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David C. Naftel is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a specialized emphasis on surgery, biomedical engineering, emergency medicine, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and epidemiology.

Their work covers a range of topics in cardiac and cardiovascular health, including:

  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors

David C. Naftel has contributed to several recent scientific papers:

  • Concordance of Treatment Effect: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs Database, 2021, published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Hepatorenal dysfunction assessment with the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Excluding INR score predicts worse survival after heart transplant in pediatric Fontan patients, 2021, published in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Cardiovascular Disease Events and Mortality After Myocardial Infarction Among Black and White Adults, 2020, published in Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • Quantifying the impact from stroke during support with continuous flow ventricular assist devices: An STS INTERMACS analysis, 2020, published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • STS INTERMACS Database: The Key to Conduct Single-Arm Trials in Advanced Heart Failure Patients, 2021, published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with David C. Naftel include:

  • Ryan S. Cantor
  • James K. Kirklin
  • Devin Koehl
  • Francis D. Pagani
  • Pavan Atluri

Publication venues that have featured David C. Naftel's work frequently are:

  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Best Publications

  • Seventh INTERMACS annual report: 15,000 patients and counting

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos

  • Eighth annual INTERMACS report: Special focus on framing the impact of adverse events.

    James K. Kirklin;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Sixth INTERMACS annual report: a 10,000-patient database.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos

  • INTERMACS Profiles of Advanced Heart Failure: The Current Picture

    Lynne Warner Stevenson;Francis D. Pagani;James B. Young;Mariell Jessup

  • Fifth INTERMACS annual report: risk factor analysis from more than 6,000 mechanical circulatory support patients.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Replacement of the aortic root in patients with Marfan's syndrome.

    V L Gott;P S Greene;D E Alejo;D E Cameron

  • Outcome after a "perfect" Fontan operation.

    Francis Fontan;John W. Kirklin;Guy Fernandez;Francisco Costa

  • Use of an Intrapericardial, Continuous-Flow, Centrifugal Pump in Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation

    Keith D. Aaronson;Mark S. Slaughter;Leslie W. Miller;Edwin C. McGee

  • Mechanical Circulatory Support device database of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: first annual report--2003.

    Mario C Deng;Leah B Edwards;Marshall I Hertz;Amanda W Rowe

  • A multicenter controlled clinical trial of open versus endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm

    Jon S. Matsumura;David C. Brewster;Michel S. Makaroun;David C. Naftel

  • INTERMACS database for durable devices for circulatory support: first annual report.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Lynne Warner Stevenson;Robert L. Kormos

  • Pretransplantation risk factors for death after heart transplantation: a multiinstitutional study. The Transplant Cardiologists Research Database Group.

    Bourge Rc;Naftel Dc;Costanzo-Nordin Mr;Kirklin Jk

  • The Fourth INTERMACS Annual Report: 4,000 implants and counting

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Prospective trial of a pediatric ventricular assist device.

    Charles D. Fraser;Robert D.B. Jaquiss;David N. Rosenthal;Tilman Humpl

  • Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) analysis of pump thrombosis in the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Francis D. Pagani

  • Second INTERMACS annual report: More than 1,000 primary left ventricular assist device implants

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Third INTERMACS Annual Report: the evolution of destination therapy in the United States.

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Robert L. Kormos;Lynne W. Stevenson

  • Outcomes of children bridged to heart transplantation with ventricular assist devices: a multi-institutional study.

    Elizabeth D. Blume;David C. Naftel;Heather J. Bastardi;Brian W. Duncan

  • Long-term mechanical circulatory support (destination therapy): On track to compete with heart transplantation?

    James K. Kirklin;David C. Naftel;Francis D. Pagani;Robert L. Kormos

  • Long-term function of cryopreserved aortic homografts: A ten-year study

    James K. Kirklin;Dennis Smith;William Novick;David C. Naftel

Frequent Co-Authors

James K. Kirklin
James K. Kirklin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert C. Bourge
Robert C. Bourge University of Alabama at Birmingham
James B. Young
James B. Young Cleveland Clinic
Robert L. Kormos
Robert L. Kormos University of Pittsburgh
Francis D. Pagani
Francis D. Pagani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lynne W. Stevenson
Lynne W. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Eugene H. Blackstone
Eugene H. Blackstone Cleveland Clinic
John W. Kirklin
John W. Kirklin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jon A. Kobashigawa
Jon A. Kobashigawa Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Bruce Rybarczyk
Bruce Rybarczyk Virginia Commonwealth University

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