Publications by Professor John Dark - ePrints

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Newcastle Authors	Title	Year
Nick Chilvers Dr Jenny Gilmour Marnie Brown Lucy Bates Chong Pang et al.	A Split-Lung Ex Vivo Perfusion Model for Time- and Cost-Effective Evaluation of Therapeutic Interventions to the Human Donor Lung	2024
Dr Maria Camacho Encina Laura Booth Dr Rachael Redgrave Minna Honkanen-Scott Dr Bill Scott et al.	Identifying optimal reference genes for real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction in human myocardial tissues	2024
Phil Mawson Dr Guy MacGowan Professor Neil Sheerin Professor Andrew Fisher Professor James Shaw et al.	SIGNET: protocol for a multicentre, single-blind prospective, group sequential, randomised controlled trial to evaluate the benefits of a single dose of simvastatin given to potential organ donors declared dead by neurological criteria on outcomes in organ recipients	2024
Nick Chilvers Dr David Crossland Professor John Dark Dr Guy MacGowan Mahmoud Nassar et al.	The long-awaited solution for pediatric DCD heart transplantation? Comment on Brouckaert et al.	2024
Dr Lu Wang Professor John Dark	Commentary: One more obstacle knocked out	2023
Dr Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark	Commentary: Revascularization of the Bronchial Arteries in Pulmonary Transplant; A Beautiful Description of a Redundant Procedure?	2023
Nick Chilvers Professor John Dark	Commentary: Total ventricular mass: Too much of a good thing?	2023
Nick Chilvers Professor John Dark	Heart transplantation	2023
Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark	Lung transplantation: state of the art and current practice	2023
Tom Pither Dr Lu Wang Lucy Bates Dr Morvern Morrison Catriona Charlton et al.	Modeling the Effects of IL-1β-mediated Inflammation During Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Using a Split Human Donor Model	2023
Gillian Hardman Professor John Dark	Organ Transplants From Deceased Donors With Primary Brain Tumors and Risk of Cancer Transmission	2023
Dr Lu Wang Professor John Dark	Spatially resolved multiomics of human cardiac niches	2023
Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher	Transplantation of Organs From DCD and DBD Donors Who Died After Ligature Asphyxiation	2023
Dr Wendy Funston Dr Marie-Helene Ruchaud Jonathan Scott Jason Powell Dr Faye Cooles et al.	A human model of bilateral pulmonary vein sampling to assess the effects of one-lung ventilation on neutrophil function	2022
Dr Ryan Kenny Professor John Dark Dr Arjola Bano Dr Salman Razvi	Efficacy and safety of Triiodothyronine (T3) treatment in Cardiac Surgery or Cardiovascular Diseases – a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	2022
Dr Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark	Revascularisation of the bronchial arteries in pulmonary transplant; does it ever have a role?	2022
Professor John Dark	A systematic review and meta-analyses of regional perfusion in donation after circulatory death solid organ transplantation	2021
Professor John Dark	Commentary: The end of the beginning?	2021
Gillian Hardman Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Heart transplantation in the UK during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	2021
Gillian Hardman Stephen Clark Karen Booth Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and COVID-19 on lung transplantation in the UK: Lessons learned from the first wave	2021
Dr Lu Wang Dr Guy MacGowan Professor Simi Ali Professor John Dark	Ex situ heart perfusion: The past, the present, and the future	2020
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Ex vivo repair of human donor lungs for transplantation	2020
Dr Lu Wang Professor John Dark	Heart transplantation	2020
Gillian Hardman Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Lung Transplantation and Utilisation Following Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) in the UK	2020
Professor John Dark	Maintaining the permanence principle for death during in situ normothermic regional perfusion for donation after circulatory death organ recovery: A United Kingdom and Canadian proposal	2020
Dr Gareth Parry Professor John Dark Professor Neil Sheerin	The Impact of Severe Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Renal Replacement Therapy on Survival and Renal Function of Heart Transplant Recipients – A UK Cohort Study	2020
Karen Booth Professor John Dark	Commentary: Pseudoaneurysm aortopathy after heart transplantation—A link too far?	2019
Dr Lu Wang Anders Andreasson Dr Andrew Sims Professor Andrew Fisher Stephen Clark et al.	Developing DSA Post-Lung Transplant - Identifying Risk Factors	2019
Dr Guy MacGowan Professor John Dark	Effects of drug abuse, smoking and alcohol on donor hearts and lungs	2019
Dr Suren Kanagasundaram Dr Simon Baudouin Sarah Rowling Professor John Dark Professor Tim Goodship et al.	Mitochondrial Haplogroup and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Bypass Surgery	2019
Dr Jonathan Smith Mohamed Nassar Professor John Dark Dr Gareth Parry Dr Zdenka Reinhardt et al.	Paediatric donation after circulatory determined death heart transplantation using donor normothermic regional perfusion and ex situ heart perfusion: A case report	2019
