Scholarly works by Children's Mercy Kansas City's doctors, nurses, researchers, and other staff.
Affiliation to Children's Mercy Hospital listed as of time of publication.
Works from 2005
Emergency physicians' practices and attitudes regarding procedural anaesthesia for nasogastric tube insertion., G A. Juhl and Gregory P. Conners (Article)
Management of complications after hypospadias repair., Charles L. Snyder, Apostolos Evangelidis, Gregory Hansen, Shawn D. St Peter, Daniel J. Ostlie, John Gatti, George K. Gittes, Ronald J. Sharp, and J Patrick Murphy (Article)
Current issues and perspectives in hypoplasia of the left heart., David Sedmera, Andrew C. Cook, Girish S. Shirali, and Tim C. McQuinn (Article)
Impact of advanced age on weight loss and health benefits after laparoscopic gastric bypass., Shawn D. St Peter, Randall O. Craft, Judy L. Tiede, and James M. Swain (Article)
Surgical images: soft tissue. Incarcerated gallbladder in a parastomal hernia., Shawn D. St Peter and Jacques Heppell (Article)
Urolithiasis in adolescent children., Tarak Srivastava and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Resources for Pediatric Consumer Health, Brenda R. Pfannenstiel MALS, MA, AHIP (Article)
The clinical bioinformatics ontology: a curated semantic network utilizing RefSeq information., M Hoffman, C Arnoldi, and I Chuang (Article)
Works from 2004
Examination protocol for three-dimensional echocardiography., Navin C. Nanda, Joseph Kisslo, Roberto Lang, Natesa Pandian, Tom Marwick, Girish S. Shirali, and Gina Kelly (Article)
Hemodynamic status after the Norwood procedure: a comparison of right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery connection versus modified Blalock-Taussig shunt., Scott M. Bradley, Janet M. Simsic, Tim C. McQuinn, David M. Habib, Girish S. Shirali, and Andrew M. Atz (Article)
Implications and limitations of an abnormal fetal echocardiogram., Geoffrey A. Forbus, Andrew M. Atz, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Significance of proximal biliary dilatation in patients with anastomotic strictures after liver transplantation., Shawn D. St Peter, Manuel I. Rodriquez-Davalos, Hector M. Rodriguez-Luna, Edwyn M. Harrison, Adyr A. Moss, and David C. Mulligan (Article)
An infrastructure for organizational support of research., Michelle R. Redfearn, Susan R. Lacey, Karen S. Cox, and Susan Teasley (Article)
Image of the month. Pseudomembranous enterocolitis., Shawn D. St Peter, Kevin O. Leslie, and Jacques P. Heppell (Article)
Effectiveness of cardiac surgery in trisomies 13 and 18 (from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium)., Eric M. Graham, Scott M. Bradley, Girish S. Shirali, Christine B. Hills, Andrew M. Atz, and Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium (Article)
Wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft for circumferential Paget's disease of the anus., Shawn D. St Peter, Miguel Pera, Anthony A. Smith, Kevin O. Leslie, and Jacques Heppell (Article)
Collection under paraffin is not necessary for stability of urine pH over 24 h., Tarak Srivastava and Gad Kainer (Article)
Laparoscopic gastric bypass after failed open horizontal stapled gastroplasty., Shawn D. St Peter and J M. Swain (Article)
Outcome following, and impact of, prenatal identification of the candidates for the Norwood procedure., Robin R. Fountain-Dommer, Scott M. Bradley, Andrew M. Atz, Martha R. Stroud, Geoffrey A. Forbus, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Works from 2003
Chemoembolization followed by orthotopic liver transplant for epithelioid hemangioendothelioma., Shawn D. St Peter, Adyr A. Moss, Eric A. Huettl, Kevin O. Leslie, and David C. Mulligan (Article)
Development of an asthma disease management program in a children's hospital., Kelly Miller, Peggy Ward-Smith, Karen Cox, Erika M. Jones, and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)
The role of bisphosphonates in diseases of childhood., Tarak Srivastava and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Multijurisdictional approach to biosurveillance, Kansas City., Mark A Hoffman, Tiffany H Wilkinson, Aaron Bush, Wayne Myers, Ron G Griffin, Gerald L Hoff, and Rex Archer (Article)
