Extensive research opportunities are available in the Division of Cardiology. In-depth research opportunities are available in translational research and clinical research in areas of:

• Nuclear cardiology
• Echocardiography
• Interventional cardiology
• Electrophysiology
• Heart failure research
• Clinical epidemiology
• Molecular cardiology

In the second and third years, residents can take advantage of two months of protected time for research. Abstract submissions and participation in regional and national meetings is highly encouraged. The expectation is for each Fellow to have at least three peer-reviewed manuscripts during the course of their fellowship.

Recent Presentations:

Our year fellows (left to right: Tushar Mishra, Irfan Shafi, Preeya Prakash, Neiberg Lima) at ACC22 in Washington, DC.

WSU/DMC fellows and residents taking a break from their many presentations to take a group picture at ACC22.

Four of our excellent WSU/DMC residents and fellows presenting their posters at ACC22. (Clockwise from top left corner: Neiberg Lima, Ishita Datta, Aws Polina, Rashid Alhusain).

Here is our cardiology fellow and future EP specialist Ahmed Yassin MD stopping for a picture at HRS22 in San Francisco.

Our fellows Woosun Kang MD, Irfan Shafi MD and Tushar Mishra MD presenting at SCAI 2022 in Atlanta.

List of Recent Publications

2022 - 2023

Dawdy, J., Polina, A. & Abidov, A. Ascites and liver cirrhosis diagnosed on cardiac scintigraphic imaging. J. Nucl. Cardiol. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-023-03293-5

Elmoghrabi A, Shafi I, Abdelrahman A, et al. Outcomes of Catheter-Based Pulmonary Artery Embolectomy in Patients With Sub-Massive to Massive Pulmonary Embolism. Cureus. 2023;15(2):e34877. Published 2023 Feb 11. doi:10.7759/cureus.34877

Romero CM, Shafi I, Patil A, et al. Incidence and predictors of acute limb ischemia in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock. J Vasc Surg. 2023;77(3):906-912.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2022.11.044

Lima NA, Patel DA, Sundaram N, De Castro RL, Huffman C, Linares S, Melgar TA. Hospital Admissions for Mitral Stenosis in Pregnancy in the United States; A thirteen-year analysis. American Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases. 2023;13(1):10-20.

Lima NA, Rocha EA, Damasceno A, Costa IP, Ricardo JRB, Lopes FJ, Dias L, Soares MBPC, Puroll E, Eagle K, Crawford T. Pacemaker reuse in Portuguese speaking countries: a clinical reflexion. ABC Cardiol, 2023;120(2):e2021094.

Mishra T, Yassin AS, Bishop P, Kang W, Baciewicz F, Afonso L, Lakkis N. A rare case of bivalvular infective endocarditis and mural vegetation caused by Bartonella quintana. AIM Clinical Cases. 2023; 2:e220866.doi:10.7326/aimcc.2022.0866

Mishra T, Patel DA, Awadelkarim A, Sharma A, Patel N , Yadav N, Almas T, Sattar Y, Alraies MC. A National Perspective on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Heart Failure Hospitalizations in the United States, Current Problems in Cardiology (2023)

Soubani AO, Sharma A, Soubani O, Mishra T. Septic Shock Short-Term Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Major Psychiatric Disorders: Analysis From the National Inpatient Sample Database. J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry. 2023 Mar 25;S2667-2960(23)00047-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaclp.2023.03.003.

Rocha MEQA, Lima NA, Pinho LGB, Gondim DSP, Mina CPC, Rocha EAQA, Rocha MCT, Nobre JS, Pereira FTM, Prakash P, Maia FPA, Rocha EA. Remote Monitoring of Pacemakers and Defibrillators Effective and Safe in Brazil? Heart Rhythm O2, 2022; 3(6B),736-42.

Uddin MM., Mir T., Briasoulis A., Akintoye E., Adegbala O., Shafi I., Qureshi WT., & Afonso LC. (2022, Oct). Clinical Outcomes and 30-Day Readmissions Associated with High-Output Heart Failure. Hellenic Journal of Cardiology, 9666(22), 1-8. PMID: 36273803.

