Book Chapters

Clinical Examination.Owen Epstein G.David Perkin John Cookson Ian S. Watt Roby Rakhit Andrew W. Robins, Graham A. W. Hornett . Fourth Edition. Mosby Elsevier 2008.

Stent versus angioplasty: indication for stents in stable angina. Part III p. 115 - 129. In: The Year In Interventional Cardiology. Eds: H. White, P De Feijter, B. Meier A. Colombo, A. Banning, R.Schräder. Clinical Publishing Services, Oxford 2002.

Original Scientific Studies

1. Bhattacharyya MR, Whitehead DL, Rakhit R, Steptoe A. Depressed Mood, Positive Affect, and Heart Rate Variability in Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease. Psychosom Med 2008; 70: 1020-1027.

2. Rakhit RD, Wustmann K, Zbinden S, Printzen G, Windecker S, Meier B,
Seiler C, Eberli FR. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 release during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction is related to coronary collaterals. Coron Artery Dis 2005;16:147-52.

3. Dalby M, Davies J, Rakhit RD, Mayet J, Foale R, Davies DW. Feasibility and safety of day case transfemoral coronary stenting. Cardiovasc Catheter Interventions 2003;60: 8-24.

4. Rakhit RD, Meier B, Matter C, Garachemani A, Windecker S, Seiler C, Eberli FR. Five French versus six French PCI: A case-control study of efficacy, safety and outcome. J Invasive Cardiology 2002;14:670-4.

5. Edwards RJ, Redwood SR, Lambiase PD, Tomset E, Rakhit RD, Marber MS. Anti-arrhythmic and anti-ischaemic effects of angina in patients with and without coronary collaterals. Heart 2002;88:604-10.

6. Rakhit RD, Mojet MH, Marber MS, Duchen MR. Mitochondria as targets for nitric oxide induced protection during simulated ischemia and reoxygenation in isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes. Circulation 2001;103:2617-2623.

7. Rakhit RD, Kabir AN, Mockridge JW, Saurin A, Marber MS. Role of G proteins and modulation of p38 MAPK activation in the protection by nitric oxide against ischemia-reoxygenation injury. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001;286:995-1002.

8. Rakhit RD, Edwards RJ, Mockridge J, Baydoun A, Wyatt A, Mann GE, Marber MS. Nitric oxide-induced cardioprotection in cultured rat ventricular myocytes. Am J Physiol 2000;278:H1211-H1217.

9. Rakhit RD, Tousoulis D, Le Froy DC and Davies GJ. Differential nitric oxide synthase activity in ischemic and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol 1999;84:737-738.

10. Edwards RJ, Youseff Z, Rakhit RD, Wright M, Rosenthal E, Redwood S, Marber MS. A model of closed chest regional myocardial infarction in the rabbit: a clinically relevant in vivo assay system of post-infarction remodeling. Basic Res Cardiol 2002;97:374-383.

11. Gorog D, Rakhit RD, Parums D, Laffan M, Davies GJ. Raised factor VIII is associated with coronary thrombotic events. Heart 1998;80:415-417.

12. Stables RH for the Brompton House Officer Audit Group: Choudhury RP, Davies WG, Denton MD, Ledson M, Rakhit RD, Varma C. An audit of lipid screening and management in patients undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterisation. Eur Heart J 1996;17:1657-1662.

13. Kapur N, Lambiase P, Rakhit RD, Pearce J, Orchard G, Calonje E, Dowd PM. Local and systemic expression of fibroblast growth factor in familial multiple glomangioma. Br J Dermatol 2002;146:518-522.

Reviews

1. Rakhit RD and Marber MS. Nitric oxide - an emerging role in cardioprotection? Heart 2001;86(4):368-72.

2. Rakhit RD, Edwards RJ, Marber MS. Review: Nitric oxide, nitrates and ischaemic preconditioning Cardiovascular Research 1999;43:621-627.

3. Edwards RJ, Saurin AT, Rakhit RD, Marber MS. Therapeutic potential of ischaemic preconditioning. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2000;50:87-97.

4. McCabe DJH and Rakhit RD. Anti-thrombotic and interventional treatment options in cardioembolic TIA and stroke. Accepted for publication in J Neurol, Neurosurg & Psych 2007;78:14-24.

Case Reports

1. Booth JW, Rakhit RD, Cropley I, Hurst JR. Westermark`s Sign in Submassive Pulmonary Embolism. Eur Heart J. 2009 Jan;30(1):98-106.

2. Hadjiloizou N, Rakhit R. Frovatriptan, a probale cause of coronary vasoconstriction. Intl J Clin Pract. 2008 Jul;62(7):1121-2.

3. Rakhit RD. Patent foramen ovale (PFO) and paradoxical embolism (Interactive Case). Heart. 2003;89:1362.

4. Rakhit RD, Heinein M, Sheppard MN, Gibson DG. Restrictive pericarditis Heart 1999;82:389-392.

5. Rakhit RD, Clesham GJ, Cleland GJF. Sarcoid, amyloid and heart failure. Int. J.Cardiol. 1993;41:180-182.

6. Rakhit RD, Sethi D, Woodrow DF, Phillips ME. Complications of "skin popping" in a British heroin addict. Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation. 1993;8:572-573.

Research Letters

1. Bhattacharyya S, Rakhit R. Cytochrome P450 2C19 polymorphism and clopidogrel after MI. Lancet. 2009 Apr 4;373(9670):1171

2. Rakhit RD, Beck R, Foster O, Thompson AJ, Kendall B. Resolution of lower limb neurological deficit in spinal arteriovenous malformation with penile papaverine. Lancet 1993;341:490.

3. Edwards RJ, Rakhit RD, Marber MS. Diabetes and coronary disease: time to stop taking the tablets. Heart 1999;81:674.