Pulmonary function and exercise capacity for ELBW survivors in preadolescence: effect of neonatal chronic lung disease., Howard Kilbride, Mark Gelatt, and Richard J. Sabath (Article)
Achalasia: A Comprehensive Review, Shawn D. St Peter and J A. Swain (Article)
Clinical relevance of spore and pollen counts., Jay M. Portnoy and Charles Barnes (Article)
Predictors of residual defects following closure of defects in the oval fossa using the Amplatzer device: echocardiography recapitulates morphometry., Duraisamy Balaguru, Robert H. Anderson, Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, Andrew C. Cook, Wolfgang A K Radtke, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Necrotizing enterocolitis in full-term infants., Daniel J. Ostlie, Troy L. Spilde, Shawn D. St Peter, Nick Sexton, Kelly A. Miller, Ronald J. Sharp, George K. Gittes, and Charles L. Snyder (Article)
Evaluation of pectus bar position and osseous bone formation., Daniel J. Ostlie, Julie K. Marosky, Troy L. Spilde, Charles L. Snyder, Shawn D. St Peter, George K. Gittes, and Ronald J. Sharp (Article)
Hepatic control of perfusate homeostasis during normothermic extrocorporeal preservation., Shawn D. St Peter, C J. Imber, J Kay, T James, and P J. Friend (Article)
Baby boomer nurses bearing the burden of care: A four-site study of stress, strain, and coping for inpatient registered nurses., Susan R. Santos, Cathryn A. Carroll, Karen S. Cox, Susan Teasley, Stephen D. Simon, Lynda Bainbridge, Marion Cunningham, and Lynn Ott (Article)
Cell-cycle regulatory proteins in podocyte cell in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood., Tarak Srivastava, Robert E. Garola, J M. Whiting, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Effects of tacrolimus on ischemia-reperfusion injury., Shawn D. St Peter, Adyr A. Moss, and David C. Mulligan (Article)
Seizures in a 13-year-old girl., Jane F. Knapp, Tiffany Johnson, and Sarah Alander (Article)
Tacrolimus as a liver flush solution to ameliorate the effects of ischemia/reperfusion injury following liver transplantation., Shawn D. St Peter, David J. Post, Manuel I. Rodriguez-Davalos, David D. Douglas, Adyr A. Moss, and David C. Mulligan (Article)
Sharing Information with Our Peers; What Works, What Doesn't, Brenda R. Pfannenstiel MALS, MA, AHIP (Article)
Subcutaneous metastasis at a surgical drain site after the resection of pancreatic cancer., Shawn D. St Peter, Cuong C. Nguyen, David C. Mulligan, and Adyr A. Moss (Article)
The spectrum of pneumatosis intestinalis., Shawn D. St Peter, Maher A. Abbas, and Keith A. Kelly (Article)
Works from 2002
Amelioration of hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury using indolepropionic acid., S R. Lefler, Shawn D. St Peter, M I. Rodriguez-Davalos, J C. Perumean, N A. Spence, A A. Moss, and D C. Mulligan (Article)
Optimisation of an enzymatic method for beta-galactosidase., James B J McGuire, Tim J. James, Charles J. Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, Peter J. Friend, and Richard P. Taylor (Article)
Diagnosing asthma in young children., Jay M. Portnoy and Erika M. Jones (Article)
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents., Ari M. Simckes, Tarak Srivastava, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Genetic determinants of delayed graft function after kidney transplantation., Shawn D. St Peter, Charles J. Imber, Des C. Jones, Susan V. Fuggle, Christopher J. Watson, Peter J. Friend, and Sara E. Marshall (Article)
Mothers' and health care providers' perspectives on screening for intimate partner violence in a pediatric emergency department., M Denise Dowd, Jane F. Knapp, Jennifer Stallbaumer-Rouyer, and Christopher S. Kennedy (Article)
Optimisation of bile production during normothermic preservation of porcine livers., Charles J. Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, Inigo Lopez de Cenarruzabeitia, Hugh Lemonde, Mike Rees, Andrew Butler, Peter T. Clayton, and Peter J. Friend (Article)
Experience with use of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography to guide closure of atrial septal defects using the amplatzer device., M I. Figueroa, D Balaguru, C McClure, C H. Kline, W A K Radtke, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Current practice regarding the use of fatty livers: a trans-Atlantic survey., Charles J. Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, Inigo Lopez, Lynden Guiver, and Peter J. Friend (Article)
