Mary Ellen Kleinhenz, MD

Santos J, Wang P, Shemesh A, Liu F, Tsao T, Aguilar OA, Cleary SJ, Singer JP, Gao Y, Hays SR, Golden J, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Kolaitis NA, Shah RJ, Venado A, Kukreja J, Weigt SS, Belperio JA, Lanier LL, Looney MR, Greenland JR, Calabrese DR. CCR5 drives NK cell-associated airway damage in pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury. JCI insight 2023. PMID: 37788115

Santos J, Hays SR, Golden JA, Calabrese DR, Kolaitis N, Kleinhenz ME, Shah R, Estrada AV, Leard LE, Kukreja J, Singer JP, Greenland JR. Decreased Lymphocytic Bronchitis Severity in the Era of Azithromycin Prophylaxis. Transplantation direct 2023. PMID: 37575951

Singer JP, Christie JD, Diamond JM, Anderson MA, Benvenuto LA, Gao Y, Arcasoy SM, Lederer DJ, Calabrese D, Wang P, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kolaitis NA, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Golden J, Betancourt L, Oyster M, Zaleski D, Adler J, Kalman L, Balar P, Patel S, Medikonda N, Koons B, Tevald M, Covinsky KE, Greenland JR, Katz PK. Development of the Lung Transplant Frailty Scale (LT-FS). The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2023. PMID: 36925382

Singer JP, Calfee CS, Delucchi K, Diamond JM, Anderson MA, Benvenuto LA, Gao Y, Wang P, Arcasoy SM, Lederer DJ, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kolaitis NA, Leard L LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Golden J, Betancourt L, Oyster M, Brown M, Zaleski D, Medikonda N, Kalman L, Balar P, Patel S, Calabrese DR, Greenland JR, Christie JD. Subphenotypes of frailty in lung transplant candidates. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023. PMID: 36740192

Odisho AY, Liu AW, Maiorano AR, Bigazzi MOA, Medina E, Leard LE, Shah R, Venado A, Perez A, Golden J, Kleinhenz ME, Kolaitis NA, Maheshwari J, Trinh BN, Kukreja J, Greenland J, Calabrese D, Neinstein AB, Singer JP, Hays SR. Design and implementation of a digital health home spirometry intervention for remote monitoring of lung transplant function. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2023. PMID: 37031033

Calabrese DR, Tsao T, Magnen M, Valet C, Gao Y, Mallavia B, Tian JJ, Aminian EA, Wang KM, Shemesh A, Punzalan EB, Sarma A, Calfee CS, Christenson SA, Langelier CR, Hays SR, Golden JA, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Kolaitis NA, Shah RJ, Venado A, Lanier LL, Greenland JR, Sayah DM, Ardehali A, Kukreja J, Weigt SS, Belperio JA, Singer JP, Looney MR. NKG2D receptor activation drives primary graft dysfunction severity and poor lung transplantation outcomes. JCI insight 2022. PMID: 36346670

Kolaitis NA, Gao Y, Soong A, Greenland JR, Hays SR, Golden JA, Venado A, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Katz PP, Kukreja J, Blanc PD, Smith PJ, Singer JP. Depressive symptoms in lung transplant recipients: trajectory and association with mortality and allograft dysfunction. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022. PMID: 35354643

Dugger DT, Calabrese DR, Gao Y, Deiter F, Tsao T, Maheshwari J, Hays SR, Leard L, Kleinhenz ME, Shah R, Golden J, Kukreja J, Gordon ED, Singer JP, Greenland JR. Lung Allograft Epithelium DNA Methylation Age Is Associated With Graft Chronologic Age and Primary Graft Dysfunction. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021. PMID: 34691018

Maheshwari JA, Kolaitis NA, Anderson MR, Benvenuto L, Gao Y, Katz PP, Greenland J, Wolters PJ, Covinsky K, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Calabrese DR, Venado A, Shah RJ, Leard LE, Trinh B, Huang CY, Glidden D, Kleinhenz ME, Golden JA, Sutter N, Tietje-Ulrich G, Criner RN, Arcasoy SM, Christie JD, Diamond J, Singer JP. Construct and Predictive Validity of Sarcopenia in Lung Transplant Candidates. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2021. PMID: 33565917