Uddin, M., Mir, T.,  Qureshi, W., Micho-Ulbeh, T., Nazir, S., Kichloo, A., ... & Sheikh, M. (2022). Acute myocardial infarction and acute heart failure among renal transplant recipients: a national readmissions database study. Journal of Nephrology, 35(7), 1851-1862.

Uddin, M. M., Mir, T., Kaur, J., Pervaiz, E., Babu, M. A., & Sheikh, M. (2022). ST-elevation myocardial infarction among cardiac amyloidosis patients; a national readmission database study. Heart Failure Reviews, 27(5), 1579-1586.

Yassin A, Dayco J, Kottam A. Left Main Coronary Artery Atresia: Diagnostic Images of a Rare Coronary Anomaly. Mayo Clinical Proceedings. 98(5), 655-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2022.12.014

2021 - 2022

Dawdy J, Akins X, Shafi I, Kottam A. Myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Is this the correct test? J. Nucl. Cardiol. 2022

Halboni A, Dawdy J, Mishra T, Dayco J, Kottam A. 18F-FDG PET/CT assisted exclusion of cardiac device-related infective endocarditis. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 2022

Dawdy J, Datta I, Misra A and Kottam A. Non-invasive ischemic evaluation in an aging population of transposition of great arteries patients with atrial switch procedure. J Nucl Cardiol. 2022.

Lima NA, Neri AKM, Veras SDS, Guedes ITT, de Araujo MSP, Reddy S and Helmstetter N. Cardiac cysticercosis in the setting of colorectal cancer and immunosuppression. J Cardiol Cases. 2022;25:123-125.

Zaher N, Shereef H, Al Hussain R, Dawdy J, Levine D and Alraies MC. Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Detecting Biventricular Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Case Rep Cardiol. 2021;2021:8833216.

Uddin MM, Soudan MA, Sebastian J, Mir T, Ashraf S and Afonso L. Large mural thrombus in the distal arch of the aorta without atherosclerotic disease. BMJ Case Rep. 2021;14.

Uddin MM, Pervez E, Usama M, Mir T, Regmi N and Kottam A. Challenges of left atrial appendage closure device and anticoagulation in a patient with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). BMJ Case Rep. 2021;14.

Datta I, Dawdy J and Afonso L. A case of variant parachute mitral valve associated with mitral annular disjunction arrhythmic syndrome. Echocardiography. 2021;38:1966-1969.

Lima NA, Martin DT, de Castro RL, Jr., Ladzinski A, Ring A, Vos D and Melgar TA. Hospitalization for Chagas Heart Disease in the United States From 2002 to 2017. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4:e2129959.

Lima NA, Byers-Spencer K, Cwikla K, Huffman C, Diaz M, Melgar TA and Helmstetter N. Benign Cardiac Neoplasms in the United States: A Thirteen-Year Review. Cardiology. 2021;146:748-753.

Abdalaziz Awadelkarim, Ahmed S Yassin, Mohammed Ali, John Dayco, Eltaib Saad, Isra Idris, Rashid Alhusain, Joseph Sebastian, Luis Afonso. The Ominous Triad Of Severe Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. Journal Of Medical Cases 13 (7), 3412022

Abdalaziz Awadelkarim, Mohammed Ali, Mowyad Khalid, Omeralfaroug Adam, Rashid Alhusain, John Dayco, Eltaib Saad, Mohamedanwar Ghandour, Ahmed S Yassin, Ahmed Subahi, Omar E Ali. A-5| Gender Difference In STEMI: An Insight From National Inpatient Sample. Journal Of The Society For Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions 1 (3)2022

2020 - 2021

Singh M, Shafi I, Rali P, Panarro J, Lakhter V, Bashir R. Contemporary Cather-based treatment options for management of acute pulmonary embolism. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2021;23(7):44

Azizi A, Shafi I, Zhao M, Chatterjee S, Roth S, Singh M, Lakhter V, Bashir R. Endovascular therapy for superior vena cava syndrome: A systematic review and metaanalysis. EClinicalMedicine. 2021; Jun 28;37:100970

Subahi A, Alhusain R, Ajmal R, Sohal C and Ali OE. Balloon Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Failing Self-Expandable Transcatheter Valve in Degenerated Surgical Bioprosthesis: Valve-in-Valve-in-Valve Implantation for the Treatment of Early Degenerative Prosthetic Insufficiency. Ochsner J. 2021;21:205-208.

