Prof Vernon Oh (Senior Consultant)
1. Oh VMS, Taylor EA. Reversible inhibition of leucocyte sodium pumps by a circulating serum factor in essential hypertension. British Medical Journal 1986; 292, 1551-1555.
2. Lee KO, Taylor EA, Oh VMS. Cheah JS, Aw SE. Hyperinsulinaemia in thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis. The Lancet 1991; 337:1063-1064.
3. Rudwaleit M, Gibson K, Wordsworth P, Oh VMS. HLA associations of systemic lupus erythematosus in Chinese from Singapore. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 1995; 54:686-687.
4. Lee YW, Oh VMS, Garcia E, et al. (2004). Haplotypes of the beta2-adrenergic receptor gene are associated with essential hypertension in a Singaporean Chinese population. Journal of Hypertension 2004; 22:2111-2116.
5. Lim LH, Webb GD, Oh VMS, et al. Biosynthesis and vasorelaxant effect of hydrogen sulfide in human arteries: reduced enzyme for H2S synthesis in diabetic patients. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2008; 324:876-882.
Dr Reshma Merchant (Senior Consultant)
1. Merchant RA, Lui KL, Ismail NH, Sitoh YY. The relationship between postoperative complications and outcomes after hip fracture surgery. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2005 Mar;34(2):163-8.
2. Liang Feng, Chay-Hoon Tan, Reshma A Merchant, Tze-Pin Ng. (2008) Association between Depressive Symptoms and Use of HMG-CoA Reductase. Inhibitors (Statins),Corticosteroids and Histamine H2 Receptor Antagonists in Community-Dwelling Older Persons: Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Population-Based Cohort Drugs and Aging 2008, 25 (9)
3 Melvin PW Chua , Tan Chay Hoon, Reshma Merchant, Roy L Soiza MM. (2008). Singapore medical students’ attitudes towards older people and willingness to consider a career in Geriatric Medicine. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2008 Nov;37(11):947-51
4 Reshma A Merchant, Bintao Li, Keng-Bee Yap, Tze-Pin Ng (2008). Anticholinergic Drug Use and Cognitive Impairment in Community-Living Older Persons. Age Ageing. 2009 Jan;38(1):105-8. Epub 2008 Nov 13
5 I.Leong, Siew PC, Tan BY, Sitoh YY, Ang YH, Reshma A Merchant, Pang Weng Sun (2008). Factors affecting unplanned readmissions from community hospitals to acute hospitals: a prospective observational study. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2009 Feb;38(2):113-20
Dr Aisha Lateef (Consultant)
1. Aisha Lateef, A/P Dale Fisher, A/P Paul Ananth Tambyah, Dengue fever and relative Bradycardia, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 13, Number 4–April 2007, available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/4/650.htm
2. Aisha Lateef, Kueh Y.K, Severe Intra-abdominal Haemorrhage : A Consequence of Two Coinciding Events, SMJ 2007; 48(9) : e237.
3. Aisha Lateef, Anita Lim, Transient loss of vision and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Ann Acad Med Singapore 2007;36:146-9.
4. Aisha Lateef, Sheila Vasoo, Boey Mee Leng, Soft Tissue Manifestations of Mycobacterial Infection in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases, Ann Acad Med Singapore 2007;36:152-3.
5. Aisha Lateef, Khoo See Meng, Lee Kang Hoe, Procalcitonin in hypoxic brain damage, Intensive care medicine, 2005; 31:494.
Dr Dariusz Olszyna (Consultant)
1. Olszyna DP, Verbon A, Pribble JP, Turner T, Axtelle T, van Deventer SJ, van der Poll T. Effect of IC14, an anti-CD14 antibody, on plasma and cell-associated chemokines during human endotoxemia. Eur Cytokine Netw. 2003 Jul-Sep;14(3):158-62.
2. Baan AH, Vermeulen H, van der Meulen J, Bossuyt P, Olszyna D, Gouma DJ. The effect of suprapubic catheterization versus transurethral catheterization after abdominal surgery on urinary tract infection: a randomized controlled trial. Dig Surg. 2003;20(4):290-5.
3. Branger J, van den Blink B, Weijer S, Madwed J, Bos CL, Gupta A, Yong CL,
Polmar SH, Olszyna DP, Hack CE, van Deventer SJ, Peppelenbosch MP, van der Poll T. Anti-inflammatory effects of a p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitor during human endotoxemia. J Immunol. 2002 Apr 15;168(8):4070-7.
4. Olszyna DP, Vermeulen H, Baan AH, Speelman P, van Deventer SJ, Gouma DJ, van der Poll T. Urine interleukin-8 is a marker for urinary tract infection in postoperative patients.Infection. 2001 Oct;29(5):274-7.