Dr Lu Wang Professor Andrew Fisher Professor Neil Sheerin Professor John Dark	Severe acute kidney injury after cardiac transplantation is a marker of poor early outcome and impacts on late renal function -- a UK cohort study	2019
Dr Lu Wang Dr Gareth Parry Professor Neil Sheerin Professor John Dark	The need for haemofiltration after lung transplantation is a marker of poor early outcomes, but has no deleterious long-term renal effect -- a UK cohort study	2019
Professor John Dark	“Ex” becomes “in”: A new direction for ex vivo lung perfusion?	2018
Professor John Dark	Interleukin-10 transfection and the donor lung - A still-evolving story	2018
Karen Booth Dr John O'Sullivan Professor John Dark	Novel Management of Atrial Septal Defect at Time of Lung Transplantation	2018
Dr Jodie Birch Dr Katy Hester Dr Gareth Parry Professor Kate Gould Professor John Dark et al.	Outcomes of lung transplantation in adults with bronchiectasis	2018
Professor John Dark	Pathophysiology and Predictors of Bronchial Complications After Lung Transplantation	2018
Professor John Dark	Preface: Back to the Future	2018
Professor John Dark	Standard orthotopic heart transplantation	2018
Professor John Dark	The interval between brainstem death and cardiac assessment influences the retrieval of hearts for transplantation	2018
Professor John Dark Dr Louise Coats	Transplantation in the single ventricle population	2018
Dr Tina Biss Professor John Dark	Descending aortic aneurysm in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: options for repair	2017
Professor John Dark	Heart transplantation	2017
Professor John Dark	Lung transplantation: State of the art and current practice	2017
Professor John Dark	Managing a Mycotic Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm: The Importance of Molecular Diagnostics	2017
Anders Andreasson Danai Karamanou Dr Colin Gillespie Kasim Jiwa Dr Nicola Green et al.	Profiling inflammation and tissue injury markers in perfusate and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid during human ex vivo lung perfusion	2017
Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher	Reply to Mohamed S.A. Mohamed	2017
Professor John Dark	Report of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction, part II: Epidemiology, risk factors, and outcomes-A 2016 Consensus Group statement of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation	2017
Anders Andreasson Dr Lee Borthwick Dr Colin Gillespie Kasim Jiwa Jonathan Scott et al.	The role of interleukin-1β as a predictive biomarker and potential therapeutic target during clinical ex vivo lung perfusion	2017
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	A Study of Donor Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion in UK Lung Transplantation (DEVELOP-UK)	2016
Professor Andrew Fisher Anders Andreasson Alexandros Chrysos Dr Joanne Lally Valentina Mamasoula et al.	An observational study of Donor Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in UK Lung Transplantation : DEVELOP-UK	2016
Jonny Mayes Professor John Dark Stephen Clark	Bridging to lung transplantation for severe pulmonary hypertension using dual central Novalung lung assist devices	2016
Professor John Dark	Lung transplantation from donation after cardiocirculatory death: the end of the golden era?	2016
Professor John Dark	Lungs From the Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death Donor: Perspectives From the United States and Beyond	2016
Sasiharan Sithamparanathan Dr Logan Thirugnanasothy Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher Professor Kate Gould et al.	Observational study of lung transplant recipients surviving 20 years	2016
Kasim Jiwa Dr Lee Borthwick Dr Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	Potential therapeutic benefits of the human amniotic epithelium cell secretome during ex-vivo perfusion of donor lungs	2016
Dr Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher	Profiling Biomarkers of Inflammation and Tissue Injury during Human Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in the DEVELOP-UK Study	2016
Dr Anders Andreasson Danai Karamanou Dr Colin Gillespie Dr Lee Borthwick Kasim Jiwa et al.	Treating Donor Lung Inflammation by Blocking Interleukin-1B-An In Vitro Therapy Testing Platform for Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion	2016
Professor John Dark	What's new in pulmonary transplantation: Finding the right lung for every patient	2016
Professor John Dark	50th Anniversary Perspective on Volume 1: Trummer MJ. Experimental Transplantation of the Lung. Ann Thorac Surg 1965;1:203-19	2015
Professor John Dark	A consensus document for the selection of lung transplant candidates: 2014-An update from the Pulmonary Transplantation Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation	2015
Professor John Dark	Adult cardiothoracic transplant nursing: An ISHLT consensus document on the current adult nursing practice in heart and lung transplantation	2015
Professor John Dark	Median Sternotomy for Lung Transplantation	2015
Professor John Dark	Safe and effective use of the extended donor heart	2015
Dr Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher	Ultrastructural Changes in Epithelial and Endothelial Barriers During Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion	2015
