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David Torres Barba

University of California San Diego
Verified email at health.ucsd.edu
Cited by 282

Lung transplant outcomes in systemic sclerosis with significant esophageal dysfunction. A comprehensive single-center experience

…, M Lo, E Volkmann, D Torres Barba… - Annals of the …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Consideration of lung transplantation in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc)
remains guarded, often due to the concern for esophageal dysfunction and the associated …

Identifying psychogenic seizures through comorbidities and medication history

…, ES Hwang, EC Davis, A Buchard, D TorresBarba… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Low‐cost evidence‐based tools are needed to facilitate the early identification of
patients with possible psychogenic nonepileptic seizures ( PNES ). Prior to accurate …

An objective score to identify psychogenic seizures based on age of onset and history

…, ES Hwang, EC Davis, A Buchard, D Torres-Barba… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES) is a common diagnosis after evaluation
of medication resistant or atypical seizures with video-electroencephalographic monitoring (…

Image processing techniques for assessing contractility in isolated adult cardiac myocytes

C Bazan, DT Barba, P Blomgren, P Paolini - Journal of Biomedical …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
We describe a computational framework for the comprehensive assessment of contractile
responses of enzymatically dissociated adult cardiac myocytes. The proposed methodology …

Diagnostic implications of review-of-systems questionnaires to differentiate epileptic seizures from psychogenic seizures

…, AM Chau, ES Hwang, EC Davis, D Torres-Barba… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Early and accurate diagnosis of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES)
leads to appropriate treatment and improves long-term seizure prognosis. However, …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability of reported peri-ictal behavior to identify psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

…, ES Hwang, EC Davis, A Buchard, D Torres-Barba… - Seizure, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Differentiating psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) from epileptic seizures (ES)
can be difficult, even when expert clinicians have video recordings of seizures. Moreover…

Developmental and extracellular matrix-remodeling processes in rosiglitazone-exposed neonatal rat cardiomyocytes

P Paolini, D Pick, J Lapira, G Sannino… - …, 2014 - Future Medicine
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of rosiglitazone (Avandia
® ) on gene expression in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes. Materials & methods: Myocytes …

[HTML][HTML] Image processing techniques for assessing contractility in isolated neonatal cardiac myocytes

C Bazan, DT Barba, P Blomgren… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2011 - hindawi.com
We describe a computational framework for the quantitative assessment of contractile
responses of isolated neonatal cardiac myocytes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first …

[HTML][HTML] Nocturnal respiratory rate dynamics enable early recognition of impending hospitalizations

N Harrington, DT Barba, QM Bui, A Wassell, S Khurana… - medRxiv, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The days and weeks preceding hospitalization are poorly understood because they transpire
before patients are seen in conventional clinical care settings. Home health sensors offer …

Contractility assessment in enzymatically isolated cardiomyocytes

C Bazan, DT Barba, T Hawkins, H Nguyen… - Biophysical …, 2012 - Springer
The use of enzymatically isolated cardiac myocytes is ubiquitous in modern cardiovascular
research. Parallels established between cardiomyocyte shortening responses and those of …