Stentless vs. stented aortic valve bioprostheses: a prospective randomized controlled trial (2007)
Dunning, J., Graham, R.J., Thambyrajah, J., Stewart, M.J., Kendall, S.W.H., Hunter, S.
Aims We sought to assess the haemodynamic profile of the Freedom stentless aortic valve compared with a stented bioprosthesis in a randomized controlled trial using echocardiography. Methods and...
Hunter, S., Wilkinson, D., Louarn, E., McCave, N., Rohling, E.J., Stow, D., ...
Growing interest in the dynamics and temporal variability of the deep western boundary current (DWBC) in the northern North Atlantic has led to numerous studies of the modern hydrography and...
Walker, Gordon, Devine Wright, P., Evans, B., Hunter , S.
In the UK a new theme has emerged in policy discourse and the investment of public resources around the concept of community renewable energy. A series of central government funded programs have been...
Negotiating professional and social voices in research principles and practice (2005)
This paper draws on work conducted for a qualitative interview based study which explores the gendered racialised and professional identifications of health and social care professionals....
Negotiating professional and social voices in research principles and practice (2005)
This paper draws on work conducted for a qualitative interview based study which explores the gendered racialised and professional identifications of health and social care professionals....
Development and calibration of the tracking Compton/Pair telescope MEGA (2005)
Kanbach, G., Andritschke, R., Zoglauer, A., Ajello, M., McConnell, M. L., Macri, J. R., ...
Search for a high resolution Holocene record on the Eirik Drift, southern Greenland (2004)
Kenyon, N.H., Akhmetzhanov, A., Hunter, S., Kuijpers, A., Rohling, E., Bacon, S., ...
The calibration setup of the MEGA prototype at the high intensity γ-ray source (2004)
Andritschke, R., Zoglauer, A., Kanbach, G., Schrey, F., Bloser, P. F., Hunter, S., ...
MEGA: the next generation medium energy gamma-ray telescope (2004)
Ryan, J. M., Andritschke, R., Bloser, P., Cravens, J., Cherry, M., DiCocco, G., ...
Thermoluminescence dosimetry in mixed neutron/gamma radiation beam (2004)
Yudelev, M., Hunter, S., Farr, J. B.
Miniature CaF2:Tm (TLD-300) were adopted for dosimetry in a mixed neutron/gamma beam produced by the Detroit superconducting cyclotron. A method utilizing the linear relationship between the...
A critical analysis of approaches to the concept of social identity in social policy (2003)
This article seeks both to highlight a current imbalance in approaches to social identity in social policy, and to make suggestions as to how this might be redressed in future work employing the...
A critical analysis of approaches to the concept of social identity in social policy (2003)
This article seeks both to highlight a current imbalance in approaches to social identity in social policy, and to make suggestions as to how this might be redressed in future work employing the...
[First Paragraphs] The project discussed in this paper is a qualitative interview based study which explores the subjective gendered and racialised professional identifications of health and social...
[First Paragraphs] The project discussed in this paper is a qualitative interview based study which explores the subjective gendered and racialised professional identifications of health and social...
A response to 'progress with learning disability hospital closure in Scotland' (2003)
The paper comments on the paper preceding it in this issue of the journal, drawing on research carried out by the authors, and finds that there is still a long way to go to achieve two SAY objectives.
[First Paragraph] The concept of social identity is important in policy analysis as it can contribute to a more complex understanding of both individual and collective agency. This paper is based on...
[First Paragraph] The concept of social identity is important in policy analysis as it can contribute to a more complex understanding of both individual and collective agency. This paper is based on...
Human Factors Topics in Flight Simulation: An Annotated Bibliography. (2002)
Hunter,S., Gundry,A. J., Rolfe,J. M.
This bibliography contains 504 references, with summaries, to reports concerned with human factors topics in flight simulation. Reports dealing solely with the engineering aspects of flight...
Hunter, S., Kaijage, F., Maack, P., Kiondo, A., Masanja, P.
Although information on African family adaptation to the AIDS epidemic is critical to planning and managing government, donor and NGO programs of assistance, current knowledge is limited to a small...
Hunter, S., Kaijage, F., Maack, P., Kiondo, A., Masanja, P.
Although information on African family adaptation to the AIDS epidemic is critical to planning and managing government, donor and NGO programs of assistance, current knowledge is limited to a small...
Hunter, S., Kaijage, F., Maack, P., Kiondo, A., Masanja, P., Ntozi, J. P. M., ...
