Professor, Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Internal Medicine
Dr. Robert S. Lees, MD
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Doctor Robert S. Lees, MD works in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He has 1 awards "Elected Member". Robert S. Lees is also published. He has 41 publications published. The lastest publication: "Measurement of the time course of peripheral vasoactivity: results in cigarette smokers.'
Publications
- Prevention of atherosclerosis progression in asymptomatic healthy elderly.
- Carotid intimal medial thickness in human immunodeficiency virus-infected women: effects of protease inhibitor use, cardiac risk factors, and the metabolic syndrome.
- Effects of obesity, body composition, and adiponectin on carotid intima-media thickness in healthy women.
- Increased cardiovascular disease risk indices in HIV-infected women.
- Biodistribution and Autoradiographic Localization of I-125--Labeled Synthetic Peptide in Aortic Atherosclerosis in Cholesterol-Fed Rabbits.
- Localization of (99m)Tc-Labeled ApoB Synthetic Peptide in Arterial Lesions of an Experimental Model of Spontaneous Atherosclerosis.
- Fat transport in abetalipoproteinemia. The effects of repeated infusions of beta-lipoprotein-rich plasma.
- Low-density lipoprotein modification and arterial wall accumulation in a rabbit model of atherosclerosis.
- Enzymatic modification of plasma low density lipoproteins in rabbits: a potential treatment for hypercholesterolemia.
- Effects of an experimental viral infection on plasma lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.
- Tangier disease (alpha-lipoprotein deficiency).
- Low-density lipoprotein apheresis therapy during pregnancy.
- Baseline clinical and angiographic data in the Quinapril Ischemic Event (QUIET) Trial.
- Platelet function in hyperlipoproteinemia.
- Low density lipoprotein metabolism in type IV and type V hyperlipoproteinemia.
- Concomitants of atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis.
- Early and late results of coronary artery bypass in patients with hyperlipoproteinemia.
- High molecular weight fibrinogen derivatives in hyperlipidemia.
- Coronary arteriographic findings in type-II and type-IV hyperlipoproteinaemia.
- Treatment of hypercholesterolemia with heparin-induced extracorporeal low-density lipoprotein precipitation (HELP).
- Homozygous Tangier disease and cardiovascular disease.
- Selective removal of plasma low density lipoprotein with the HELP system: biweekly versus weekly therapy.
- The effect of angiotensin II on in vivo albumin transport in normal rabbit aortic tissue.
- Transmural [125I]albumin concentration in the rabbit aorta during acute hypoxia.
- Plant sterols as cholesterol-lowering agents: clinical trials in patients with hypercholesterolemia and studies of sterol balance.
- Effect of intessive plasmapheresis on the plasma cholesterol concentration with familial hypercholesterolemia.
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition as antiatherosclerotic therapy: no answer yet. QUIET Investigators. QUinapril Ischemic Event Trial.
- A new model-based technique for enhanced small-vessel measurements in X-ray ciné-angiograms.
- The application of echo-tracking methods to endothelium-dependent vasoreactivity and arterial compliance measurements.
- New methods for arterial diameter measurement from B-mode images.
- Focal accumulation of an apolipoprotein B-based synthetic oligopeptide in the healing rabbit arterial wall.
- Non-pharmacological lowering of low-density lipoprotein by apheresis and surgical techniques.
- Determination of human coronary artery composition by Raman spectroscopy.
- The distribution of labeled low-density lipoproteins across the rabbit thoracic aorta in vivo.
- Comparison of B-mode, M-mode and echo-tracking methods for measurement of the arterial distension waveform.
- Results of colestipol therapy in Type II hyperlipoproteinemia.
- Measurement of the time course of peripheral vasoactivity: results in cigarette smokers.
- Reversible and irreversible non-internalized LDL and methyl LDL accumulation by human fibroblasts.
- Peripheral vasoactivity in familial hypercholesterolemic subjects treated with heparin-induced extracorporeal LDL precipitation (HELP).
- Atherin: a newly identified, lesion-specific, LDL-binding protein in human atherosclerosis.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
Awards
- Elected Member
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
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