Michael Bousamra, MD

Director of Thoracic Surgery, James Graham Brown Cancer Center; and Associate Professor, Surgery

Multidisciplinary Clinic

Research Program

Clinical Expertise

Education

Publications

Bousamra M, Guisto DF, Gervin AS.  Rectal impalement.  Surgical Rounds 13:55-9, 1990

Bousamra M, Gervin AS.  Abdominal wall disruption: a rare form of seatbelt injury.  Surgical Rounds 14:679-84, 1991

Bousamra M, Neifeld JP.  Cancer of the tongue.  Post Graduate General Surgery 2:227, 1990

Nicolosi AC, Almassi GH, Bousamra M 2nd, Haasler GB, Olinger GN.  Mortality and neurologic morbidity after repair of traumatic aortic disruption.  Ann Thorac Surg 61(3):875-8, 1996

Bousamra M 2nd, Tweddell S, Wells RG, Splaingard ML, Sty JR.  Wire stent for tracheomalacia in a five-year-old girl.  Ann Thorac Surg 61(4):1239-40, 1996

Bousamra M 2nd, Haasler GB, Patterson GA, Roper C.  A comparative study of thoracoscopic vs open removal of benign neurogenic mediastinal tumors.  Chest 109(6):1461-5, 1996

Bousamra M 2nd, Presberg KW, Chammas JH, Tweddell JS, Winton BL, Bielefeld MR, Haasler GB.  Early and late morbidity in patients undergoing pulmonary resection with low diffusion capacity.  Ann Thorac Surg 62(4):968-74, 1996

Bousamra M 2nd, Haasler GB, Lipchik RJ, Henry D, Chammas JH, Rokkas CK, Menard-Rothe K, Sobush DC, Olinger GN.  Functional and oximetric assessment of patients after lung reduction surgery.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 113(4):675-81, 1997

Menard-Rothe K, Sobush DC, Bousamra M 2nd, Haasler GB, Lipchik RJ.  Self-selected walking velocity for functional community ambulation in patients with end-stage emphysema.  J Cardiopulm Rehabil 17(2):85-91, 1997

Bousamra M 2nd, Mewissen MW, Batter J, Presberg KW, Schlueter DP, Haasler GB.  Pulmonary artery thrombolysis and stenting following bilateral sequential lung transplant.  J Heart Lung Transplant 16(6):678-80, 1997

Birks EK, Bousamra M 2nd, Presberg K, Marsh JA, Effros RM, Jacobs ER.  Human pulmonary arteries dilate to 20-HETE, an endogenous eicosanoid of lung tissue.  Am J Physiol 272(5 Pt 1):L823-9, 1997

Bousamra M 2nd, Clowry L Jr.  Thoracoscopic fine needle aspiration of solitary pulmonary nodules.  Ann Thorac Surg 64(4):1191-3, 1997

Parviz M, Bousamra M 2nd, Chammas JH, Birks EK, Presberg K, Jacobs ER, Nelin LD.  Effects of chronic pulmonary overcirculation on pulmonary vasomotor tone.  Ann Thorac Surg 67(2):522-7, 1999

Lynch JB, Kerschner JE, Aiken JJ, Farber N, Bousamra M.  Use of mediastinoscopy for foreign body removal.  Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 50(3):25-8, 1999

Zhu D, Bousamra M 2nd, Zeldin DC, Falck JR, Townsley M, Harder DR, Roman RJ, Jacobs ER.  Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids constrict isolated pressurized rabbit pulmonary arteries.  Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 278(2):L335-43, 2000

Easterling CS, Bousamra M 2nd, Lang IM, Kern MK, Nitschke T, Bardan E, Shaker R.  Pharyngeal dysphagia in postesophagectomy patients: correlation with deglutitive biomechanics.  Ann Thorac Surg 69(4):989-92, 2000

Bousamra M 2nd, Rossi R, Jacobs E, Parviz M, Busch C, Nelin LD, Haworth S, Dawson C.  Systemic lobar shunting induces advanced pulmonary vasculopathy.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 120(1):88-98, 2000

Pagni S, Bousamra M 2nd, Shirley MW, Spence PA.  Successful VATS ligation of a large anomalous branch producing IMA steal syndrome after MIDCAB.  Ann Thorac Surg 71(5):1681-2, 2001

Fike CD, Kaplowitz MR, Bousamra M 2nd.  eNOS and prostanoid enzymes in lungs of newborn piglets with chronic aortopulmonary shunts.  Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 281(2):L475-82, 2001

Medhora M, Bousamra M 2nd, Zhu D, Somberg L, Jacobs ER.  Upregulation of collagens detected by gene array analysis in a model of flow-induced pulmonary vascular remodeling.  Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 282(2):H414-22, 2002

Bousamra M 2nd, Haasler GB, Parviz M.  A decade of experience with transthoracic and transhiatal esophagectomy.  Am J Surg 183(2):162-7, 2002

Firat S, Bousamra M, Gore E, Byhardt RW.  Comorbidity and KPS are independent prognostic factors in stage I non-small-cell lung cancer.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 52(4):1047-57, 2002

Farghly E, Bousamra M 2nd.  Hemoptysis resulting from unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis.  Ann Thorac Surg 74(1):255-7, 2002

Recto MR, Bousamra M, Yeh T Jr.  Late superior vena cava perforation and aortic laceration after stenting to treat superior vena cava syndrome secondary to fibrosing mediastinitis.  J Invasive Cardiol 14(10):624-9, 2002

Kloecker GH, Studts JL, Laber DA, Bousamra M.  Lung cancer in the US and in Kentucky.  J Ky Med Assoc 105(4):159-64, 2007. Review
 

Bousamra M, Kloecker G, Herbig S.  Drive cancer out: a physician-led anti-smoking program directed at teens and adolescents.  J Ky Med Assoc 106(12):561-5, 2008

Fan TW, Lane AN, Higashi RM, Bousamra M 2nd, Kloecker G, Miller DM.  Metabolic profiling identifies lung tumor responsiveness to erlotinib.  Exp Mol Pathol 87(1):83-6, 2009; PMC2729693.

Lane AN, Fan TW, Higashi RM, Tan J, Bousamra M, Miller DM.  Prospects for clinical cancer metabolomics using stable isotope tracers.  Exp Mol Pathol 86(3):165-73, 2009; PMC2685876.  Review 

Fan TW, Lane AN, Higashi RM, Farag MA, Gao H, Bousamra M, Miller DM.  Altered regulation of metabolic pathways in human lung cancer discerned by (13)C stable isotope-resolved metabolomics (SIRM).  Mol Cancer 8:41, 2009 ; PMC2717907.

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