Faculty Scholarships

  1. Tremblay J, Kim S, Philbin E, Beers K, Lightle A, Belov D. Late-onset Fabry disease: the cardiac sequela. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Jun 9;15(6):e247917. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-247917. PMID: 35680278; PMCID: PMC9185384.

  2. Avram R, So D, Iturriaga E, Byrne J, Lennon R, Murthy V, Geller N, Goodman S, Rihal C, Rosenberg Y, Bailey K, Farkouh M, Bell M, Cagin C, Chavez I, El-Hajjar M, Ginete W, Lerman A, Levisay J, Marzo K, Nazif T, Olgin J, Pereira N. Patient Onboarding and Engagement to Build a Digital Study After Enrollment in a Clinical Trial (TAILOR-PCI Digital Study): Intervention Study. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Jun 13;6(6):e34080. doi: 10.2196/34080. PMID: 35699977; PMCID: PMC9237778.

  3. Sidhu MS, Lyubarova R, Bangalore S, Bonaca MP. Challenges of long-term dual antiplatelet therapy use following acute coronary syndromes. Am Heart J. 2022 Apr;246:44-64. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.12.005. Epub 2021 Dec 20. PMID: 34933000.

  4. Sidhu MS, Alexander KP, Huang Z, O'Brien SM, Chaitman BR, Stone GW, Newman JD, Boden WE, Maggioni AP, Steg PG, Ferguson TB, Demkow M, Peteiro J, Wander GS, Phaneuf DC, De Belder MA, Doerr R, Alexanderson- Rosas E, Polanczyk CA, Henriksen PA, Conway DSG, Miro V, Sharir T, Lopes RD, Min JK, Berman DS, Rockhold FW, Balter S, Borrego D, Rosenberg YD, Bangalore S, Reynolds HR, Hochman JS, Maron DJ; ISCHEMIA Research Group. Causes of cardiovascular and noncardiovascular death in the ISCHEMIA trial. Am Heart J. 2022 Jun;248:72-83. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2022.01.017. Epub 2022 Feb 9. PMID: 35149037.

  5. Musuku SR, Mustafa M, Pulavarthi M, Doshi I, Zhang Y, Luu S, Naqvi A, Sunesara I, Richvalsky T, Yukhvid D, Cherukupalli D, DeLago A, Torosoff M, Shapeton AD. Procedural, Short-Term, and Intermediate-Term Outcomes in Propensity-Matched Patients With Severe Mitral Valve Regurgitation Undergoing Urgent Versus Elective MitraClip Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 May;36(5):1268-1275. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.12.008. Epub 2021 Dec 16. PMID: 35031222.

  6. Avram R, So D, Iturriaga E, Byrne J, Lennon R, Murthy V, Geller N, Goodman S, Rihal C, Rosenberg Y, Bailey K, Farkouh M, Bell M, Cagin C, Chavez I, El-Hajjar M, Ginete W, Lerman A, Levisay J, Marzo K, Nazif T, Olgin J, Pereira N. Patient Onboarding and Engagement to Build a Digital Study After Enrollment in a Clinical Trial (TAILOR-PCI Digital Study): Intervention Study. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Jun 13;6(6):e34080. doi: 10.2196/34080. PMID: 35699977; PMCID: PMC9237778.

  7. Bangalore S, Hochman JS, Stevens SR, Jones PG, Spertus JA, O’Brien SM, Reynolds HR, Boden WE, Fleg J , Williams DO, Stone GW, Sidhu MS, Mathew RO, Chertow GM, Maron DJ. JAMA Cardiol. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2022.1763 Published online June 29, 2022

  8. Briguori C, Mathew RO, Huang Z, Mavromatis K, Hickson LJ, Lau WL, Mathew A, Mahajan S, Wheeler DC, Claes KJ, Chen G, Nolasco FEB, Stone GW, Fleg JL, Sidhu MS, Rockhold FW, Chertow GM, Hochman JS, Maron DJ, Bangalore S. Dialysis Initiation in Patients with Chronic Coronary Disease and Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in ISCHEMIA-CKD. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Mar 15;11(6):e022003. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.022003. Epub 2022 Mar 9.PMID: 35261290.

