K E Fleischmann

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Secondhand smoke exposure and quality of life in patients with heart failure
    Sarah G Weeks
    Department of Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Arch Intern Med 171:1887-93. 2011
  2. ncbi Pacemaker implantation and quality of life in the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, 94030, USA
    Heart Rhythm 3:653-9. 2006
  3. ncbi Association between cardiac and noncardiac complications in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: outcomes and effects on length of stay
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0124, USA
    Am J Med 115:515-20. 2003
  4. ncbi The new universal definition of myocardial infarction criteria improve electrocardiographic diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 0124, USA
    J Electrocardiol 44:69-73. 2011
  5. ncbi Atrial fibrillation and quality of life after pacemaker implantation for sick sinus syndrome: data from the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, The University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am Heart J 158:78-83.e2. 2009
  6. ncbi Noninvasive cardiac testing in the geriatric patient
    K E Fleischmann
    Cardiovascular Division, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94143 0124, USA
    Am J Geriatr Cardiol 12:28-32. 2003
  7. ncbi Critical pathways for patients with acute chest pain at low risk
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Thromb Thrombolysis 13:89-96. 2002
  8. ncbi Designing prehospital ECG systems for acute coronary syndromes. Lessons learned from clinical trials involving 12-lead ST-segment monitoring
    Barbara J Drew
    Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Electrocardiol 38:180-5. 2005
  9. ncbi Estimated body surface potential maps in emergency department patients with unrecognized transient myocardial ischemia
    Barbara J Drew
    Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0610, USA
    J Electrocardiol 40:S15-20. 2007
  10. ncbi Exercise echocardiography or exercise SPECT imaging? A meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance
    K E Fleischmann
    Cardiology Division, University of California, Medical Center, San Francisco 94143 0214, USA
    JAMA 280:913-20. 1998

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Secondhand smoke exposure and quality of life in patients with heart failure
    Sarah G Weeks
    Department of Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    Arch Intern Med 171:1887-93. 2011
    ..Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is associated with an increased risk of atherosclerotic heart disease and cardiac events. We sought to assess the effect of SHS on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with heart failure...
  2. ncbi Pacemaker implantation and quality of life in the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, 94030, USA
    Heart Rhythm 3:653-9. 2006
    ..Dual-chamber pacemakers restore AV synchrony compared with ventricular pacemakers, but the effects on health-related quality of life (QOL) are uncertain...
  3. ncbi Association between cardiac and noncardiac complications in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: outcomes and effects on length of stay
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0124, USA
    Am J Med 115:515-20. 2003
    ..To determine the relation between cardiac and noncardiac complications and their effects on length of stay in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery...
  4. ncbi The new universal definition of myocardial infarction criteria improve electrocardiographic diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 0124, USA
    J Electrocardiol 44:69-73. 2011
    ..Electrocardiograms were read in a blinded fashion months apart with standard and then revised criteria, and analyzed by χ(2) and logistic regression analysis...
  5. ncbi Atrial fibrillation and quality of life after pacemaker implantation for sick sinus syndrome: data from the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, The University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am Heart J 158:78-83.e2. 2009
    ..Our objective was to assess the impact of AF on QOL within MOST...
  6. ncbi Noninvasive cardiac testing in the geriatric patient
    K E Fleischmann
    Cardiovascular Division, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94143 0124, USA
    Am J Geriatr Cardiol 12:28-32. 2003
    ..Adjunctive imaging may be particularly helpful when the electrocardiogram is uninterpretable or suspect due to underlying baseline abnormalities or when determining the extent or distribution of ischemia is felt to be important...
  7. ncbi Critical pathways for patients with acute chest pain at low risk
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Thromb Thrombolysis 13:89-96. 2002
    ..Because of the possibility of concomitant secular trends and the effects of a changing medical environment, further rigorous research on the efficacy of individual pathways is needed...