Singh M, Shafi I, Rali P, Panaro J, Lakhter V and Bashir R. Contemporary Catheter-Based Treatment Options for Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2021;23:44.

Shereef H, Yassin AS, Subahi A and Ali O. Treatment Challenges of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Within the Constraint of COVID-19 Pandemic. Am J Ther. 2021;28:e738-e740.

Shereef H, Subahi A, Pahuja M and Afonso L. Unusual transmitral Doppler filling profile induced by right ventricular pacing. BMJ Case Rep. 2021;14.

Pahuja M, Ranka S, Chehab O, Mishra T, Akintoye E, Adegbala O, Yassin AS, Ando T, Thayer KL, Shah P, Kimmelstiel CD, Salehi P and Kapur NK. Incidence and clinical outcomes of bleeding complications and acute limb ischemia in STEMI and cardiogenic shock. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2021;97:1129-1138.

Pahuja M, Ranka S, Chauhan K, Patel A, Chehab O, Elmoghrabi A, Mony S, Ando T, Mishra T, Singh M, Abubaker H, Yassin A, Glazier JJ, Afonso L, Kapur NK and Burkhoff D. Rupture of Papillary Muscle and Chordae Tendinae Complicating STEMI: A Call for Action. ASAIO J. 2021;67:907-916.

Pahuja M, Chehab O, Ranka S, Mishra T, Ando T, Yassin AS, Thayer KL, Shah P, Kimmelstiel CD, Salehi P and Kapur NK. Incidence and clinical outcomes of stroke in ST-elevation myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2021;97:217-225.

Mishra T, Dawdy J, Sood A, Kottam A and Afonso L. Late-Onset Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis Treated With Apixaban. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021;14:e011148.

Micho Ulbeh T, Sara A, Uddin MM, Bell K, Elmograbi A and Cardozo S. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy caused by infusion reaction to paclitaxel. BMJ Case Rep. 2021;14.

Dawdy J, Sood A, Mishra T, Oviedo C, Kottam A and Afonso L. A Case of Mitral Annular Disjunction in Marfan Syndrome. CASE (Phila). 2021;5:221-223.

Dawdy J, Shokr M, Ali H and Kottam A. Rudimentary left atrial appendage in atrial fibrillation, congenital occlusion device, or continued thrombotic risk. Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2021;5:ytab177.

Ando T, Adegbala O, Aggarwal A, Afonso L, Takagi H, Grines CL and Briasoulis A. Redo aortic valve intervention after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: Analysis of the nationwide readmission database. Int J Cardiol. 2021;325:115-120.

Ali M, Awadelkarim A, Bishop P, Alhusain R, Adam O, Subahi A, Elmoghrabi A and Afonso L. Severe Sinus Bradycardia: An Unusual Cardiac Manifestation of COVID-19. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2021;9:23247096211013185.

Azizi A, Shafi I, Shah N, Rosenfield K, Schainfeld R, Sista A, Bashir R. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2020; 13(24):2896-2910

Ahmed S. Yassin. Implantable Diuretic Pump for Heart Failure Management. American Journal Of Therapeutics 27 (3), E320-E322-2020

Yassin AS, Subahi A, Adegbala O, Abubakar H, Dawdy J, Mishra T, Akintoye E, Shereef H, Ghandour M, Alhusain R, Shokr M, Oviedo C and Afonso L. Clinical Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Short-Term Outcomes and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Takotsubo Syndrome: A Propensity-Matched National Study. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2020;21:522-526.

Shafi I, Hassan AAI, Akers KG, Bashir R, Alkhouli M, Weinberger JJ and Abidov A. Clinical and procedural implications of congenital vena cava anomalies in adults: A systematic review. Int J Cardiol. 2020;315:29-35.