  9. Patient Onboarding and Engagement to Build a Digital Registry after Enrollment in a Clinical Trial: Results of the TAILOR-PCI Digital Study. R Avram, D So, E Iturriaga, J Byrne, R Lennon, V Murthy, N Geller, S Goodman, C Rihal, Y Rosenberg, K Bailey, M Farkouh, M Bell, C Cagin, I Chavez, M El-Hajjar, W Ginete, A Lerman, J Levisay, K Marzo, T Nazif, J Olgin, N Pereira. JMIR Form Res 2022; 6(6):e34080

  10. Corinne Carland, Barinder Hansra, Cody Parsons, Radmila Lyubarova, Abha Khandelwal. Adequate enrollment of women in cardiovascular drug trials and the need for sex-specific assessment and reporting. American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice, Volume 17, 2022, 100155, ISSN 2666-6022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahjo.2022.100155.

  11. Yager N, Konduru S, Torosoff M (March 26, 2022) Nitrates as a Marker of Multiple Co-morbidities and Increased Mortality in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). Cureus 14(3): e23520. doi:10.7759/cureus.23520

  12. Volgman AS, Nair G, Lyubarova R, Merchant FM, Mason P, Curtis AB, Wenger NK, Aggarwal NT, Kirkpatrick JN, Benjamin EJ. Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients 75 Years and Older: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Jan 18;79(2):166-179.

  13. Lip GYH, Kotalczyk A, Teutsch C, Diener HC, Dubner SJ, Halperin JL, Ma CS, Rothman KJ, Marler S, Gurusamy VK, Huisman MV; GLORIA-AF Investigators. Comparative effectiveness and safety of non-vitamin K antagonists for atrial fibrillation in clinical practice: GLORIA-AF Registry. Clin Res Cardiol. 2022 Mar 16. doi: 10.1007/s00392-022-01996-2

  14. Briguori C, Mathew RO, Huang Z, Mavromatis K, Hickson LJ, Lau WL, Mathew A, Mahajan S, Wheeler DC, Claes KJ, Chen G, Nolasco FEB, Stone GW, Fleg JL, Sidhu MS, Rockhold FW, Chertow GM, Hochman JS, Maron DJ, Bangalore S. Dialysis Initiation in Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease and Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in ISCHEMIA-CKD. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Mar 15;11(6):e022003. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.022003. Epub 2022 Mar 9.PMID: 35261290

  15. Brueske BS, Sidhu MS, Chang IY, Wiley BM, Murphy JG, Bennett CE, Barsness GW, Jentzer JC. Braden skin score sub-domains predict mortality among cardiac intensive care patients. Am J Med. 2022 Feb 21;S0002- 9343(22)00125-5. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.01.046. Online ahead of print.

  16. Sidhu MS, Alexander KP, Huang Z, et al. Causes of Cardiovascular and Non-Cardiovascular Death in the ISCHEMIA Trial [published online ahead of print, 2022 Feb 8]. Am Heart J. 2022;S0002-8703(22)00026-6. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2022.01.017

  17. Kaur G, Desai KP, Chang IY, Newman JD, Mathew RO, Bangalore S, Venditti FJ, Sidhu MS. A clinical perspective on arsenic exposure and development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2022 Jan 14. doi: 10.1007/s10557-021-07313-9. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35029799.

  18. Wang SC, Kaur G, Schulman-Marcus J, Purga S, Mookherjee S, Miller C, Sidhu MS, Rosenson RS. Implementation of Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in Persons Living with HIV. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2022 Feb;36(1):173-186. doi: 10.1007/s10557-020-07085-8. Epub 2020 Sep 26. PMID: 32979175.

  19. Lopez-Sendon JL, Cyr DD, Mark DB, Bangalore S, Huang Z, White HD, Alexander KP, Li J, Nair RG, Demkow M, Peteiro J, Wander GS, Demchenko EA, Gamma R, Gadkari M, Poh KK, Nageh T, Stone PH, Keltai M, Sidhu M, Newman JD, Boden WE, Reynolds HR, Chaitman BR, Hochman JS, Maron DJ, O'Brien SM. Effects of initial invasive vs. initial conservative treatment strategies on recurrent and total cardiovascular events in the ISCHEMIA trial. Eur Heart J. 2022 Jan 13;43(2):148-149. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab509. PMID: 34514494.

