The physicians at Georgia Heart Institute are dedicated to providing forward thinking care that is focused on improving lives for generations.
Enriched by discovery and innovation, our program has a robust commitment to bringing breakthroughs to everyday care and ensuring that our patients are receiving care that can be benchmarked internationally with other leading programs. Through participation in international research and leading clinical trials, we’re learning about the therapies and treatments of tomorrow to improve care for our patients today.
View our clinicians’ most recent publications and e-posters below.
Posters and Abstracts
Cardiovascular Prevention:
Interventional Cardiology
- Comparison of Allometric Scaling Patterns for Estimating Coronary Flow.
Azarnoosh J, Molony D, Komilian K, Soriano L, Dornback A, Jalal S, Lee B, Shaw L, Dunham S, Lin F and Samady H. - Association of OCT derived wall shear stress and neointimal healing in stented coronary arteries; Komilian K.
- Evaluation of Deep IVUS for Automatic IVUS Image Analysis Azarnoosh J, Molony D, Komilian K, Soriano L, Dornback A, Jalal S, Lee B, Shaw L, Dunham S, Lin F and Samady H.
Publications
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
- Badhwar, V., Wei, L. M., Geirsson, A., Dearani, J. A., Grossi, E. A., Guy, T. S., … & Chitwood, W. R. (2023). Contemporary robotic cardiac surgical training. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 165(2), 779-783.
- Balkhy, H. H., Grossi, E. A., Kiaii, B., Murphy, D., Geirsson, A., Guy, S., & Lewis, C. (2023, March). A Retrospective Evaluation of Endo-Aortic Balloon Occlusion Compared to External Clamping in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery. In Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. WB Saunders.
- Haenen, F. W. N., Laga, S., Guy, T. S., & Rodrigus, I. (2023). The Automatic Locking Purse String Suture Technique in Minimal Invasive Surgery Automatic Locking Purse String Suture Using Barbed Suture. Surgical innovation, 15533506221149885. Advance online publication.
- Rosen, J. L., Yost, C. C., & Guy, T. S. (2023). The Methodology of the Virtual Clinic in Cardiac Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Adapting to the Future. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality, 38(1), 63–65.
- Round, K. J., Yost, C. C., Rosen, J. L., Haenen, F. W. N., Komlo, C. M., Wong, D. H., Mandel, J. L., Prochno, K. W., Ott, N. Y., & Guy, T. S. (2023). Feasibility of Robotic Mitral Valve Repair Using Barbed Nonabsorbable Sutures: A Preliminary Single-Center Experience. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.), 15569845231174228. Advance online publication.
- Yost, C. C., Rosen, J. L., Mandel, J. L., Wong, D. H., Prochno, K. W., Komlo, C. M., … & Guy, T. S. (2023). Feasibility of Postoperative Day One or Day Two Discharge After Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Journal of Surgical Research, 289, 35-41.
Cardiovascular Imaging
- Hakim, D., Coskun, A. U., Maynard, C., Pu, Z., Rupert, D., Cefalo, N., … & Stone, P. H. (2023). Endothelial shear stress computed from coronary computed tomography angiography: A direct comparison to intravascular ultrasound. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
- van Rosendael, S. E., van den Hoogen, I. J., Lin, F. Y., Andreini, D., Al-Mallah, M. H., Budoff, M. J., … & Bax, J. J. (2023). Clinical and coronary plaque predictors of atherosclerotic nonresponse to statin therapy. Cardiovascular Imaging, 16(4), 495-504.
- Veillet-Chowdhury, M., Dabbagh, G. S., Benton Jr, S. M., Hill, A. M., Lee, J. H., Singleton, M. J., … & Chahal, C. A. A. (2023). CT-Guided Direct Current Cardioversion for Atrial Arrhythmias During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cardiovascular Imaging, 16(1), 135-137.
Heart Failure
- Fudim, M., Yazdi, D., Egolum, U., Haghighat, A., Kottam, A., Sauer, A. J., Shah, H., Kumar, P., Rakita, V., Centen, C., Ozonat, K., Smith, S., & DeVore, A. D. (2023). Use of a Cardiac Scale to Predict Heart Failure Events: Design of SCALE-HF 1. Circulation. Heart failure, 16(5), e010012.
- Ikedum, I., Asreb, A., Egolum, U., & Ling, H. (2023). Experience in Initiating Vericiguat in an Advanced Heart Failure Program. American journal of therapeutics, 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001613. Advance online publication.
- Samuel, E., Watford, M., Egolum, U. O., Ombengi, D. N., Ling, H., & Cates, D. W. (2023). Inclisiran: A First-in-Class siRNA Therapy for Lowering Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol. The Annals of pharmacotherapy, 57(3), 317–324.
- Sykalo, C., Egolum, U., & Ling, H. (2023). The Daily Activity of Patients With Heart Failure During COVID-19 Pandemic. Cardiology research, 14(3), 240–242.
Interventional Cardiology
- Dodoo, S. N., Okoh, A. K., Aggarwal, T., Osman, A. F., Nkansah, E., Oseni, A., … & Egolum, U. (2023). Disparities in health and healthcare: Impact of race on resource utilization and costs following transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine.
- Ghasemzadeh, N., Kim, N., Amlani, S., Madan, M., Shavadia, J. S., Chong, A. Y., … & Dehghani, P. (2022). A Review of ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction in Patients with COVID-19. Cardiology Clinics, 40(3), 321.
- Guddeti, R. R., Sanina, C., Jauhar, R., Henry, T. D., Dehghani, P., Garberich, R., … & Garcia, S. (2023). Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients With COVID-19 Presenting With Myocardial Infarction. The American Journal of Cardiology, 187, 76-83.
