Helge Eilers, MD
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Residency Anesthesia University of California, San Francisco 2001
• Internship Medicine Boise VA Medical Center, Idaho 1998
• Research Fellowship Anesthesia University of California, San Francisco 1997
• Residency Anesthesia University of Cologne, Germany 1995
• M.D. School of Medicine University of Bonn, Germany 1993

Websites

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• Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)

Publications (34)

Top publication keywords:
Nitrous OxideGanglia, SpinalKetamineAnesthetics, GeneralReflex, PupillaryBronchoconstrictionN-MethylaspartateTRPV Cation ChannelsIntraoperative CareLiver TransplantationAdjuvants, AnesthesiaNociceptorsHyperalgesiaTransient Receptor Potential ChannelsProtein Isoforms

• Chemotherapy for pain: reversing inflammatory and neuropathic pain with the anticancer agent mithramycin A.
  Pain 2023 Xu Z, Lee MC, Sheehan K, Fujii K, Rabl K, Rader G, Varney S, Sharma M, Eilers H, Kober K, Miaskowski C, Levine JD, Schumacher MA
• Information Asymmetry in Hospitals: Evidence of the Lack of Cost Awareness in Clinicians.
  Applied health economics and health policy 2022 Fabes J, Avsar TS, Spiro J, Fernandez T, Eilers H, Evans S, Hessheimer A, Lorgelly P, Spiro M, Health Economics Survey Group
• Transcription factor Sp4 is required for hyperalgesic state persistence.
  PloS one 2019 Sheehan K, Lee J, Chong J, Zavala K, Sharma M, Philipsen S, Maruyama T, Xu Z, Guan Z, Eilers H, Kawamata T, Schumacher M
• Increased Cytokines at High Altitude: Lack of Effect of Ibuprofen on Acute Mountain Sickness, Physiological Variables, or Cytokine Levels.
  High altitude medicine & biology 2018 Lundeberg J, Feiner JR, Schober A, Sall JW, Eilers H, Bickler PE
• Advances in anesthesia and critical care.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2016 Eilers H

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• [Nephroprotection--anaesthetic management of renal transplantation].
  Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 2015 Smul TM, Eilers H, Stumpner J
• The anticancer antibiotic mithramycin-A inhibits TRPV1 expression in dorsal root ganglion neurons.
  Neuroscience letters 2014 Zavala K, Lee J, Chong J, Sharma M, Eilers H, Schumacher MA
• Intraoperative care of the transplant patient.
  Anesthesiology clinics 2013 Spiro MD, Eilers H
• Accuracy of carboxyhemoglobin detection by pulse CO-oximetry during hypoxemia.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2013 Feiner JR, Rollins MD, Sall JW, Eilers H, Au P, Bickler PE
• N-glycosylation determines ionic permeability and desensitization of the TRPV1 capsaicin receptor.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2012 Veldhuis NA, Lew MJ, Abogadie FC, Poole DP, Jennings EA, Ivanusic JJ, Eilers H, Bunnett NW, McIntyre P
• Liver transplantation for giant hepatic angiomyolipoma.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2011 Vagefi PA, Eilers H, Hiniker A, Freise CE
• Transcription factors Sp1 and Sp4 regulate TRPV1 gene expression in rat sensory neurons.
  Molecular pain 2011 Chu C, Zavala K, Fahimi A, Lee J, Xue Q, Eilers H, Schumacher MA
• Chapter 9 Intravenous Anesthetics.
  Basics of Anesthesia 2011 Helge Eilers
• Chronic kidney disease: implications for the perioperative period.
  Minerva anestesiologica 2010 Eilers H, Liu KD, Gruber A, Niemann CU
• Emergent orthotopic liver transplantation for hemorrhage from a giant cavernous hepatic hemangioma: case report and review.
  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2010 Vagefi PA, Klein I, Gelb B, Hameed B, Moff SL, Simko JP, Fix OK, Eilers H, Feiner JR, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Bass NM
• Anaphylaxis complicating graft reperfusion during orthotopic liver transplantation: a case report.
  Transplantation proceedings 2010 Anderson A, Eilers H, Yost CS
• Pungent general anesthetics activate transient receptor potential-A1 to produce hyperalgesia and neurogenic bronchoconstriction.
  Anesthesiology 2010 Eilers H, Cattaruzza F, Nassini R, Materazzi S, Andre E, Chu C, Cottrell GS, Schumacher M, Geppetti P, Bunnett NW
• TRPV1 splice variants: structure and function.
  Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) 2010 Schumacher MA, Eilers H
• Abdominal organ transplantation.
  Minerva anestesiologica 2009 Niemann CU, Eilers H
• The effect of ketamine and nitrous oxide on the human pupillary light reflex during general anesthesia.
  Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical 2009 Eilers H, Larson MD
• Increasing the duration of isoflurane anesthesia decreases the minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration in 7-day-old but not in 60-day-old rats.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2009 Stratmann G, Sall JW, Eger EI, Laster MJ, Bell JS, May LD, Eilers H, Krause M, Heusen Fv, Gonzalez HE
• Anesthetic activation of nociceptors: adding insult to injury?
  Molecular interventions 2008 Eilers H
• The rat vanilloid receptor splice variant VR.5'sv blocks TRPV1 activation.
  Neuroreport 2007 Eilers H, Lee SY, Hau CW, Logvinova A, Schumacher MA
• Central venous pressure monitoring during living right donor hepatectomy.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2007 Niemann CU, Feiner J, Behrends M, Eilers H, Ascher NL, Roberts JP
• Recombinant factor VIIa reduces transfusion requirements in liver transplant patients with high MELD scores.
  Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) 2006 Niemann CU, Behrends M, Quan D, Eilers H, Gropper MA, Roberts JP, Hirose R
• Isolation of an mRNA binding protein homologue that is expressed in nociceptors.
  The European journal of neuroscience 2004 Eilers H, Trilk SL, Lee SY, Xue Q, Jong BE, Moff I, Levine JD, Schumacher MA
• Opioid-induced respiratory depression: are 5-HT4a receptor agonists the cure?
  Molecular interventions 2004 Eilers H, Schumacher MA
• Clinically important drug interactions with intravenous anaesthetics in older patients.
  Drugs & aging 2003 Eilers H, Niemann C
• The reversal of fentanyl-induced tolerance by administration of "small-dose" ketamine.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2001 Eilers H, Philip LA, Bickler PE, McKay WR, Schumacher MA
• Different Effects of Volatile Anesthetics and Polyhalogenated Alkanes on Depolarization-Evoked Glutamate Release in Rat Cortical Brain Slices.
  Anesthesia & Analgesia 1999 Helge Eilers, Christoph H. Kindler, Philip E. Bickler
• Different effects of volatile anesthetics and polyhalogenated alkanes on depolarization-evoked glutamate release in rat cortical brain slices.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 1999 Eilers H, Kindler CH, Bickler PE
• Volatile anesthetics increase intracellular calcium in cerebrocortical and hippocampal neurons.
  Anesthesiology 1999 Kindler CH, Eilers H, Donohoe P, Ozer S, Bickler PE
• Functional deactivation of the major neuronal nicotinic receptor caused by nicotine and a protein kinase C-dependent mechanism.
  Molecular pharmacology 1997 Eilers H, Schaeffer E, Bickler PE, Forsayeth JR
• Hypothermia and isoflurane similarly inhibit glutamate release evoked by chemical anoxia in rat cortical brain slices.
  Anesthesiology 1996 Eilers H, Bickler PE