  20. Sidhu MS, Lyubarova R, Bangalore S, Bonaca MP. Challenges of long-term dual antiplatelet therapy use following acute coronary syndromes: patient selection for long-term DAPT after ACS. Am Heart J. 2021 Dec 18: S0002-8703(21)00478-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.12.005. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34933000

  21. Hefner JL, Nembhard IM, Stephenson AL, Diehl AB, Dzubinski LM, McErlean M, Huppertz J, Sidhu MS. An exploration of gender bias affecting women in medicine. Adv Health Care Manag. 2021 Dec 6;20. doi: 10.1108/S1474-823120210000020004. PMID: 34779186

  22. Mathew RO, Lo KB, Tipparaju P, Phelps E, Sidhu MS, Bangalore S, Herzog C, Vaduganathan M, Tang WHW, Rangaswami J. Patterns of use and clinical outcomes with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in acute heart failure and changes in kidney function: an analysis of the Veteran’s Health administrative database. Cardiorenal Med. 2021 Oct 1: 1-11. doi: 10.1159/000519014. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34601469

  23. Yunus FN, Perino AC, Holmes DN, Matsouaka RA, Curtis AB, Ellenbogen KA, Frankel DS, Knight DP, Russo AM, Lewis WR , Piccini JP, Turakhia MP, GWTG-AFIB Working Group*. Sex Differences in Ablation Strategy, Lesion Sets, and Complications of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: An Analysis From the GWTG-AFIB Registry. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2021 Nov;14(11):e009790. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.121.009790. Epub 2021 Nov 1. Collaborators GWTG-AFIB Working Group*: Day J, Desai N, Feld GK, Fonarow GC, Hurwitz JL, Joglar J, Sheth K, Sidhu MS

  24. Peterson KA, Kaur G, Gianos E, Mookherjee S, Poli KA, Sidhu MS, Lyubarova R. Challenges in optimizing lipid management in women. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2021 Oct 18. doi: 10.1007/s10557-021-07273-0. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34661802.

  25. Khorolsky C, Pettijohn D, Yager N. Post-Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock Requiring Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Definitive Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cureus. 2021 Jul 16;13(7):e16421. doi: 10.7759/cureus.16421. PMID: 34422462; PMCID: PMC8369983.

  26. Kellsey A. Peterson, Gurleen Kaur, Eugenia Gianos, Sulagna Mookherjee, Kim A. Poli, Mandeep S. Sidhu, Radmila Lyubarova. Challenges in Optimizing Lipid Management in Women. Accepted: 24 September 2021. Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy https://doi.org/10.1007/s10557-021-07273-0.

  27. Kolenda JP, Schulman-Marcus J. Coffee, tea, and the cardiac diet. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2021 Aug 26:S1050-1738(21)00095-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tcm.2021.08.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34455074.

  28. Lyubarova R, Kaur G, Sidhu MS. Eliminating Gender Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease Treatment: Are We There Yet? Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2021 Aug;35(4):867-869. doi: 10.1007/s10557-020-07112-8. Epub 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 33206299.

  29. Reynolds HR, Picard MH, Spertus JA, Peteiro J, Lopez Sendon JL, Senior R, El-Hajjar MC, Celutkiene J, Shapiro MD, Pellikka PA, Kunichoff DF, Anthopolos R, Alfakih K, Abdul-Nour K, Khouri M, Bershtein L, De Belder M, Poh KK, Beltrame JF, Min JK, Fleg JL, Li Y, Maron DJ, Hochman JS. Natural History of Patients With Ischemia and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: The CIAO-ISCHEMIA Study. Circulation. 2021 Sep 28;144(13):1008-1023. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.046791. Epub 2021 Jun 1. PMID: 34058845; PMCID: PMC8478858.

  30. Wang SC, Koutroumpakis E, Schulman-Marcus J, Tosh T, Volgman AS, Lyubarova R. Sex Differences Remain Under-Reported in Cardiovascular Publications. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2021 Sep;30(9):1253-1258. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8561. Epub 2021 Mar 5. PMID: 33667122.

  31. Derakhshesh MI, Joye E, Yager N. Unilateral renal artery stenosis causing hypertensive flash pulmonary oedema. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Sep 12;14(9):e244402. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-244402. PMID: 34511412; PMCID: PMC8438749.

