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Raymond Y. Kwong is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with specific attention to cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, along with related subfields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, surgery, molecular biology, and nephrology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass cardiac imaging and diagnostics, advanced MRI techniques and applications, cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, viral infections and immunology research, amyloidosis diagnosis and treatment, and coronary interventions and diagnostics.

Frequent collaborators include Michael Jerosch-Herold, Bobak Heydari, Panagiotis Antiochos, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, and Victor A. Ferrari.

Raymond Y. Kwong has published extensively in venues that include:

  • JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
  • Circulation
  • European Heart Journal

Recent notable papers authored by or involving Kwong are listed below:

  • Initial Invasive or Conservative Strategy for Stable Coronary Disease, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Myocarditis, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Common Genetic Variants and Modifiable Risk Factors Underpin Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Susceptibility and Expressivity, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Determine Underlying Causes of Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries in Women, 2020, Circulation
  • ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2-Evidence Base and Standardized Methods of Imaging, 2021, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging

Best Publications

  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines, and the American College of Physicians, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

    Stephan D. Fihn;Julius M. Gardin;Jonathan Abrams;Kathleen Berra

  • Initial invasive or conservative strategy for stable coronary disease.

    David J. Maron;Judith S. Hochman;Harmony R. Reynolds;Sripal Bangalore

  • Impact of Unrecognized Myocardial Scar Detected by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Event-Free Survival in Patients Presenting With Signs or Symptoms of Coronary Artery Disease

    Raymond Y. Kwong;Anna K. Chan;Kenneth A. Brown;Carmen W. Chan

  • ACCF/ASNC/ACR/AHA/ASE/SCCT/SCMR/SNM 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging

    Robert C. Hendel;Daniel S. Berman;Marcelo F. Di Carli;Paul A. Heidenreich

  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

    Stephan D. Fihn;Julius M. Gardin;Jonathan Abrams;Kathleen Berra

  • Characterization of the Peri-Infarct Zone by Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is a Powerful Predictor of Post–Myocardial Infarction Mortality

    Andrew T. Yan;Adolphe J. Shayne;Kenneth A. Brown;Sandeep N. Gupta

  • Sudden Cardiac Death Prediction and Prevention: Report From a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Heart Rhythm Society Workshop

    Glenn I. Fishman;Sumeet S. Chugh;John P. Dimarco;Christine M. Albert

  • Myocardial Fibrosis as an Early Manifestation of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Carolyn Y. Ho;Begoña López;Otavio R. Coelho-Filho;Neal K. Lakdawala

  • ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2—Evidence Base and Standardized Methods of Imaging

    Sharmila Dorbala;Yukio Ando;Sabahat Bokhari;Angela Dispenzieri

  • Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Enhances Prognostic Assessments of Patients With Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis

    Ron Blankstein;Michael Osborne;Masanao Naya;Alfonso Waller

  • Interrelation of Coronary Calcification, Myocardial Ischemia, and Outcomes in Patients With Intermediate Likelihood of Coronary Artery Disease A Combined Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Study

    Matthew P. Schenker;Sharmila Dorbala;Eric Cho Tek Hong;Frank J. Rybicki

  • Detecting Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Emergency Department With Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Raymond Y. Kwong;Adam E. Schussheim;Suresh Rekhraj;Anthony H. Aletras

  • Incidence and Prognostic Implication of Unrecognized Myocardial Scar Characterized by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Diabetic Patients Without Clinical Evidence of Myocardial Infarction

    Raymond Y. Kwong;Hamid Sattar;Henry Wu;Gabriel Vorobiof

  • Percutaneous Mitral Annuloplasty for Functional Mitral Regurgitation Results of the CARILLON Mitral Annuloplasty Device European Union Study

    Joachim Schofer;Tomasz Siminiak;Michael Haude;Jean P. Herrman

  • Visceral adiposity and the risk of metabolic syndrome across body mass index: the MESA Study.

    Ravi V. Shah;Venkatesh L. Murthy;Siddique A. Abbasi;Ron Blankstein

  • Single unit analysis of the human ventral thalamic nuclear group: correlation of thalamic "tremor cells" with the 3-6 Hz component of parkinsonian tremor

    FA Lenz;RR Tasker;HC Kwan;S Schnider

  • Prognostic Value of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Tissue Characterization in Risk Stratifying Patients With Suspected Myocarditis

    Christoph Gräni;Christian Eichhorn;Loïc Bière;Venkatesh L. Murthy

  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Executive Summary

    Stephan D. Fihn;Julius M. Gardin;Jonathan Abrams;Kathleen Berra

  • Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Cardiac Amyloidosis

    Raymond Y. Kwong;Rodney H. Falk

  • Detecting acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

    Andrew E. Arai;Raymond Y. Kwong

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Jerosch-Herold
Michael Jerosch-Herold Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ron Blankstein
Ron Blankstein Brigham and Women's Hospital
Marcelo F. Di Carli
Marcelo F. Di Carli Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sharmila Dorbala
Sharmila Dorbala Brigham and Women's Hospital
William G. Stevenson
William G. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Christopher M. Kramer
Christopher M. Kramer University of Virginia Health System
Rodney H. Falk
Rodney H. Falk Brigham and Women's Hospital
Andrew E. Arai
Andrew E. Arai National Institutes of Health
Eike Nagel
Eike Nagel Goethe University Frankfurt
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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