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Hillel Laks is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans key areas in medicine and engineering, with a focus on surgery, biomedical engineering, and epidemiology. Their work also addresses specialized topics within transplantation methods and outcomes, mechanical circulatory support devices, congenital heart disease studies, and cardiac structural anomalies and repair.

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to diverse venues, notably Current Transplantation Reports and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open. Among recent publications are:

  • Orthotopic Heart and Combined Heart Liver Transplantation: the Ultimate Treatment Option for Failing Fontan Physiology, 2021, Current Transplantation Reports
  • A Novel Method of Chest Wall Reconstruction Succeeding Pediatric Heart Transplantation Donor-recipient Size Mismatch: 25-year Follow-up, 2025, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open

Frequent collaborators in their research include Leigh Reardon, Jeannette P. Lin, Glen S. VanArsdell, Fady M. Kaldas, and Gentian Lluri. These coauthors have contributed to various aspects of transplantation and surgical methods in multiple published works.

Hillel Laks' main fields of study encompass:

  • Medicine
  • Engineering

Their subfields of study entail:

  • Surgery
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Epidemiology

The main topics of their scholarly activity can be found in:

  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

Best Publications

  • Effect of pravastatin on outcomes after cardiac transplantation.

    J A Kobashigawa;S Katznelson;H Laks;J A Johnson

  • Monocyte transmigration induced by modification of low density lipoprotein in cocultures of human aortic wall cells is due to induction of monocyte chemotactic protein 1 synthesis and is abolished by high density lipoprotein

    M Navab;S S Imes;S Y Hama;G P Hough

  • Structural abnormalities of great arterial walls in congenital heart disease: light and electron microscopic analyses.

    Koichiro Niwa;Joseph K. Perloff;Sunita M. Bhuta;Hillel Laks

  • Value of metabolic imaging with positron emission tomography for evaluating prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction

    Marcelo F. Di Carli;Michael Davidson;Roderick Little;Sandeep Khanna

  • Quantitative Relation Between Myocardial Viability and Improvement in Heart Failure Symptoms After Revascularization in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

    M. F. Di Carli;Farbod Asgarzadie;H. R. Schelbert;R. C. Brunken

  • Atrial extracellular matrix remodeling and the maintenance of atrial fibrillation.

    Jun Xu;Guanggen Cui;Fardad Esmailian;Mark Plunkett

  • A controlled trial of exercise rehabilitation after heart transplantation.

    Jon A. Kobashigawa;David A. Leaf;Nancy Lee;Michael P. Gleeson

  • Impact of left ventricular cavity size on survival in advanced heart failure

    Thomas H. Lee;Michele A. Hamilton;Lynne W. Stevenson;Jaime D. Moriguchi

  • Ten-year follow-up of a randomized trial of pravastatin in heart transplant patients.

    Jon A. Kobashigawa;Jaime D. Moriguchi;Hillel Laks;Liane Wener

  • Improvement in exercise capacity of candidates awaiting heart transplantation

    Lynne Warner Stevenson;Anthony E Steimle;Gregg Fonarow;Michael Kermani

  • Initial experience with the AbioCor implantable replacement heart system.

    Robert D Dowling;Laman A Gray;Steven W Etoch;Hillel Laks

  • Girdling effect of nonstimulated cardiomyoplasty on left ventricular function

    Eli R. Capouya;Richard S. Gerber;Davis C. Drinkwater;Jeffrey M. Pearl

  • Warm induction of cardioplegia with glutamate-enriched blood in coronary patients with cardiogenic shock who are dependent on inotropic drugs and intra-aortic balloon support.

    Eliot R. Rosenkranz;Gerald D. Buckberg;Hillel Laks;Donald G. Mulder

  • Benefits of Early Surgical Repair in Fixed Subaortic Stenosis

    Ron Brauner;Hillel Laks;Davis C. Drinkwater;Oleg Shvarts

  • Partial Fontan: advantages of an adjustable interatrial communication.

    Hillel Laks;Jeffrey M. Pearl;Gary S. Haas;Davis C. Drinkwater

  • Monocyte migration into the subendothelial space of a coculture of adult human aortic endothelial and smooth muscle cells.

    Mahamad Navab;Gregory P. Hough;Lynne W. Stevenson;Davis C. Drinkwater

  • Ventilatory and diffusion abnormalities in potential heart transplant recipients.

    Robert S. Wright;Michael S. Levine;Paul E. Bellamy;Michael S. Simmons

  • Prevention of reperfusion injury in the neonatal heart with leukocyte-depleted blood.

    M. A. Breda;D. C. Drinkwater;H. Laks;S. Bhuta

  • Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect in adults.

    A J Marelli;J K Perloff;J S Child;H Laks

  • A prospective, randomized, crossover pilot study of inhaled nitric oxide versus inhaled prostacyclin in heart transplant and lung transplant recipients

    Tanveer A. Khan;Gabriel Schnickel;David Ross;Sam Bastani

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon A. Kobashigawa
Jon A. Kobashigawa Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Michael C. Fishbein
Michael C. Fishbein University of California, Los Angeles
Gregg C. Fonarow
Gregg C. Fonarow University of California, Los Angeles
Lynne W. Stevenson
Lynne W. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Judith A. Berliner
Judith A. Berliner University of California, Los Angeles
Gerald D. Buckberg
Gerald D. Buckberg University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas A. Drake
Thomas A. Drake University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin Bonavida
Benjamin Bonavida University of California, Los Angeles
Alan M. Fogelman
Alan M. Fogelman University of California, Los Angeles
Kalyanam Shivkumar
Kalyanam Shivkumar University of California, Los Angeles

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