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Overview

Carl L. Backer is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant body of work spanning epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and emergency medicine.

The scientist's investigations cover several key topics, including congenital heart disease studies, tracheal and airway disorders, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, coronary artery anomalies, aortic disease and treatment approaches, congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies, and cardiac valve diseases and treatments.

Backer has contributed to multiple research articles published in notable medical journals. Some recent papers include:

  • National Variation in Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes, 2020, Circulation
  • COVID-19: Crisis Management in Congenital Heart Surgery, 2020, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Vascular Rings, 2021, Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
  • Influence of Fetal Diagnosis on Management of Vascular Rings, 2021, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Improving National Outcomes in Congenital Heart Surgery, 2020, Circulation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Backer include Elizabeth H. Stephens, Robert H. Anderson, Diane E. Spicer, David M. Overman, and Joseph A. Dearani.

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Circulation

In addition to journal articles, Backer has contributed to academic books, including the 2024 publication "Wilcox's Surgical Anatomy of the Heart" under Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery: collective review of surgical therapy

    Ali Dodge-Khatami;Constantine Mavroudis;Constantine Mavroudis;Carl L Backer;Carl L Backer

  • Coronary Artery Fistulas in Infants and Children: A Surgical Review and Discussion of Coil Embolization

    Constantine Mavroudis;Carl L. Backer;Carl L. Backer;Albert P. Rocchini;Albert P. Rocchini;Alexander J. Muster;Alexander J. Muster

  • Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature and Database Project: anomalies of the coronary arteries

    Ali Dodge-Khatami;Constantine Mavroudis;Carl L Backer

  • Vascular anomalies causing tracheoesophageal compression. Review of experience in children

    Carl L. Backer;Michel N. Ilbawi;Farouk S. Idriss;Serafin Y. DeLeon

  • Trends in vascular ring surgery.

    Carl L. Backer;Constantine Mavroudis;Cynthia K. Rigsby;Lauren D. Holinger

  • Standardized multidisciplinary protocol improves handover of cardiac surgery patients to the intensive care unit

    Brian F. Joy;Emily Elliott;Courtney Hardy;Christine Sullivan

  • Dexamethasone reduces the inflammatory response to cardiopulmonary bypass in children.

    Ronald A. Bronicki;Carl L. Backer;Carl L. Backer;Harris P. Baden;Constantine Mavroudis

  • Characterization and Functionality of Cardiac Progenitor Cells in Congenital Heart Patients

    Rachana Mishra;Kalpana Vijayan;Evan J. Colletti;Daniel A. Harrington

  • Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

    Constantine Mavroudis;Carl L. Backer;Carl L. Backer;Rachid F. Idriss

  • Characterization of Inwardly Rectifying K+ Channel in Human Cardiac Myocytes Alterations in Channel Behavior in Myocytes Isolated From Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Shin Ichi Koumi;Carl L Backer;Carl E. Arentzen

  • An alternative approach to the surgical management of physiologically corrected transposition with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis or atresia.

    Michel N. Ilbawi;S. Y. DeLeon;C. L. Backer;C. E. Duffy

  • Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery: A twenty-year review of surgical management

    Carl L. Backer;Mark J. Stout;Vincent R. Zales;Alexander J. Muster

  • Total cavopulmonary conversion and maze procedure for patients with failure of the Fontan operation.

    Constantine Mavroudis;Carl L. Backer;Barbara J. Deal;Christopher Johnsrude

  • Tetralogy of Fallot: Results of a Pulmonary Valve-Sparing Strategy

    Robert D. Stewart;Carl L. Backer;Luciana Young;Constantine Mavroudis

  • Forty-six years of patient ductus arteriosus division at Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago. Standards for comparison.

    C Mavroudis;C L Backer;M Gevitz

  • The use of balloon-expandable Metallic stents in the treatment of pediatric tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia

    Robert H. Furman;Carl L Backer;Michael E. Dunham;James S Donaldson

  • Fontan Conversion To Cavopulmonary Connection And Arrhythmia Circuit Cryoablation

    Constantine Mavroudis;Carl L. Backer;Barbara J. Deal;Christopher L. Johnsrude

  • Congenital Heart Surgery Nomenclature and Database Project: vascular rings, tracheal stenosis, pectus excavatum

    Carl L Backer;Constantine Mavroudis

  • Revision of previous Fontan connections to total extracardiac cavopulmonary anastomosis: A multicenter experience

    Carlo F. Marcelletti;Frank L. Hanley;Constantine Mavroudis;Doff B. McElhinney

  • 111 Fontan Conversions with Arrhythmia Surgery: Surgical Lessons and Outcomes

    Constantine Mavroudis;Constantine Mavroudis;Barbara J. Deal;Barbara J. Deal;Carl L. Backer;Carl L. Backer;Robert D. Stewart;Robert D. Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Mavroudis
Constantine Mavroudis Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
Robert H. Anderson
Robert H. Anderson Newcastle University
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Jeffrey P. Jacobs University of Florida
Marshall L. Jacobs
Marshall L. Jacobs Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
James S. Tweddell
James S. Tweddell Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
D. Woodrow Benson
D. Woodrow Benson Medical College of Wisconsin
John E. Mayer
John E. Mayer Boston Children's Hospital
J. William Gaynor
J. William Gaynor Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Martin J. Elliott
Martin J. Elliott University College London

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