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Alan S. Cohen was affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research activities spanned multiple aspects of medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, physiology, rheumatology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work addressed a range of topics including amyloidosis diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes, eosinophilic disorders and syndromes, sarcoidosis and beryllium toxicity research, lysosomal storage disorders, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, as well as studies on chitinases and chitosanases.

They contributed to several recent papers in various scientific journals, including:

  • Patient and family experience with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN) amyloidosis: results of two focus groups, 2021, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating 4D-310 in adults with Fabry disease cardiomyopathy: Interim analysis of cardiac and safety outcomes in patients with 21-42 months of follow up, 2025, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism
  • Issue Information, 2023, Allergy
  • RE: Extending section 12 approval under the Mental Health Act to professions other than medicine, 2025, BJPsych Bulletin

The frequent coauthors who collaborated with Cohen included David Rintell, Dena Heath, Florencia Braga Mendendez, Elizabeth Cross, and Theodore P. Cross.

Cohen's publications appeared in a range of venues reflective of their multidisciplinary interests, including:

  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Molecular Genetics and Metabolism
  • Allergy
  • BJPsych Bulletin

Throughout their career, Cohen was recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • The 1982 revised criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus

    Eng M. Tan;Alan S. Cohen;James F. Fries;Alfonse T. Masi

  • A new form of amyloid protein associated with chronic hemodialysis was identified as β2-microglobulin

    F. Gejyo;T. Yamada;S. Odani;Y. Nakagawa

  • Treatment of 100 patients with primary amyloidosis: A randomized trial of melphalan, prednisone, and colchicine versus colchicine only

    Martha Skinner;Jennifer J. Anderson;Robert Simms;Rodney Falk

  • Amyloid: toward terminology clarification. Report from the Nomenclature Committee of the International Society of Amyloidosis.

    Per Westermark;Merrill D. Benson;Joel N. Buxbaum;Alan S. Cohen

  • A primer of amyloid nomenclature

    Per Westermark;Merrill D. Benson;Joel N. Buxbaum;Alan S. Cohen

  • Acute infectious arthritis: A review of patients with nongonococcal joint infections (with emphasis on therapy and prognosis)

    Don L. Goldenberg;Alan S. Cohen

  • A clinical analysis of the course and prognosis of forty-two patients with amyloidosis

    Kenneth Brandt;Edgar S. Cathcart;Alan S. Cohen

  • Treatment of septic arthritis

    Don L. Goldenberg;Don L. Goldenberg;Kenneth D. Brandt;Kenneth D. Brandt;Alan S. Cohen;Alan S. Cohen;Edgar S. Cathcart

  • Bleeding manifestations in 100 patients with amyloidosis.

    Robert A. Yood;Martha Skinner;Alan Rubinow;Lilia Talarico

  • Sensitivity and specificity of the echocardiographic features of cardiac amyloidosis.

    Rodney H. Falk;Jonathan F. Plehn;Thomas Deering;Edgar C. Schick

  • Amyloid fibril protein nomenclature -- 2002.

    Per Westermark;Merrill D. Benson;Joel N. Buxbaum;Alan S. Cohen

  • The clinical features of elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis. A comparison with younger-onset disease of similar duration.

    Chad L. Deal;Chad L. Deal;Robert F. Meenan;Don L. Goldenberg;Jennifer J. Anderson

  • Digoxin sensitivity in amyloid cardiomyopathy.

    A Rubinow;M Skinner;A S Cohen

  • Total and capillary fingertip blood flow in Raynaud's phenomenon.

    Jay D. Coffman;Alan S. Cohen

  • Use of Abdominal Fat Tissue Aspirate in the Diagnosis of Systemic Amyloidosis

    Caryn A. Libbey;Martha Skinner;Alan S. Cohen

  • Intralysosomal formation of amyloid fibrils.

    T. Shirahama;A. S. Cohen

  • In vitro formation of amyloid fibrils from intact β2-microglobulin

    L.H. Connors;T. Shirahama;M. Skinner;A. Fenves

  • Characterization of the amyloid fibril as a cross-beta protein.

    Laurence Bonar;Alan S. Cohen;Martha M. Skinner

  • Worsening of Congestive Heart Failure in Amyloid Heart Disease Treated by Calcium Channel-Blocking Agents

    Morie A. Gertz;Morie A. Gertz;Rodney H. Falk;Rodney H. Falk;Martha Skinner;Martha Skinner;Alan S. Cohen;Alan S. Cohen

  • Synovial membrane histopathology in the differential diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, gout, pseudogout, systemic lupus erythematosus, infectious arthritis and degenerative joint disease.

    Don L. Goldenberg;Alan S. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha Skinner
Martha Skinner Boston University
Jean D. Sipe
Jean D. Sipe Boston University
Rodney H. Falk
Rodney H. Falk Brigham and Women's Hospital
Merrill D. Benson
Merrill D. Benson Indiana University
Robert A. Kyle
Robert A. Kyle Mayo Clinic
Jennifer J. Anderson
Jennifer J. Anderson Boston University
Morie A. Gertz
Morie A. Gertz Mayo Clinic
Per Westermark
Per Westermark Uppsala University
Maria João Saraiva
Maria João Saraiva University of Porto
Blas Frangione
Blas Frangione New York University

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