Dr Anders Andreasson Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher	Ex vivo lung perfusion in clinical lung transplantation-State of the art	2014
Sasiharan Sithamparanathan Dr Logan Thirugnanasothy Professor Andrew Fisher Dr James Lordan Dr Gerard Meachery et al.	A Retrospective Observational Study of 20 Year Lung Transplant Survivors - A Single Centre Experience	2014
Dr Rachael Coates Dr Faryal Afridi Susan Stamp Professor David Rees Dr Joaquim Majo et al.	An Ex Vivo Perfusion System to Achieve Recovery of Hearts Sourced from Marginal Donors	2014
Susan Stamp Dr Joaquim Majo Professor John Dark Dr Noel Carter David Talbot et al.	Development of an ex vivo technique to achieve reanimation of hearts sourced from a porcine donation after circulatory death model	2014
Professor John Dark	Heart and lung transplantation	2014
Dr Faryal Afridi Susan Stamp Dr Joaquim Majo Stephen Clark Dr Guy MacGowan et al.	Resuscitation of Marginal Hearts Using Ex Vivo Perfusion	2014
Professor Derek Manas Dr Beate Haugk Professor John Dark Bryon Jaques	Simultaneous liver resection and double cardiac valve replacement. A case report	2014
Stephen Clark Professor John Dark	The Effect of Cold and Warm Ischemia Time on Survival After Lung Transplantation in a Large National Cohort	2014
Dr Anders Andreasson Danai Karamanou Dr John Perry Dr Hannah Walden Stephen Clark et al.	The effect of ex vivo lung perfusion on microbial load in human donor lungs	2014
Professor John Dark	An Official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: Ethical and Policy Considerations in Organ Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death	2013
Professor Michael Griffin Dr Andrew Robertson Dr Iain Brownlee Rachel Stovold Dr Malcolm Brodlie et al.	Aspiration and Allograft Injury Secondary to Gastroesophageal Reflux Occur in the Immediate Post-Lung Transplantation Period (Prospective Clinical Trial)	2013
Stephen Clark Professor John Dark	Donation after Circulatory Death Lung Activity in the UK-100 Transplants and Counting	2013
Dr Logan Thirugnanasothy Dr Patrick Kesteven Professor John Dark	Pulmonary embolism: Surgical embolectomy is underused	2013
Dr Gareth Parry Professor John Dark Dr Janet McComb	Sympathetic Reinnervation of the Sinus Node Following Cardiac Transplantation: Time-Course and Prevalence	2013
Dr Ased Ali Professor John Dark Professor Derek Manas David Thomas	The surgical management and prognosis of renal cell cancer with IVC tumor thrombus: 15-Years of experience using a multi-specialty approach at a single UK referral center	2013
Professor John Dark Dr Gareth Parry Stephen Clark	Vascular anastomotic complications in lung transplantation: a single institution's experience	2013
Professor John Dark	Advising Potential Recipients on the Use of Organs From Donors With Primary Central Nervous System Tumors.	2012
Dr Andrew Robertson Amaran Krishnan Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Therese Small et al.	Anti-reflux surgery in lung transplant recipients: outcomes and effects on quality of life	2012
Dr Clare Burdett Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark Stephen Clark	Comparison of single lung transplant with and without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass	2012
Professor John Dark	Effect of donor smoking on survival after lung transplantation: a cohort study of a prospective registry	2012
Professor John Dark	Organ transplantation: historical perspective and current practice	2012
Professor Simi Ali Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor John Kirby	Strategies for inhibition of chemokine (CCL2) mediated monocyte migration in lethal reperfusion injury	2012
Professor John Dark Danai Karamanou Stephen Clark Dr Brian Watson Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	Successful Transplantation of Unusable Donor Lungs Using Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion: The Newcastle Experience	2012
Professor John Dark	The Smoking Donor - Benefit or Hazard to the Potential Lung Transplant Recipient?	2012
Dr Noel Carter Susan Stamp Professor John Dark David Talbot	An ex vivo model for reanimating porcine hearts sourced from donors after cardiac death	2011
Professor Gerard Stansby Dr Mark De Belder Professor John Dark Professor Gary Ford	Asymptomatic carotid disease and cardiac surgery consensus	2011
Professor John Dark	British transplant research endangered by the Human Tissue Act	2011
Professor John Dark	Can leucocyte depletion reduce reperfusion injury following cardiopulmonary bypass?	2011
Dr Noel Carter Susan Stamp Professor John Dark David Talbot	Donation after cardiac death: Can hearts be sucessfully reanimated?	2011
Professor John Dark	HIV and Organ Donation [authors' reply]	2011
Dr Chris Ray Dr Joaquim Majo Dr Noel Carter Susan Stamp Professor John Dark et al.	Preservation of donation after cardiac death hearts using oxygenated, hypothermic machine perfusion	2011
Dr Hannah Walden Dr Abigail Vallance Danai Karamanou Christopher Fox Dr Anthony Rostron et al.	The Alarmin HMGB1 Is an Inflammatory Mediator in Brain Death Induced Lung Damage	2011
Dr Chris Ray Dr Noel Carter Susan Stamp Professor John Dark David Talbot et al.	Using dialysis for prolonged ex vivo warm reperfusion of DCD hearts	2011
