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2023

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D-Index
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Citations
42501
World Ranking
5002
National Ranking
2713

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

K. Ranga Rama Krishnan is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as well as several intersecting disciplines including Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Neurology, and Internal Medicine.

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

  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies

K. Ranga Rama Krishnan has contributed extensively to academic literature, with numerous publications in key journals. Frequent venues for their published works include:

  • Heart Rhythm
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
  • Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Psychopharmacology Bulletin

Some of the recent papers co-authored or associated with K. Ranga Rama Krishnan are:

  • Clinical outcomes of left bundle branch area pacing compared to right ventricular pacing: Results from the Geisinger-Rush Conduction System Pacing Registry, 2021, Heart Rhythm
  • High-power short duration vs. conventional radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, EP Europace
  • Effectiveness of a Brain-Computer Interface Based Programme for the Treatment of ADHD: A Pilot Study, 2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • Development of New-Onset or Progressive Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Permanent HIS Bundle Pacing Versus Right Ventricular Pacing: Results From the RUSH HBP Registry, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Sensors for rate-adaptive pacing: How they work, strengths, and limitations, 2020, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Parikshit S. Sharma
  • Richard G. Trohman
  • Timothy R. Larsen
  • Jeremiah Wasserlauf
  • Henry D. Huang

K. Ranga Rama Krishnan has been recognized with the award of Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2007, indicating acknowledgment by a prominent medical institution.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Exercise Training on Older Patients With Major Depression

    James A. Blumenthal;Michael A. Babyak;Kathleen A. Moore;W. Edward Craighead

  • 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

  • Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months

    Michael Babyak;James A. Blumenthal;Steve Herman;Parinda Khatri

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

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

  • MRI-defined vascular depression.

    K R Krishnan;J C Hays;D G Blazer

  • Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of bipolar disorder.

    K Ranga Rama Krishnan

  • Effect of Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) in major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial

    Jonathan R.T. Davidson;Kishore M. Gadde;John A. Fairbank;K. Ranga Rama Krishnan

  • Loss-of-function mutation in tryptophan hydroxylase-2 identified in unipolar major depression.

    Xiaodong Zhang;Raul R. Gainetdinov;Jean-Martin Beaulieu;Tatyana D. Sotnikova

  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance consensus statement on the unmet needs in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in late life.

    Dennis S. Charney;Charles F. Reynolds;Lydia Lewis;Barry D. Lebowitz

  • Provisional diagnostic criteria for depression of Alzheimer disease.

    Jason T. Olin;Lon S. Schneider;Ira R. Katz;Barnett S. Meyers

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the caudate nuclei in depression. Preliminary observations.

    K. Ranga Rama Krishnan;William M. McDonald;P. Rodrigo Escalona;P. Murali Doraiswamy

  • Platelet/Endothelial Biomarkers in Depressed Patients Treated With the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Sertraline After Acute Coronary Events The Sertraline AntiDepressant Heart Attack Randomized Trial (SADHART) Platelet Substudy

    Victor L. Serebruany;Alexander H. Glassman;Alex I. Malinin;Charles B. Nemeroff

  • Hippocampal volume in geriatric depression

    David C Steffens;Christopher E Byrum;Douglas R McQuoid;Daniel L Greenberg

  • Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group report.

    Karina W. Davidson;David J. Kupfer;J. Thomas Bigger;Robert M. Califf;Robert M. Califf

  • Structural neuroimaging and mood disorders: Recent findings, implications for classification, and future directions

    David C. Steffens;K. Ranga Rama Krishnan

  • Comorbidity of depression with other medical diseases in the elderly.

    K.Ranga R Krishnan;Mahlon Delong;Helena Kraemer;Robert Carney

  • Zonisamide for weight loss in obese adults: a randomized controlled trial.

    Kishore M. Gadde;Deborah M. Franciscy;H. Ryan Wagner;K. Ranga R. Krishnan

  • A magnetic resonance imaging study of putamen nuclei in major depression

    Mustafa M. Husain;William M. McDonald;P.Murali Doraiswamy;Gary S. Figiel

  • Adrenal Gland Enlargement in Major Depression: A Computed Tomographic Study

    Charles B. Nemeroff;K. Ranga R. Krishnan;Deborah Reed;Richard Leder

  • Hypercortisolemia and hippocampal changes in depression

    David A. Axelson;P.Murali Doraiswamy;William M. McDonald;Orest B. Boyko

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Steffens
David C. Steffens University of Connecticut
James R. MacFall
James R. MacFall Duke University
P. Murali Doraiswamy
P. Murali Doraiswamy Duke University
Charles B. Nemeroff
Charles B. Nemeroff The University of Texas at Austin
Warren D. Taylor
Warren D. Taylor Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dan G. Blazer
Dan G. Blazer Duke University
James M. Provenzale
James M. Provenzale Duke University
Bernard J. Carroll
Bernard J. Carroll Duke University

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