Department of Medicine Publications
As the largest department within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department of Medicine hosts a vast range of research in its divisions. Research areas include cardiology, clinical immunology and allergy, clinical pharmacology, dermatology, critical care and emergency medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, gastroenterology, hematology, molecular toxicology, nephrology, respirology, and rheumatology.
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Submissions from 2020
New Canadian guideline is wrong to say acetylsalicylic acid is only for patients with symptomatic vascular disease, J. David Spence
Recent advances in preventing recurrent stroke, J. David Spence
Stroke Prevention: A Lifetime of Lessons, J. David Spence
Triglyceride lowering drugs: Not just icosapent ethyl, J. David Spence
Uses of ultrasound in stroke prevention, J. David Spence
Mechanisms of Stroke in COVID-19, J. David Spence, Gabriel R. de Freitas, L. Creed Pettigrew, Hakan Ay, David S. Liebeskind, Carlos S. Kase, Oscar H. Del Brutto, Graeme J Hankey, and Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian
The hijacked self: Disrupted functional connectivity between the periaqueductal gray and the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder using dynamic causal modeling., Braeden A Terpou, Maria Densmore, Jean Theberge, Paul Frewen, Margaret C McKinnon, Andrew A Nicholson, and Ruth A Lanius
Submissions from 2019
Vitamin B12 Deficiency and Hyperhomocysteinemia in Outpatients with Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: a cohort study at an academic medical centre, Shamon Ahmed, Chrysi Bogiatzi, Daniel G. Hackam, Angela C. Rutledge, Luciano A. Sposato, Alexander Khaw, Jennifer Mandzia, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhoo, Vladimir Hachinski, and J. David Spence
Increased carotid plaque burden in patients with family medical history of premature cardiovascular events in the absence of classical risk factors, Paul W. Atkins, Hernán A. Perez, J. David Spence, Sonia E. Munoz, Luis J. Armando, and Néstor H. García
Assessment of a novel 32-channel phased array for cardiovascular hybrid PET/MRI imaging: MRI performance., Adam Farag, R Terry Thompson, Jonathan D Thiessen, John Butler, Frank S Prato, and Jean Theberge
Antiplatelet therapy in ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack: An overview of major trials and meta-analyses, Daniel G. Hackam and J. David Spence
Overlapping frontoparietal networks in response to oculomotion and traumatic autobiographical memory retrieval: implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing., Sherain Harricharan, Margaret C McKinnon, Mischa Tursich, Maria Densmore, Paul Frewen, Jean Theberge, Bessel van der Kolk, and Ruth A Lanius
Perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in prostate cancer surgery, Zachary Klaasson, Christopher J.D. Wallis, Luke T. Lavallee, and Philippe D. Violette
Registration of amiloride in South Africa: Cutting the Gordian knot, B. L. Rayner, J. D. Spence, A. Bryer, and M. T. Mpe
Blood pressure gradients in the brain: Their importance to understanding pathogenesis of cerebral small vessel disease, J. David Spence
Chili Pepper Consumption and Cardiovascular Mortality, J. David Spence
Harm with high levels of serum B12 in elderly persons, J. David Spence
Nutrition and risk of stroke, J. David Spence
Pioglitazone for prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with stroke and pre-diabetes: implications for real-world practice, J. David Spence
Trimethylamine N-oxide: Not just red meat - Egg yolk and renal function are also important, J. David Spence
Pioglitazone Therapy in Patients with Stroke and Prediabetes: A Post Hoc Analysis of the IRIS Randomized Clinical Trial, J. David Spence, Catherine M. Viscoli, Silvio E. Inzucchi, Jennifer Dearborn-Tomazos, Gary A. Ford, Mark Gorman, Karen L. Furie, Anne M. Lovejoy, Lawrence H. Young, and Walter N. Kernan
The Threatful Self: Midbrain Functional Connectivity to Cortical Midline and Parietal Regions During Subliminal Trauma-Related Processing in PTSD., Braeden A Terpou, Maria Densmore, Jean Theberge, Janine Thome, Paul Frewen, Margaret C McKinnon, and Ruth A Lanius
Back to the Basics: Resting State Functional Connectivity of the Reticular Activation System in PTSD and its Dissociative Subtype., Janine Thome, Maria Densmore, Georgia Koppe, Braeden Terpou, Jean Theberge, Margaret C McKinnon, and Ruth A Lanius
Deep learning-based carotid media-adventitia and lumen-intima boundary segmentation from three-dimensional ultrasound images, Ran Zhou, Aaron Fenster, Yujiao Xia, J. David Spence, and Mingyue Ding
Submissions from 2018
Decline in the severity of carotid atherosclerosis and associated risk factors from 2002 to 2014, Daniel G. Hackam and J. David Spence