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Ron Waksman is affiliated with MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and epidemiology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Ron Waksman has authored numerous publications appearing in a variety of journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine
  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • The American Journal of Cardiology
  • Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Recent publications by Ron Waksman include:

  • Intravascular Lithotripsy for Treatment of Severely Calcified Coronary Artery Disease, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention, 2022, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Trends and Outcomes of Restenosis After Coronary Stent Implantation in the United States, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Drug-Coated Balloon for De Novo Coronary Artery Disease, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Cardiac mortality in patients randomised to elective coronary revascularisation plus medical therapy or medical therapy alone: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, European Heart Journal

The scientist collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors, including Brian C. Case, Itsik Ben-Dor, Lowell F. Satler, Toby Rogers, and Cheng Zhang. These collaborations appear consistently over their published work.

Best Publications

  • Late thrombosis in drug-eluting coronary stents after discontinuation of antiplatelet therapy.

    Eugène P McFadden;Eugenio Stabile;Evelyn Regar;Edouard Cheneau

  • Consensus and Future Directions on the Definition of High On-Treatment Platelet Reactivity to Adenosine Diphosphate

    Laurent Bonello;Udaya S. Tantry;Rossella Marcucci;Ruediger Blindt

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Temporary scaffolding of coronary arteries with bioabsorbable magnesium stents: a prospective, non-randomised multicentre trial

    Raimund Erbel;Carlo Di Mario;Jozef Bartunek;Johann Bonnier

  • Correlates and Long-Term Outcomes of Angiographically Proven Stent Thrombosis With Sirolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents

    Pramod K. Kuchulakanti;William W. Chu;Rebecca Torguson;Patrick Ohlmann

  • Consensus and Update on the Definition of On-Treatment Platelet Reactivity to Adenosine Diphosphate Associated With Ischemia and Bleeding

    Udaya S. Tantry;Laurent Bonello;Daniel Aradi;Matthew J. Price

  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in failed bioprosthetic surgical valves.

    Danny Dvir;John G. Webb;Sabine Bleiziffer;Miralem Pasic

  • The impact of obesity on the short-term andlong-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention: the obesity paradox?

    Luis Gruberg;Neil J Weissman;Ron Waksman;Shmuel Fuchs

  • Intracoronary gamma-radiation therapy after angioplasty inhibits recurrence in patients with in-stent restenosis

    Ron Waksman;R. Larry White;Rosanna C. Chan;Bill G. Bass

  • Safety and Efficacy of Drug-Eluting and Bare Metal Stents Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials and Observational Studies

    Ajay J. Kirtane;Anuj Gupta;Srinivas Iyengar;Jeffrey W. Moses

  • Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

    Jason Z. Liu;Federica Tozzi;Dawn M. Waterworth;Sreekumar G. Pillai

  • Cessation of dual antiplatelet treatment and cardiac events after percutaneous coronary intervention (PARIS): 2 year results from a prospective observational study.

    Roxana Mehran;Usman Baber;Philippe Gabriel Steg;Cono Ariti

  • Predictors of Subacute Stent Thrombosis Results of a Systematic Intravascular Ultrasound Study

    Edouard Cheneau;Laurent Leborgne;Gary S. Mintz;Jun-ichi Kotani

  • Catheter-based autologous bone marrow myocardial injection in no-option patients with advanced coronary artery disease: A feasibility study

    Shmuel Fuchs;Lowell F Satler;Ran Kornowski;Petros Okubagzi

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Updated Expert Consensus Statement on Platelet Function and Genetic Testing for Guiding P2Y12 Receptor Inhibitor Treatment in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Dirk Sibbing;Daniel Aradi;Dimitrios Alexopoulos;Jurrien ten Berg

  • Long-term Angiographic and Clinical Outcome After Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Intracoronary Radiation Therapy in Humans

    Jose A. Condado;Ron Waksman;Orlando Gurdiel;Raul Espinosa

  • Safety and performance of the drug-eluting absorbable metal scaffold (DREAMS) in patients with de-novo coronary lesions: 12 month results of the prospective, multicentre, first-in-man BIOSOLVE-I trial

    Michael Haude;Raimund Erbel;Paul Erne;Stefan Verheye

  • Endovascular low-dose irradiation inhibits neointima formation after coronary artery balloon injury in swine. A possible role for radiation therapy in restenosis prevention.

    Ron Waksman;Keith A. Robinson;Ian R. Crocker;Michael B. Gravanis

  • Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Correlates and Long-Term Outcomes of Angiographically Proven Stent Thrombosis with Sirolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents”

    Pramod K. Kuchulakanti;William W. Chu;Rebecca Torguson;Patrick Ohlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Lowell F. Satler
Lowell F. Satler MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Augusto D. Pichard
Augusto D. Pichard Georgetown University
Kenneth M. Kent
Kenneth M. Kent MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Neil J. Weissman
Neil J. Weissman MedStar Health
Gary S. Mintz
Gary S. Mintz Columbia University Medical Center
Martin B. Leon
Martin B. Leon Columbia University Medical Center
Roxana Mehran
Roxana Mehran Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alexandra J. Lansky
Alexandra J. Lansky Yale University
Michael Haude
Michael Haude Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
Hector M. Garcia-Garcia MedStar Washington Hospital Center

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