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Jon A. Kobashigawa is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Surgery, Transplantation, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Epidemiology as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics within transplantation and cardiovascular medicine. Key areas of research include:

  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Kobashigawa cover various issues related to transplantation and heart health. Notable papers include:

  • Consensus conference on heart-kidney transplantation, 2021, American Journal of Transplantation
  • An overview of frailty in kidney transplantation: measurement, management and future considerations, 2020, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Donor heart selection: Evidence-based guidelines for providers, 2022, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Cardiac allograft vasculopathy: current review and future research directions, 2021, Cardiovascular Research
  • Identification and Characterization of Trajectories of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy After Heart Transplantation, 2020, Circulation

Kobashigawa frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Recurring co-authors include:

  • J. Patel
  • M. Kittleson
  • L. Czer
  • E. Kransdorf
  • F. Esmailian

The scientist regularly publishes in specialized journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • American Journal of Transplantation
  • Clinical Transplantation
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Best Publications

  • The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the care of heart transplant recipients

    Maria Rosa Costanzo;Anne Dipchand;Randall Starling;Allen Anderson

  • Effect of pravastatin on outcomes after cardiac transplantation.

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

  • Everolimus for the prevention of allograft rejection and vasculopathy in cardiac-transplant recipients.

    Howard J. Eisen;E. Murat Tuzcu;Richard Dorent;Jon Kobashigawa

  • Listing criteria for heart transplantation: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines for the care of cardiac transplant candidates--2006.

    Mandeep R. Mehra;Jon Kobashigawa;Randall Starling;Stuart Russell

  • International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation working formulation of a standardized nomenclature for cardiac allograft vasculopathy—2010

    Mandeep R. Mehra;Maria G. Crespo-Leiro;Anne Dipchand;Stephan M. Ensminger

  • A randomized active-controlled trial of mycophenolate mofetil in heart transplant recipients. Mycophenolate Mofetil Investigators.

    Jon Kobashigawa;Leslie Miller;Dale Renlund;Robert Mentzer

  • Report from a consensus conference on primary graft dysfunction after cardiac transplantation.

    Jon Kobashigawa;Andreas Zuckermann;Peter Macdonald;Pascal Leprince

  • Noninvasive discrimination of rejection in cardiac allograft recipients using gene expression profiling

    M. C. Deng;H. J. Eisen;M. R. Mehra;M. Billingham

  • Humoral rejection in cardiac transplantation: risk factors, hemodynamic consequences and relationship to transplant coronary artery disease.

    Paul J Michaels;Maria L Espejo;Jon Kobashigawa;Juan C Alejos

  • Importance of hemodynamic response to therapy in predicting survival with ejection fraction ≤ 20% secondary to ischemic or nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

    Lynne Warner Stevenson;Jan H. Tillisch;Michele Hamilton;Michael Luu

  • Ex-vivo perfusion of donor hearts for human heart transplantation (PROCEED II): a prospective, open-label, multicentre, randomised non-inferiority trial

    Abbas Ardehali;Fardad Esmailian;Mario Deng;Edward Soltesz

  • Multicenter intravascular ultrasound validation study among heart transplant recipients: outcomes after five years.

    Jon A. Kobashigawa;Jonathan M. Tobis;Randall C. Starling;E. Murat Tuzcu

  • Hyperlipidemia in solid organ transplantation.

    Jon A. Kobashigawa;Bertram L. Kasiske

  • Tacrolimus with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) or sirolimus vs. cyclosporine with MMF in cardiac transplant patients: 1-year report.

    J. A. Kobashigawa;L. W. Miller;S. D. Russell;G. A. Ewald

  • National conference to assess antibody-mediated rejection in solid organ transplantation.

    Steven K. Takemoto;Adriana Zeevi;Sandy Feng;Robert B. Colvin

  • Calcineurin inhibitor-sparing regimens in solid organ transplantation: focus on improving renal function and nephrotoxicity.

    Stuart M Flechner;Jon Kobashigawa;Goran Klintmalm

  • Report from a consensus conference on antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation

    Jon Kobashigawa;Maria G. Crespo-Leiro;Stephan M. Ensminger;Hermann Reichenspurner

  • Drug therapy in the heart transplant recipient: part II: immunosuppressive drugs.

    Jo Ann Lindenfeld;Geraldine G. Miller;Simon F. Shakar;Simon F. Shakar;Ronald Zolty

  • A controlled trial of exercise rehabilitation after heart transplantation.

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

  • Acute antibody-mediated rejection of cardiac transplants.

    Elaine F. Reed;Anthony J. Demetris;Elizabeth Hammond;Silviu Itescu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hillel Laks
Hillel Laks University of California, Los Angeles
Michael C. Fishbein
Michael C. Fishbein University of California, Los Angeles
Elaine F. Reed
Elaine F. Reed University of California, Los Angeles
Randall C. Starling
Randall C. Starling Cleveland Clinic
Mandeep R. Mehra
Mandeep R. Mehra Brigham and Women's Hospital
Donna Mancini
Donna Mancini Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lynne W. Stevenson
Lynne W. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
David C. Naftel
David C. Naftel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Leslie W. Miller
Leslie W. Miller Leonhardt Ventures
Gregg C. Fonarow
Gregg C. Fonarow University of California, Los Angeles

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