Claudia Benkwitz, MD, PhD
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2020

Publications (17)

Top publication keywords:
Factor VIIaAntithrombin IIIAirway ManagementAntithrombin III DeficiencyHeart Defects, CongenitalEtomidateBlood CoagulationExtracorporeal Membrane OxygenationCalcium-Transporting ATPasesPreoperative CareMediastinal NeoplasmsAnesthetics, IntravenousReceptors, GABA-ACardiac Surgical ProceduresPostoperative Hemorrhage

• Hippocampal β2-GABAA receptors mediate LTP suppression by etomidate and contribute to long-lasting feedback but not feedforward inhibition of pyramidal neurons.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2021 Figueroa AG, Benkwitz C, Surges G, Kunz N, Homanics GE, Pearce RA
• Resection of a Posterior Mediastinal Mass in a 4-Year-Old Child Complicated by Difficult Airway Management and Emergent Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
  Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2020 Au V, Marsh B, Benkwitz C
• Preoperative Laboratory Studies for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Multi-Institutional Perspective.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2019 Jones SE, Jooste EH, Gottlieb EA, Schwartz J, Goswami D, Gautam NK, Benkwitz C, Downey LA, Guzzetta NA, Zabala L, Latham GJ, Faraoni D, Navaratnam M, Wise-Faberowski L, McDaniel M, Spurrier E, …
• Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial Comparing the Effects of Antithrombin Versus Placebo on the Coagulation System in Infants with Low Antithrombin Undergoing Congenital Cardiac Surgery.
  Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2018 Jooste EH, Scholl R, Wu YH, Jaquiss RDB, Lodge AJ, Ames WA, Homi HM, Machovec KA, Greene NH, Donahue BS, Shah N, Benkwitz C
• Assessing the Risks of Noncardiac Surgery for Children With Congenital Heart Disease.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2016 Benkwitz C, Watkins SC, Donahue BS

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• Thrombotic endotracheal tube occlusion after administration of recombinant factor VIIa.
  Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2012 Benkwitz C, Hammer GB
• Wandering epidural catheter.
  Anesthesiology 2010 Brookman JC, Sair HI, Benkwitz C, Gulur P
• Altered GABAA,slow inhibition and network oscillations in mice lacking the GABAA receptor beta3 subunit.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2009 Hentschke H, Benkwitz C, Banks MI, Perkins MG, Homanics GE, Pearce RA
• Determination of the EC50 amnesic concentration of etomidate and its diffusion profile in brain tissue: implications for in vitro studies.
  Anesthesiology 2007 Benkwitz C, Liao M, Laster MJ, Sonner JM, Eger EI, Pearce RA
• Influence of GABAA receptor gamma2 splice variants on receptor kinetics and isoflurane modulation.
  Anesthesiology 2004 Benkwitz C, Banks MI, Pearce RA
• Lidocaine enhances Galphai protein function.
  Anesthesiology 2003 Benkwitz C, Garrison JC, Linden J, Durieux ME, Hollmann MW
• Effects of gamma2S subunit incorporation on GABAA receptor macroscopic kinetics.
  Neuropharmacology 2003 Boileau AJ, Li T, Benkwitz C, Czajkowski C, Pearce RA
• Combined SSCP and heteroduplex analysis of the human plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase isoform 1 in patients with essential hypertension.
  Biochemical and biophysical research communications 1999 Benkwitz C, Oberdorf-Maass S, Neyses L
• Overexpression of the sarcolemmal calcium pump in the myocardium of transgenic rats.
  Circulation research 1998 Hammes A, Oberdorf-Maass S, Rother T, Nething K, Gollnick F, Linz KW, Meyer R, Hu K, Han H, Gaudron P, Ertl G, Hoffmann S, Ganten U, Vetter R, Schuh K, Benkwitz C, Zimmer HG, Neyses L
• Sorsby fundus dystrophy: reevaluation of variable expressivity in patients carrying a TIMP3 founder mutation.
  Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 1997 Felbor U, Benkwitz C, Klein ML, Greenberg J, Gregory CY, Weber BH
• [Heart in the pants: treatment of chronic anal fissure with nitrate ointment].
  Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie 1997 Benkwitz C
• Investigation of the Met-267 Arg exchange in isoform 1 of the human plasma membrane calcium pump in patients with essential hypertension by the amplification-created restriction site technique.
  Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 1997 Benkwitz C, Kubisch C, Kraft K, Neyses L