Raymond and Hazel Speck Barry Professor of Neonatology Head, Division of Neonatology Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago / Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Neonat/Perinatology

Aaron Hamvas works in the field of Neonat/Perinatology. He went to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He has 1 awards "America's Top Doctors". Dr. Aaron Hamvas is also published. He has 101 publications published. The lastest publication: "Normal lung function in subjects heterozygous for surfactant protein-B deficiency.'

Publications

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• Gut bacteria dysbiosis and necrotising enterocolitis in very low birthweight infants: a prospective case-control study.
• Population-based frequency of surfactant dysfunction mutations in a native Chinese cohort.
• Respiratory failure in a term infant with cis and trans mutations in ABCA3.
• Right Ventricular Function in Preterm and Term Neonates: Reference Values for Right Ventricle Areas and Fractional Area of Change.
• Respiratory consequences of prematurity: evolution of a diagnosis and development of a comprehensive approach.
• Ventilatory control and supplemental oxygen in premature infants with apparent chronic lung disease.
• Genotype-phenotype correlations for infants and children with ABCA3 deficiency.
• Diffuse lung disease in children: Summary of a scientific conference.
• Sources of Methodological Variability in Phase Angles from Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography in Preterm Infants.
• Synonymous ABCA3 Variants Do Not Increase Risk for Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
• Feasibility and Reproducibility of Systolic Right Ventricular Strain Measurement by Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Premature Infants.
• Single ABCA3 mutations increase risk for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.
• Sequencing of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis-related genes reveals independent single gene associations.
• Population-based screening for rare mutations: high-throughput DNA extraction and molecular amplification from Guthrie cards.
• Improving survival of vulnerable infants increases neonatal intensive care unit nosocomial infection rate.
• Genetic disorders of neonatal respiratory function.
• Retinal and intraventricular cerebral hemorrhages in the preterm infant born at or before 30 weeks' gestation.
• A mutation in the surfactant protein C gene associated with familial interstitial lung disease.
• Prolonged survival in hereditary surfactant protein B (SP-B) deficiency associated with a novel splicing mutation.
• Use of stable isotope labeling technique and mass isotopomer distribution analysis of [(13)C]palmitate isolated from surfactant disaturated phospholipids to study surf...
• Disparate outcomes for very low birth weight infants: genetics, environment, or both?
• Population-based estimates of surfactant protein B deficiency.
• Pulmonary surfactant metabolism in infants lacking surfactant protein B.
• Lung transplantation in very young infants.
• Measurement of protein flux with positron emission tomography in neonates.
• Normal lung function in subjects heterozygous for surfactant protein-B deficiency.
• Hyaline membrane disease is underreported in a linked birth-infant death certificate database.
• Surfactant protein B deficiency: insights into inherited disorders of lung cell metabolism.
• Inherited surfactant protein-B deficiency.
• Lung transplantation for treatment of infants with surfactant protein B deficiency.
• The influence of the wider use of surfactant therapy on neonatal mortality among blacks and whites.
• Surfactant therapy failure identifies infants at risk for pulmonary mortality.
• [Successful shock wave monotherapy of coral-shaped calculi in the kidney calix].
• [Complex therapy of cystine calculi].
• Surfactant protein B deficiency: antenatal diagnosis and prospective treatment with surfactant replacement.
• Ultrastructure of lung in surfactant protein B deficiency.
• The role of Melipramine in the treatment of bladder instability.
• Bronchial and reverse pulmonary venous blood flow protect the lung from ischemia-reperfusion injury.
• [ESWL in renal tubular acidosis].
• Pathophysiology and treatment of surfactant protein-B deficiency.
• Clinical observations with Cetiprin (emepronium bromide).
• [Diagnostic and therapeutic questions about pericarditis in patients under chronic hemodialysis].
• Malakoplakia of kidney and urinary tract. Report of a case of fatal outcome.
• [Possibilities in the treatment of nephrogenic ascites].
• [Percutaneous nephrostomy in the management of septic pyelonephritis in pregnancy].
• Observations with Pyassan in the treatment of urinary tract infections.
• [The role of percutaneous puncture of the kidney pelvis in urologic practice].
• Pre- and postoperative examinations in intestinal tumours of the pelvis.
• [Percutaneous removal of kidney and ureteral calculi].
• [Interventional ultrasound in percutaneous kidney surgery].
• Plasminogen activator and plasmin-like activities in experimental rat tumours.
• [Double kidney and ureterocele associated with kidney calculi].
• Brain death secondary to arteriovenous hemangioma of the forearm.