Anstey KM, Choi L, Dawson D, Kleinhenz ME, Otani IM. Enabling antibiotic allergy evaluations and reintroduction of first-line antibiotics for patients with cystic fibrosis. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2021. PMID: 34048884

. The association of post-operative delirium with patient-reported outcomes and mortality after lung transplantation. Clinical transplantation 2021. PMID: 33682171

Dugger DT, Fung M, Hays SR, Singer JP, Ellen Kleinhenz M, Leard LE, Golden JA, Shah RJ, Lee JS, Deiter F, Greenland NY, Jones KD, Langelier CR, Greenland JR. Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction Small Airways Reveal A Lymphocytic Inflammation Gene Signature. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32885581

Kolaitis NA, Gao Y, Soong A, Greenland JR, Hays SR, Golden J, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Katz PP, Venado A, Kukreja J, Blanc PD, Singer JP. Primary graft dysfunction attenuates improvements in health-related quality of life after lung transplantation, but not disability or depression. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32794295

Dugger DT, Fung M, Zlock L, Caldera S, Sharp L, Hays SR, Singer JP, Leard LE, Golden JA, Shah RJ, Kukreja J, Gordon E, Finkbeiner W, Kleinhenz ME, Langelier C, Greenland JR. Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Recipients Have Suppressed Airway Interferon Responses during Pseudomonas Infection. Cell reports. Medicine 2020. PMID: 32754722

Anstey KM, Lee M, Dawson D, Jue V, Budzik JM, Yu M, Kleinhenz ME, Otani IM. Antibiotic Adverse Reactions in Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patients. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice 2020. PMID: 32673878

Ortiz-Munoz G, Yu MA, Lefrançais E, Mallavia B, Valet C, Tian JJ, Ranucci S, Wang KM, Liu Z, Kwaan N, Dawson D, Kleinhenz ME, Khasawneh FT, Haggie PM, Verkman AS, Looney MR. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator dysfunction in platelets drives lung hyperinflammation. The Journal of clinical investigation 2020. PMID: 31961827

Perez AA, Hays SR, Soong A, Gao Y, Greenland JR, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Golden J, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kleinhenz ME, Singer JP. Improvements in frailty contribute to substantial improvements in quality of life after lung transplantation in patients with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric pulmonology 2020. PMID: 32237273

Mallavia B, Liu F, Lefrançais E, Cleary SJ, Kwaan N, Tian JJ, Magnen M, Sayah DM, Soong A, Chen J, Saggar R, Shino MY, Ross DJ, Derhovanessian A, Lynch Iii JP, Ardehali A, Weigt SS, Belperio JA, Hays SR, Golden JA, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Venado A, Kukreja J, Singer JP, Looney MR. Mitochondrial DNA Stimulates TLR9-Dependent NET Formation in Primary Graft Dysfunction. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 2019. PMID: 31647878

Kolaitis NA, Calabrese DR, Ahearn P, Venado A, Florez R, Lei HL, Isaak K, Henricksen E, Martinez E, Chong T, Shah RJ, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Golden J, De Marco T, Greenland JR, Kukreja J, Hays SR, Blanc PD, Singer JP. Tacrolimus trough monitoring guided by mass spectrometry without accounting for assay differences is associated with acute kidney injury in lung transplant recipients. American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2019. PMID: 31696925

Perez AA, Singer JP, Schwartz BS, Chin-Hong P, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Gao Y, Venado A, Leard LE, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Greenland JR, Hays SR. Management and clinical outcomes after lung transplantation in patients with pre-transplant Mycobacterium abscessus infection: a single center experience. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30924986

Greenland JR, Wang P, Brotman JJ, Ahuja R, Chong TA, Kleinhenz ME, Leard LE, Golden JA, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Singer JP, Rajalingam R, Jones K, Laszik ZG, Trivedi NN, Greenland NY, Blanc PD. Gene signatures common to allograft rejection are associated with lymphocytic bronchitis. Clinical transplantation 2019. PMID: 30849195

Venado A, McCulloch C, Greenland JR, Katz P, Soong A, Shrestha P, Hays S, Golden J, Shah R, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Kukreja J, Zablotska L, Allen IE, Covinsky K, Blanc P, Singer JP. Frailty trajectories in adult lung transplantation: A cohort study. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2019. PMID: 31005571

