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James K. Kirklin is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research spans a variety of topics and fields primarily related to medicine and engineering, with a focus on surgery, biomedical engineering, and cardiology.

The main fields of study for James K. Kirklin include Medicine and Engineering. Subfields of particular interest are Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Epidemiology.

Their research addresses several main topics such as Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Heart Failure Treatment and Management, and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments.

James K. Kirklin has published extensively in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Circulation
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by James K. Kirklin include:

  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2020 Annual Report (2021) in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2019 Annual Report: The Changing Landscape of Devices and Indications (2020) in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2022 Annual Report: Focus on the 2018 Heart Transplant Allocation System (2022) in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Updated definitions of adverse events for trials and registries of mechanical circulatory support: A consensus statement of the mechanical circulatory support academic research consortium (2020) in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Twelfth Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support Report: Readmissions After Left Ventricular Assist Device (2022) in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Frequent co-authors working with James K. Kirklin include:

  • Ryan S. Cantor
  • Devin Koehl
  • Francis D. Pagani
  • Jeffrey P. Jacobs
  • Shahnawaz Amdani

Best Publications

  • Complement and the damaging effects of cardiopulmonary bypass

    James K. Kirklin;Stephen Westaby;Eugene H. Blackstone;John W. Kirklin

  • Seventh INTERMACS annual report: 15,000 patients and counting

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos

  • The 2016 International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation listing criteria for heart transplantation: A 10-year update

    Mandeep R. Mehra;Charles E. Canter;Margaret M. Hannan;Marc J. Semigran

  • Eighth annual INTERMACS report: Special focus on framing the impact of adverse events.

    James K. Kirklin;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Sixth INTERMACS annual report: a 10,000-patient database.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos

  • INTERMACS Profiles of Advanced Heart Failure: The Current Picture

    Lynne Warner Stevenson;Francis D. Pagani;James B. Young;Mariell Jessup

  • Fifth INTERMACS annual report: risk factor analysis from more than 6,000 mechanical circulatory support patients.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs database annual report: Evolving indications, outcomes, and scientific partnerships.

    Robert L Kormos;Jennifer A Cowger;Francis D Pagani;Jeffrey J Teuteberg

  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Experience with palliative surgery

    William I. Norwood;James K. Kirklin;Stephen P. Sanders

  • Mechanical Circulatory Support device database of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: first annual report--2003.

    Mario C Deng;Leah B Edwards;Marshall I Hertz;Amanda W Rowe

  • Consensus conference report: maximizing use of organs recovered from the cadaver donor: cardiac recommendations, March 28-29, 2001, Crystal City, Va.

    Jonathan G. Zaroff;Bruce R. Rosengard;William F. Armstrong;Wayne D. Babcock

  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2020 Annual Report

    Ezequiel J. Molina;Palak Shah;Michael S. Kiernan;William K. Cornwell

  • INTERMACS database for durable devices for circulatory support: first annual report.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Lynne Warner Stevenson;Robert L. Kormos

  • Pretransplantation risk factors for death after heart transplantation: a multiinstitutional study. The Transplant Cardiologists Research Database Group.

    Bourge Rc;Naftel Dc;Costanzo-Nordin Mr;Kirklin Jk

  • The Fourth INTERMACS Annual Report: 4,000 implants and counting

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) analysis of pump thrombosis in the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Francis D. Pagani

  • Second INTERMACS annual report: More than 1,000 primary left ventricular assist device implants

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Third INTERMACS Annual Report: the evolution of destination therapy in the United States.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Outcomes of children bridged to heart transplantation with ventricular assist devices: a multi-institutional study.

    Elizabeth D. Blume;David C. Naftel;Heather J. Bastardi;Brian W. Duncan

  • Indications for Heart Transplantation in Pediatric Heart Disease A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group

    Charles E. Canter;Robert E. Shaddy;Daniel Bernstein;Daphne T. Hsu

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Naftel
David C. Naftel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Francis D. Pagani
Francis D. Pagani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert C. Bourge
Robert C. Bourge University of Alabama at Birmingham
John W. Kirklin
John W. Kirklin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert L. Kormos
Robert L. Kormos University of Pittsburgh
James B. Young
James B. Young Cleveland Clinic
Eugene H. Blackstone
Eugene H. Blackstone Cleveland Clinic
Lynne W. Stevenson
Lynne W. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Daniel Bernstein
Daniel Bernstein Stanford University
Mary Amanda Dew
Mary Amanda Dew University of Pittsburgh

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