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Overview

Uri Elkayam is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their body of work includes 116 publications in Medicine, with 63 specifically related to Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Other subfields covered include Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Their research topics demonstrate a strong emphasis on cardiovascular issues during pregnancy, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, and congenital heart disease studies. Additional areas of focus include cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, pulmonary hypertension research and treatments, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and associated phenomena.

Recent notable papers authored include:

  • Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Genetic and Phenotypic Landscape of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, 2021, Circulation
  • Arrhythmias in Pregnancy, 2021, JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology
  • Clinical Characteristics and Management of Methamphetamine-Associated Cardiomyopathy: State-of-the-Art Review, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnant women with heart disease: the ESC EORP ROPAC Registry, 2022, European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Uri Elkayam include:

  • Dennis M. McNamara (10 collaborations)
  • Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink (8 collaborations)
  • James D. Fett (7 collaborations)
  • Sorel Goland (6 collaborations)
  • Joan Briller (6 collaborations)

Their publications frequently appear in these venues:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (8 publications)
  • Journal of the American Heart Association (3 publications)
  • European Heart Journal (3 publications)
  • ESC Heart Failure (3 publications)
  • JACC Advances (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Effect of metoprolol CR/XL in chronic heart failure: Metoprolol CR/XL Randomised Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

    A. Hjalmarson;S. Goldstein;B. Fagerberg;H. Wedel

  • Effect of Oral Milrinone on Mortality in Severe Chronic Heart Failure

    Milton Packer;Joseph R. Carver;Richard J. Rodeheffer;Russell J. Ivanhoe

  • Evaluation study of congestive heart failure and pulmonary artery catheterization effectiveness

    James A. Hill;Daniel F. Pauly;Debra R. Olitsky;Stuart Russell

  • ESC Guidelines on the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy: the Task Force on the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Vera Regitz-Zagrosek;Carina Blomstrom Lundqvist;Claudio Borghi;Renata Cifkova

  • Intravenous nesiritide, a natriuretic peptide, in the treatment of decompensated congestive heart failure. Nesiritide Study Group.

    W S Colucci;U Elkayam;D P Horton;W T Abraham

  • Executive summary: HFSA 2006 comprehensive heart failure practice guideline

    Kirkwood F. Adams;Jo Ann Lindenfeld;J. Malcolm O. Arnold;David W. Baker

  • Effects of Tolvaptan, a Vasopressin Antagonist, in Patients Hospitalized with Worsening Heart Failure: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Mihai Gheorghiade;Wendy A. Gattis;Christopher M. O'Connor;Kirkwood F. Adams

  • Acute myocardial infarction associated with pregnancy.

    Arie Roth;Uri Elkayam

  • Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy

    Karen Sliwa;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Mark C. Petrie;Alexandre Mebazaa

  • Comparative Effects of Therapy With Captopril and Digoxin in Patients With Mild to Moderate Heart Failure

    Jay Cohn;Morton Hawkins;Herbert Levine;John Naughton

  • PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED CARDIOMYOPATHY: CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND A COMPARISON BETWEEN EARLY AND LATE PRESENTATION

    Uri Elkayam;Mohammed W. Akhter;Harpreet Singh;Salman Khan

  • Consensus recommendations for the management of chronic heart failure: Introduction

    Milton Packer;Jay N. Cohn;William T. Abraham;Wilson S. Colucci

  • Maternal and Fetal Outcomes of Subsequent Pregnancies in Women with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

    Uri Elkayam;Padmini P. Tummala;Kalpana Rao;Mohammed W. Akhter

  • Shared Genetic Predisposition in Peripartum and Dilated Cardiomyopathies

    J.S. Ware;J. Li;E. Mazaika;C.M. Yasso

  • The effect of valvular heart disease on maternal and fetal outcome of pregnancy

    Afshan Hameed;Ilyas S Karaalp;Padmini P Tummala;Omar R Wani

  • A prospective, randomized, double-blind, crossover study to compare the efficacy and safety of chronic nifedipine therapy with that of isosorbide dinitrate and their combination in the treatment of chronic congestive heart failure.

    U Elkayam;J Amin;A Mehra;J Vasquez

  • Clinical Outcomes for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in North America Results of the IPAC Study (Investigations of Pregnancy-Associated Cardiomyopathy)

    Dennis M. McNamara;Uri Elkayam;Rami Alharethi;Julie Damp

  • Physiologic changes during normal pregnancy and delivery.

    Joseph G. Ouzounian;Uri Elkayam

  • Pregnancy-Associated Acute Myocardial Infarction A Review of Contemporary Experience in 150 Cases Between 2006 and 2011

    Uri Elkayam;Sawan Jalnapurkar;Mohamad N. Barakkat;Nudrat Khatri

  • HFSA 2006 comprehensive heart failure practice guideline

    Kirkwood F. Adams;Jo Ann Lindenfeld;J. Malcolm O. Arnold;David W. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola
Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola University of Southern California
Mihai Gheorghiade
Mihai Gheorghiade Northwestern University
Kirkwood F. Adams
Kirkwood F. Adams University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barry M. Massie
Barry M. Massie University of California, San Francisco
Leslie T. Cooper
Leslie T. Cooper Mayo Clinic
Lynne W. Stevenson
Lynne W. Stevenson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael M. