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Victor R. Gordeuk is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States and has a significant body of work within the field of Medicine, having contributed to 405 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Genetics, Hematology, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Physiology.

The scientist's work focuses predominantly on topics related to hematologic disorders and blood physiology. Key areas of research include:

  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Blood Groups and Transfusion
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment

Victor R. Gordeuk has published in influential scientific venues with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Blood (61 publications)
  • British Journal of Haematology (19 publications)
  • American Journal of Hematology (14 publications)
  • Blood Advances (11 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (6 publications)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Santosh L. Saraf (78 coauthored works)
  • Jin Han (42 coauthored works)
  • Xu Zhang (40 coauthored works)
  • Robert E. Molokie (29 coauthored works)
  • Nirmish Shah (29 coauthored works)

Among notable recent papers by Victor R. Gordeuk are:

  • The impact of delayed treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria on progression to severe malaria: A systematic review and a pooled multicentre individual-patient meta-analysis, 2020, published in PLoS Medicine
  • COVID-19 infection in patients with sickle cell disease, 2020, published in British Journal of Haematology
  • Loss-of-function genomic variants highlight potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease, 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • Multiple-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 27 loci associated with measures of hemolysis following blood storage, 2021, published in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Clinical predictors of poor outcomes in patients with sickle cell disease and COVID-19 infection, 2021, published in Blood Advances

Best Publications

  • Hemochromatosis and Iron-Overload Screening in a Racially Diverse Population

    Paul C. Adams;David M. Reboussin;James C. Barton;Christine E. McLaren

  • Crizanlizumab for the Prevention of Pain Crises in Sickle Cell Disease.

    Kenneth I. Ataga;Abdullah Kutlar;Julie Kanter;Darla Liles

  • Disruption of oxygen homeostasis underlies congenital Chuvash polycythemia

    Sonny O. Ang;Hua Chen;Kiichi Hirota;Victor R. Gordeuk

  • A Phase 3 Randomized Trial of Voxelotor in Sickle Cell Disease

    Elliott Vichinsky;Carolyn C. Hoppe;Kenneth I. Ataga;Russell E. Ware

  • A Phase 3 Trial of l-Glutamine in Sickle Cell Disease.

    Yutaka Niihara;Scott T. Miller;Julie Kanter;Sophie Lanzkron

  • A genetic mechanism for Tibetan high-altitude adaptation

    Felipe R. Lorenzo;Chad Huff;Chad Huff;Mikko Myllymäki;Benjamin Olenchock

  • Testosterone Induces Erythrocytosis via Increased Erythropoietin and Suppressed Hepcidin: Evidence for a New Erythropoietin/Hemoglobin Set Point

    Eric Bachman;Thomas G. Travison;Shehzad Basaria;Maithili N. Davda

  • Iron overload in Africa: Interaction between a gene and dietary iron content

    Victor Gordeuk;Joshua Mukiibi;Sandra J. Hasstedt;Wade Samowitz

  • Congenital disorder of oxygen sensing: association of the homozygous Chuvash polycythemia VHL mutation with thrombosis and vascular abnormalities but not tumors

    Victor R. Gordeuk;Adelina I. Sergueeva;Galina Y. Miasnikova;Daniel Okhotin

  • Circumstances of death in adult sickle cell disease patients.

    Deepika S. Darbari;Deepika S. Darbari;Paul Kple-Faget;John Kwagyan;Sohail Rana

  • Novel aroylhydrazone and thiosemicarbazone iron chelators with anti-malarial activity against chloroquine-resistant and -sensitive parasites.

    Asikiya Walcourt;Mark Loyevsky;David B. Lovejoy;Victor R. Gordeuk

  • The Effect of the Host's Iron Status on Tuberculosis

    Johan R. Boelaert;Stefaan J. Vandecasteele;Rui Appelberg;Victor R. Gordeuk

  • Effect of iron chelation therapy on recovery from deep coma in children with cerebral malaria

    Victor Gordeuk;Philip Thuma;Gary Brittenham;Christine Mclaren

  • An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension of Sickle Cell Disease

    Elizabeth S. Klings;Roberto F. Machado;Robyn J. Barst;Claudia R. Morris

  • Hospitalization for pain in patients with sickle cell disease treated with sildenafil for elevated TRV and low exercise capacity

    Roberto F. Machado;Robyn J. Barst;Nancy A. Yovetich;Kathryn L. Hassell

  • Nitric Oxide for Inhalation in the Acute Treatment of Sickle Cell Pain Crisis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Mark T. Gladwin;Gregory J. Kato;Debra Weiner;Onyinye C. Onyekwere

  • Association of pulmonary tuberculosis with increased dietary iron

    Innocent T. Gangaidzo;Victor M. Moyo;Elisha Mvundura;George Aggrey

  • Elevated tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease: association with hemolysis and hemoglobin oxygen desaturation

    Caterina P. Minniti;Craig Sable;Andrew Campbell;Sohail Rana

  • Iron overload in Africans and African-Americans and a common mutation in the SCL40A1 (ferroportin 1) gene.

    Victor R Gordeuk;Angela Caleffi;Elena Corradini;Francesca Ferrara

  • Dietary iron overload as a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in Black Africans

    Eberhard Mandishona;A. Patrick MacPhail;Victor R. Gordeuk;Mary Anne Kedda

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark T. Gladwin
Mark T. Gladwin University of Pittsburgh
Gregory J. Kato
Gregory J. Kato CSL Behring
Gary M. Brittenham
Gary M. Brittenham Columbia University
John H. Eckfeldt
John H. Eckfeldt University of Minnesota
Joe G.N. Garcia
Joe G.N. Garcia University of Arizona
Tracey A. Rouault
Tracey A. Rouault National Institutes of Health
Martin H. Steinberg
Martin H. Steinberg Boston University
Josef T. Prchal
Josef T. Prchal University of Utah
Günter Weiss
Günter Weiss Innsbruck Medical University
Richard S. Cooper
Richard S. Cooper Loyola University Chicago

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