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Jimmy Espinoza is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine, with extensive research contributions across related subfields. Their work spans Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. The scientist's research covers a diverse range of topics, notably Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy, Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies, Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics, Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management, Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies, and Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery.

Espinoza's publication record includes frequent contributions to several influential medical journals, such as:

  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jimmy Espinoza include:

  • "Circulating Angiogenic Factor Levels in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy," 2022, NEJM Evidence
  • "In vitro fertilization as an independent risk factor for placenta accreta spectrum," 2020, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • "Urologic morbidity associated with placenta accreta spectrum surgeries: single-center experience with a multidisciplinary team," 2021, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • "Prenatal counseling for myelomeningocele in the era of fetal surgery: a shared decision-making approach," 2020, Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
  • "Longitudinal evaluation of motor function in patients who underwent prenatal or postnatal neural tube defect repair," 2020, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Espinoza has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Michael A. Belfort
  • Alireza A. Shamshirsaz
  • Magdalena Sanz Cortés
  • Roopali Donepudi
  • Ahmed A. Nassr

Among their academic contributions is a book titled Anesthesia for Maternal-Fetal Surgery, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • The preterm parturition syndrome

    R Romero;J Espinoza;JP Kusanovic;F Gotsch

  • The role of inflammation and infection in preterm birth.

    Roberto Romero;Jimmy Espinoza;Jimmy Espinoza;Luís F. Gonçalves;Luís F. Gonçalves;Juan Pedro Kusanovic

  • Inflammation in preterm and term labour and delivery.

    Roberto Romero;Jimmy Espinoza;Jimmy Espinoza;Luís F. Gonçalves;Luís F. Gonçalves;Juan Pedro Kusanovic

  • The fetal inflammatory response syndrome.

    Francesca Gotsch;Roberto Romero;Juan Pedro Kusanovic;Shali Mazaki-Tovi

  • A longitudinal study of angiogenic (placental growth factor) and anti-angiogenic (soluble endoglin and soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1) factors in normal pregnancy and patients destined to develop preeclampsia and deliver a small for gestational age neonate

    Roberto Romero;Jyh Kae Nien;Jimmy Espinoza;David Todem

  • Distinct subsets of microRNAs are expressed differentially in the human placentas of patients with preeclampsia.

    Beth L. Pineles;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Daniel Montenegro;Adi L. Tarca;Adi L. Tarca

  • Evidence supporting a role for blockade of the vascular endothelial growth factor system in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia: Young Investigator Award

    Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Roberto Romero;Jimmy Espinoza;Emmanuel Bujold

  • Plasma soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 concentration is elevated prior to the clinical diagnosis of pre-eclampsia.

    Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Roberto Romero;Yeon Mee Kim;Gi Jin Kim

  • Infection and prematurity and the role of preventive strategies

    Roberto Romero;Jimmy Espinoza;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Karim Kalache

  • The change in concentrations of angiogenic and anti-angiogenic factors in maternal plasma between the first and second trimesters in risk assessment for the subsequent development of preeclampsia and small-for-gestational age

    Offer Erez;Roberto Romero;Jimmy Espinoza;Wenjiang Fu

  • Identification of patients at risk for early onset and/or severe preeclampsia with the use of uterine artery Doppler velocimetry and placental growth factor.

    Jimmy Espinoza;Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Jyh Kae Nien;Ricardo Gomez

  • Four-dimensional ultrasonography of the fetal heart with spatiotemporal image correlation☆

    Luís F. Gonçalves;Wesley Lee;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Jimmy Espinoza

  • Can endometrial infection/inflammation explain implantation failure, spontaneous abortion, and preterm birth after in vitro fertilization?

    Roberto Romero;Jimmy Espinoza;Moshe Mazor

  • Toll-like receptor-2 and -4 in the chorioamniotic membranes in spontaneous labor at term and in preterm parturition that are associated with chorioamnionitis

    Yeon Mee Kim;Roberto Romero;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Gi Jin Kim

  • Micronutrients and intrauterine infection, preterm birth and the fetal inflammatory response syndrome

    Roberto Romero;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Jimmy Espinoza

  • Cervicovaginal fibronectin improves the prediction of preterm delivery based on sonographic cervical length in patients with preterm uterine contractions and intact membranes

    Ricardo Gomez;Roberto Romero;Luis Medina;Jyh Kae Nien

  • Detection of a microbial biofilm in intraamniotic infection.

    Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Christoph Schaudinn;Juan Pedro Kusanovic;Juan Pedro Kusanovic;Amita Gorur

  • Fetoscopic Open Neural Tube Defect Repair: Development and Refinement of a Two-Port, Carbon Dioxide Insufflation Technique.

    Michael A. Belfort;William E. Whitehead;Alireza A. Shamshirsaz;Zhoobin H. Bateni

  • The use of high-dimensional biology (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to understand the preterm parturition syndrome.

    R. Romero;J. Espinoza;J. Espinoza;F. Gotsch;J. P. Kusanovic

  • Antimicrobial peptides in amniotic fluid: defensins, calprotectin and bacterial/permeability-increasing protein in patients with microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity, intra-amniotic inflammation, preterm labor and premature rupture of membranes.

    J. Espinoza;T. Chaiworapongsa;R. Romero;S. Edwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Romero
Roberto Romero National Institutes of Health
Juan Pedro Kusanovic
Juan Pedro Kusanovic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sonia S. Hassan
Sonia S. Hassan Wayne State University
Offer Erez
Offer Erez Soroka Medical Center
Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa
Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa Wayne State University
Ricardo Gomez
Ricardo Gomez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chong Jai Kim
Chong Jai Kim Asan Medical Center
Moshe Mazor
Moshe Mazor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Emmanuel Bujold
Emmanuel Bujold Université Laval
Lami Yeo
Lami Yeo National Institutes of Health

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