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Sharmila Dorbala is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of Medicine with a strong focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Molecular Biology. Their research portfolio encompasses over 500 publications, demonstrating significant involvement in subfields such as Nephrology and Oncology as well.

Their work predominantly revolves around medical imaging and diagnostics, particularly within cardiovascular and amyloidosis-related conditions. The major topics of their research include:

  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Sharmila Dorbala's notable recent papers include:

  • 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
  • Cardiac Scintigraphy With Technetium-99m-Labeled Bone-Seeking Tracers for Suspected Amyloidosis, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • International Impact of COVID-19 on the Diagnosis of Heart Disease, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Expert consensus on the monitoring of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, 2021, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Clinical Deployment of Explainable Artificial Intelligence of SPECT for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease, 2021, JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Marcelo F. Di Carli, Andrew J. Einstein, Rodney H. Falk, Sarah Cuddy, and Ron Blankstein. These partnerships highlight a focus on cardiovascular imaging and related advanced diagnostic techniques.

Sharmila Dorbala's research has been published in various high-impact venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Best Publications

  • Nonbiopsy Diagnosis of Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis.

    Julian D. Gillmore;Mathew S. Maurer;Rodney H. Falk;Giampaolo Merlini

  • Improved Cardiac Risk Assessment With Noninvasive Measures of Coronary Flow Reserve

    Venkatesh L. Murthy;Masanao Naya;Courtney R. Foster;Jon Hainer

  • Anatomic versus physiologic assessment of coronary artery disease. Role of coronary flow reserve, fractional flow reserve, and positron emission tomography imaging in revascularization decision-making.

    K. Lance Gould;Nils P. Johnson;Timothy M. Bateman;Rob S. Beanlands

  • 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

  • Effects of Sex on Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Cardiac Outcomes

    Venkatesh L. Murthy;Masanao Naya;Viviany R. Taqueti;Courtney R. Foster

  • AL (Light-Chain) Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Review of Diagnosis and Therapy.

    Rodney H. Falk;Kevin M. Alexander;Ronglih Liao;Sharmila Dorbala

  • Association Between Coronary Vascular Dysfunction and Cardiac Mortality in Patients with and without Diabetes Mellitus

    Venkatesh L. Murthy;Masanao Naya;Courtney R. Foster;Mariya Gaber

  • ASNC imaging guidelines/SNMMI procedure standard for positron emission tomography (PET) nuclear cardiology procedures.

    Vasken Dilsizian;Stephen L. Bacharach;Rob S. Beanlands;Steven R. Bergmann

  • 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

  • Coronary microvascular dysfunction and future risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

    Viviany R Taqueti;Scott D Solomon;Amil M Shah;Akshay S Desai

  • Global coronary flow reserve is associated with adverse cardiovascular events independently of luminal angiographic severity and modifies the effect of early revascularization.

    Viviany R. Taqueti;Rory Hachamovitch;Venkatesh L. Murthy;Masanao Naya

  • Expert Consensus Recommendations for the Suspicion and Diagnosis of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis.

    Mathew S. Maurer;Sabahat Bokhari;Thibaud Damy;Sharmila Dorbala

  • Reproducibility and Accuracy of Quantitative Myocardial Blood Flow Assessment with 82Rb PET: Comparison with 13N-Ammonia PET

    Georges El Fakhri;Arash Kardan;Arkadiusz Sitek;Sharmila Dorbala

  • Clinical Myocardial Perfusion PET/CT

    Marcelo F. Di Carli;Sharmila Dorbala;Jolene Meserve;Georges El Fakhri

  • Reduction in 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on serial cardiac positron emission tomography is associated with improved left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis

    Michael T. Osborne;Edward A. Hulten;Avinainder Singh;Alfonso H. Waller

  • Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Guidelines: Instrumentation, Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation

    Sharmila Dorbala;Karthik Ananthasubramaniam;Ian S. Armstrong;Panithaya Chareonthaitawee

  • Clinical Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow Using PET: Joint Position Paper of the SNMMI Cardiovascular Council and the ASNC.

    Venkatesh L. Murthy;Timothy M. Bateman;Rob S. Beanlands;Daniel S. Berman

  • Value of Vasodilator Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Reserve in Evaluating the Magnitude of Myocardium at Risk and the Extent of Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease: A 82Rb PET/CT Study

    Sharmila Dorbala;Divya Vangala;Uchechukwu Sampson;Atul Limaye

  • Diagnostic accuracy of rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging with hybrid positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the detection of coronary artery disease.

    Uchechukwu K. Sampson;Sharmila Dorbala;Atul Limaye;Raymond Kwong

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo F. Di Carli
Marcelo F. Di Carli Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ron Blankstein
Ron Blankstein Brigham and Women's Hospital
Daniel S. Berman
Daniel S. Berman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Rodney H. Falk
Rodney H. Falk Brigham and Women's Hospital
Piotr J. Slomka
Piotr J. Slomka Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Raymond Y. Kwong
Raymond Y. Kwong Brigham and Women's Hospital
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Philipp A. Kaufmann
Philipp A. Kaufmann University of Zurich
Damini Dey
Damini Dey Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Rob S. Beanlands
Rob S. Beanlands University of Ottawa

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