El Centro Cardiológico en Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
Biografía del Médico
La Dra. Valdes-Cruz es reconocida a nivel internacional por sus investigaciones en la dinámica del flujo cardiaco y en la cuantificación de métodos de ultrasonido.
Ha tenido una suma considerable de nombramientos académicos y profesionales con el paso de los años, más recientemente como Profesora de Pediatría y Directora de Imaginología Cardiaca y Laboratorios de Investigación en el Children's Hospital de Denver, Colorado. Su experiencia previa incluye puestos médicos, administrativos, académicos y de investigación en Cardiología pediátrica e Imaginología Cardiaca Pediátrica en el Health Sciences Center de la Universidad de Colorado/El Children's Hospital, la Universidad de California en San Diego, la Universidad de Arizona y la Universidad de New York. Realizó su capacitación de posgrado en Pediatría y Cardiología Pediátrica y sus investigaciones en Fisiología Fetal en la Universidad de New York, en el Johns Hopkins Hospital y en el Nuffield Institute for Medical Research de la Universidad de Oxford, Inglaterra. Además de esto, ha sido profesora invitada y conferencista invitada en numerosas instituciones del mundo.
La Dra. Valdes-Cruz ha publicado más de 100 artículos en publicaciones revisadas por colegas y es una de los autoras de “Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: An Embryologic and Anatomic Approach,” un libro de texto sobre ecocardiografía pediátrica publicado por Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins en 1999.
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Artículos Recientes
1. Shandas R, Mitchell M, Conrad C, Knudson O, Sorrel J, Mahalingam J, Fragoso M, Valdes-Cruz LM: A General Method for Estimating Deformation and Forces Imposed In Vivo on Bioprosthetic Heart Valves with Flexible Annuli: In vitro and Animal Validation Studies, J Heart Valve Dis. 2001;10(4):495-504.
2. Shandas R, Weinberg C, Nicol E, Ivy DD, DeGroff C, Hertzberg J, Valdes-Cruz LM: Development Of A Non-Invasive Ultrasound Color M-Mode Means Of Estimating Pulmonary Vascular Resistance In Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: Numerical Analysis, In vitro Validation and Preliminary Clinical Studies, Circulation. 2001;104(8):908-13.
3. DeGroff CG, Bhatikar S, Hertzberg J, Shandas R, Valdes-Cruz LM, Mahajan R: An Artificial Neural Network Based Method of Screening Heart Murmurs in Pediatrics, Circulation 2001;103(22):2711-6.
4. DeGroff CG, Carlton JD, Weinberg CE, Ellison MC, Shandas R, Valdes-Cruz LM: Effect of Aging on the Efficiency of the Total Cavopulmonary Connection: In-Vitro Studies, Pediatric Cardiology 2002;23:171-177.
5. Weinberg C, Hertzberg J, Valdes-Cruz LM, Shandas R: Extraction of pulmonary vascular compliance, PVR and RV work from single-pressure and Doppler flow measurements in children with pulmonary hypertension -- a new method for evaluating reactivity: In vitro and clinical studies, Circulation, 2004;110:2609-2617.
6. Pauliks LB, Pietra BA, Kirby S, Logan L, DeGroff CG, Boucek MM, Valdes-Cruz LM: Altered ventricular mechanics in cardiac allografts: A tissue Doppler study in 30 children without prior rejection events. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24: 1804-13.
7. Pauliks LB, Pietra BA, DeGroff CG, Kirby S, Knudson OA, Logan L, Boucek MM, Valdes-Cruz LM: Noninvasive detection of acute allograft rejection in children by tissue Doppler imaging: Myocardial velocities and myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24/7S: S239-S248.
8. Pauliks LB, Chan KC, Chang D, Kirby KS, Logan L, DeGroff CG, Boucek MM, Valdes-Cruz LM: Regional myocardial velocities and isovolumic contraction acceleration pre and post device closure of atrial septal defects: A color tissue Doppler study. Am Heart J 2005: 150: 294-301.
9. Das B, Pauliks LB, Knudson OA, Kirby S, Chan KC, Valdes-Cruz L, Cayre RO: Double-Orifice Mitral Valve with Intact Atrioventricular Septum: An Echocardiographic Study with Anatomical and Functional Considerations. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2005: 18: 231-236.
10. Pauliks LB, Chan KC, Lorts A, Elias ER, Cayre RO, Valdes-Cruz LM: Sphrintzen-Goldberg syndrome with tetralogy of Fallot and subvalvar aortic stenosis – case report and review of the literature. Ultrasound in Medicine 2005. 24: 703-706.
11. Dyer KL, Pauliks LB, Das B, Shandas R, Ivy DD, Shaffer EM, Valdes-Cruz LM: Use of myocardial performance index in pediatric patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, J. Am Soc Echocardiography 2006;19(1):21-27.
12. Dyer K, Lanning C, Das BB, Ivy DD, Valdes-Cruz, LM, Shandas R: Development and validation of a non-invasive color M-mode tissue Doppler imaging technique for measuring pulmonary artery compliance: in vitro and clinical studies, J Am. Soc. Echocardiography 2006; 19(4):403-412.
