Selected Publications

• Protein C rs2069912 C allele is associated with increased mortality from severe sepsis in North Americans of East Asian ancestry.
  Human Genetics 2008 123:661-663.
• Protein C -1641AA is associated with decreased survival and more organ dysfunction in severe sepsis.
  Crit Care Med. 2007 Jan;35(1):12-7.
• Fibrinogen-beta gene haplotype is associated with mortality in sepsis.
  J Infect. 2006 Nov 17.
• Management of sepsis.
  N Engl J Med. 2006 Oct 19;355(16):1699-713.
• Are vasopressin levels increased or decreased in septic shock?
  Crit Care Med. 2006 Feb;34(2):542-3.
• Goal directed therapy: how long can we wait?
  Crit Care. 2005;9(6):647-8.
• Issues with polymorphism analysis in sepsis.
  Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Nov 15;41 Suppl 7:S396-402.
• Interleukin-10 haplotype associated with increased mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis from pneumonia but not in patients with extrapulmonary sepsis.
  Chest. 2005 Sep;128(3):1690-8.
• Polymorphisms in CD14, mannose-binding lectin, and Toll-like receptor-2 are associated with increased prevalence of infection in critically ill adults.
  Crit Care Med. 2005 Mar;33(3):638-44.
• The association of interleukin 6 haplotype clades with mortality in critically ill adults.
  Arch Intern Med. 2005 Jan 10;165(1):75-82.