  8. ncbi Designing prehospital ECG systems for acute coronary syndromes. Lessons learned from clinical trials involving 12-lead ST-segment monitoring
    Barbara J Drew
    Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    J Electrocardiol 38:180-5. 2005
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  9. ncbi Estimated body surface potential maps in emergency department patients with unrecognized transient myocardial ischemia
    Barbara J Drew
    Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0610, USA
    J Electrocardiol 40:S15-20. 2007
    ..Thereafter, retrospective analysis of Holter monitoring data recorded for a clinical trial revealed ST events indicative of transient myocardial ischemia that was unrecognized clinically...
  10. ncbi Exercise echocardiography or exercise SPECT imaging? A meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance
    K E Fleischmann
    Cardiology Division, University of California, Medical Center, San Francisco 94143 0214, USA
    JAMA 280:913-20. 1998
    ..Cardiac imaging has advanced rapidly, providing clinicians with several choices for evaluating patients with suspected coronary artery disease, but few studies compare modalities directly...
  11. ncbi The prognostic value of normal exercise myocardial perfusion imaging and exercise echocardiography: a meta-analysis
    Louise D Metz
    Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 49:227-37. 2007
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  12. ncbi Weekend and holiday exercise testing in patients with chest pain
    R A Krasuski
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 14:10-4. 1999
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Weekend and holiday exercise testing is a safe and effective means of risk stratification prior to hospital discharge for patients with chest pain. It also reduces length of stay and is cost saving...
  13. ncbi Prognostic value of low-level cardiac troponin-I elevations in patients without definite acute coronary syndromes
    Michael X Pham
    General Internal Medicine Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif, USA
    Am Heart J 148:776-82. 2004
    ..However, their prognostic value in other clinical situations remains unclear...
  14. ncbi Clinical and echocardiographic correlates of health status in patients with acute chest pain
    K E Fleischmann
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 12:751-6. 1997
    ..Because functional status cannot be predicted adequately from either patients' characteristics or echocardiographic testing, it must be assessed directly...
  15. ncbi Remote second-hand tobacco exposure in flight attendants is associated with systemic but not pulmonary hypertension
    Xiushui Ren
    Division of Cardiology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
    Cardiol J 15:338-43. 2008
    ..We hypothesized that remote secondhand smoke exposure results in persistent cardiopulmonary hemodynamic abnormalities...
  16. ncbi Cost-effectiveness of dual-chamber pacing compared with ventricular pacing for sinus node dysfunction
    Stephane Rinfret
    Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l Universite de Montreal CHUM, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
    Circulation 111:165-72. 2005
    ..It is not clear, however, how these benefits compare with the increased cost of dual-chamber pacemakers...
  17. ncbi ACC/AHA guideline update for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery---executive summary a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guide
    Kim A Eagle
    Circulation 105:1257-67. 2002
  18. ncbi ACC/AHA Guideline Update for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery--Executive Summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guide
    Kim A Eagle
    Anesth Analg 94:1052-64. 2002
  19. ncbi ACC/AHA 2006 guideline update on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery: focused update on perioperative beta-blocker therapy--a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guideli
    Lee A Fleisher
    Anesth Analg 104:15-26. 2007
    ..The ultimate judgment regarding care of a particular patient must be made by the healthcare provider and patient in light of all the circumstances presented by that patient...
  20. ncbi ACC/AHA 2006 guideline update on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery: focused update on perioperative beta-blocker therapy: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guideli
    Lee A Fleisher
    J Am Coll Cardiol 47:2343-55. 2006
  21. ncbi Exercise echocardiography or exercise SPECT imaging? A meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance
    Kirsten E Fleischmann
    J Nucl Cardiol 9:133-4. 2002
  22. ncbi ACC/AHA guideline update for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guide
    Kim A Eagle
    J Am Coll Cardiol 39:542-53. 2002
  23. ncbi Dynamic tracking of ischemia in the surface electrocardiogram
    Vladimir Shusterman
    Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    J Electrocardiol 40:S179-86. 2007
    ..Holter recordings were initiated within the first 40 minutes after patients' arrival to the emergency department. Here we present preliminary results...