Libros
Valdes-Cruz LM and Cayre R,: Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: An Embryologic and Anatomic Approach. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1998.
Otras Publicaciones, Capítulos, Monografías
1. Valdes-Cruz LM, Pieroni DR, Jones M, Roland J-M, Shematek JP: Echo contrast studies in the early postoperative period after atrial septal defect closure. In Contrast Echocardiology. Meltzer RS, Roelandt J (Eds). The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981
2. Goldberg SJ, Valdes-Cruz LM, Allen HD: Microbubble tracking with echo Doppler. In Contrast Echocardiology. Meltzer RS, Roelandt J (Eds). The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981
3. Goldberg SJ, Valdes-Cruz LM, Carnahan Y, Hoenecke H, Allen HD: Comparison of microbubble detection by M-mode and two echo Doppler techniques. In Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Echocardiology. Rijsterborgh H, Hugenholtz PG, Bom N, Roelandt J, and Lancee CT (Eds). The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981
4. Sahn DJ, Goldberg SJ, Allen HD, Valdes-Cruz LM: Applications of contrast echocardiography for the analysis of complex congenital heart disease in the newborn. In Contrast Echocardiology. Meltzer RS, Roelandt J (Eds). The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Inc, 1981
5. Valdes-Cruz LM, Sahn DJ: Two-dimensional echo Doppler for noninvasive quantitation of cardiac flow: A status report. Modern Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease (Published by the American Heart Association) 51:123 (October), 1982
6. Valdes-Cruz LM, Sahn DJ: Editorial comment, News and Views: Do contrast bubble slopes on M-mode echo reflect velocities of intracardiac flow? International Journal of Cardiology 2:296, 1982
7. Azancot A, Caudell T, Horowitz S, Allen HD, Sahn DJ, Scagnelli S, Stoll C, Valdes-Cruz LM, Goldberg SJ: Quantitative two-dimensional echocardiographic studies of left ventricular shape in the normal fetus and newborn infant. In Proceedings of the 1er Symposium International d'Echocardiologie Foetale. Dellenbach P (Ed). Strasbourg, Roche Bioelectronics and Milupa dietetique, 1982
8. Sahn DJ and Valdes-Cruz LM: Doppler echocardiography and evaluation of congenital heart disease. (Epitome) Western J of Medicine 140(6):935-936, June l984.
9. Valdes-Cruz LM, Yoganathan AP, Sahn DJ, Sherman F, and Swensson RE: Accuracy of color-encoded Doppler flow mapping techniques for defining stenotic jets: Studies in an in vitro model of valve stenosis and in the clinical setting. In Pediatric Cardiology: Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, New York, June 1985. Doyle EF, Engle MA, Gersony WM, Rashkind WF, Talner NS (Eds) pp 87-88, 1985.
10. Sherman FS, Valdes-Cruz LM, Sahn DJ, Elias W, Jones M, Hagen-Ansert S, Scagnelli S, Swensson RE: Two-dimensional Doppler color flow mapping for detecting atrial and ventricular septal defects: Studies in animal models and in the clinical setting. In Pediatric Cardiology: Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology. June 1985. New York, June 1985. Doyle EF, Engle MA, Gersony WM, Rashkind WF, Talner NS (Eds),pp 201-204, 1985.
11. Sahn DJ, Gerber KH, Simon A, Swensson RE, Valdes-Cruz LM, Hellenbrand WE, Sherman FS, and Chung KJ: Improved diagnostic information from digital angiography performed simultaneously with cineangiography in pediatric patients. In Pediatric Cardiology: Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, New York, June 1985 Doyle EF, Engle MA, Gersony WM, Rashkind WF, Talner NS (Eds),pp 307-311, 1985.
12. Valdes-Cruz LM and Sahn DJ: Conotruncal abnormalities: Tetralogy of Fallot, truncus arteriosus, and double outlet right ventrical. In Two-dimensional real-time ultrasonic imaging of the heart. Giuliani ER (Ed), Chapter 35, pp 373-381, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1985.
13. Sahn DJ, Valdes-Cruz, LM: "Ultrasound Doppler methods for calculating cardiac volume flows, cardiac output, and cardiac shunts". In Cardiac imaging: New technologies and clinical applications. M.N. Kotler, R.M. Steiner (Eds). Chapter 2 pp 19-31. F.A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1986.
14. Sahn DJ and Valdes-Cruz LM: New Advances in Two-dimensional Echocardiography. In Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. XXVII(5):367-382, (Mar/Apr) 1986
15. Weinberg CE, Hertzberg JR, Chan KC, Kirby KS, Valdes-Cruz LM, Shandas R. Evaluation of Pediatric Pulmonary Artery Input Impedance using Windkessel Models and Doppler Ultrasound: In Vitro and Clinical Studies. Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, 2003.
16. Shandas R, Kim HB, Hertzberg JR, DeGroff CG, Monet E, Valdes-Cruz LM. In Vivo Validation of the Echo-PIV Technique: Animal and Clinical Studies. Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, 2003.