  32. Yager N, Schulman-Marcus J, Torosoff M. Coronary anatomy and comorbidities impact on elective PCI outcomes in left main and multivessel coronary artery disease. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2021 Sep;98(3):436-444. doi: 10.1002/ccd.29368. Epub 2020 Nov 11. PMID: 33174681.

  33. Herzog CA, Simegn MA, Xu Y, Costa SP, Mathew RO, El-Hajjar MC, Gulati S, Maldonado RA, Daugas E, Madero M, Fleg JL, Anthopolos R, Stone GW, Sidhu MS, Maron DJ, Hochman JS, Bangalore S. Kidney Transplant List Status and Outcomes in the ISCHEMIA-CKD Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Jul 27;78(4):348-361. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.05.001. Epub 2021 May 11. PMID: 33989711; PMCID: PMC8319110.

New Abstracts and Presentations 

1. Kenitz, J, El Halbi I, Hagenbuch K, Elmanaseer O, Farrell M, Schwabkey Z, Shabbir M, Leso J, Gjyriqi G, Lee J.  Likelihood of Physician Renewal of Chronically Prescribed Controlled Substances Based on Urine Drug Test  Results, After Presenting Physicians with Their Previous Prescribing Habits. Society of General Internal  Medicine; Orlando, FL; April 6-9, 2022. 

2. Khorolsky C., Drzymalski K. Ventricular Electrical Storm Secondary to Kinking of Left Internal Mammary Artery  Bypass Graft. ACC 71st Annual Scientific Session; Washington DC; April 2-4, 2022. 

3. Peterson K., Torosoff M. Comparison of BNP, Left Atrial Volumes and Function in Predicting Heart Failure  Readmissions. American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Scientific Sessions; Seattle, WA; June 10-13, 2022.

4. White C. Recognizing the Unrecognizable: Eosinophilic Myocarditis. American College of Cardiology Annual  Meeting 2022; Washington DC; April 1-2, 2022. 

5. Musuku SR, Mustafa M, Pulavarthi M, Doshi I, Zhang Y, Luu S, Ali Naqvi A, Cherukupalli D, Yukhvid D, DeLago  A, Torosoff M, Shapeton. Clinical Outcomes of Urgent Versus Elective Percutaneous MitraClip Procedures ASE  2022, June 10-13 Seattle, WA. 

6. Tremblay J, Judson M, Torosoff M Effects of Imaging Studies and Revised Cardiac Sarcoidosis Diagnostic  Criteria on Frequency of Cardiac Sarcoidosis Diagnosis. CHEST 27-29 June 2022, Bologna, Italy

7. Ehtesham M, Oweis J, Leamon A, Al-Tarbsheh A, Goodspeed K, Khorolsky C, Nasser U, Albaba I, Parimi A,  Shkolnik B, Tiwari A, Chopra A, Torosoff M. Body Mass Index Is A Predictor Of Mortality And Adverse  Cardiorespiratory Outcomes In Patients Hospitalized For SARS-COV-2 Infection. AHA QCOR 2022 May 2022  Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Volume 15, Issue Suppl 11 A53 2022

8. Tawfellos G, Torosoff M. Impact of Social Isolation during COVID-19 Pandemic on Individual Subjective  Assessment of Cardiac Disease Symptoms. AHA QCOR May 2022 Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and  Outcomes Volume 15, Issue Suppl 11 A44 2022 

9. Shilpa Jasti, Muhammad Afzal, Steven Jack Kalbfleisch, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Frank M. Bogun, Alexandru B.  Chicos, Henri Roukoz, Peter J. Zimetbaum, Francis Murgatroyd, Mikhail Torosoff, Marc Judson, Pyotr G.  Platonov, Adarsh K. Bhan, Lynda E. Rosenfeld, David B. De Lurgio, Ann C. Garlitski, Melody H. Hermel, Vasanth  Vedantham, Kyoko Soejima, Timm-Michael L. Dickfeld, Xiaokui Gu, Eric Puroll, Thomas C. Crawford, and  Jordana Kron. Traditional Risk Factors Increase the Risk of Poor Outcomes in Patients with Cardiac Sarcoidosis  ACC 2022, Apr 2-4 2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 253. 

