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John P. Boehmer

Researcher at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Publications -  162
Citations -  16317

John P. Boehmer is an academic researcher from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heart failure & Cardiac resynchronization therapy. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 145 publications receiving 15087 citations. Previous affiliations of John P. Boehmer include University of Alabama at Birmingham & Rush University Medical Center.

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Echocardiographic findings in Fulminant and acute myocarditis

TL;DR: Echocardiography has value in classifying patients with myocarditis and may provide prognostic information and patients with fulminantMyocarditis exhibit a substantial improvement in ventricular function at six months compared with those with acute Myocarditis.
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy and the relationship of percent biventricular pacing to symptoms and survival

TL;DR: Every effort should be made to reduce native atrioventricular conduction with cardiac resynchronization therapy systems in an attempt to achieve biventricular pacing as close to 100% as possible.
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Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death and Appropriate Shock in the Comparison of Medical Therapy, Pacing, and Defibrillation in Heart Failure (COMPANION) Trial

TL;DR: In CRT candidates, sudden cardiac death risk is associated with higher New York Heart Association class and renal dysfunction and in CRT-defibrillator recipients, reduction in the risk of an appropriate shock is associatedWith medical therapy with neurohormonal antagonists, female gender, and New York heart Association functional class III versus IV clinical status.