Although information on African family adaptation to the AIDS epidemic is critical to planning and managing government, donor and NGO programs of assistance, current knowledge is limited to a small...
Hunter, S., Kaijage, F., Maack, P., Kiondo, A., Masanja, P.
Although information on African family adaptation to the AIDS epidemic is critical to planning and managing government, donor and NGO programs of assistance, current knowledge is limited to a small...
Hunter, S., Kaijage, F., Maack, P., Kiondo, A., Masanja, P.
Although information on African family adaptation to the AIDS epidemic is critical to planning and managing government, donor and NGO programs of assistance, current knowledge is limited to a small...
Gamma-ray emission from the cataclysmic variables; 1, the Compton EGRET survey (1994)
Schlegel, E M, Barrett, P E, De Jager, O C, Chanmugam, G, Hunter, S, Mattox, J R
Detection of a γ-ray burst of very long duration and very high energy (1994)
Hurley, K., Dingus, B. L., Mukherjee, R., Sreekumar, P., Kouveliotou, C., Meegan, C., ...
Incidence of Doppler regurgitant flow velocities during normal pregnancy (1992)
ROBSON, S. C., RICHLEY, D., BOYS, R. J., HUNTER, S.
The incidence of regurgitant flow velocities were determined using colour flow mapping and pulsed Doppler in 107 pregnant women, 55 of whom were less than 28 weeks gestation. The results were...
Doppler echocardiographic estimation of cardiac output: analysis of temporal variability (1988)
ROBSON, S. C., BOYS, R. J., HUNTER, S.
The temporal variability of combined cross-sectional and Doppler echocardiographic estimates of cardiac output was studied in 14 normal subjects. In each subject cross-sectional echocardiographs and...
Hunter, S, Warwick Univ., Coventry (GB).
Thesis (Ph.D.)
Transfection of an Fc gamma receptor cDNA induces T cells to become phagocytic.
Hunter, S, Kamoun, M, Schreiber, A D
The human receptor Fc gamma RIIA for the Fc portion of IgG (Fc gamma) was expressed in a human T-cell line and conferred on these cells the ability to perform IgG antibody-stimulated phagocytosis....
Emmens, R K, Richardson, D, Thomas, W, Hunter, S, Hennigar, R A, Wingard, J R, ...
We describe a necrotizing cerebritis in an allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipient caused by the neurotropic, dematiaceous fungus Cladophialophora bantiana. The patient presented 7 months after...
McDougal, L K, Facklam, R, Reeves, M, Hunter, S, Swenson, J M, Hill, B C, ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates resistant to penicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline and sulfamethoxazole-trimethroprim are being recovered with increasing frequency in the United States. We...
Matsuda, M, Park, J G, Wang, D C, Hunter, S, Chien, P, Schreiber, A D
The role of Syk kinase in Fc gamma receptor (Fc gamma R) IIA-mediated phagocytosis was examined with two forms of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) designed to hybridize to human Syk mRNA....
Aortobronchial fistula following aortic valve surgery.
Ninan, M, Hunter, S, Parker, D J
We report the case of a 54-year-old man with an aortobronchial fistula following aortic valve replacement for prosthetic endocarditis. He presented with massive haemoptysis and the diagnosis was made...
Robson, S C, Dunlop, W, Boys, R J, Hunter, S
Serial measurements of cardiac output and mean arterial pressure were performed in 15 women during the first stage of labour and at one and 24 hours after delivery. Cardiac output was measured by...
Transfection of an Fc gamma receptor cDNA induces T cells to become phagocytic.
Hunter, S, Kamoun, M, Schreiber, A D
The human receptor Fc gamma RIIA for the Fc portion of IgG (Fc gamma) was expressed in a human T-cell line and conferred on these cells the ability to perform IgG antibody-stimulated phagocytosis....
Emmens, R K, Richardson, D, Thomas, W, Hunter, S, Hennigar, R A, Wingard, J R, ...
We describe a necrotizing cerebritis in an allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipient caused by the neurotropic, dematiaceous fungus Cladophialophora bantiana. The patient presented 7 months after...
McDougal, L K, Facklam, R, Reeves, M, Hunter, S, Swenson, J M, Hill, B C, ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates resistant to penicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline and sulfamethoxazole-trimethroprim are being recovered with increasing frequency in the United States. We...
