Alan C. Yeung, MD

Division Chief, Cardiology · Professor of Medicine

Non-Invasive methods of assessing vascular endothelial function so that we can better stratify high risk coronary artery disease patients.
Structural and functional studies of atherosclerosis in transplant coronary artery disease patients in order to define the relationship between the two.
Intravascular ultrasound studies to define the time-course in the devlopment of transplant coronary disease.
Development of novel techniques to deliver drug imbedded particles into the atherosclerotic wall.
Study the restenosis process in a vivo pig model.

Yeung AC., Meredith IT, Anderson TJ, Uehata A, Selwyn AP, Ganz P
"The relationship between intimal structure assessed by intravascular ultrasound and endothelial function in human coronary atherosclerosis."
Circulation (In press).
Giannetti N, Herity NA, Alimollah A, Gao SZ, Schroeder JS, Yeung AC, Hunt SA, Valantine HA
"Mild hyperhomocysteinemia is not associated with cardiac allograft coronary disease."
Clin Transplant 2001; 15: 4: 247-52
Gao HZ, Hunt SA, Alderman EL, Liang D, Yeung AC, Schroeder JS
"Relation of donor age and preexisting coronary artery disease on angiography and intracoronary ultrasound to later development of accelerated allograft coronary artery disease."
J Am Coll Cardiol 1997; 29: 3: 623-9
Lim TT, Botas J, Ross H, Liang DH, Theodore J, Hunt SA, Oesterle SN, Yeung AC
"Are heart-lung transplant recipients protected from developing transplant coronary artery disease? A case-matched intracoronary ultrasound study."
Circulation 1996; 94: 7: 1573-7
Anderson TJ, Meredith IT, Uehata A, Mudge GH, Selwyn AP, Ganz P, Yeung AC
"Functional significance of intimal thickening as detected by intravascular ultrasound early and late after cardiac transplantation."
Circulation 1993; 88: 3: 1093-100