Tanveer Ahmad Mir, Ahmed S Yassin, Eric Joseph Denha, Raad Al Shaikhli, Ali Rahim, Sabah Ambreen, Prateek Lohia. Irinotecan Inducing Sinus Pause Bradycardia in A Patient With Small Round Cell Cancer. BMJ Case Reports CP 13 (5), E232053-2020

2019 - 2020

Adegbala O, Olakanmi O, Akintoye E, Inampudi C, Pahuja M, Alvarez P, Briasoulis A. Trends, Outcomes, and Readmissions Among Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients with Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Hemodialysis. ASAIO J. 2020 May;66(5):507-512.

Adejumo AC, Adejumo KL, Adegbala OM, Enwerem N, Ofosu A, Akanbi O, Fijabi DO, Ogundipe OA, Pani L, Adeboye A. Inferior Outcomes of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Comorbid Protein-Energy Malnutrition. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2020 Mar;44(3):454-462. doi: 10.1002/jpen.1680. Epub 2019 Jul 18.

Adejumo AC, Adejumo KL, Akanbi O, Adegbala OM, Alayo QA, Fijabi DO, Ogundipe OA, Almaddah N, Pani L, Adeboye A. Predictors, burden and impact of cardiac arrhythmias among patients hospitalized with end-stage liver disease. Heart Lung. 2020 Jan-Feb;49(1):73-79. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2019.07.002. Epub 2019 Jul 16. PMID: 31320178.

Subahi A, Osman M, Adegbala O, Abubakar H, Kheiri B, Yassin AS, Khalid M, Akintoye E, Eljack A, Osman K, Alkhouli M. Clinical and economic burden of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients undergoing percutaneous peripheral arterial interventions. Vascular. 2020 Feb;28(1):81-86. PMID: 31382836.

Yassin AS, Subahi A, Adegbala O, Abubakar H, Dawdy J, Mishra T, Akintoye E, Shereef H, Ghandour M, Alhusain R, Shokr M, Oviedo C, Afonso L. Clinical Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Short-Term Outcomes and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Takotsubo Syndrome: A Propensity-Matched National Study. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2020 Apr;21(4):522-526. PMID: 31439442.

Ahmed A, Adegbala O, Akintoye E, Inampudi C, Ajam M, Yassin AS, Olawusi E, Shokr M, Alvarez P, Briasoulis A. Gender Differences in Outcomes After Implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Mar;109(3):780-786. PMID: 31479642.

Ando T, Adegbala O, Takagi H, Afonso L, Briasoulis A. Early Invasive Versus Ischemia-Guided Strategy in Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis. Angiology. 2020 Apr;71(4):372-379.  PMID: 31578083.

Ando T, Akintoye E, Uemura T, Adegbala O, Ashraf S, Pahuja M, Shokr M, Takagi H, Grines CL, Afonso L, Briasoulis A. Palliative care referral in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction complicated with cardiogenic shock in the United States. Heart Lung. 2020 Jan-Feb;49(1):25-29.  PMID: 31703953.

Chehab O, Abdallah N, Kanj A, Pahuja M, Adegbala O, Morsi RZ, Mishra T, Afonso L, Abidov A. Impact of immune thrombocytopenic purpura on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Clin Cardiol. 2020Jan;43(1):50-59. PMCID: PMC6954382.

Akintoye E, Adegbala O, Egbe A, Olawusi E, Afonso L, Briasoulis A. Association between Hospital volume of cardiopulmonary resuscitation for in-hospital cardiac arrest and survival to Hospital discharge. Resuscitation. 2020 Mar 1;148:25-31. PMID: 31945429.

Briasoulis A, Adegbala O, Akintoye E, Alvarez P. Temporal trends and outcomes of patients waiting on left ventricular assist devices and inotropes for heart transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2020 Jun;34(6):e13857.  PMID: 32167606.

Ando T, Adegbala O, Uemura T, Ashraf S, Akintoye E, Pahuja M, Afonso L, Briasoulis A, Takagi H. Palliative Care in Ruptured Aortic Aneurysm in the United States: A Retrospective Analysis of Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database. Angiology. 2020 Aug;71(7):633-640.  PMID: 32249588.

