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Overview

Richard W. Smalling is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Smalling's work spans several subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, Surgery, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. The major topics covered in their publications include Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management, Cardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors.

Frequent publication venues for Smalling include:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
  • Stroke

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Smalling are:

  • Subclinical Leaflet Thrombosis in Transcatheter and Surgical Bioprosthetic Valves, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects in an Analysis of Pooled Individual Patient Data From Randomized Trials of Device Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale After Stroke, 2021, JAMA
  • One-Year Outcomes of Mitral Valve-in-Valve Using the SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve, 2020, JAMA Cardiology
  • Risk of Paradoxical Embolism (RoPE)-Estimated Attributable Fraction Correlates With the Benefit of Patent Foramen Ovale Closure, 2020, Stroke
  • Outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with cardiogenic shock, 2023, European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Abhijeet Dhoble
  • Mark Reisman
  • William W. O'Neill
  • Salman Arain
  • Susheel Kodali

Best Publications

  • 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

    Ezra A. Amsterdam;Nanette K. Wenger;Ralph G. Brindis;Donald E. Casey

  • Percutaneous Repair or Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation

    Ted Feldman;Elyse Foster;Donald G. Glower;Saibal Kar

  • Cloning and expression of the human erythropoietin gene.

    F K Lin;S Suggs;C H Lin;J K Browne

  • 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: Executive Summary

    Ezra A. Amsterdam;Nanette K. Wenger;Ralph G. Brindis;Donald E. Casey

  • 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Ezra A. Amsterdam;Nanette K. Wenger;Ralph G. Brindis;Donald E. Casey

  • Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale versus Medical Therapy after Cryptogenic Stroke

    John D. Carroll;Jeffrey L. Saver;David E. Thaler;Richard W. Smalling

  • Percutaneous mitral repair with the MitraClip system: safety and midterm durability in the initial EVEREST (Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge REpair Study) cohort.

    Ted Feldman;Saibal Kar;Michael Rinaldi;Peter Fail

  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement versus surgical valve replacement in intermediate-risk patients: a propensity score analysis

    Vinod H. Thourani;Susheel Kodali;Raj R. Makkar;Howard C. Herrmann

  • Long-Term Outcomes of Patent Foramen Ovale Closure or Medical Therapy after Stroke

    Jeffrey L. Saver;John D. Carroll;David E. Thaler;Richard W. Smalling

  • 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.

    Ezra A. Amsterdam;Nanette K. Wenger;Ralph G. Brindis;Donald E. Casey

  • Randomized Comparison of Percutaneous Repair and Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation 5-Year Results of EVEREST II

    Ted Feldman;Saibal Kar;Sammy Elmariah;Steven C. Smart

  • Stent placement compared with balloon angioplasty for obstructed coronary bypass grafts

    Michael P. Savage;John S. Douglas;David L. Fischman;Carl J. Pepine

  • Acute and 12-Month Results With Catheter-Based Mitral Valve Leaflet Repair: The EVEREST II (Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair) High Risk Study

    Patrick L. Whitlow;Ted Feldman;Wes R. Pedersen;D. Scott Lim

  • Final Results of the Can Routine Ultrasound Influence Stent Expansion (CRUISE) Study

    Peter J. Fitzgerald;Akio Oshima;Motoya Hayase;Jonas A. Metz

  • Protection Against Cerebral Embolism During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Samir R. Kapadia;Susheel Kodali;Raj Makkar;Roxana Mehran

  • Randomized Comparison of Coronary Thrombolysis Achieved With Double-Bolus Reteplase (Recombinant Plasminogen Activator) and Front-Loaded, Accelerated Alteplase (Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator) in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

    C Bode;R W Smalling;G Berg;C Burnett

  • Diagnostic Marker Cooperative Study for the Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction

    Janice Zimmerman;Robert Fromm;Denise Meyer;Ann Boudreaux

  • Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and infarct size in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction without shock: the CRISP AMI randomized trial.

    Manesh R. Patel;Richard W. Smalling;Holger Thiele;Huiman X. Barnhart

  • More Rapid, Complete, and Stable Coronary Thrombolysis With Bolus Administration of Reteplase Compared With Alteplase Infusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Richard W. Smalling;Christoph Bode;John Kalbfleisch;Semi Sen

  • 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Endorsed by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBERS*

    Ezra A. Amsterdam;Nanette K. Wenger;Ralph G. Brindis

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislav Emelianov
Stanislav Emelianov Georgia Institute of Technology
Howard C. Herrmann
Howard C. Herrmann University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey L Saver
Jeffrey L Saver University of California, Los Angeles
Raj Makkar
Raj Makkar Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Ted Feldman
Ted Feldman Edwards Lifesciences (United States)
Elyse Foster
Elyse Foster University of California, San Francisco
Samir R. Kapadia
Samir R. Kapadia Cleveland Clinic
Donald D. Glower
Donald D. Glower Duke University
Vinod H. Thourani
Vinod H. Thourani Georgetown University
Martin B. Leon
Martin B. Leon Columbia University Medical Center

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