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Juan Carlos Q. Velez
Researcher at Ochsner Health System
Publications - 68
Citations - 2203
Juan Carlos Q. Velez is an academic researcher from Ochsner Health System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1545 citations. Previous affiliations of Juan Carlos Q. Velez include University of Queensland & Veterans Health Administration.
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Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US
Shruti Gupta,Salim S. Hayek,Wei Wang,Lili Chan,Kusum S. Mathews,Michal L. Melamed,Samantha K. Brenner,Amanda K. Leonberg-Yoo,Edward J. Schenck,Jared Radbel,Jochen Reiser,Anip Bansal,Anand Srivastava,Yan Zhou,Anne Sutherland,Adam E. Green,Alexandre M. Shehata,Nitender Goyal,Anitha Vijayan,Juan Carlos Q. Velez,Juan Carlos Q. Velez,Shahzad Shaefi,Chirag R. Parikh,Justin Arunthamakun,Ambarish M. Athavale,Allon N. Friedman,Samuel A.P. Short,Zoe A. Kibbelaar,Samah Abu Omar,Andrew J Admon,John P. Donnelly,Hayley B. Gershengorn,Hayley B. Gershengorn,Miguel A. Hernán,Miguel A. Hernán,Matthew W. Semler,David E. Leaf +36 more
TL;DR: This study identified demographic, clinical, and hospital-level risk factors that may be associated with death in critically ill patients with COVID-19 and can facilitate the identification of medications and supportive therapies to improve outcomes.
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Acute Kidney Injury Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Urban New Orleans
M. Mohamed,Ivo Lukitsch,Aldo E. Torres-Ortiz,Joseph B. Walker,Vipin Varghese,Cesar F. Hernandez-Arroyo,Muhannad Alqudsi,Jason R. LeDoux,Juan Carlos Q. Velez +8 more
TL;DR: Higher BMI and inflammatory marker levels are associated with AKI as well as withAKI-RRT, and CoV-AKI is associated with high rates of RRT and death.
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Therapeutic Response to Vasoconstrictors in Hepatorenal Syndrome Parallels Increase in Mean Arterial Pressure: A Pooled Analysis of Clinical Trials
TL;DR: An increase in MAP during vasoconstrictor therapy in patients with HRS is associated with improvement in kidney function across the spectrum of drugs tested to date, and support consideration for a goal-directed approach to the treatment of HRS.
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The importance of the intrarenal renin–angiotensin system
TL;DR: The kidney RAS appears to be of critical importance for the regulation of blood pressure and salt balance and a better understanding of the autocrine and paracrine mechanisms involved in the renal RAS and other local RASs might direct future organ-specific therapy.
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Characterization of renin-angiotensin system enzyme activities in cultured mouse podocytes.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that POD express a functional intrinsic renin-angiotensin system characterized by neprilysin, aminopeptidase A, ACE2, and renin activities, which predominantly lead to ANG-(1-7) and ANG-1-9) formation, as well as ANG II degradation.