M. Miller,Usha B. Tedrow,Mariell Jessup,Reza Ardehali,Marvin A. Konstam,Bruno V. Manno,Michael A. Mathier,John A. McPherson,Nancy K. Sweitzer,Patrick T. O'Gara,Jesse E. Adams,Mark H. Drazner,Julia H. Indik,Ajay J. Kirtane,Kyle W. Klarich,L. Kristen Newby,Benjamin M. Scirica,Thoralf M. Sundt,Carole A. Warnes,Ami B. Bhatt,Curt J. Daniels,Linda D. Gillam,Karen K. Stout,Scholarly Activity,Robert A. Harrington,Ana Barac,John E. Brush,Joseph A. Hill,Harlan M. Krumholz,Michael S. Lauer,Chittur A. Sivaram,Mark B. Taubman,Jeffrey L. Williams +109 more
TL;DR: The 2017-18 FACC-MACC curriculum vitae will be presented at a special session in Washington, DC on Wednesday, 3 March 2017 to discuss the design and implementation of the curriculum for the 2016-17 school year.
Journal ArticleDOI
Autoimmune Myocarditis Caused by Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Treated With Antithymocyte Globulin.
Varun Jain,Varun Jain,Mahsa Mohebtash,Maria E. Rodrigo,George Ruiz,Michael B. Atkins,Ana Barac,Ana Barac +7 more
TL;DR: A case of severe, steroid refractory, lymphocytic myocarditis that occurred after the first cycle of combination immunotherapy with the programmed cell death protein-1 inhibitor, nivolumab, and the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 blocker, ipilimumab for metastatic melanoma is reported.