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S. Ward Casscells
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 12
Citations - 3791
S. Ward Casscells is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: RDF & Semantic Web. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 12 publications receiving 3569 citations. Previous affiliations of S. Ward Casscells include St Lukes Episcopal Hospital & University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II.
Morteza Naghavi,Peter Libby,Erling Falk,S. Ward Casscells,S. Ward Casscells,Silvio H. Litovsky,Silvio H. Litovsky,John A. Rumberger,Juan J. Badimon,Christodoulos Stefanadis,Pedro R. Moreno,Gerard Pasterkamp,Zahi A. Fayad,Peter Stone,Sergio Waxman,Paolo Raggi,Mohammad Madjid,Mohammad Madjid,Alireza Zarrabi,Alireza Zarrabi,Allen P. Burke,Chun Yuan,Peter J. Fitzgerald,David S. Siscovick,Chris L. de Korte,Masanori Aikawa,K.E. Juhani Airaksinen,Gerd Assmann,Christoph R. Becker,James H. Chesebro,Andrew Farb,Zorina S. Galis,Christopher L. Jackson,Ik-Kyung Jang,Wolfgang Koenig,Robert A. Lodder,Keith L. March,Jasenka Demirovic,Mohamad Navab,Silvia G. Priori,Mark D. Rekhter,Raymond D. Bahr,Scott M. Grundy,Roxana Mehran,Antonio Colombo,Eric Boerwinkle,Christie M. Ballantyne,William Insull,Robert S. Schwartz,Robert A. Vogel,Patrick W. Serruys,Göran K. Hansson,David P. Faxon,Sanjay Kaul,Helmut Drexler,Philip Greenland,James E. Muller,Renu Virmani,Renu Virmani,Paul M. Ridker,Douglas P. Zipes,Prediman K. Shah,James T. Willerson,James T. Willerson +63 more
TL;DR: The term "vulnerable patient" may be more appropriate and is proposed now for the identification of subjects with high likelihood of developing cardiac events in the near future and a quantitative method for cumulative risk assessment of vulnerable patients needs to be developed.
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Leukocyte count and coronary heart disease: Implications for risk assessment
Mohammad Madjid,Mohammad Madjid,Imran Awan,Imran Awan,James T. Willerson,James T. Willerson,S. Ward Casscells,S. Ward Casscells,S. Ward Casscells +8 more
TL;DR: Leukocytosis has been consistently shown to be an independent risk factor and prognostic indicator of future cardiovascular outcomes, regardless of disease status, and the leukocyte count is inexpensive, reliable, easy to interpret, and ordered routinely in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Patent
Detecting thermal discrepancies in vessel walls
S. Ward Casscells,James T. Willerson,Gregory H. Bearman,Michael L. Eastwood,Timothy N. Krabach +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an infrared fiberoptic system was employed at the tip of the catheter to locate inflamed, heat producing, artherosclerotic plaque, which is at greater risk for rupture, fissure, or ulceration and consequent thrombosis and occlusion of the artery.
Patent
Method of detecting vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque
S. Ward Casscells,James T. Willerson,Gregory H. Bearman,Michael L. Eastwood,Timothy N. Krabach +4 more
TL;DR: An infrared, heat-sensing catheter particularly useful for identifying potentially fatal arterial plaques in patients with disease of the coronary or other arteries and its use are detailed in this article.
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Decreasing body temperature predicts early rehospitalization in congestive heart failure.
Amany Ahmed,Amany Ahmed,Ibrahim Aboshady,Ibrahim Aboshady,Shahzeb M. Munir,Shahzeb M. Munir,Sreedevi Gondi,Sreedevi Gondi,Alan Brewer,S. David Gertz,Dejian Lai,Naushad A. Shaik,K.J. Shankar,K.J. Shankar,Anita Deswal,S. Ward Casscells,S. Ward Casscells +16 more
TL;DR: Decreasing body temperatures can predict readmission, decreased time to rehospitalization, and (in combination with hypothermia) decreased survival.