- Molony, D., & Samady, H. (2023). Vascular Biomechanics: The True Apex of the Cardiovascular Risk Pyramid?. Cardiovascular Interventions, 16(9), 1050-1053.
Case Reports
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
- Rosen, J. L., Yost, C. C., Prochno, K. W., Komlo, C. M., Mandel, J. L., Wu, M., & Guy, T. S. (2023). A New Frontier: No Working Port for Robotic Mitral Valve Repair. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.), 18(2), 200–203.
Electrophysiology
- Asreb, A., & Ahn, J. (2023). Loss of His-bundle and Right Ventricular Septal Capture Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement-A Case Report. The Journal of innovations in cardiac rhythm management, 14(2), 5332–5337.
General Cardiology
- Ahoussougbemey Mele, A., Chew, C., Ruiz Vega, R., Mahmood, R., & AlRubaye, R. (2023). Naproxen-Induced Evans Syndrome. Cureus, 15(2), e34910.
- Mok, J. Y., & Burkle, J. (2023). Lipoprotein-X: A Case of Falsely Elevated LDL Hypercholesterolemia. Case Reports, 13, 101799.
Abstracts
Cardiovascular Imaging
- Kumar, S., Molony, D., Khawaja, S., Crawford, K., Thompson, E. W., Hung, O., Shah, I., Navas-Simbana, J., Ho, A., Kumar, A., Ko, Y. A., Hosseini, H., Lefieux, A., Lee, J. M., Hahn, J. Y., Chen, S. L., Otake, H., Akasaka, T., Shin, E. S., Koo, B. K., … Samady, H. (2023). Stent underexpansion is associated with high wall shear stress: a biomechanical analysis of the shear stent study. The international journal of cardiovascular imaging, 39(7), 1375–1382.
- Park, H. B., Arsanjani, R., Sung, J. M., Heo, R., Lee, B. K., Lin, F. Y., Hadamitzky, M., Kim, Y. J., Conte, E., Andreini, D., Pontone, G., Budoff, M. J., Gottlieb, I., Chun, E. J., Cademartiri, F., Maffei, E., Marques, H., Gonçalves, P. A., Leipsic, J. A., Lee, S. E., … Chang, H. J. (2023). Impact of statins based on high-risk plaque features on coronary plaque progression in mild stenosis lesions: results from the PARADIGM study. European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, jead110. Advance online publication.
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
- Kaneyuki, D., Yost, C. C., Round, K., Wu, M., & Guy, T. S. (2023). EndoaorticBalloon Occlusion in Totally Endoscopic and Percutaneous Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.), 18(1), 90–96.
- Zivan, T., Peters, A., & Guy, T. S. (2023). Multimodality imaging in a patient with an unexplained left ventricular mass undergoing robotic excision. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 2919-2919.
Electrophysiology
- Mahmood, R., Iqbal, A., Adams, A., Moyine, C. Y., Dalton, D., Ehrenreich, H., … & Chandra, S. (2023). PO-01-135 Safety and tolerability of initiating oral sotalol as outpatient. Heart Rhythm, 20(5), S170.
Heart Failure
- Ling, H., & Egolum, U. (2023). Experience Of Initiating Vericiguat In An Advanced Heart Failure Program. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 29(4), 561-562.
- Sperry, B. W., Quan, D., Mauricio, E., Small, R. S., Ananthasubramaniam, K., Egolum, U. O., … & Freimer, M. (2023). Effect of RNAI on cardiomyopathy and polyneuropathy outcomes in patients with V122I variant hereditary transthyretin-mediated (HATTR or ATTRV) amyloidosis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 343-343.
Interventional Cardiology
- Bergmark, B., Giugliano, G. R., Aparicio, A. A., Weng, S. C., Inderbitzen, B., & Croce, K. J. (2023). Preclinical evaluation of a novel solid core pressure guidewire. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 956-956.
- Dehghani, P., Singh, J., Mancini, G. J., Stanberry, L., Bergstedt, S., Madan, M., … & Henry, T. D. (2023). LB-11| Core-Laboratory Angiographic Characteristics and Mortality of Patients With STEMI and COVID-19: Insights from the NACMI Registry. Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, 2(3).
- Dodoo, S., Apenteng, B., Okoh, A. K., Opoku, S., Ghasemzadeh, N., & Ramadan, R. (2023). In-hospital mortality following percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion with and without chronic thrombocytopenia: A propensity weighted analysis of national inpatient sample. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 934-934.
- Dodoo, S. N., Okoh, A. K., Aggarwal, T., Osman, A. F., Nkansah, E., Oseni, A., … & Egolum, U. (2023). Disparities in health and healthcare: Impact of race on resource utilization and costs following transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. Cardiovascular Revascularization.
- Dodoo, S., Apenteng, B., Okoh, A. K., Opoku, S., Ghasemzadeh, N., & Ramadan, R. (2023). Impact of chronic thrombocytopenia on health resource utilization and costs following chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: A propensity weighted analysis of national inpatient sample. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 1082-1082.
- Mahmood, R., Asreb, A., Alaws, H., Setzer, A. R., Winston, A. D., Ghasemzadeh, N., & Kansara, P. (2023). Correlation of aortic valve gradient obtained by catheterization and echocardiogram post transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 836-836.
- Mehran, R., Beerkens, F., sartori, S., Cao, D., Feng, Y., Kandzari, D. E., … & Horwitz, P. A. (2023). Impact of sex on outcomes among patients with a previous coronary artery bypass graft undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 970-970.
Dr. Nima Ghasemzadeh discusses his recent publication focused on improving the care of patients who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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