Matsuda, M, Park, J G, Wang, D C, Hunter, S, Chien, P, Schreiber, A D
The role of Syk kinase in Fc gamma receptor (Fc gamma R) IIA-mediated phagocytosis was examined with two forms of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) designed to hybridize to human Syk mRNA....
Robson, S C, Dunlop, W, Boys, R J, Hunter, S
Serial measurements of cardiac output and mean arterial pressure were performed in 15 women during the first stage of labour and at one and 24 hours after delivery. Cardiac output was measured by...
Aortobronchial fistula following aortic valve surgery.
Ninan, M, Hunter, S, Parker, D J
We report the case of a 54-year-old man with an aortobronchial fistula following aortic valve replacement for prosthetic endocarditis. He presented with massive haemoptysis and the diagnosis was made...
Ventricular septal defects. Two dimensional echocardiographic and morphological correlations.
Sutherland, G R, Godman, M J, Smallhorn, J F, Guiterras, P, Anderson, R H, Hunter, S
To evaluate the ability of two dimensional echocardiography to identify and classify ventricular septal defects, 280 infants and children with clinically significant ventricular septal defects were...
Atrioventricular discordance. Cross-sectional echocardiographic--morphological correlative study.
Sutherland, G R, Smallhorn, J F, Anderson, R H, Rigby, M L, Hunter, S
Anatomical basis of cross sectional echocardiography.
Silverman, N H, Hunter, S, Anderson, R H, Ho, S Y, Sutherland, G R, Davies, M J
Ten hearts were cut in planes to simulate echocardiographic cuts which may be taken to visualise the anatomy of the cardiac chambers and great arteries. The various myocardial wall segments were...
Role of echocardiography in differential diagnosis of broad complex tachycardia.
Wren, C, Campbell, R W, Hunter, S
It is not always easy to distinguish between supraventricular tachycardia with aberration and ventricular tachycardia by electrocardiographic analysis alone. M mode echocardiography can often help by...
M-mode echogram as a means of distinguishing between mild and severe mitral stenosis.
Fifty-two patients with pure mitral stenosis (27 with severe stenosis and 25 with mild stenosis) were studied to assess the ability of different M-mode echocardiographic measurements to separate mild...
Assessment of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection by two-dimensional echocardiography.
Smallhorn, J F, Sutherland, G R, Tommasini, G, Hunter, S, Anderson, R H, Macartney, F J
Twenty-three patients with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection were studied by two-dimensional echocardiography. In all cases the diagnosis was made before invasive procedures, with surgical...
Mortera, C, Tynan, M, Goodwin, A W, Hunter, S
A case of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection to the portal vein is described. The diagnosis was suspected clinically, supported by the echocardiogram, and confirmed by cardiac...
Mortera, C, Hunter, S, Tynan, M
The constant anatomical relation of the aortic arch and the pulmonary artery bifurcation permits echocardiographic differentiation of the two great arteries when viewed from the suprasternal notch....
Echocardiography of primitive ventricle.
Mortera, C, Hunter, S, Terry, G, Tynan, M
The angiocardiographic, echocardiographic, and, where available, the necropsy findings were correlated in 32 cases of primitive ventricle. Single probe echocardiography was shown to be a reliable and...
Echocardiographic visualisation of the interatrial baffle after Mustard's operation.
Hunter, S, Mortera, C, Terry, G, Goodwin, A, Tynan, M, Holden, M
Thirty children aged from 7 weeks to 14 years were examined by echocardiography after Mustard's operation for transposition of the great arteries. Discrete and persitent echoes were noted within the...
O'Sullivan, J., Bain, H., Hunter, S., Wren, C.
OBJECTIVE--To identify coronary artery anomalies in patients with tetralogy of Fallot with an aortogram taken with steep caudal and left oblique angulation ("end-on" aortogram). DESIGN--Prospective...
Eighth survey of staffing in cardiology in the United Kingdom 1992.
Chamberlain, D., Parker, J., Balcon, R., Webb-Peploe, M., Cobbe, S., Boyle, D., ...
The Eighth Survey of Staffing in Cardiology was conducted with an index date of 30 September 1992. The total number of cardiologists in England and Wales, defined as individuals trained in the...
Kaye, H H, Tynan, M, Hunter, S
Echocardiography has been shown to be a reliable method for estimating left ventricular size and function in adults, but little attention has been paid to its application to infants and children....
Ejection phase indices of left ventricular performance in infants, children, and adults.
Tynan, M, Reid, D S, Hunter, S, Kaye, H H, Osme, S, Urquhart, W, ...
