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Christopher M. O'Connor

Christopher M. O'Connor

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2025

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Overview

Christopher M. O'Connor is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Medication Adherence and Compliance
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

O'Connor has contributed extensively to the literature through numerous publications appearing in frequent venues such as:

  • JACC Heart Failure
  • Journal of Cardiac Failure
  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Circulation

Some of the recent papers associated with this researcher include:

  • Effect of Vericiguat vs Placebo on Quality of Life in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2020, JAMA
  • Myocarditis Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Vaccination, 2021, Circulation
  • Depression and heart failure: the lonely comorbidity, 2020, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Assessment of Limitations to Optimization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Heart Failure From the GUIDE-IT Trial, 2020, JAMA Cardiology
  • N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Clinical Outcomes, 2020, JACC Heart Failure

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Mona Fiuzat, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Robert J. Mentz, Adrian F. Hernandez, and G. Michael Felker, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Efficacy and safety of exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial.

    Christopher M. O'Connor;David J. Whellan;David J. Whellan;Kerry L. Lee;Steven J. Keteyian

  • Clopidogrel for coronary stenting: response variability, drug resistance, and the effect of pretreatment platelet reactivity.

    Paul A. Gurbel;Kevin P. Bliden;Bonnie L. Hiatt;Christopher M. O’Connor

  • Sertraline Treatment of Major Depression in Patients With Acute MI or Unstable Angina

    Alexander H. Glassman;Christopher M. O'Connor;Robert M. Califf;Karl Swedberg

  • Evaluation study of congestive heart failure and pulmonary artery catheterization effectiveness

    James A. Hill;Daniel F. Pauly;Debra R. Olitsky;Stuart Russell

  • Diuretic Strategies in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

    G. Michael Felker;Kerry L. Lee;David A. Bull;Margaret M. Redfield

  • Effect of Amlodipine on Morbidity and Mortality in Severe Chronic Heart Failure.

    Milton Packer;Christopher M. O'Connor;Jalal K. Ghali;Milton L. Pressler

  • Effect of nesiritide in patients with acute decompensated heart failure.

    C. M. O'Connor;R. C. Starling;A. F. Hernandez;P. W. Armstrong

  • Mood disorders in the medically ill: scientific review and recommendations.

    Dwight L. Evans;Dennis S. Charney;Dennis S. Charney;Lydia Lewis;Robert N. Golden

  • Characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients with preserved systolic function hospitalized for heart failure: a report from the OPTIMIZE-HF Registry.

    Gregg C. Fonarow;Wendy Gattis Stough;William T. Abraham;Nancy M. Albert

  • Short-term intravenous milrinone for acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure: a randomized controlled trial.

    Michael S. Cuffe;Robert M. Califf;Kirkwood F. Adams;Raymond Benza

  • Effect of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibition on exercise capacity and clinical status in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: A randomized clinical trial

    Margaret M. Redfield;Horng H. Chen;Barry A. Borlaug;Marc J. Semigran

  • Relationship of depression to increased risk of mortality and rehospitalization in patients with congestive heart failure

    Wei Jiang;Jude Alexander;Eric Christopher;Maragatha Kuchibhatla

  • Depression, Heart Rate Variability, and Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Robert M. Carney;James A. Blumenthal;Phyllis K. Stein;Lana Watkins

  • Incidence, predictors at admission, and impact of worsening renal function among patients hospitalized with heart failure.

    Daniel E. Forman;Javed Butler;Yongfei Wang;William T. Abraham

  • Systolic Blood Pressure at Admission, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure

    Mihai Gheorghiade;William T. Abraham;Nancy M. Albert;Barry H. Greenberg

  • Ultrafiltration in decompensated heart failure with cardiorenal syndrome

    Bradley A. Bart;Steven R. Goldsmith;Kerry L. Lee;Michael M. Givertz

  • Treatment of Hypertension in the Prevention and Management of Ischemic Heart Disease A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology and Epidemiology and Prevention

    Clive Rosendorff;Henry R. Black;Christopher P. Cannon;Bernard J. Gersh

  • Renal impairment, worsening renal function, and outcome in patients with heart failure: an updated meta-analysis.

    Kevin Damman;Mattia A. E. Valente;Adriaan A. Voors;Christopher M. O'Connor

  • Vericiguat in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction

    Paul W Armstrong;Burkert Pieske;Kevin J Anstrom;Justin Ezekowitz

  • Effects of Tolvaptan, a Vasopressin Antagonist, in Patients Hospitalized with Worsening Heart Failure: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Mihai Gheorghiade;Wendy A. Gattis;Christopher M. O'Connor;Kirkwood F. Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Whellan
David J. Whellan Thomas Jefferson University
Adrian F. Hernandez
Adrian F. Hernandez Duke University
Mihai Gheorghiade
Mihai Gheorghiade Northwestern University
G. Michael Felker
G. Michael Felker Duke University
Robert M. Califf
Robert M. Califf Duke University
Marco Metra
Marco Metra University of Brescia
Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
Kirkwood F. Adams
Kirkwood F. Adams University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John R. Teerlink
John R. Teerlink University of California, San Francisco
Gregg C. Fonarow
Gregg C. Fonarow University of California, Los Angeles

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