Selected Publications

The following are selections from over 150 articles:
  • Gomes JAC, Calderon J, Lajam F, Sakurai H, Friedman HS, with the technical assistance of J. S. Tatz: Echocardiographic detection of fungal vegetation in candida parasilopsis endocarditis. Amer J Med 61:273-276, 1976.

  • Gomes JAC, Damato AN, Akhtar M, et al: Ventricular septal motion and LV dimensions during abnormal ventricular activation. Am J of Cardiol 30:641-647, 1977.

  • Gomes JAC, Carambas C, Moran H, Dhatt MS, Calon HA, Caracta AR, Damato AN: The effects of isosorbide dinitrade on left ventricular size, wall stress and left ventricular function in chronic refractory heart failure: An electrocardiographic study. Am J Med 65:794-802, 1978.

  • Gomes JAC, Damato AN, Bobb GA, Lau SH: The effect of digitalis on refractoriness of the intact canine His-Purkinje system. Circulation 58:284-294, 1978.

  • Gomes JAC, Dhatt MS, Akhtar M, Carambas C, Rubenson D, Damato AN: The effects of digitalis on ventricular myocardial and His-Purkinje refractoriness and reentry in man. Amer J of Cardiol 42:931-938, 1978.

  • Gomes JAC, Damato AN, Dhatt MS, Rubenson D: Electrophysiologic evidence for selective retrograde utilization of specialized conduction system in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. Am J Cardiol 43:687-698, 1979. This article was accompanied by an Editorial by Dr. K. Rosen.

  • Gomes JAC, Carambas C, Moran H, Matthews L, et al: Inotropic effect of post stimulation potentation in man: An echocardiographic study. Am J Cardiol 43:745-752, 1979.

  • Gomes JAC, Dhatt MS, Damato AN, Akhtar M, Holder CA: The incidence, electrophysiologic determinants and significance of fixed retrograde conduction in the region of the AV node. Evidence for retrogradely functional AV nodal bypass tracts. Am J Cardiol 44:1089-1098, 1979.

  • Gomes JAC, Kang PS, et al: Coexistence of sick sinus rhythm and atrial flutter-fibrillation. Circulation 63:80-92, 1981.

  • Gomes JAC, Kang PS, et al: The repetitive ventricular responses: Its incidence, inducibility, reproducibility, mechanism and significance. Br Heart J 46:159-167, 1981.

  • Gomes JAC, Kang PS, El-Sherif N: The effects of digitalis on the sick sinus node following pharmacologic autonomic blockade. Am J Cardiol 48:783-788, 1981.

  • Gomes JAC, Kang PS et al: The sinus node electrogram in patients with and without sick sinus syndrome: Techniques, correlation between directly measured and indirectly estimated sinoatrial conduction time. Circulation 66:864-873, 1982.

  • Gomes JAC, Kang PS, et al: Electrophysiologic effects and mechanism of termination of supraventricular tachycardia by intravenous amiodarone. Am Heart J 107:214-221, 1984.

  • Gomes JAC, Hariman RI, et al: Programmed electrical stimulation in patients with high-grade ventricular ectopy: Electrophysiologic findings and prognosis for survival. Circulation 70:43-51, 1984.

  • Gomes JAC, Hariman RJ, Chowdry I: New applications of direct sinus node recordings in man: Assessment of sinus node recovery time. Circulation 70:663-671, 1984.

  • Gomes JAC, Hariman RJ, Kang PS, Chowdry I: Sustained symptomatic sinus node reentrant tachycardia: Incidence, clinical, electrocardiographic and electrophysiologic observations and the effects of antiarrhythmic agents. J Am Coll Cardiol, 5, No. 1, 45-,47, 1985.

  • Gomes JAC, Mehra R, Barreca P, El-Sherif N, Hariman R, Holzman R: Quantitative analysis of the high-frequency components of the signal-averaged QRS complex in acute myocardial infarction. Circulation: 72:102-111, 1985.

