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Christian A Merlo

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1 Persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and rate of FEV1 decline in cystic fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008 2.63
2 An oversized allograft is associated with improved survival after lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. J Heart Lung Transplant 2013 2.13
3 The effect of HIV infection on longitudinal lung function decline among IDUs: a prospective cohort. AIDS 2013 1.92
4 Association between respiratory tract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and survival in cystic fibrosis. JAMA 2010 1.69
5 Impact of the lung allocation score on resource utilization after lung transplantation in the United States. J Heart Lung Transplant 2010 1.67
6 Lung size mismatch and survival after single and bilateral lung transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 2013 1.54
7 Activation-induced cell death drives profound lung CD4(+) T-cell depletion in HIV-associated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2014 1.50
8 An epistaxis severity score for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Laryngoscope 2010 1.49
9 Lung transplantation in older patients with cystic fibrosis: analysis of UNOS data. J Heart Lung Transplant 2009 1.43
10 Respiratory epithelial gene expression in patients with mild and severe cystic fibrosis lung disease. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2006 1.39
11 Tobacco use and nicotine dependence among HIV-infected and uninfected injection drug users. Addict Behav 2010 1.27
12 Survival after single versus bilateral lung transplantation for high-risk patients with pulmonary fibrosis. Ann Thorac Surg 2009 1.22
13 The impact of center volume on survival in lung transplantation: an analysis of more than 10,000 cases. Ann Thorac Surg 2009 1.20
14 Association of operative time of day with outcomes after thoracic organ transplant. JAMA 2011 1.16
15 Association between obstructive lung disease and markers of HIV infection in a high-risk cohort. Thorax 2011 1.16
16 The effect of lung size mismatch on complications and resource utilization after bilateral lung transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2012 1.15
17 Lung allocation score predicts survival in lung transplantation patients with pulmonary fibrosis. Ann Thorac Surg 2009 1.13
18 HIV infection in the etiology of lung cancer: confounding, causality, and consequences. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2011 1.13
19 The impact of recipient body mass index on survival after lung transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2010 1.13
20 Donor-recipient size matching and survival after lung transplantation. A cohort study. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2013 1.09
21 Cross sectional analysis of respiratory symptoms in an injection drug user cohort: the impact of obstructive lung disease and HIV. BMC Pulm Med 2010 1.06
22 Insurance status is an independent predictor of long-term survival after lung transplantation in the United States. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011 1.04
23 Acute kidney injury increases mortality after lung transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 2012 0.97
24 Severe acute kidney injury according to the RIFLE (risk, injury, failure, loss, end stage) criteria affects mortality in lung transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011 0.96
25 Prevalence and risk factors for unrecognized obstructive lung disease among urban drug users. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2011 0.95
26 Outcomes and temporal trends among high-risk patients after lung transplantation in the United States. J Heart Lung Transplant 2012 0.92
27 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Score predicts hospital charges and resource use after aortic valve replacement. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2011 0.87
28 HIV and COPD: impact of risk behaviors and diseases on quality of life. Qual Life Res 2010 0.86
29 Factors indicative of long-term survival after lung transplantation: a review of 836 10-year survivors. J Heart Lung Transplant 2009 0.86
30 Cystic fibrosis lung transplantation. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2011 0.85
31 Impact of advanced age in lung transplantation: an analysis of United Network for Organ Sharing data. J Am Coll Surg 2009 0.84
32 Lung transplantation in patients 70 years old or older: have outcomes changed after implementation of the lung allocation score? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012 0.83
33 Functional status is highly predictive of outcomes after redo lung transplantation: an analysis of 390 cases in the modern era. Ann Thorac Surg 2013 0.82
34 The effect of center volume on the incidence of postoperative complications and their impact on survival after lung transplantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012 0.81
35 A randomized study of contingency management and spirometric lung age for motivating smoking cessation among injection drug users. BMC Public Health 2014 0.80
36 Low potassium dextran is superior to University of Wisconsin solution in high-risk lung transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant 2010 0.79
37 Efficacy of a topical sesame/rose geranium oil compound in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia associated epistaxis. Laryngoscope 2013 0.78
38 Human immunodeficiency virus-associated lung malignancies. Clin Chest Med 2013 0.78
39 Hepatitis C virus infection is not an independent risk factor for obstructive lung disease. COPD 2013 0.78
40 Marital status improves survival after orthotopic heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011 0.77
41 Impact of donor-recipient race matching on survival after lung transplantation: analysis of over 11,000 patients. J Heart Lung Transplant 2009 0.76
42 Early outcomes of antireflux surgery for United States lung transplant recipients. Surg Endosc 2012 0.75
43 Patients with mutations in Gsalpha have reduced activation of a downstream target in epithelial tissues due to haploinsufficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007 0.75
44 A new endoscopic staging system for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol 2014 0.75