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Nicholas G. Smedira

Nicholas G. Smedira

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94
Citations
29395
World Ranking
10562
National Ranking
5434

Overview

Nicholas G. Smedira is affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, specializing in medical research with a primary focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans numerous subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, epidemiology, biomedical engineering, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research interests concentrate on topics such as cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, congenital heart disease studies, mechanical circulatory support devices, and the cardiovascular effects of exercise.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Myosin Inhibition in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred for Septal Reduction Therapy, 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Mavacamten in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred for Septal Reduction, 2023, JAMA Cardiology
  • 2021: The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Expert Consensus Document: Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure, 2021, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Dose-Blinded Myosin Inhibition in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred for Septal Reduction Therapy: Outcomes Through 32 Weeks, 2022, Circulation
  • Myosin Inhibition and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred for Septal Reduction Therapy: Insights From the VALOR-HCM Study, 2022, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging

Smedira has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Milind Y. Desai, Zoran Popović, Edward G. Soltesz, Lars G. Svensson, and Hartzell V. Schaff.

Their works have appeared in a range of scientific journals, notably:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Journal of the American Heart Association

Best Publications

  • Durability of mitral valve repair for degenerative disease

    A.Marc Gillinov;Delos M. Cosgrove;Eugene H. Blackstone;Ramon Diaz

  • Unexpected Abrupt Increase in Left Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis

    Randall C. Starling;Nader Moazami;Scott C. Silvestry;Gregory Ewald

  • Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from the Critically Ill

    N G Smedira;B H Evans;L S Grais;N H Cohen

  • Predictors of severe right ventricular failure after implantable left ventricular assist device insertion: analysis of 245 patients.

    Yoshie Ochiai;Patrick M. McCarthy;Nicholas G. Smedira;Michael K. Banbury

  • Clinical, imaging, and pathological characteristics of left ventricular thrombus: a comparison of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, transthoracic echocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography with surgical or pathological validation.

    Monvadi B. Srichai;Chelif Junor;L. Leonardo Rodriguez;Arthur E. Stillman

  • Long-Term Durability of Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves: Implications From 12,569 Implants

    Douglas R. Johnston;Edward G. Soltesz;Nakul Vakil;Jeevanantham Rajeswaran

  • Clinical experience with 202 adults receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiac failure: Survival at five years

    Nicholas G. Smedira;Nader Moazami;Camille M. Golding;Patrick M. McCarthy

  • Color M-mode Doppler flow propagation velocity is a preload insensitive index of left ventricular relaxation: animal and human validation.

    Mario J. Garcia;Nicholas G. Smedira;Neil L. Greenberg;Michael Main

  • Independent and Incremental Role of Quantitative Right Ventricular Evaluation for the Prediction of Right Ventricular Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

    Andrew D.M. Grant;Nicholas G. Smedira;Randall C. Starling;Thomas H. Marwick

  • Prosthetic valve and method for making same

    Timur Paul Sarac;Nicholas G. Smedira

  • Radial artery bypass grafts have an increased occurrence of angiographically severe stenosis and occlusion compared with left internal mammary arteries and saphenous vein grafts

    Umesh N. Khot;Daniel T. Friedman;Gosta Pettersson;Nicholas G. Smedira

  • Axial and centrifugal continuous-flow rotary pumps: a translation from pump mechanics to clinical practice.

    Nader Moazami;Kiyotaka Fukamachi;Mariko Kobayashi;Nicholas G. Smedira

  • Preoperative risk factors for right ventricular failure after implantable left ventricular assist device insertion.

    Kiyotaka Fukamachi;Patrick M. McCarthy;Nicholas G. Smedira;Rita L. Vargo

  • Early results with partial left ventriculectomy

    Patrick M. McCarthy;Randall C. Starling;James Wong;Gregory M. Scalia

  • Does off-pump coronary surgery reduce morbidity and mortality? ☆ ☆☆

    Joseph F. Sabik;A.Marc Gillinov;Eugene H. Blackstone;Catherine Vacha

  • Ventricular septal rupture complicating acute myocardial infarction: a contemporary review.

    Brandon M Jones;Samir R Kapadia;Nicholas G Smedira;Michael Robich

  • Effects of perioperative nesiritide in patients with left ventricular dysfunction undergoing cardiac surgery:the NAPA Trial.

    Robert M. Mentzer;Mehmet C. Oz;Robert N. Sladen;Allen H. Graeve

  • Prosthetic cardiac valve and method for making same

    Timur Paul Sarac;Nicholas G Smedira

  • Updated Meta-Analysis of Septal Alcohol Ablation Versus Myectomy for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Shikhar Agarwal;E. Murat Tuzcu;Milind Y. Desai;Nicholas Smedira

  • Prevalence and outcomes of unoperated patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation and heart failure: comprehensive analysis to determine the potential role of MitraClip for this unmet need

    Sachin S. Goel;Navkaranbir Bajaj;Bhuvnesh Aggarwal;Supriya Gupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall C. Starling
Randall C. Starling Cleveland Clinic
Patrick M. McCarthy
Patrick M. McCarthy Northwestern University
Bruce W. Lytle
Bruce W. Lytle Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital
Eugene H. Blackstone
Eugene H. Blackstone Cleveland Clinic
Milind Y. Desai
Milind Y. Desai Cleveland Clinic
James B. Young
James B. Young Cleveland Clinic
James D. Thomas
James D. Thomas Northwestern University
Zoran B. Popović
Zoran B. Popović Cleveland Clinic
A. Marc Gillinov
A. Marc Gillinov Cleveland Clinic
Delos M. Cosgrove
Delos M. Cosgrove Cleveland Clinic

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