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Brian D. Hanna, MD, PhD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Thoracic Organ Transplantation
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-5248
Fax: 215-590-1340
Education:
B.S. (Physiology)
University of British Columbia, 1975.
Ph.D. (Physiology)
McGill University, 1979.
MDC.M (Medicine)
McGill University, 1983.
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Description of CVI Expertise

CVI Program Unit(s):
Cardiovascular Development / Congenital Heart Disease
Myocyte Biology / Heart Failure
Pulmonary Vascular Disease

CVI Research Description:
Pulmonary hypertension in children with hypoplastic and diseased lungs.
Heart rate variability in congenital heart disease.

Selected Publications

Morris, M.C., R.I. Godinez, J.D. Portnoy, J. Connelly, J.W. Gaynor, B.D. Hanna, M. Helfaer, R. Ittenbach, T.L. Spray, S.Tabbutt and G. Wernovsky: Risk factors for mortality in 137 Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit patients managed with ECMO. Critical Care Medicine February 2003 Notes: Submitted for publication.

Silvestri J. M., B.D. Hanna, A. S. Volgman, P. J. Jones, S.D. Barnes and D.E. Weese-Mayer: Cardiac rhythm disturbances among children with idiopathic congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. Pediatric Pulmonology 29: 351-358, 2000.

Hanna, B.D., M.N. Nelson, R.C. White-Traut, J.M. Silvestri, U. Vasan, P. Meleedy Rey, M.K. Patel and E. Comiskey: Heart rate variability in preterm brain-injured and very-low-birth-weight infants. Biology of the Neonate 77(3): 147-155, 2000.

Hanna, B.D.: Oops- the balloon burst before the stent was deployed! Pediatr. Cardiol. 19: 66, 1998.

Damenahalli,U., B.D. Hanna, Sharratt, G.P.: Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum: management of coronary arterial anomalies. Cardiology Young 7: 80-87, 1997.

Lloyd, R.J., R. Zinman, G.P. Sharratt and B.D. Hanna: Transvenous closure of patient ductus arteriosus in a sick 2780 g infant. Canadian J. Cardiology 12(1): 300-302, 1996.

Wirrell EC, Camfield PR, Gordon KE, Camfield CS, Dooley JM and B.D. Hanna: Will a critical level of hyperventilation-induced hypocapnia always induce an absence seizure. Epilepsia 37(5): 459-462, 1996.

Human, D.G., L. McIntyre, A. Gniewek, and B.D. Hanna: Technology assessment of non-surgical closure of patent ductus arteriosus: an evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and costs of a new medical device. Pediatrics 96: 703-706, 1995.

Patton, D., B.D. Hanna: Postnatal maturation of baroreflex heart rate control in neonatal swine. Can J Cardiol 10(2): 233-238, 1994.

Gardin, L.L., B.D. Hanna: Ventricular tachycardia as a documented cause of death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Case report. Can J Cardiol 10(5): 548-550, 1994.

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