Extended preservation of non-heart-beating donor livers with normothermic machine perfusion., Shawn D. St Peter, C J. Imber, I Lopez, D Hughes, and P J. Friend (Article)
Hepatic steatosis and its relationship to transplantation., Charles J. Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, Ashok Handa, and Peter J. Friend (Article)
Is care in alternative settings safe for infants with possible serious bacterial infection?, Anne F. Brayer, Gregory P. Conners, Tashveen Kaur, and Kenneth M. McConnochie (Article)
Stage I vitamin D-deficiency rickets mimicking pseudohypoparathyroidism type II., Tarak Srivastava and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Advantages of normothermic perfusion over cold storage in liver preservation., Charles J. Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, Inigo Lopez de Cenarruzabeitia, Dave Pigott, Tim James, Richard Taylor, James McGuire, David Hughes, Andrew Butler, Michael Rees, and Peter J. Friend (Article)
Childhood hyperuricemia and acute renal failure resulting from a missense mutation in the HPRT gene., Tarak Srivastava, J Patrick O'Neill, Majed Dasouki, and Ari M. Simckes (Article)
Echocardiographic diagnosis of partial obstruction of Blalock-Taussig shunts., Amy L. Juraszek, Andrew M. Atz, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Pneumonia-associated acute glomerulonephritis., Tarak Srivastava, Bradley A. Warady, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Still falling: a community-wide infant walker injury prevention initiative., Gregory P. Conners, Tener G Veenema, Carol A Kavanagh, John Ricci, and Charles M Callahan (Article)
Liver and kidney preservation by perfusion., Shawn D. St Peter, Charles J. Imber, and Peter J. Friend (Article)
A 9-month-old baby with subdural hematomas, retinal hemorrhages, and developmental delay., Jane F. Knapp, Sarah E. Soden, Majed J. Dasouki, and Irene R. Walsh (Article)
Sentinel lymph node biopsy demonstrating concomitant melanoma and mantle cell lymphoma., Shawn D. St Peter, Michael C. Roarke, Christopher R. Conley, and Barbara A. Pockaj (Article)
Beta-galactosidase as a marker of ischemic injury and a mechanism for viability assessment in porcine liver transplantation., Shawn D. St Peter, Charles J. Imber, Inigo Lopez De Cenarruzabeitia, James McGuire, Tim James, Richard Taylor, and Peter J. Friend (Article)
Generational tension among nurses., Susan Rouse Santos and Karen S. Cox (Article)
Inpatient nurses and their work environment., Karen S. Cox (Article)
The Non-Heart Beating Donor: Bridging the Gap to the Future, Shawn D. St Peter, C J. Imber, I Lopez de Cenarruzabeitia, and P J. Friend (Article)
Works from 2001
Esophageal coins: are pennies different?, S Cantu and Gregory P. Conners (Article)
Podocyte proteins in Galloway-Mowat syndrome., Tarak Srivastava, J M. Whiting, Robert E. Garola, M J. Dasouki, V Ruotsalainen, K Tryggvason, R Hamed, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Functional pulmonary atresia in neonatal Marfan's syndrome: successful treatment with inhaled nitric oxide., G Andelfinger, Girish S. Shirali, R A. Raunikar, and A M. Atz (Article)
Normothermic perfusion of the isolated liver., P J. Friend, C Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, I Lopez, A J. Butler, and M A. Rees (Article)
Use of laser Doppler as a noninvasive measure of ischemia-reperfusion injury in the pig liver., C J. Imber, Shawn D. St Peter, I Lopez de Cenarruzabeitia, and P J. Friend (Article)
Practice styles., N M Rosenberg, Gregory P. Conners, C Carraccio, R Lichenstein, and J P Louie (Article)
Noninvasive diagnosis of partial anomalous left pulmonary artery., R R. Fountain-Dommer, Girish S. Shirali, H B. Wiles, and R L. Larsen (Article)
Perception of fear, distress and pain by parents of children undergoing a micturating cystourethrogram: a prospective study., Tarak Srivastava, G Betts, A R. Rosenberg, and G Kainer (Article)
Association of viral genome with graft loss in children after cardiac transplantation., Girish S. Shirali, J Ni, R E. Chinnock, J K. Johnston, G L. Rosenthal, N E. Bowles, and J A. Towbin (Article)
