Jihad Georges Youssef, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Academic Institute
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College


Publications

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of De Novo Belatacept-based Immunosuppression After Lung Transplantation
Huang, HJ, Schechtman, K, Askar, M, Bernadt, C, Mitter, B, Dore, P, Goodarzi, A, Yau, SW, Youssef, JG, Witt, CA, Byers, DE, Vazquez-Guillamet, R, Halverson, L, Nava, R, Puri, V, Kreisel, D, Gelman, AE & Hachem, RR 2024, , Transplantation, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 777-786. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000004841

Use of bivalirudin after initial heparin management among adult patients on long-term venovenous extracorporeal support as a bridge to lung transplant: A case series
Halawi, H, Harris, JE, Goodarzi, A, Yau, S, Youssef, JG, Botros, M & Huang, HJ 2024, , Pharmacotherapy, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 283-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/phar.2910

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of De Novo Belatacept-based Immunosuppression After Lung Transplantation
Huang, HJ, Schechtman, K, Askar, M, Bernadt, C, Mitter, B, Dore, P, Goodarzi, A, Yau, SW, Youssef, JG, Witt, CA, Byers, DE, Vazquez-Guillamet, R, Halverson, L, Nava, R, Puri, V, Kreisel, D, Gelman, AE & Hachem, RR 2024, , Transplantation, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 777-786. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000004841

Intravenous aviptadil and remdesivir for treatment of COVID-19-associated hypoxaemic respiratory failure in the USA (TESICO): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial
ACTIV-3b/Therapeutics for Severely Ill Inpatients with COVID-19 (TESICO) Study Group 2023, , The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 791-803. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(23)00147-9

The Use of IV Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (Aviptadil) in Patients With Critical COVID-19 Respiratory Failure: Results of a 60-Day Randomized Controlled Trial*
Youssef, JG, Lavin, P, Schoenfeld, DA, Lee, RA, Lenhardt, R, Park, DJ, Fernandez, JP, Morganroth, ML, Javitt, JC & Jayaweera, D 2022, , Critical Care Medicine, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 1545-1554. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000005660

Brief Report: Rapid Clinical Recovery From Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Respiratory Failure in a Pregnant Patient Treated With IV Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide
Youssef, JG, Bitar, MZ, Zahiruddin, F, Al-Saadi, MA, Elshawwaf, M, Yau, SW, Goodarzi, A & Javitt, JC 2022, , Critical Care Explorations, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. E0607. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000607

Belatacept dosing in Lung Transplantation: is there a Method to the Madness?
Pham, C, Pierce, BJ, Yau, SW, Youssef, GJ, Goodarzi, A & Huang, HJ 2021, , OBM Transplantation, vol. 5, no. 3. https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.transplant.2103152

G6PD deficiency and severity of COVID19 pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome: tip of the iceberg?
Youssef, JG, Zahiruddin, F, Youssef, G, Padmanabhan, S, Ensor, J, Pingali, SR, Zu, Y, Sahay, S & Iyer, SP 2021, , Annals of Hematology, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 667-673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-021-04395-1

Long-Term Survival in Bilateral Lung Transplantation for Scleroderma-Related Lung Disease
Chan, EY, Goodarzi, A, Sinha, N, Nguyen, DT, Youssef, JG, Suarez, EE, Kaleekal, T, Graviss, EA, Bruckner, BA, MacGillivray, TE & Scheinin, SA 2018, , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 893-900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.09.038

Long-term Survival in Bilateral Lung Transplantation for Scleroderma-Related Lung Disease
Chan, EY, Goodarzi, A, Sinha, N, Nguyen, DTM, Youssef, JG, Suarez, EE, Kaleekal, TS, Graviss, EA, Bruckner, BA, MacGillivray, TE & Scheinin, SA 2017, , The Annals of thoracic surgery.

A randomized trial of inhaled cyclosporine in lung-transplant recipients
Iacono, AT, Johnson, BA, Grgurich, WF, Youssef, JG, Corcoran, TE, Seiler, DA, Dauber, JH, Smaldone, GC, Zeevi, A, Yousem, SA, Fung, JJ, Burckart, GJ, McCurry, KR & Griffith, BP 2006, , New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 354, no. 2, pp. 141-150. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa043204

Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors in Lungs and Airways: Molecular Basis for Glutamate Toxicity
Dickman, KG, Youssef, JG, Mathew, SM & Said, SI 2004, , American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 139-144. https://doi.org/10.1165/rcmb.2003-0177OC