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| Qualifications |
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V.M.D., University of Pennsylvania (cum laude), 1993
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American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine |
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| Clinical Interests |
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| Interventional cardiology Congenital cardiovascular disease |
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Inherited cardiomyopathies Biochemical markers of cardiac disease Real time 3D echocardiography |
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| Selected Publications |
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| Dambach D, Lannon A, Sleeper M , Buchanan J. Familial dilated cardiomyopathy of young Portuguese water dogs. J Vet Intern Med 1999; 13: 65-71.
Diaz OS, Sleeper M , Acland H, Reef V. An unusual presentation of aortitis in a paint gelding. Eq Vet J 2000; 32: 354-7. Sleeper M , Buchanan J. Vertebral scale system to measure heart size in growing puppies. JAVMA 2001; 219: 57-59. Sleeper M , Durando M, Miller M, Habecker P and Reef V. Aortic root disease in four horses. JAVMA 2001; 219: 491-496. Sleeper M , Clifford C, Laster L. Cardiac troponin I in the normal dog and cat. Journal of Vet Intern Med 2001; 15: 501-503. Barr BS, Seco OS, Axon J, Sleeper MM , Baird AN. Successful treatment of pericarditis in a pregnant llama. J Vet Emerg Crit Care 2001; 11(4): 287-291. Sleeper M , Henthorn P, Vijayasarathy C, Dambach D, Bowers, T, Tijskens, Armstrong C, Lankford E. Characterization of juvenile dilated cardiomyopathy in Portuguese water dogs. Journal of Vet Intern Med 2002; 16: 52-62. Sleeper MM , Kearns CF, McKeever KH. Chronic clenbuterol administration negatively alters cardiac function in the horse. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2002; 34: 643-50. Herndon, WE, Kittleson, MD, Sanderson, K, Drobatz, K, Clifford, CA, Gelzer, A, Sleeper MM . Cardiac troponin I in feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Vet Intern Med 2002; 16:558-564. Ponder KP, Melniczek JR, Xu L, Weil MA, O'Malley TM, O'Donnell PA, Knox VW, Aguirre GD, Mazrier H, Ellinwood NM, Sleeper M , Maguire AM, Volk S, Mango RL, Zweigle J, Wolfe JH, Haskins ME. Marked clinical improvements in mucopolysaccharidosis VII dogs after neonatal administration of a retroviral vector expressing ß-glucuronidase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 2002; 99: 13102-7. Mazrier H, Van Hoeven M, Wang P, Knox V, Aguirre G, Holt E, Wiemelt S, Sleeper M , Hubler M, Haskins M, Giger U. Feline mucolipidosis II: the animal model of human I-cell disease. J Heredity 2003; 94:363-73. Sleeper MM , Fornasari B, Ellinwood NM, Weil MA, Melniczek J, O’Malley TM, Sammarco CD, Xu L, Ponder KP, and Haskins ME. Gene therapy ameliorates cardiovascular disease in dogs with mucopolysaccharidosis VII. Circulation 2004; 110: 815-20. Abe T, Kearns CF, Filho HCM, Sato Y, Sleeper M , McKeever KH. Moderate vascular occlusion produced increases in skeletal muscle size in Standardbred horses. Equine and comparative exercise physiology 2004; 1(4): 239-243. Sleeper MM , Doan CJ, Langner P, Curtin S, Avila K, Lee DR. Successful treatment of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in an adult chimpanzee. Comparative Medicine 2005; 55(1): 39-43. Sleeper MM , Palmer JE. Echocardiographic diagnosis of transposition of the great arteries in a neonatal foal. Vet Radiol and Ultrasound (in press). |
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