Dr Anthony Rostron Dr David Cork Vassillios Avlonitis Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark et al.	Contribution of Toll-Like Receptor Activation to Lung Damage After Donor Brain Death	2010
Dr Hannah Walden Danai Karamanou Christopher Fox Dr Anthony Rostron Emeritus Professor John Kirby et al.	Evaluation of secretory leucoprotease inhibitor (SLPI) as an anti-inflammatroy therapy for donor lung inflammation	2010
Professor John Dark	Getting to "Yes" for the donor heart	2010
Dr Clare Burdett Stephen Clark Professor John Dark	Invasive biopsy is effective and useful after lung transplant	2010
Dr Abigail Vallance Dr Hannah Walden Danai Karamanou Christopher Fox Dr Anthony Rostron et al.	Investigating HMGB1 as a potential inflammatory mediator in brain death induced lung damage	2010
Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor Simi Ali	Investigating the role of chemokine-mediated activation of VLA-4 and its function in leukocyte migration	2010
Dr Andrew Robertson Professor Christopher Ward Therese Small Dr James Lordan Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	Longitudinal changes in gastro-oesophageal reflux from three months to six months post lung transplantation	2010
Professor Anthony De Soyza Dr Gerard Meachery Dr Katy Hester Anne Nicholson T Pillay et al.	Lung transplantation for patients with cystic fibrosis and Burkholderia cepacia complex infection: A single-center experience	2010
Dr Andrew Robertson Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Professor John Dark Professor Michael Griffin et al.	Lung Transplantation, Gastroesophageal Reflux, and Fundoplication	2010
Dr Malcolm Brodlie Dr Michael McKean Dr John Perry Dr Burns Verdon Dr Michael Gray et al.	Primary bronchial epithelial cell culture from explanted cystic fibrosis lungs	2010
Phil Botha Dr Guy MacGowan Professor John Dark	Sildenafil Citrate Augments Myocardial Protection in Heart Transplantation	2010
Danai Karamanou Dr Hannah Walden Stephen Clark Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	The Effect of Ex-Vivo Perfusion on the Inflammatory Profile of the Donor Lung	2010
Danai Karamanou Dr John Perry Dr Hannah Walden Katherine Gould Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	The Effect of Ex-Vivo Perfusion on the Microbiological Profile of the Donor Lung	2010
Vassillios Avlonitis Christopher Wigfield Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Treatment of the brain-dead lung donor with aprotinin and nitric oxide	2010
Dr Andrew Robertson Dr Jonathan Shenfine Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Professor John Dark et al.	A Call for Standardization of Antireflux Surgery in the Lung Transplantation Population	2009
Phil Botha Professor John Dark Dr Guy MacGowan	Acute hemodynamic effects of intravenous sildenafil citrate in congestive heart failure: comparison of phosphodiesterase type-3 and -5 inhibition.	2009
Dr Andrew Robertson Professor Michael Griffin Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Professor John Dark et al.	Aspiration in the Immediate Post Lung Transplantation Period	2009
Dr Andrew Robertson Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Professor Andrew Fisher Dr James Lordan et al.	Aspiration Secondary to Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux but not Duodenal Reflux Occurs in the Immediate Post Lung Transplantation Period	2009
Professor John Dark Dr Janet McComb	Biventricular pacing after cardiac surgery	2009
Dr Honey Thomas Professor John Dark Professor Helen Arthur Professor Bernard Keavney	Circulating endothelial progenitor cell numbers are not associated with donor organ age or allograft vasculopathy in cardiac transplant recipients	2009
Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Therese Small Dr James Lordan Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	Longitudinal changes in gastro-oesophageal reflux from 3 months to 6 months after lung transplantation	2009
Professor John Dark	More and better donors for cardiac transplantation	2009
Dr Anthony Rostron Dr David Cork Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Norepinephrine and Arginine Vasopressin Increase Hepatic but Not Renal Inflammatory Activation During Hemodynamic Resuscitation in a Rodent Model of Brain-dead Donors	2009
Dr Abraham Samuel Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Novalung enables protective ventilation in acute lung injury	2009
Dr Andrew Robertson Professor Michael Griffin Professor Jeffrey Pearson Dr Ian Forrest Professor John Dark et al.	Targeting Allograft Injury and Inflammation in the Management of Post-Lung Transplant Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome	2009
Rachel Stovold Dr Ian Forrest Dr James Lordan Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark et al.	Temporal Patterns of Lung Pepsin Levels in Allografts Suggest Aspiration Is an Ongoing Injury, Which Can Occur Early Following Lung Transplantation	2009
Danai Karamanou Dr Hannah Walden Stephen Clark Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	The effect of ex vivo lung perfusion on proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the human lung	2009
Professor John Dark	Twenty Years Experience of Heart Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Disease	2009
Dr John Brain Dr Anthony Rostron Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor John Kirby	Activation and modulation of cardiac poly-adenosine diphosphate ribose polymerase activity in a rat model of brain death	2008