• Idiopathic bladder hyperactivity treated with Ditropan (oxybutynin chloride).
• Experience with the Peponen capsule in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
• Inflammation and oxygen free radical formation during pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury.
• Injury in nonischemic lung after unilateral pulmonary ischemia with reperfusion.
• The effects of regional pulmonary blood flow on protein flux measurements with PET.
• [Experience with the Direx Tripter X-1].
• Modifying pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury by altering ventilatory strategies during ischemia.
• Experience with the Direx Tripter X-1 shock-wave lithotripter.
• [Bilateral papillary cystadenoma of the epididymis].
• [Parathyroid adenoma (tertiary hyperparathyroidosis) in uremic patients treated by chronic hemodialysis].
• [Acute post-traumatic renal insufficiency with chronic pyelonephritis].
• Calyceal diverticula: review of the literature, a hypothesis concerning its aetiology, and report of 17 cases.
• Pulmonary surfactant kinetics of the newborn infant: novel insights from studies with stable isotopes.
• Surfactant metabolism in the neonate.
• Pilot trial of late booster doses of surfactant for ventilated premature infants.
• The age of necrotizing enterocolitis onset: an application of Sartwell's incubation period model.
• High-frequency oscillation and paralysis stabilize surfactant protein-B--deficient infants.
• High-resolution structure of a BRICHOS domain and its implications for anti-amyloid chaperone activity on lung surfactant protein C.
• Bacterial DNA content in the intestinal wall from infants with necrotizing enterocolitis.
• Mutations in the surfactant protein C gene associated with interstitial lung disease.
• Evaluation and management of inherited disorders of surfactant metabolism.
• [Risk factors for nosocomial bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive care unit].
• Surfactant protein-C promoter variants associated with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome reduce transcription.
• Measurement of human surfactant protein-B turnover in vivo from tracheal aspirates using targeted proteomics.
• A method for isolating and analyzing human mRNA from newborn stool.
• Inherited surfactant deficiency caused by uniparental disomy of rare mutations in the surfactant protein-B and ATP binding cassette, subfamily a, member 3 genes.
• Decreased surfactant phosphatidylcholine synthesis in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Metabolic precursors of surfactant disaturated-phosphatidylcholine in preterms with respiratory distress.
• Sialidosis presenting as severe nonimmune fetal hydrops is associated with two novel mutations in lysosomal alpha-neuraminidase.
• Metabolic kinetics of pulmonary surfactant in newborn infants using endogenous stable isotope techniques.
• A common mutation in the surfactant protein C gene associated with lung disease.
• Antimicrobial use and the influence of inadequate empiric antimicrobial therapy on the outcomes of nosocomial bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive care unit.
• Informed consent for genetic research.
• The N-terminal propeptide of lung surfactant protein C is necessary for biosynthesis and prevents unfolding of a metastable alpha-helix.
• N-terminally extended surfactant protein (SP) C isolated from SP-B-deficient children has reduced surface activity and inhibited lipopolysaccharide binding.
• Progressive lung disease and surfactant dysfunction with a deletion in surfactant protein C gene.
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia in extremely preterm neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit: characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes.
• Endogenous surfactant metabolism in newborn infants with and without respiratory failure.
• Pulmonary dysfunction and the integrity of the pulmonary surfactant system.
• Endogenous pulmonary surfactant metabolism is not affected by mode of ventilation in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome.
• Quantification of rare allelic variants from pooled genomic DNA.
• Strategic plan for pediatric respiratory diseases research: an NHLBI working group report.
• Developmental and genetic regulation of human surfactant protein B in vivo.
• Recombination as a mechanism for sporadic mutation in the surfactant protein-C gene.
• Population and disease-based prevalence of the common mutations associated with surfactant deficiency.
• Comprehensive genetic variant discovery in the surfactant protein B gene.
• Genetic disorders of surfactant proteins.

Schools

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• Washington Univ Sch Of Med

• St Louis Chldns

Doctors Specialties

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• Neonatal Medicine
• Neonat/Perinatology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors

Education

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• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Hospital

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• St. Louis Children's Hospital
• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children?

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