Mechanism and stimulus for fat deposition., C Imber, I Lopez de Cenarruzabeitia, Shawn D. St Peter, and P J. Friend (Article)
A 12-year-old boy with a limp., Jane F. Knapp and Robert Schremmer (Article)
Association of viral genome with transplant coronary arteriopathy and graft loss in children following cardiac transplantation., N E. Bowles, Girish S. Shirali, R E. Chinnock, G L. Rosenthal, and J A. Towbin (Article)
Coadministration of mefloquine and chloroqine: use of a pharmacokinetic-based approach to reduce toxicity., J A. Lowry, A Corry, Laura Fitzmaurice, Mary Anne Jackson, and G L. Kearns (Article)
Synaptopodin expression in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood., Tarak Srivastava, Robert E. Garola, J M. Whiting, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Works from 2000
Decompression of fetal cardiac tamponade caused by congenital capillary hemangioma of the pericardium., J A Thorp, A Geidt, Mark Gelatt, and Rengasamy Gowdamarajan (Article)
Recognition of left atrial aneurysm by fetal echocardiography., R R. Fountain-Dommer, H B. Wiles, C O. Shuler, S M. Bradley, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Pediatric coin ingestion: an unusual presentation., A F. Brayer, M Sciera, and Gregory P. Conners (Article)
Oral versus intravenous: rehydration preferences of pediatric emergency medicine fellowship directors., Gregory P. Conners, W H. Barker, A I. Mushlin, and J G. Goepp (Article)
C1q nephropathy presenting as rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis., Tarak Srivastava, Vimal Chadha, Eugenio Taboada, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Post-transplant ascitic fluid--hypothesis for its origin., Tarak Srivastava, Uttam Garg, and Douglas Blowey (Article)
Workplace adjustment and intergenerational differences between matures, boomers, and xers., S R. Santos and Karen S. Cox (Article)
Works from 1999
Bisphosphonates: from grandparents to grandchildren., Tarak Srivastava and Uri S. Alon (Article)
How commonly are children hospitalized for dehydration eligible for care in alternative settings?, K M. McConnochie, Gregory P. Conners, E Lu, and C Wilson (Article)
Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder in pediatric renal transplantation., Tarak Srivastava, D L. Zwick, P G. Rothberg, and Bradley A. Warady (Article)
Fetal cardiology., Girish S. Shirali, C Tassey, and R Newman (Article)
Autosomal dominant inheritance of multicystic dysplastic kidney., Tarak Srivastava, Robert E. Garola, and S Hellerstein (Article)
Case records of the Children's Mercy Hospital, Case 02-1999: a 1-month-old infant with respiratory distress and shock., Jane F. Knapp, J G. Michael, Mary A. Hegenbarth, P E. Jones, and P G. Black (Article)
Clinical quiz. Right ureteric fungal bezoar causing urinary obstruction., Tarak Srivastava, Robert E. Garola, and A M. Simckes (Article)
Variations in sedating uncooperative, stable children for post-traumatic head CT., Gregory P. Conners, W K. Sacks, and N F. Leahey (Article)
Bridging the emergency medical services for children information gap., T C. Murdock, J F. Knapp, J P. Campbell, and M Denise Dowd (Article)
Home observation for asymptomatic coin ingestion: acceptance and outcomes. The New York State Poison Control Center Coin Ingestion Study Group., Gregory P. Conners, D J. Cobaugh, R Feinberg, R Lucanie, T Caraccio, and C M. Stork (Article)
Intussusception following a baby walker injury., Gregory P. Conners, C E. Weber, and R W. Emmens (Article)
High incidence of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in nephrotic syndrome of childhood., Tarak Srivastava, S D. Simon, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Works from 1998
Case records of the Children's Mercy Hospital: an 18 month old with neck pain after a fall., J F. Knapp, S W. Alander, and D H. Alander (Article)
Practical issues in the care of pediatric trauma patients., J F. Knapp (Article)
Family violence: implications for the pediatrician., J F. Knapp and M Denise Dowd (Article)
Dobutamine stress echocardiography for assessing coronary artery disease after transplantation in children., R L. Larsen, P M. Applegate, D A. Dyar, P A. Ribeiro, S D. Fritzsche, N F. Mulla, Girish S. Shirali, M A. Kuhn, R E. Chinnock, and P M. Shah (Article)