Vassillios Avlonitis Chris Wigfield Dr Huw Golledge Dr Anthony Rostron Emeritus Professor John Kirby et al.	Brain stem auditory evoked response for confirmation of brain death in the rat	2008
Dr Anthony Rostron Vassillios Avlonitis Dr David Cork Danielle Grenade Emeritus Professor John Kirby et al.	Hemodynamic Resuscitation With Arginine Vasopressin Reduces Lung Injury After Brain Death in the Transplant Donor	2008
Dr David Crossland Dr Doris Rassl Dr Fiona Black Professor John Dark Julian Smith et al.	Histology of the explanted hearts of children transplanted for dilated cardiomyopathy	2008
Chris Wigfield Therese Small Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher	Lung function after single lung transplantation (SLTx): Emphysema versus pulmonary fibrosis	2008
Professor Anthony De Soyza Dr James Lordan Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark Professor Kate Gould et al.	Outcomes of lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis in a large UK cohort	2008
Phil Botha Dr Rachel Anderson Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark Katherine Gould et al.	Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization of the allograft after lung transplantation and the risk of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome	2008
Dr Andrew Robertson Professor Michael Griffin Professor Christopher Ward Professor Jeffrey Pearson Anne Bredenoord et al.	Qualitative and quantitative assessments of aspiration in the immediate post-lung transplantation period	2008
Phil Botha Professor John Dark Dr Guy MacGowan	Sildenafil citrate enhances myocardial protection in cardiac transplantation	2008
Phil Botha Dr Kathleen White Professor John Dark	Smoking after cardiac transplantation	2008
Dr Anthony Rostron Vassillios Avlonitis Dr David Cork Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor John Kirby et al.	The contribution of toll-like receptors (TLR) to brain death-induced donor lung inflammation	2008
Dr Doug Aitchison Professor John Dark	Aortic valve replacement in octogenarians	2007
Professor John Dark	Audit of 3 months data of reasons for the non-use of thoracic organs in the United Kingdom	2007
Vassillios Avlonitis Chris Wigfield Dr Huw Golledge Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark et al.	Early hemodynamic injury during donor brain death determines the severity of primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation	2007
Dr Anthony Rostron Vassillios Avlonitis Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Hemodynamic resuscitation of the brain-dead organ donor and the potential role of vasopressin	2007
Phil Botha Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark Stephen Clark	Inhaled nitric oxide for modulation of ischemia-reperfusion injury in lung transplantation	2007
Phil Botha Professor John Dark Dr Guy MacGowan	Intravenous sildenafil citrate for selective pulmonary vasodilatation in heart failure	2007
Dr Josephine Wardle Professor John Dark	Lung transplantation from deceased donors without pretreatment	2007
Rachel Stovold Dr Ian Forrest Professor John Dark Professor Jeffrey Pearson Professor Christopher Ward et al.	Pepsin, a biomarker of gastric aspiration in lung allografts: A putative association with rejection	2007
Rachel Stovold Dr Ian Forrest Julie Smith Professor John Dark Professor Jeffrey Pearson et al.	Pepsin, a biomarker of gastric aspiration in lung allografts: a putative association with rejection	2007
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor Kate Gould Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark	Pseudomembranous colitis in four patients with cystic fibrosis following lung transplantation	2007
Dr Anthony Rostron Vassillios Avlonitis David Cork Danielle Grenade Emeritus Professor John Kirby et al.	Resuscitation of the brain dead organ donor with arginine vasopressin (AVP) - An alternative vasoconstrictor	2007
Professor Kate Gould Dr Muhammad Raza Professor John Dark	Single centre experience of cystic febrosis patients colonized with Scedosporium apiospermum prior to lung transplantation	2007
Dr Gerard Meachery Professor Anthony De Soyza Dr James Lordan Professor Kate Gould Professor John Dark et al.	Survival outcomes following lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis patients infected with burkholderia cenocepacia - A UK experience	2007
Professor Kate Gould Professor Andrew Fisher Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark	Twenty six years experience of lymphoproliferative disease following lung transplantation (PTLD)	2007
Dr Neil Archibald Dr Fiona Black Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark	Carbamazepine-induced interstitial pneumonitis in a lung transplant patient	2006
Phil Botha Dr Rachel Anderson Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark Professor Kate Gould et al.	Colonization of lung transplant recipients with Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and the development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.	2006
Phil Botha Professor John Dark	Differential pulmonary vein gases predict primary graft dysfunction	2006
