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Afif Kraitem MD

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentAnesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
AddressUmass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Ave N
Worcester MA 01655-0002
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentAnesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
    DivisionCardiac Anesthesiology


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    1. Bryant J, Settlemire B, Ahmad A, Deegan R, Neumann DA, Sileshi B, Williams A, Bommareddi S, Trahanas J, Schlendorf K, Petrovic M, Wang CC, Kraitem A, Duggal N, Ziegler T, Jhaveri A, Baker M, Pretorius M, Shah A, Jelly CA, Lima B. Use of intraoperative right ventricular strain as a predictor of outcomes in adult heart transplant patients. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2026; 13:1890033. PMID: 42909099.
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    2. Kraitem A, Brennan KA. Anesthetic and Analgesic Considerations in Pregnant Patients With Cardiac Disease. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2026 Aug 21. PMID: 42627053.
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    3. Mondal S, Cofer S, Brush M, Bharadwaj S, Wilson E, Augoustides JG, Ernst LR, Fernando RJ, Kraitem A, Meng ML. Anesthetic Management of a Patient With a Single Ventricle and Fontan Circulation Presenting for an Emergency Cesarean Birth. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2026 Sep; 40(9):3029-3038. PMID: 42069456.
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    4. Zoppo CT, Kolstad JW, King RM, Wolfe T, Kraitem A, Vardar Z, Badruddin A, Pereira E, Guerrero BP, Rosqueta AS, Ughi GJ, Gounis MJ, Zaidat OO, Anagnostakou V. A novel intrasaccular aneurysm device with high complete occlusion rate: initial results in a rabbit model. J Neurointerv Surg. 2024 Aug 14; 16(9):928-933. PMID: 37527927.
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    5. Shazeeb MS, Moholkar V, King RM, Vedantham S, Vardar Z, Kraitem A, Lindsay C, Anagnostakou V, Singh J, Massari F, de Macedo Rodrigues K, Naragum V, Puri AS, Carniato S, Gounis MJ, Kühn AL. Assessment of thrombectomy procedure difficulty by neurointerventionalists based on vessel geometry parameters from carotid artery 3D reconstructions. J Clin Neurosci. 2023 Jul; 113:121-125. PMID: 37262981.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Shazeeb MS, King RM, Anagnostakou V, Vardar Z, Kraitem A, Kolstad J, Raskett C, Le Moan N, Winger JA, Kelly L, Krtolica A, Henninger N, Gounis MJ. Novel Oxygen Carrier Slows Infarct Growth in Large Vessel Occlusion Dog Model Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis. Stroke. 2022 04; 53(4):1363-1372. PMID: 35306836.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    7. Epshtein M, Levi M, Kraitem AM, Zidan H, King RM, Gawaz M, Gounis MJ, Korin N. Biophysical targeting of high-risk cerebral aneurysms. Bioeng Transl Med. 2022 Jan; 7(1):e10251. PMID: 35079628.
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    8. Nikoubashman O, Kraitem A, Arslanian R, Gounis MJ, Sichtermann T, Wiesmann M. Preventing Inadvertent Foreign Body Injection in Angiography. Radiology. 2021 05; 299(2):460-467. PMID: 33687288.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansPHPublic Health
    9. Vardar Z, King RM, Kraitem A, Langan ET, Peterson LM, Duncan BH, Raskett CM, Anagnostakou V, Gounis MJ, Puri AS, Ughi GJ. High-resolution image-guided WEB aneurysm embolization by high-frequency optical coherence tomography. J Neurointerv Surg. 2021 Jul; 13(7):669-673. PMID: 32989033.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    10. Kühn AL, Vardar Z, Kraitem A, King RM, Anagnostakou V, Puri AS, Gounis MJ. Biomechanics and hemodynamics of stent-retrievers. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2020 12; 40(12):2350-2365. PMID: 32428424.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    11. Kouzy R, Abi Jaoude J, Kraitem A, El Alam MB, Karam B, Adib E, Zarka J, Traboulsi C, Akl EW, Baddour K. Coronavirus Goes Viral: Quantifying the COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic on Twitter. Cureus. 2020 Mar 13; 12(3):e7255. PMID: 32292669.
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