  • Gomes JAC: Winters S: The origins of the sinus node pacemaker complex in man: Demonstration of dominant and subsidiary foci. J of the Am Coll of Cardiol 9:45-52; 1987.

  • Gomes JA, Horowitz SL, Milner M, Machac J, Winters SL, Barreca P: Late potentials in myocardial infarction: Relationship to ejection fraction and wall motion abnormalities. Am J Cardiol 59:1071-1074;1987.

  • Gomes JA, Winters SL, Stewart D, Horowitz S, Milner M, Barreca P: A new noninvasive index to predict sustained ventricular tachycardia and sudden death in the first year post-myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 10:349-357; 1987.

  • Gomes JA, Winters SL, Barreca P, Stewart D: The optimal band-pass filters for signal averaging of the surface QRS complex: A prospective study. Am J of Cardiol 60:1290-1298; 1987.

  • Gomes JA, Mehra R, Barreca P, Winters SL, Ergin S, Estioko M, Minditch BP: A comparative analysis of signal averaging of the surface QRS complex and signal averaging of intracardiac and epicardial recordings in patients with ventricular tachycardia. PACE 11:271-282; 1988.

  • Gomes JAC, Alexopoulos D, Winters SL, Deshmukh P, Fuster V, Suh K: The role of silent ischemia, the arrhythmic substrate and the short-long sequence in the genesis of sudden death. J Am Coll Cardiol, 1989;14: 1618-25.

  • Gomes JA, Winters SL, Martinson M, Machac J, Stewart D, Targonski A: The prognostic significance of the quantitative signal-averaged ECG relative to clinical variables, site of myocardial infarction, ejection fraction and ventricular premature beats. J Am Coll Cardiol, 1989;13:377-84.

  • Gomes JA, Winters SL, Ergin A, Machac J, Estioko M, Alexopoulous D, Pe E: The clinical, electrophysiologic determinants, treatment and survival of patients with sustained malignant ventricular arrhythmias late post myocardial infarction. J of the Am Coll Cardiology 1991;17:320-6. - The paper was accompanied by an editorial by Dr. Mark H. Schoenfeld.

  • Gomes JA, Winters SL, Ip John: Post myocardial infarction stratification and the signal averaged ECG. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 1993; 35:263.

  • Mehta D, Honda M, Diaz M, Marx S, IPJ, Gomes JA: Factors on affecting short and long term success of fast pathway ablation with graded use of radiofrequency current in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology proceeding of the5th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, 1993: 340-344.

  • Kjellgren O, Suh K, Gomes JA: The role of parasympathetic modulation of the reentrant arrhythmic substrate in the genesis of sustained ventricular tachycardia. PACE 1994;17:1276-1287.

  • Mehta D, Orna D, Goldman M, Gomes JA: Correlation of Signal Averaged Electrocardiographic parameters and echo cardiographic findings in arrythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. Circulation 90; I-221:1994

  • Gomes JA, Mehta D, Langan N: Sinus Node Reentrant Tachycardia: Journal of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology 1995;18:1045-1057.

  • Gomes JA, Mehta D, Ip J, Winters S, Camunas J, Ergin A, Newhouse T, Pe E: Predictors of Long - Term Survival in Patients with Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias. Am J Cardiol 1997;79:1054-1060

  • Gomes JA, Ip John, Santoni-Rugui F, Mehta D, Ergin A, Lansman S, PE E, Newhouse T, Chao S: Oral d, l Sotalol reduces the incidence of post-operative Atrial Fibrillation in coronary artery by-pass surgery patients: A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study. JACC 1999; 34:2:334-9. This article was accompanied by an editorial.

  • Miller MA, Gomes JA, Fuster V; Risk Stratification of sudden death in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Nature Clinical Practice/Cardiovascular Medicine 2007, Vol 4, pg.

  • Niemerovsky D, Hutter R, Gomes JA: The Electrical Substrate of Vagal Atrial Fibrillation as Assessed by the Signal-Averaged Electrocardiogram. PACE 2008; 31:308-313.