T Pillay John Hamilton Professor John Dark Dr Antoinette Kenny	Dobutamine stress echocardiography is highly accurate for the prediction of contractile reserve in the early postoperative period, but may underestimate late recovery in contractile reserve after revascularization of the hibernating myocardium	2006
Vassillios Avlonitis Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Donor treatment with nitric oxide does not improve reperfusion injury after transplantation of lungs damaged by brain death.	2006
Rachel Stovold Dr Ian Forrest Dr Desmond Murphy Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark et al.	Evidence of increased gastric aspiration in acute lung allograft rejection	2006
Phil Botha Professor John Dark Dr Stephan Schueler	Extended donor criteria in lung transplantation: Impact on organ allocation	2006
Phil Botha Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Marginal lung donors: A diminishing margin of safety?	2006
Dr Janet McComb Professor John Dark	Temporary left ventricular pacing after cardiac surgery - Reply to Fernandez et at	2006
Vassillios Avlonitis Dr Anthony Rostron Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	The donor lung improves with time and aprotinin treatment after brain death	2006
Phil Botha Dr Rachel Anderson Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark Professor Kate Gould et al.	The role of primary graft dysfunction or recurrent acute rejection episodes in the development of Pseudomonas colonisation after lung transplantation	2006
Dr Rodney Bexton Dr Chris Plummer Professor John Dark Dr Fiona Black Dr James Lordan et al.	Aortic regurgitation and Churg-Strauss syndrome	2005
Professor Christopher Ward Suzanne Scorfield Phil Botha Professor John Dark Dr Peter Middleton et al.	Association between the genotype of the TNF locus and acute rejection following lung transplant	2005
Professor Christopher Ward Dr Robert Rutherford Professor Andrew Fisher Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark et al.	Azithromycin reverses airflow obstruction in established bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome	2005
Vassillios Avlonitis Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Brain-death-related mechanisms of reperfusion injury after lung transplantation	2005
Phil Botha Dr Kathleen White Professor John Dark	Donor hearts with coronary artery disease - An under utilised resource in cardiac transplantation?	2005
Vassillios Avlonitis Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Early hemodynamic lung injury during donor brain death enhances reperfusion injury after lung transplantation	2005
Dr Ian Forrest Dr James Lordan Dr Gary Pritchard Professor David Jones Dr Helen Robertson et al.	Epithelial to mesenchymal transition in clinically stable lung transplant recipients	2005
Dr Laura Mackay Dr Rachel Anderson Dr James Lordan Professor John Dark Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	Factors influencing success of achieving lung transplantation in patients with pulmonary fibrosis placed on the waiting list 1999-2004	2005
Dr Robert Rutherford Professor Andrew Fisher Colin Hilton Professor Kate Gould Professor John Dark et al.	Functional status and quality of life in patients surviving 10 years after lung transplantation	2005
Dr Lindsay Nicholson Professor Christopher Ward Professor John Dark Dr Peter Middleton	Genetic polymorphisms and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome post lung transplantation	2005
Professor Christopher Ward Dr Helen Robertson Dr Ian Forrest Dr James Lordan Denis Murphy et al.	Hypothesis: Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is a common cause of chronic allograft failure	2005
Dr Stephen Bourke Professor John Dark	Lung transplantation outcome in cystic fibrosis patients with previous pneumothorax	2005
Dr Ian Forrest Professor John Dark Professor Kate Gould	Negative association between CMV-viraemia and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients	2005
Professor Christopher Ward Dr Ian Forrest Dr Iain Brownlee Professor Jeffrey Pearson Professor John Dark et al.	Pepsin like activity in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid is suggestive of gastric aspiration in lung allografts	2005
Professor Christopher Ward Dr Ian Forrest Dr Helen Robertson Emeritus Professor Tim Cawston Professor Andrew Fisher et al.	Phenotype of airway epithelial cells suggests epithelial to mesenchymal cell transition in clinically stable lung transplant recipients	2005
Professor John Dark Dr Stephan Schueler	Report of the ISHLT Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction part III: Donor-related risk factors and markers	2005
Dr Janet McComb Professor John Dark	Temporary left ventricular pacing improves haemodynamic performance in patients requiring epicardial pacing post cardiac surgery	2005
Vassillios Avlonitis Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	The effect of time from donor brain death to retrieval on reperfusion injury after lung transplantation	2005
Vassillios Avlonitis Chris Wigfield Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	The hemodynamic mechanisms of lung injury and systemic inflammatory response following brain death in the transplant donor	2005
Professor Andrew Fisher Dr Robert Rutherford Dr Joseph Bozzino Professor John Dark	The safety and efficacy of total lymphoid irradiation in progressive bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation	2005