A validatory study of quantitative single plane left ventricular cineangiography is presented, using human left ventricular casts ranging in size from 1.6 to 135 ml. Good correlation was found...
Family planning requirements in the adult congenital heart disease clinic.
Leonard, H., O'Sullivan, J. J., Hunter, S.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether women with congenital heart disease were receiving appropriate advice on contraception. SETTING: Adult congenital heart disease clinic in a tertiary cardiac referral...
Gibbs, J L, Wren, C, Watterson, K G, Hunter, S, Hamilton, J R
OBJECTIVE--To assess the feasibility of pulmonary artery banding, atrial septectomy or septostomy, and percutaneous stenting of the arterial duct in babies with the hypoplastic left heart syndrome....
Balloon dilatation of a stenosed bioprosthesis in the tricuspid valve position.
Percutaneous balloon dilatation of a stenosed Ionescu-Shiley bioprosthesis in the tricuspid valve position was performed twice in a 19 year old woman. On each occasion there was a considerable...
Balloon dilatation of the aortic valve for congenital aortic stenosis in childhood.
Sullivan, I D, Wren, C, Bain, H, Hunter, S, Rees, P G, Taylor, J F, ...
Balloon dilatation of the aortic valve was attempted in 34 consecutive children aged 16 months to 17 years (median 7 years), weight range 9-60 (median 22) kg. Previous surgical valvotomy had been...
Cardiac abnormalities in the fragile X syndrome.
Sreeram, N, Wren, C, Bhate, M, Robertson, P, Hunter, S
Twenty three patients with fragile X syndrome underwent cardiovascular assessment. Echocardiography showed dilatation of the aortic root in 12 (52%) and mitral valve prolapse in five (22%), four of...
Sreeram, N, Hunter, S, Wren, C
Myocardial infarction and left ventricular failure developed within hours of ligation of a large arterial duct in a four week old infant. Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the...
Balloon dilatation of stenosed Blalock-Taussig shunts.
Qureshi, S A, Martin, R P, Dickinson, D F, Hunter, S
Three patients with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease, who had previously undergone Blalock-Taussig shunt operations, developed severe stenoses at the pulmonary anastomosis of the shunts. All...
Reproducibility of cardiac output measurement by cross sectional and Doppler echocardiography.
Robson, S C, Murray, A, Peart, I, Heads, A, Hunter, S
The variability of Doppler echocardiographic estimation of cardiac output at the aortic orifice was investigated in eight healthy subjects. Cross sectional echocardiograms of the aortic orifice and...
Balloon dilatation of unoperated aortic coarctation: immediate results and one year follow up.
Wren, C, Peart, I, Bain, H, Hunter, S
Fifteen patients aged 1-19 years (mean 10.9) with previously unoperated aortic coarctation underwent percutaneous balloon angioplasty between January 1985 and February 1986. Nine (60%) were...
Hunter, S, Heads, A, Wyllie, J, Robson, S
OBJECTIVE—To examine the results of fetal cardiac scanning and audit the changes in performance resulting from the introduction of a training programme for obstetric...
Essed, C E, Ho, S Y, Hunter, S, Anderson, R H
The conduction tissue in a univentricular heart of the right ventricular type with a right-sided rudimentary chamber was studied. Both an anterior and conventional node were found, the anterior node...
Jefferson, R D, Burn, J, Gaunt, K L, Hunter, S, Davison, E V
A female infant with peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis, growth retardation, and developmental delay was noticed to have facial features consistent with a diagnosis of Williams syndrome. Chromosome...
Cardiac abnormalities in end stage renal failure and anaemia.
Morris, K P, Skinner, J R, Wren, C, Hunter, S, Coulthard, M G
Thirteen anaemic children on dialysis were assessed to determine the incidence of cardiac changes in end stage renal failure. Nine children had an increased cardiothoracic ratio on radiography. The...
Morris, K P, Skinner, J R, Hunter, S, Coulthard, M G
Children with end stage renal failure and anaemia have an increased cardiac index and often gross ventricular hypertrophy. The contribution of anaemia to these abnormalities is uncertain. Eleven...
Right heart pressure determination by Doppler in infants with tricuspid regurgitation.
Skinner, J R, Stuart, A G, O'Sullivan, J, Heads, A, Boys, R J, Hunter, S
Doppler and direct measurements of right ventricle to right atrial pressure drop were made during cardiac catheterisation on 28 occasions in 26 infants with congenital heart disease. Age was 10 days...