10. Shilpa Jasti, Muhammad Afzal, Steven Jack Kalbfleisch, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Frank M. Bogun, Alexandru B.  Chicos, Henri Roukoz, Peter J. Zimetbaum, Francis Murgatroyd, Mikhail Torosoff, Marc Judson, Pyotr G.  Platonov, Adarsh K. Bhan, Lynda E. Rosenfeld, David B. De Lurgio, Ann C. Garlitski, Melody H. Hermel, Vasanth  Vedantham, Kyoko Soejima, Timm-Michael L. Dickfeld, Xiaokui Gu, Eric Puroll, Thomas C. Crawford, and  Jordana Kron. Cardiac Sarcoidosis Patients Who Meet the 1993 and 2006 Japanese Diagnostic Criteria Are  More Likely to Have Adverse Outcomes ACC 2022, Apr 2-4 2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 254. 

11. Thomas C. Crawford, Jordana Kron, Xiaokui Gu, M. Rizwan Afzal, Alexandru B. Chicos, Henri Roukoz, Peter J. Zimetbaum, Francis D. Murgatroyd, Kathryn Martin, Mikhail Torosoff, David A. Steckman, Pyotr G. Platonov,  Adarsh K. Bhan, Lynda E. Rosenfeld, David B. De Lurgio, Ann C. Garlitski, Vasanth Vedantham, Kyoko Soejima,  Jason Appelbaum, Timm-Michael Dickfeld, Matthew L. Ortman, Kazuaki Kaitani, Suguru Nishiuchi, Calambur  Narasimhan, Kristen K. Patton, David Rosenthal, Khaled Nour, Siddharth S. Mukerji, Katja Zeppenfeld,  Matthew M. Zipse, Marc Judson, William H. Sauer, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, James Froehlich, Kim A. Eagle,  Frank M. Bogun. Mortality and Morbidity Of Cardiac Sarcoidosis: An International Registry. Heart Rhythm  2022, April 29-May 1, 2022

12. Joye E, Torosoff M One Woman’s Resolve: Four Prosthetic Valves and A Paravalvular eak. ACC 2022, Apr 2-4,  2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 3227. 

13. Tremblay J, Judson M, Torosoff M Evolution of Diagnostic Criteria and Gender Effects On The Prevalence Of  Cardiac Sarcoidosis ACC 2022, Apr 2-4 2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 527. 

14. White C, Torosoff M Watching The WatchmanTM ACC 2022, Apr 2-4 2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 2882.

15. White C, Torosoff M Incidental Discovery and Management Of Large Vessel Arterial Thrombi-In-Situ In Sars Cov-2. ACC 2022, Apr 2-4 2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 2331. 

16. Zheng W, Laidlaw T, Lyubarova R, et al. Malignant ventricular arrhythmia due to aspirin induced eosinophilia associated coronary artery vasospasm. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Mar, 79 (9_Supplement) 2719.

17. Tawfellos G, Torosoff M. Impact of Social Isolation During The COVID-19 Pandemic on Congestive Heart  Failure Disease Management. AHA Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health EP26, March  1-4 2022 

18. Al-Ahmad M, Torosoff M. Effects of Chronic Statin Therapy on Left Atrial Structure and Function and  Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation After Catheter Ablation. CHEST Oct 2021, 160 (4) A263 presented at CHEST  2021 annual meeting 

19. Adhikari A, Harutyunyan M, Hamza M, Belov D, Torosoff M Acute Anemia and Outcomes in ACS Treated with  Mechanical Circulatory Support. Circulation Nov 2021, 144 (Supplement 1): A9777 presented at AHA Scientific  Sessions 2021. 

20. White C, Adelstein EC. Adaptive Left Ventricular Pacing-Induced QT Prolongation and Polymorphic Ventricular  Tachycardia in a Patient with a Newly Implanted Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Device. Heart Rhythm  2021; 18 (8): S 37. Oral abstract presentation at Heart Rhythm Society 2021 Annual Scientific Sessions. 

21. Petrie T, Doshi K, Harutyunyan M, Torosoff M. Effects of Globular Left Ventricular Remodeling on Heart Failure  Readmission. The European Heart Failure Society 2021, Online Congress. Aug 27, 2021. .