John Hamilton Dr Jon Smith Dr Jonathan Wallis Dr Patrick Kesteven Dr John O'Sullivan et al.	ABO-incompatible heart transplantation in infants: The Freeman Hospital experience	2004
Professor John Dark	Alternatives to lung donor shortage	2004
Dr Janet McComb Professor John Dark	Biventricular pacing improves haemodynamic performance post-cardiac surgery	2004
Professor Christopher Ward Dr Iain Brownlee Dr Ian Forrest Dr Thomas Ward Dr Desmond Murphy et al.	Clinically silent gastric aspiration is common in lung allografts	2004
Professor John Dark	Diagnosis of lung rejection	2004
Dr Daniel Raine Professor John Dark Dr John Bourke	Effect of mitral valve repair/replacement surgery on atrial arrhythmia behavior	2004
Vassillios Avlonitis Chris Wigfield Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Elimination of the hemodynamic sequelae of brain death prevents systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and acute lung injury (ALI) in the transplant donor	2004
Dr Ian Forrest Dr James Lordan Dr Helen Robertson Emeritus Professor Tim Cawston Professor John Dark et al.	Epithelial to mesenchymal transition in clinically stable lung transplantation	2004
Dr Leslie Mitchell Professor John Dark	First report of No-React bovine internal mammary artery performance and patency	2004
Professor John Dark Dr Stephan Schueler Dr Jon Smith	Mechanical versus medical bridge to transplantation in children. What is the best timing for mechanical bridge?	2004
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Objective assessment of criteria for selection of donor lungs suitable for transplantation	2004
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Objective evaluation of selection criteria to assess donor lung suitability show poor discrimination of infection or inflammation	2004
Dr Iain Brownlee Professor Christopher Ward Dr Ian Forrest Dr Gary Pritchard Professor John Dark et al.	Pepsin detection in the lungs of transplant patients: Evidence of gastric refluxate	2004
Vassillios Avlonitis Dr Hazel Powell Professor Kate Gould Professor John Dark	Bacterial colonization of the donor lower airways is a predictor of poor outcome in lung transplantation	2003
Professor John Dark	Early efficacy and late outcome of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in cardiac transplant recipients	2003
Dr Robert Rutherford Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark Colin Hilton	Functional status of 10 year survivors after lung transplantation	2003
Professor Simi Ali Emeritus Professor John Kirby Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Professor John Dark	Improvements in lung compliance after pulmonary transplantation: Correlation with interleukin 8 expression	2003
Professor John Dark	Intrathoracic transplantation	2003
Colin Hilton Professor John Dark	Mediastinitis in heart and lung transplantation: 15 years experience	2003
Dr Doug Aitchison Hannah Orr Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark et al.	Nitric oxide during perfusion improves posttransplantation function of non-heart-beating donor lungs	2003
Professor Anthony De Soyza Professor John Dark	Outcomes of 92 adult CF patients referred to a UK transplant centre; Single centre prognostic modelling	2003
Professor John Dark	Pediatric cardiac transplant: Results using a steroid-free maintenance regimen	2003
Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Professor John Dark	Pentoxifylline is as effective as leukocyte depletion for modulating pulmonary reperfusion injury	2003
Colin Hilton Professor John Dark	Perfadex for clinic lung procurement: is it an advance?	2003
T Pillay Colin Hilton Professor John Dark	Perfadex for clinical lung procurement: is it an advance?	2003
Professor Anthony De Soyza Dr Josephine Wardle Professor John Dark	Pulmonary transplantation for cystic fibrosis: Pre-transplant recipient characteristics in patients dying of peri-operative sepsis	2003
Vassillios Avlonitis Professor Andrew Fisher Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark	Pulmonary transplantation: The role of brain death in donor lung injury	2003
John Hamilton Professor John Dark	Unilateral pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for iatrogenic pulmonary hypertension in a ten-year-old child	2003
Dr John Perry Professor John Dark Professor Kate Gould	Activity of disinfectants against gram-negative bacilli isolated from patients undergoing lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis	2002
Chris Wigfield Dr Huw Golledge Dr Brian Shenton Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark et al.	Ameliorated reperfusion injury in lung transplantation after reduction of brain death induced inflammatory graft damage in the donor	2002
Professor John Dark	Concurrent coronary grafting of the donor heart with left internal mammary artery: 10-year experience	2002
Muhammed Gok Dr Brian Shenton Dr Helen Robertson Dr Marie Mathers Dr Doug Aitchison et al.	Improving the quality of kidneys from non-heartbeating donors, using streptokinase: An animal model	2002
Dr Stephen Bourke Professor John Dark	Lung transplantation outcome in cystic fibrosis patients with previous pleural procedures	2002