Cardiovascular abnormalities in end stage renal failure: the effect of anaemia or uraemia?
Morris, K P, Skinner, J R, Hunter, S, Coulthard, M G
Children with end stage renal failure and anaemia have an increased cardiac index and often gross ventricular hypertrophy. Correction of anaemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEpo) for...
Natural history of trisomy 13.
Wyllie, J P, Wright, M J, Burn, J, Hunter, S
The poor prognosis of patients with trisomy 13 has long been accepted and has been ascribed to brain and heart malformations. It has been suggested, however, that the long term survival is better...
Natural history of trisomy 18.
Embleton, N D, Wyllie, J P, Wright, M J, Burn, J, Hunter, S
It has been suggested that survival in babies with trisomy 18 may be better than previously recognised, and that cardiac surgery may be justified. A population based study spanning seven years in one...
Non-invasive assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure in healthy neonates.
Skinner, J R, Boys, R J, Hunter, S, Hey, E N
Doppler echocardiograms were carried out on 51 healthy babies three times during the first 72 hours of life to estimate pulmonary arterial systolic pressure by measuring regurgitant tricuspid jet...
Pulmonary and systemic arterial pressure in hyaline membrane disease.
Skinner, J R, Boys, R J, Hunter, S, Hey, E N
Systolic pulmonary arterial pressure was determined serially over the first 10 days of life in 33 babies with hyaline membrane disease by measuring the peak velocity of pansystolic tricuspid valve...
Central venous pressure in the ventilated neonate.
Skinner, J R, Milligan, D W, Hunter, S, Hey, E N
As there is no other measurement of right ventricular preload, central venous pressure (CVP) measurement provides unique and important haemodynamic information. CVP is not measured routinely in...
The natural history of ventricular septal defects
Turner, S, Hunter, S, Wyllie, J
AIMS—To correlate the size and position of isolated ventricular septal defects with closure rate in a cohort of children with mean follow up of more than six years. DESIGN—A birth cohort was...
Skinner, J., Hunter, S., Poets, C., Milligan, D., Southall, D., Hey, E.
AIMS—To examine the haemodynamic effects of brief alteration in arterial oxygenation in preterm infants with respiratory failure. METHODS—Eighteen preterm infants with respiratory failure, aged...
Discrete sub-aortic stenosis and ventricular septal defect.
Smith, L D, Charalmbopoulos, C, Rigby, M L, Pallides, S, Hunter, S, Lincoln, C, ...
We present details of 15 children, aged 3 months to 11 years, with discrete sub-aortic stenosis and ventricular septal defect. We emphasise a high index of clinical suspicion and echocardiography as...
The metabolic load of stored blood. Implications for major transfusions in infants.
Ratcliffe, J M, Elliott, M J, Wyse, R K, Hunter, S, Alberti, K G
Plasma electrolyte, intermediary metabolite, and hormone concentrations were measured in samples of 110 units of citrate phosphate dextrose blood being used for clinical transfusions. The most...
Protein S deficiency: early presentation and pulmonary hypertension.
O'Sullivan, J, Chatuverdi, R, Bennett, M K, Hunter, S
Protein S deficiency usually presents in adults with recurrent or unexplained thrombosis and is thought to have autosomal dominant inheritance. We describe the case of a 5 year old girl with...
Paediatric cardiac transplantation with steroid-sparing maintenance immunosuppression.
Au, J, Gregory, J W, Colquhoun, I W, Scott, C D, Hilton, C J, Hunter, S, ...
In order to determine the results of steroid-sparing maintenance immunosuppression in paediatric patients who have undergone orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT), a retrospective study was...
Skinner, J. R., Hunter, S., Hey, E. N.
Thirty four newborns presenting with persistent hypoxaemia in the first three days of life underwent detailed haemodynamic assessment using Doppler echocardiography, including measurements of...
Interpretation of electrocardiograms by doctors.
Montgomery, H., Hunter, S., Morris, S., Naunton-Morgan, R., Marshall, R. M.
New deal not satisfactory for cardiothoracic surgery
Alkhulaifi, A, Allen, S M, Anderson, J R, Argano, V, Austin, C, Barlow, C, ...
Zhu, K., Hunter, S., Bernard, L. J., Payne-Wilks, K., Roland, C. L., Levine, R. S.
Barriers to engaging African Americans as research participants may be accentuated among older single African-American women partly because of financial, social, physical, and cognitive factors. This...