BURCHENAL

BURCHENAL, J.E.B. MD

Cardiology

UH2015

303-372-6045

Jeb.Burchenal@uhcolorado.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Novel treatments for acute myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndromes
Antiplatelet agents and platelet biology
Inflammation and acute coronary syndromes
New devices in interventional cardiology

UNIQUE TECHNIQUES/EQUIPMENT:

Intravascular Brachytherapy

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

Cohen HA, Zenati M, Smith AJC, Lee JS, Chough S, Jafar Z, Counihan PJ, Izzo MR, Burchenal JEB, Feldman AM and Griffith B. Feasibility of combined percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and miminally invasive direct coronary artery bypass in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. Circulation. 1998; 98:1048-1050.

Brener SJ, Barr LA, Burchenal JEB, Katz S, George BS, Jones AA, Cohen ED, Gainey PC, White HJ, Cheek HB, Moses JW, Moliterno DJ, Effron MB, Topol EJ and the RAPPORT investigators. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa blockade with primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. Circulation. 1998; 98:734-741.

Burchenal JEB, Marks DS, Schweiger MJ, Mann JT, Rothman MT, Ganz P, Adelman B and Bittl JA. Effect of direct thrombin inhibition with bivalirudin (Hirulog) on restenosis after coronary angioplasty. Am J Cardiol. 1998; 82:511-515.

Brener SJ, Barr LA, Burchenal JEB, Wolski KE, Effron MB, Topol EJ and the RAPPORT investigators. Effect of abciximab on the pattern of reperfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty. Am J Cardiol 1999; 84(6):728-730.

The ESPRIT investigators. Novel dosing regimen of eptifibatide in planned coronary stent implantation (ESPRIT): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2000; 356: 2037-44.

Brener SJ, Ellis SG, Sapp SK, Betriu A, Granger CB, Burchenal JEB et al. Predictors of death and reinfarction at 30 days after primary angioplasty: the GUSTO IIb and RAPPORT trials. Am Heart J 2000; 139(3):476-481.

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LAY SUMMARY OF RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

We are attempting to improve the treatment of patients with heart attacks. We are investigating new drugs and mechanical devices such as stents and radiation therapy in patients with heart disease and heart attacks.

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