Professor Andrew Fisher Dr Josephine Wardle Professor John Dark	Non-immune acute graft injury after lung transplantation and the risk of subsequent bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS)	2002
Professor Anthony De Soyza Katherine Gould Professor John Dark	Sequential single lung transplantation for septic lung disease; A single centre comparison between CF and non-CF bronchiectasis	2002
Muhammed Gok Dr Brian Shenton Dr David Mantle Professor John Dark David Talbot et al.	Use of streptokinase in a non-heart-beating donor animal model	2002
Dr Philip Langley Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor Alan Murray	Variability of body surface impedance measurements in cardiac transplant patients and normal subjects	2002
Colin Hilton Professor John Dark	Bilateral lung transplant: The procedure of choice for end-stage septic lung disease	2001
Professor Anthony De Soyza Professor John Dark Katherine Gould	Burkholderia cepacia complex genomovars and pulmonary transplantation outcomes in patients with cystic fibrosis	2001
Professor John Dark	Controlled perfusion of the transplanted lung	2001
Professor Anthony De Soyza Professor John Dark	Donor acquired small cell lung cancer following pulmonary transplantation	2001
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Elevated levels of interleukin-8 in donor lungs is associated with early graft failure after lung transplantation	2001
Dr Ahmed Chishti Professor John Dark Dr Patrick Kesteven Dr Hazel Powell Dr Christopher Snowden et al.	Expression of chemokine receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 during cardiopulmonary bypass	2001
Dr Doug Aitchison Hannah Orr Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Emeritus Professor John Kirby Professor John Dark et al.	Functional assessment of non-heart-beating donor lungs: Prediction of post-transplant function	2001
Dr Brian Shenton Professor Derek Manas Professor John Dark David Talbot Alison Bell et al.	Immune monitoring of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) treatment in transplant patients	2001
Dr Andrew Turner Dr Janice Wheeler Professor Kate Gould Professor John Dark	LightCycler-based quantitative PCR for detection of cytomegalovirus in blood, urine, and respiratory samples	2001
Dr Philip Langley Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor Alan Murray	Relationship between QT dispersion and a heart failure survival score	2001
Dr Nadeem Moghal Professor John Dark Dr John O'Sullivan	Renal function after pediatric cardiac transplantation: The effect of early cyclosporin dosage	2001
Barry Cumberledge Dr Antoinette Kenny Professor John Dark John Hamilton	Time course and magnitude of improvement in resting LV function, contractile reserve and functional capacity in patients with hibernating myocardium undergoing surgical revascularization	2001
Muhammed Gok Dr Brian Shenton Dr Doug Aitchison Professor John Dark David Talbot et al.	Viability assessment of non-heart beating donor kidneys: Alanine-aminopeptidase and glutathione s-transferase: An animal model	2001
Professor John Dark	What have we learnt from the Alder Hey affair? February 2001 seems to have been average month for organ donations in Newcastle	2001
Dr Katherine Eastham Professor John Dark	Heart and heart-lung transplantation in Down's syndrome: the lack of supportive evidence means each case must be carefully assessed	2000
Professor John Dark	Long-term follow-up of pediatric cardiac transplant recipients on a steroid-free regime: The role of endomyocardial biopsy	2000
Professor John Dark	Orthotopic heart transplantation with concurrent aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting	2000
Dr Philip Langley Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor Alan Murray	QT dispersion analysis of a transplant assessment group	2000
Professor John Dark Emeritus Professor John Gibson	Tests of airway function in detecting and monitoring treatment of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation	2000
Stephen Clark Dr Johnny Roughan Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Professor John Dark	A new porcine model of reperfusion injury after lung transplantation	1999
Professor John Dark	A technique for insertion of self-expanding tracheal and bronchial stents	1999
Dr Andrew Owens John Hamilton Professor John Dark	Early results with the Carbo-seal (R) composite valve conduit for aortic root replacement	1999
Professor John Dark Dr Janet McComb	Electrophysiological properties of the recipient atrial remnant after human orthotopic cardiac transplantation	1999
Professor Andrew Fisher Professor John Dark	Enhanced pulmonary inflammation in organ donors following fatal non-traumatic brain injury	1999
Dr Johnny Roughan Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Professor John Dark	Modulation of reperfusion injury after single lung transplantation by pentoxifylline, inositol polyanions, and SIN-1	1999
Chris Wigfield John Hamilton Professor John Dark	Paediatric cardiac transplant surgery has improved	1999
Dr Josephine Wardle Professor Anthony De Soyza Professor John Dark	Pulmonary transplantation in cystic fibrosis (CF): Second organ dysfunction at 3 years post transplantation	1999
Dr Felicity May Professor John Dark	Enteroviruses and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy	1991