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Marisa K Ames

Marisa K Ames

Associate Professor

Medicine & Epidemiology


Licenses
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Cardiology
Education
2001, BA, University of California, Berkeley, California
2007, DVM, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Active Research Grants
Principal Investigator, 2017-2020 Neurohormonal activation in Heart Failure $20,000, (Principal Investigator), Ceva Sante Animale
Principal Investigator, Comprehensive evaluation of the circulating renin-angiotensinaldosterone system in normal dogs and dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease, (Principal Investigator), Ceva Sante Animale
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2018 Ames MK: Heartworm Disease, Kenneth J Drobatz, Elizabeth A Rozanski, Deborah Silverstein, Kate Hopper, (ed), Textbook of Small Animal Emergency Medicine, Hoboken. .
2018 Strickland K, Ames MK: Heartworm Disease, Dog and Heartworm Disease, Cat, Etienne Cote, (ed), Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Dogs and Cats 4th ed., St. Louis. .
2017 Atkins CE, Ames MK: Digitalis, Positive Inotropes, and Vasodilators, Jim E Riviere, Mark G Papich, (ed), Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 10th ed, . 503-536.
2016 Atkins C, Ames M: Feline Heartworm Disease – The Clinical Perspective, Beugnet F, Halos L , (ed), Parasitoses and Vector Borne Diseases of Cats, Lyon, France. 208-227.
Ten Recent Publications

2020
Kruckman-Gatesy CR, Ames MK, Griffin LR, Boss MK, Rao S, Leary D, LaRue SM
A retrospective analysis of stereotactic body radiation therapy for canine heart base tumors: 26 cases.

2019
Ames MK, Atkins CE, Pitt B
The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and its suppression.

2019
Potter BM, Ames MK, Hess A, Poglitsch M
Comparison between the effects of torsemide and furosemide on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system of normal dogs.

2019
Potter BM, Ames MK, Toffoli AM, Scansen BA
Upper rate behavior in six dogs with dual-chamber pacemakers.

2017
Ames MK, Atkins CE, Eriksson A, Hess AM
Aldosterone breakthrough in dogs with naturally occurring myxomatous mitral valve disease.

2017
Bove CM, Ames MK, Scansen BA
ECG of the Month.

2016
Mama K, Ames M
Anesthesia for Dogs with Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease

2016
Ames MK, Atkins CE
Beyond furosemide: torsemide and spironolactone – Part II: Spironolactone

2016
Ames MK, Atkins CE
Beyond furosemide: torsemide and spironolactone – Part I: Torsemide

2016
Weder C, Ames M, Bright J, Orton C
Palliative balloon dilation of pulmonic stenosis in a dog with tetralogy of Fallot