Publications

Original Articles

1. Luschei E, Johnson RA, Glickstein M. Response of neurones in the motor cortex during performance of a simple repetitive arm movement. Nature 217:190, 1968

2. Johnson RA, Hutter AM Jr, DeSanctis RW, Yurchak PM, Leinbach RC, Harthorne JW. Chronic overdrive pacing in the control of refractory ventricular arrhythmias. Ann Intern Med 80:380, 1974

3. Palacios I, Johnson RA, Newell JB, Powell WJ Jr. Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure volume relationships with experimental acute global ischemia. Circulation 52:428, 1976

4. Dash H, Johnson RA, Dinsmore RE, Harthorne JW. Cardiomyopathic syndrome due to coronary artery disease. I. Relation to angiographic extent of coronary artery disease and to remote myocardial infarction. Brit Heart J 39:733, 1977

5. Dash H, Johnson RA, Dinsmore RE, Francis CK, Harthorne JW. Cardiomyopathic syndrome due to coronary artery disease. II. Increased prevalence in patients with diabetes mellitus: a matched pair analysis. Brit Heart J 39:740, 1977

6. Lee DCS, Johnson RA, Boucher CA, Wexler LF, McEnany MT. Angiographic predictors of survival following left ventricular aneurysmectomy. Circulation 56 (Suppl II):12, 1977

7. Johnson RA, Harrist DJ. Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, I-1977. N Engl J Med 296:33, 1977

8. Livelli FD, Johnson RA, McEnany MT, Sherman E, Newell J, Block PC, DeSanctis RW. Unexplained in-hospital fever following cardiac surgery. Natural history, relationship to postpericardiectomy syndrome, and a prospective study of therapy with indomethacin versus placebo. Circulation 57:968, 1978

9. Boucher CA, Fallon JT, Johnson RA, Yurchak PM. Cardiomyopathic syndrome due to coronary artery disease. III. A prospective clinicopathologic study of its prevalence among patients with clinically unexplained chronic heart failure. Brit Heart J 41:613, 1979

10. Johnson RA, Zir LM, Harper RW, Leinbach RC, Hutter AM Jr, Pohost GM, Block PC, Gold HK. Patterns of haemodynamic alteration during left ventricular ischemia in man: relationship to the angiographic extent of coronary artery disease. Brit Heart J 41:441, 1979

11. Radford MJ, Johnson RA, Buckley MJ, Daggett WM, Leinbach RC, Gold HK. Survival following mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation due to coronary artery disease. Circulation 60 (Suppl   II):39, 1979

12. Johnson RA, Boucher CA. Normal left ventricular ejection fraction in systemic arteriovenous fistula: implications for the use of noninvasive methods in differential diagnosis of heart failure. Chest 79:607, 1981

13. Phillips HR, Johnson RA, Hindman MA, Wagner GS, Harris PJ, Dinsmore RE, Gold HK, Leinbach RC, Hutter AM Jr, Erdmann AJ III, Daggett WM Jr, Buckley MJ. Aortocoronary bypass grafting in patients without left main stenosis: Relation of risk factors to early and late survival. Brit Heart J 45:549, 1981

14. Radford MJ, Johnson RA, Daggett WM Jr, Fallon JT, Buckley MJ, Gold HK, Leinbach RC. Ventricular septal rupture: a review of clinical and physiologic features and an analysis of survival. Circulation 64:545, 1981

15. Johnson RA, Baker SS, Fallon JT, Maynard EP III, Ruskin JN, Wen Z, Ge K, Cohen HJ. An occidental case of cardiomyopathy and selenium deficiency. N Engl J Med 301:1210, 1981

16. Pliskin JS, Stason WB, Weinstein MC, Johnson RA, Cohn PF, McEnany MT, Brown P. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery: clinical decision making and cost-effectiveness analysis. Med Decision Making. 1:10, 1981

17. Lee DCS, Johnson RA, Bingham JB, Leahy M, Dinsmore RE, Goroll AH, Newell JB, Strauss HW, Haber E. Heart failure in outpatients. A randomized trial of digoxin versus placebo. N Engl J Med 307:699, 1982

18. Captopril Multicenter Research Group. A placebo-controlled trial of captopril in refractory chronic congestive heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 2:755, 1983

19. Dec GW Jr, Palacios I, Fallon JT, Aretz HT, Mills J, Lee DCS, Johnson RA. Active myocarditis in the spectrum of acute dilated cardiomyopathies. Clinical features, histologic correlates, and clincal    outcome. N Engl J Med 312:885, 1985

20. Califf RM, Phillips HR III, Hindman MC, Mark DB, Lee KL, Behar VA, Johnson RA, Pryor DB, Rosati RA, Wagner GS. Prognostic value of a coronary artery jeopardy score. J Am Coll Cardiol 5:1055, 1985

21. Carlson KJ, Lee DCS, Goroll AH, Leahy M, Johnson RA. An analysis of physicians’ reasons for prescribing long-term digitalis therapy in outpatients. J Chronic Dis 38:733, 1985