Kolaitis NA, Soong A, Shrestha P, Zhuo H, Neuhaus J, Katz PP, Greenland JR, Golden J, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Kleinhenz ME, Blanc PD, Singer JP. Improvement in patient-reported outcomes after lung transplantation is not impacted by the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to transplantation. 2018. PMID: 29550072

Kerkhoff AD, Patrick L, Cornett P, Kleinhenz ME, Brondfield S. Severe piperacillin-tazobactam-induced hemolysis in a cystic fibrosis patient. Clinical case reports 2017. PMID: 29225856

Singer JP, Katz PP, Soong A, Shrestha P, Huang D, Ho J, Mindo M, Greenland JR, Hays SR, Golden J, Kukreja J, Kleinhenz ME, Shah RJ, Blanc PD. Effect of Lung Transplantation on Health-Related Quality of Life in the Era of the Lung Allocation Score: A U.S. Prospective Cohort Study. Volume 17 of Issue 5. 2017. PMID: 27743488

Okumura MJ, Kleinhenz ME. Cystic Fibrosis Transitions of Care: Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Cystic Fibrosis. Clinics in chest medicine 2015. PMID: 26857773

Tokman S, Hays SR, Leard LE, Bush EL, Kukreja J, Kleinhenz ME, Golden JA, Singer JP. Prolonged Barium-Impaction Ileus in Two Lung Transplant Recipients With Systemic Sclerosis: Case Report. Transplantation proceedings 2015. PMID: 26707322

Kern RM, Seethamraju H, Blanc PD, Sinha N, Loebe M, Golden J, Kukreja J, Scheinin S, Hays S, Kleinhenz ME, Leard L, Hoopes C, Singer JP. The feasibility of lung transplantation in HIV-seropositive patients. Volume 11 of Issue 6. 2014. PMID: 24964265

Okumura MJ, Ong T, Dawson D, Nielson D, Lewis N, Richards M, Brindis CD, Kleinhenz ME. Improving transition from paediatric to adult cystic fibrosis care: programme implementation and evaluation. BMJ quality & safety 2014. PMID: 24415776

Cox MJ, Allgaier M, Taylor B, Baek MS, Huang YJ, Daly RA, Karaoz U, Andersen GL, Brown R, Fujimura KE, Wu B, Tran D, Koff J, Kleinhenz ME, Nielson D, Brodie EL, Lynch SV. Airway microbiota and pathogen abundance in age-stratified cystic fibrosis patients. PloS one 2010. PMID: 20585638

Webb EM, Kleinhenz ME, Coakley FV, Chang CI, Westphalen AC, Yeh BM. Colonic wall redundancy at CT in patients with cystic fibrosis. Radiology 2008. PMID: 18647844

Gasper WJ, Sweet MP, Golden JA, Hoopes C, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Hays SR, Patti MG. Lung transplantation in patients with connective tissue disorders and esophageal dysmotility. Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus 2008. PMID: 18459990

Gasper WJ, Sweet MP, Hoopes C, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Hays SR, Golden JA, Patti MG. Antireflux surgery for patients with end-stage lung disease before and after lung transplantation. Surgical endoscopy 2007. PMID: 17704875

Espiritu JD, Ruppel G, Shrestha Y, Kleinhenz ME. The diffusing capacity in adult cystic fibrosis. Respiratory medicine 2003. PMID: 12814143

Kleinhenz ME, Lewis CY. Chronic ventilator dependence in elderly patients. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2000. PMID: 10984753

Espiritu JD, Kleinhenz ME. Paradoxical embolization in an adult patient with cystic fibrosis. Mayo Clinic proceedings 2000. PMID: 11040860

Goodnough LT, Kleinhenz ME, Goldsmith GH, Ziats NP, Robertson AL. Bovine aortic endothelial cells elaborate an inhibitor of the generation of lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human blood monocyte procoagulant activity. The Journal of clinical investigation 1984. PMID: 6736253

Ellner JJ, Olds GR, Lee CW, Kleinhenz ME, Edmonds KL. Destruction of the multicellular parasite Schistosoma mansoni by T lymphocytes. The Journal of clinical investigation 1982. PMID: 6980229

Kleinhenz ME, Ellner JJ, Spagnuolo PJ, Daniel TM. Suppression of lymphocyte responses by tuberculous plasma and mycobacterial arabinogalactan. Monocyte dependence and indomethacin reversibility. The Journal of clinical investigation 1981. PMID: 6972952