Ando T, Adegbala O, Aggarwal A, Afonso L, Grines CL, Takagi H, Briasoulis A. Unplanned Thirty-Day Readmission After Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (From the Nationwide Readmission Database). Am J Cardiol. 2020 Jun 15;125(12):1890-1895. PMID: 32305221.

Akintoye E, Ando T, Sandio A, Adegbala O, Salih M, Zubairu J, Oseni A, Sistla P, Alqasrawi M, Egbe A, Mentias A, Afonso L, Briasoulis A, Panaich S, Desai MY. Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis Before and During the Era of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Am J Cardiol. 2020 Jul 1;126:73-81.  PMID: 32336533.

Pahuja M, Ranka S, Chehab O, Mishra T, Akintoye E, Adegbala O, Yassin AS, Ando T, Thayer KL, Shah P, Kimmelstiel CD, Salehi P, Kapur NK. Incidence and clinical outcomes of bleeding complications and acute limb ischemia in STEMI and cardiogenic shock. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2020 May 30.  PMID: 32473083.

2018 - 2019

Subahi A, Yassin AS, Adegbala O, Shokr M, Afonso L. Does a short QT interval increase the risk of cardiac death in healthy people? Cleve Clin J Med. 2020 Jun 30;87(7):398-400. PMID: 32605976.

Afonso L, Sood A, Akintoye E, Gorcsan J 3rd, Rehman MU, Kumar K, Javed A, Kottam A, Cardozo S, Singh M, Palla M, Ando T,   Adegbala O, Shokr M, Briasoulis A. A Doppler Echocardiographic Pulmonary Flow Marker of Massive or Submassive Acute Pulmonary Embolus. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019 May 2. pii: S0894-7317(19)30131-2.

Ando, T., O. Adegbala, P. A. Villablanca, M. Shokr, E. Akintoye, A. Briasoulis, H. Takagi, T. Schreiber, C. L. Grines, and L. Afonso. "Failure to Rescue, Hospital Volume, and in-Hospital Mortality after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation." Am J Cardiol  (Jun 15 2018).

Ando, T., E. Akintoye, A. A. Holmes, A. Briasoulis, M. Pahuja, H. Takagi, T. Schreiber, C. L. Grines, and L. Afonso. "Clinical End Points of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Compared with Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients <65 Years of Age (from the National Inpatient Sample Database)." Am J Cardiol 122, no. 2 (Jul 15 2018): 279-83.

Ando, T., H. Takagi, A. Briasoulis, C. L. Grines, and L. Afonso. "Comparison of Health Related Quality of Life in Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Meta-Analysis." Heart Lung Circ  (Aug 17 2018).

Ashraf, S., M. Singh, M. Singh, and L. Afonso. "Polyethylene Glycol Preparation for Colonoscopy Associated with Heart Failure Exacerbation." Am J Ther 25, no. 4 (Jul/Aug 2018): e495-e96.

Pahuja, M. and A. Abidov. "Severe Right Ventricular Hypertrophy in a Patient with Extracardiac and Intracardiac Shunt." Echocardiography 35, no. 7 (Jul 2018): 1049-51.

2017 - 2018

Desouza, N., A. Sood, F. A. Baciewicz, and S. Cardozo. "Traumatic Aortic Mural Thrombus Diagnosed Echocardiographically before Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair." Tex Heart Inst J 45, no. 3 (Jun 2018): 188-89.

Palla, M., H. Saber, S. Konda, and A. Briasoulis. "Masked Hypertension and Cardiovascular Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Integr Blood Press Control 11 (2018): 11-24.

Afonso, L., A. Kottam, V. Reddy, and A. Penumetcha. "Echocardiography in Infective Endocarditis: State of the Art." Curr Cardiol Rep 19, no. 12 (Oct 25 2017): 127.

Kumar, K. R., S. Haider, A. Sood, K. A. Mahmoud, A. Mostafa, L. C. Afonso, and A. R. Kottam. "Right-Sided Endocarditis: Eustachian Valve and Coronary Sinus Involvement." Echocardiography 34, no. 1 (Jan 2017): 143-44.