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Overview

Carolyn S. Calfee is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their primary research contributions lie within the domain of medicine, with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, infectious diseases, critical care and intensive care medicine, and neurology.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Carolyn S. Calfee's publications have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Critical Care
  • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Intensive Care Medicine

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Michael A. Matthay
  • Charles Langelier
  • Pratik Sinha
  • Carolyn M. Hendrickson
  • Kirsten N. Kangelaris

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19, 2020, BMJ
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome, 2021, The Lancet
  • Cytokine elevation in severe and critical COVID-19: a rapid systematic review, meta-analysis, and comparison with other inflammatory syndromes, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Practitioner's Guide to Latent Class Analysis: Methodological Considerations and Common Pitfalls, 2020, Critical Care Medicine
  • Is a "Cytokine Storm" Relevant to COVID-19?, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine

Best Publications

  • Subphenotypes in acute respiratory distress syndrome: latent class analysis of data from two randomised controlled trials.

    Carolyn S Calfee;Kevin Delucchi;Polly E Parsons;B Taylor Thompson

  • Practitioner's Guide to Latent Class Analysis: Methodological Considerations and Common Pitfalls.

    Pratik Sinha;Carolyn S. Calfee;Kevin L. Delucchi

  • A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19

    Bram Rochwerg;Arnav Agarwal;Reed Ac Siemieniuk;Thomas Agoritsas

  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Subphenotypes Respond Differently to Randomized Fluid Management Strategy.

    Katie R. Famous;Kevin Delucchi;Lorraine B. Ware;Kirsten N. Kangelaris

  • Cytokine elevation in severe and critical COVID-19: a rapid systematic review, meta-analysis, and comparison with other inflammatory syndromes.

    Daniel E Leisman;Daniel E Leisman;Daniel E Leisman;Lukas Ronner;Lukas Ronner;Rachel Pinotti;Matthew D Taylor;Matthew D Taylor

  • Is a "Cytokine Storm" Relevant to COVID-19?

    Pratik Sinha;Michael A. Matthay;Carolyn S. Calfee

  • Mesenchymal stem (stromal) cells for treatment of ARDS: a phase 1 clinical trial

    Jennifer G. Wilson;Kathleen D. Liu;Hanjing Zhuo;Lizette Caballero

  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome subphenotypes and differential response to simvastatin: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

    Carolyn S Calfee;Kevin L Delucchi;Pratik Sinha;Michael A Matthay

  • Treatment with allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells for moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (START study): a randomised phase 2a safety trial.

    Michael A Matthay;Carolyn S Calfee;Hanjing Zhuo;B Taylor Thompson

  • COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: is a different approach to management warranted?

    Eddy Fan;Eddy Fan;Jeremy R Beitler;Laurent Brochard;Carolyn S Calfee

  • Plasma receptor for advanced glycation end products and clinical outcomes in acute lung injury

    C S Calfee;L B Ware;M D Eisner;P E Parsons

  • Integrating host response and unbiased microbe detection for lower respiratory tract infection diagnosis in critically ill adults

    Charles Langelier;Katrina L. Kalantar;Farzad Moazed;Michael R. Wilson

  • Distinct Molecular Phenotypes of Direct vs Indirect ARDS in Single-Center and Multicenter Studies

    Carolyn S. Calfee;David R. Janz;Gordon R. Bernard;Addison K. May

  • Maladaptive role of neutrophil extracellular traps in pathogen-induced lung injury

    Emma Lefrançais;Beñat Mallavia;Hanjing Zhuo;Carolyn S. Calfee

  • Latent class analysis of ARDS subphenotypes: a secondary analysis of the statins for acutely injured lungs from sepsis (SAILS) study

    Pratik Sinha;Kevin L. Delucchi;B. Taylor Thompson;Daniel F. McAuley;Daniel F. McAuley

  • Severity scoring of lung oedema on the chest radiograph is associated with clinical outcomes in ARDS.

    Melissa A Warren;Zhiguou Zhao;Tatsuki Koyama;Julie A Bastarache

  • Critical role of activated protein C in early coagulopathy and later organ failure, infection and death in trauma patients.

    Mitchell Jay Cohen;Mariah Call;Mary Nelson;Carolyn S. Calfee

  • Early release of high mobility group box nuclear protein 1 after severe trauma in humans: role of injury severity and tissue hypoperfusion.

    Mitchell J Cohen;Karim Brohi;Carolyn S Calfee;Pamela Rahn

  • Pulmonary toxicity of e-cigarettes

    Lauren F Chun;Farzad Moazed;Carolyn S Calfee;Michael A. Matthay

  • Plasma Angiopoietin-2 Predicts the Onset of Acute Lung Injury in Critically Ill Patients

    Ashish Agrawal;Michael A. Matthay;Kirsten N. Kangelaris;John Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Matthay
Michael A. Matthay University of California, San Francisco
Lorraine B. Ware
Lorraine B. Ware Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kathleen D. Liu
Kathleen D. Liu University of California, San Francisco
Mitchell J. Cohen
Mitchell J. Cohen University of Colorado Denver
Daniel F. McAuley
Daniel F. McAuley Queen's University Belfast
Kevin L. Delucchi
Kevin L. Delucchi University of California, San Francisco
Jason D. Christie
Jason D. Christie University of Pennsylvania
B. Taylor Thompson
B. Taylor Thompson Harvard University
Joseph L. DeRisi
Joseph L. DeRisi University of California, San Francisco
David J. Erle
David J. Erle University of California, San Francisco

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