Elena Sgarbossa

Articles authored on medical language / translation:   

· Pitfalls and caveats: Insights from translational research into disease prevention and healthy living (cont). Caduceus Fall-Winter 2007-08 Part 2;17-19. 

·  Pitfalls and caveats: Insights from translational research into disease prevention and healthy living (cont). Caduceus Summer 2007 Part 1;16-17. 

 · Pitfalls and caveats: Insights from translational research into disease prevention and healthy living. Caduceus Spring 2007;9-10. 

·  "Heads I win, tails you lose": logical fallacies and ethics in everyday language. The Translation Journal Vol 10, Oct 2006. http://www.accurapid.com/journal/38fallacies.htm 

·  Pitfalls and caveats: Health-related fallacies: appeal to nature (Argumentum ad Naturam). Caduceus Summer 2006;10-12.

·  Pitfalls and caveats: homophonic neologisms and portmanteaus. Caduceus Spring 2006;13-14.

·  Source language, source of trouble. ATA chronicle August 2005;25-28.

·  Pitfalls and caveats: Typos: overt and covert. Caduceus Summer 2005:7-8.

·  Pitfalls and caveats: glossary of abbreviations. Caduceus Spring 2005;9.

·   Atherothrombosis: a word whose time has come. Caduceus Fall-Winter 2004;4-5.

·  Pitfalls and caveats: glossary of abbreviations. Caduceus Fall-Winter 2004;05:29.

·  Coded Terms: Landmines in Medical Translation. ATA Chronicle August 2004;33:38-40.

·  What do the small bowel, breakfast, dinner, and being jejune all have in common? Caduceus Summer 2004:29.

·  Pitfalls and caveats. Recall bias: our tendency to lean on to the familiar. Caduceus Summer 2004:19-20.

·  Pitfalls and caveats: glossary of abbreviations. Caduceus Spring 2004:9.

·  From fat to fit (to fault?). Caduceus Spring 2004:31.

·  To err is human Caduceus Winter 2004:21.

·  Pitfalls and caveats: glossary of abbreviations. Caduceus Winter 2004:6-7.

·  Medical Language and Medical Translation. ATA Chronicle August 2003;32:36-40. 

·  Semantic ambiguity, the "non-" nosology and myocardial infarction. J Clin Epidemiol 1994;47:441-446.

Textbook chapters:

• Sgarbossa EB, Wagner GS. Electrocardiography. In: Topol EJ, ed. Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 3rd edition. Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins Publishers, Philadelphia, PA 2006;977-1011. (And: 2nd edition. Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins Publishers, Philadelphia, PA 2002;1329-1363. And: 1st edition. Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, PA, 1997;1545-1589).

• Sgarbossa EB, Pinski SL, Ching E, Maloney JD. Problems with rate-adaptive pacemakers. In: Barold S, Mugica J, eds. New Perspectives in Cardiac Pacing, 3rd ed. Futura Publishing, Mount Kisco, NY,1993:383-423.

Scientific articles:

• Barbagelata A, Califf RM, Sgarbossa EB, et al. Prognostic value of  

   predischarge electrocardiographic… Am Heart J 2004;148:795-802.

• Billgren T, Birnbaum Y, Sgarbossa EB, et al. Refinement and interobserver agreement for the electrocardiographic Sclarovsky- Birnbaum Ischemia Grading... J Electrocardiol 2004;37:149-156.

• Stambler BS, Ellenbogen KA, Orav EJ, Sgarbossa EB, et al. Predictors and clinical impact of atrial fibrillation after pacemaker implantation... Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2003;26:2000-2007.

• Billgren T, Birnbaum Y, Sgarbossa EB, et al. Detailed definition and interobserver agreement for the electrocardiographic Sclarovsky-Birnbaum ischemia grading system. J Electrocardiol 2002;35(Suppl):201-202.

• Birnbaum Y, Goodman S, ... Sgarbossa EB, et al. Comparison of primary coronary angioplasty versus thrombolysis in patients with…Am J Cardiol 2001;88:842-847.

• Anderson ST, Pahlm O, Bacharova L,… Sgarbossa EB, et al. Standards for the function of an academic 12-lead Electrocardiographic Core Laboratory. J Electrocardiol 2001;34: 41-47.

• Sokolove PE, Sgarbossa EB, et al. Interobserver agreement in the ECG diagnosis… Ann Emerg Med 2000;36: 566-571.

• Sgarbossa EB, Pinski SL, Williams D, et al. Comparison of QT intervals in African-Americans versus Caucasians. Am J Cardiol 2000;86: 880-882.

• Sgarbossa EB, Meyer PM, Pinski SL, et al. Negative T waves shortly after ST- elevation acute myocardial infarction…  Am Heart J 2000; 140:385-394.

• Ellenbogen KA, Stambler BS, Orav EJ, Sgarbossa EB, et al (PASE Trial Investigators). Clinical characteristics of patients intolerant to VVIR pacing. Am J Cardiol 2000;86:59-63.

• Barbagelata A, Califf RM, Sgarbossa EB, et al, for the GUSTO-1 Investigators. Use of resources, quality of life… Am J Cardiol 2000;86:24-29.

• Sgarbossa EB, Pinski SL, Gates KB, Wagner GS. Predictors of in-hospital bundle branch block  reversion.... Am J Cardiol 1998;82:373-374.

• Sgarbossa EB, Pinski SL, Topol EJ, et al. Acute myocardial infarction and complete bundle branch block at hospital admission… J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:105-110.

• Sgarbossa EB, Pinski SL, Barbagelata A, et al for the GUSTO-I Investigators. Electrocardiographic diagnosis of evolving acute myocardial infarction … N Engl J Med 1996; 334:481-487.

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