22. Mago R, Anolik R, Johnson RA, Kunkel EJ. Recurrent priapism associated with use of aripiprazole.[comment]. J Clin Psychiatry 67:1471, 2006

23. El-Gabalawi F, Johnson RA. Hypersexuality in inpatient children and adolescents: recognition, differential diagnosis, and evaluation. CNS Spectr 12: 821, 2007

24. Johnson RA. Catatonia in outpatients: analysis of a single clinical practice. J Clin Psychopharmacol 2015;35(1):89-9

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters, Committee reports, Talks (selected):

1. Johnson RA. Heart failure. In (pp 101-125), Wilkins EW, Moncure AD, Dineen JT (eds.), MGH Textbook of Emergency Medicine. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1978

2. Johnson RA. Heart failure. In (pp 31-95), Johnson RA, Haber E, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1980

3. Johnson RA. Heart failure resulting from coronary artery disease. In (pp 339-369), Johnson RA, Haber E, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1980

4. Johnson RA, Palacios I. Dilated cardiomyopathy and nonhypertrophic nondilated cardiomyopathy. In (pp 603-646), Johnson RA, Haber E, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1980

5. Vignola PA, Johnson RA, Scannell JG. Pericardial diseases. In (pp 664-694), Johnson RA, Haber E, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1980

6. Johnson RA, Levine FH. Pulmonary thromboembolism and nonthromboembolic pulmonary vascular disease. In (pp 897-935), Johnson RA, Haber E, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1980

7. Johnson RA, Dash H, Buckley MJ. Cardiomyopathic syndrome resulting from coronary artery disease. Its relationship to diabetes mellitus and to the selection of patients for operative procedures for coronary artery disease. In (pp 31-59), Scott RC (ed.), Clinical Cardiology and Diabetes. New York: Futura; 1981

8. Johnson RA, Palacios I. Dilated cardiomyopathies of the adult (2 parts). N Engl J Med 307:1051 and 1119, 1982

9. Johnson RA, Lee DCS. Heart failure. In (pp 117-142), Wilkins CW, Dineen JJ, Moncure AC, Gross PL (eds.), MGH Textbook of Emergency Medicine (2nd edition). Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1983

10. Johnson RA, Palacios I. Nondilated cardiomyopathies. Adv Intern Med 30:243, 1984

11. Johnson RA. Dilated cardiomyopathy. In (pp 958-966), Bayless TM, Brain MC, Cherniack RM (eds.), Current Therapy in Internal Medicine, 1984-1985. Philadelphia, St Louis: BC Decker, CV Mosby; 1984

12. Fifer MA, Johnson RA, Lee DCS. Cardiology: Heart failure. In (pp 111-132), Wilkins CW, Dineen JJ, Moncure AC, Gross PL (eds.), MGH Textbook of Emergency Medicine (3rd edition). Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1988

13. Johnson RA, Fifer MA. Heart failure. In (pp 65-133), Eagle KA, Haber E, DeSanctis RW, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology (2nd edition). Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1989

14. Haber E, Johnson RA, Beller GA. The clinical use and pharmacology of digitalis. In (pp 337-356), Eagle KA, Haber E, DeSanctis RW, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology (2nd edition). Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1989

15. Johnson RA, O’Gara PT, Jacobs ML, Daggett WM. Heart failure resulting from coronary artery disease. In (pp 455-491), Eagle KA, Haber E, DeSanctis RW, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology (2nd edition). Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1989

16. Johnson RA, Fifer MA, Palacios IF. Dilated and restrictive cardiomyopathies. In (pp 895-949), Eagle KA, Haber E, DeSanctis RW, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology (2nd edition). Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1989

17. Pandian NG, Vignola P, Johnson RA, Scannell JG. Pericardial diseases. In (pp 977-1011), Eagle KA, Haber E, DeSanctis RW, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology (2nd edition). Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1989

18. Hales CA, Johnson RA. Pulmonary thromboembolism and nonthromboembolic pulmonary vascular disease. In (pp 1285-1334), Eagle KA, Haber E, DeSanctis RW, Austen WG (eds.), The Practice of Cardiology (2nd edition). Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989

19. Johnson RA. Editorial: NMS and why we should call it (malignant) catatonia. Jefferson J Psychiatry 20: 62, 2006 (http://jdc.jefferson.edu/jeffjpsychiatry)

20. Johnson RA. Grief & Beauty. Presentation: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchison Cancer Center. 05/14/16. Conference on Melanoma.

Books, Medical

Johnson RA, Haber E, Austen WG (eds.) The Practice of Cardiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1980 (1179 pages)

Books, Philosophical/Medical

Johnson, Robert Arnold, and Thomas Alderson Davis. Story by Story: Who I Am, What I Suffer (158 pages). Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019 (https://www.cambridgescholars.com/story-by-story). 

Books, Musical

Pickett S, Johnson RA. The Plain Talk of Music. CoMuse Publishing 2000

Books, Poetry

Johnson, Robert Arnold. The Inconclusive Rule. Xlibris 2018  www.robertarnoldjohnson.com

Johnson, Robert Arnold. The Laughing Heart - Revised (epic poem, 258 pp),Xlibris 2019 www.robertarnoldjohnson.com