5. Olszyna DP, Pajkrt D, van Deventer SJ, van der Poll T. Effect of interleukin 10 on the release of the CXC chemokines growth related oncogene GRO-alpha and epithelial cell-derived neutrophil activating peptide (ENA)-78 during human endotoxemia. Immunol Lett. 2001 Aug 1;78(1):41-4.
6. Olszyna DP, Florquin S, Sewnath M, Branger J, Speelman P, van Deventer SJ,
Strieter RM, van der Poll T. CXC chemokine receptor 2 contributes to host defense in murine urinary tract infection. J Infect Dis. 2001 Aug 1;184(3):301-7.
7. Florquin S, van den Berg JG, Olszyna DP, Claessen N, Opal SM, Weening JJ, van der Poll T. Release of urokinase plasminogen activator receptor during urosepsis and endotoxemia. Kidney Int. 2001 Jun;59(6):2054-61.
8. Sewnath ME, Olszyna DP, Birjmohun R, ten Kate FJ, Gouma DJ, van Der Poll T.
IL-10-deficient mice demonstrate multiple organ failure and increased mortality
during Escherichia coli peritonitis despite an accelerated bacterial clearance.
J Immunol. 2001 May 15;166(10):6323-31.
9. Olszyna DP, De Jonge E, Dekkers PE, van Deventer SJ, van der Poll T. Induction of cell-associated chemokines after endotoxin administration to healthy
humans. Infect Immun. 2001 Apr;69(4):2736-8.
10. Olszyna DP. Cytokines and Chemokines in Systemic and Urinary Tract Infection By Escherichia coli. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 2001.
11. Olszyna DP, Opal SM, Prins JM, Horn DL, Speelman P, van Deventer SJ, van der Poll T. Chemotactic activity of CXC chemokines interleukin-8, growth-related
oncogene-alpha, and epithelial cell-derived neutrophil-activating protein-78 in urine of patients with urosepsis. J Infect Dis. 2000 Dec;182(6):1731-7.
12. Schultz MJ, Olszyna DP, de Jonge E, Verbon A, van Deventer SJ, van der Poll
T. Reduced ex vivo chemokine production by polymorphonuclear cells after in vivo exposure of normal humans to endotoxin. J Infect Dis. 2000 Oct;182(4):1264-7.
13. Juffermans NP, Verbon A, Olszyna DP, van Deventer SJ, Speelman P, van der
Poll T. Thalidomide suppresses Up-regulation of human immunodeficiency virus coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5 on CD4+ T cells in humans. J Infect Dis. 2000 May;181(5):1813-6.
14. Olszyna DP, Pajkrt D, Lauw FN, van Deventer SJ, van Der Poll T. Interleukin 10 inhibits the release of CC chemokines during human endotoxemia. J Infect Dis. 2000 Feb;181(2):613-20.
15. Olszyna DP, Prins JM, Dekkers PE, De Jonge E, Speelman P, Van Deventer SJ,
van der Poll T.Sequential measurements of chemokines in urosepsis and experimental endotoxemia. J Clin Immunol. 1999 Nov;19(6):399-405.
16. Olszyna DP, Prins JM, Buis B, van Deventer SJ, Speelman P, van der Poll T. Levels of inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 1beta in
urine and sera of patients with urosepsis. Infect Immun. 1998 Aug;66(8):3527-34.
17. Olszyna DP, Jaspars R, Speelman P, van Elzakker E, Korver H, Hartskeerl RA. Leptospirosis in the Netherlands, 1991-1995 Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1998 May 30;142(22):1270-3.
Dr Khin Saw Myint (Consultant)
1. KS Myint, I Venkatachalam R Sulong, M Mahadevan, A Wilder-Smith, DA Fisher. Hot Clinics: A Safe, Right-siting Initiative Preventing Hospital Admissions. Oral Presentation at 5th National Clinical Quality Improvement Conference, Singapore, October 2008.
2. KS Myint, N Chan. End-of-Life Care in Non-Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Hospital in Singapore. Oral Presentation at Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 2009.
Dr Manjari Lahiri (Consultant)
1. Mak A, Ho RC, Tan JY, Teng GG, Lahiri M, Lateef A, Vasoo S, Boey ML, Koh DR, Feng PH. Atherogenic serum lipid profile is an independent predictor for gouty flares in patients with gouty arthropathy. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2009;48:262-5
2. Lahiri M, Fisher DA, Tambyah PA. Dengue mortality: reassessing the risks in transition countries. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2008;102:1011-6
3. Lahiri M, Lim AYN. Angioedema and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – A Complementary Association? Ann Acad Med Singapore 2007;36:142-5
Dr Paul Huggan (Consultant)
1. Huggan, P. J. Severe sepsis: take care, take part., Internal Medicine Journal vol 41, I/N 1a, pg 13-18
Dr Kamun Tong (Registrar)
1. Dr Kamun Tong, Dr David Hargroves. Atrial Fibrillation and stroke prevention in elderly people. Geriatric Medicine June 2008
