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Juan C. Alejos
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 80
Citations - 2061
Juan C. Alejos is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transplantation & Heart transplantation. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 70 publications receiving 1881 citations. Previous affiliations of Juan C. Alejos include University of Southern California & Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
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Humoral rejection in cardiac transplantation: risk factors, hemodynamic consequences and relationship to transplant coronary artery disease.
Paul J Michaels,Maria L. Espejo,Jon A. Kobashigawa,Juan C. Alejos,C. Burch,Takemoto S,Elaine F. Reed,Michael C. Fishbein +7 more
TL;DR: Humoral rejection is a clinicopathologic entity with a high incidence in women and is associated with acute hemodynamic compromise, accelerated transplant coronary artery disease and death.
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Conversion of atriopulmonary to cavopulmonary anastomosis in management of late arrhythmias and atrial thrombosis
TL;DR: All 3 patients who presented with the acute onset of atrial arrhythmias and upon further evaluation were found to have significant hemodynamic lesions were treated successfully with surgical conversion of their atriopulmonary connection to a lateral tunnel cavopul pulmonary Fontan.
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Factors influencing survival in patients undergoing the bidirectional Glenn anastomosis
Juan C. Alejos,Roberta G. Williams,Jay M. Jarmakani,Alvaro Galindo,Josephine Isabel-Jones,Davis C. Drinkwater,Hillel Laks,Samuel Kaplan +7 more
TL;DR: Several factors were related to failure in patients who underwent BGA including pulmonary artery pressure, systemic right ventricle, and presence of anomolous pulmonary venous drainage and heterotaxy syndrome.
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Use of assist devices and ECMO to bridge pediatric patients with cardiomyopathy to transplantation.
Daniel S. Levi,Daniel Marelli,Mark Plunkett,Juan C. Alejos,Jessica Bresson,Julie Tran,Christian Eisenring,Sadeghi Am,Alvaro Galindo,Daniel Fazio,Anuja Gupta,C. Burch,Barbara L. George,Hillel Laks +13 more
TL;DR: Pulsatile and continuous-flow devices can complement each other to significantly extend the lives of a wide range of pediatric patients with severe cardiomyopathies.
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Diverse morphologic manifestations of cardiac allograft vasculopathy: a pathologic study of 64 allograft hearts.
Wei-hui Lu,Kathy Palatnik,Gregory A. Fishbein,Chi Lai,Daniel S. Levi,Gregory Perens,Juan C. Alejos,Jon A. Kobashigawa,Michael C. Fishbein +8 more
TL;DR: CAV is a pathologically multifaceted disorder that affects large and small epicardial coronary arteries of adults and children, with different types of lesions: intimal fibromuscular hyperplasia; atherosclerosis; and/or inflammation (vasculitis).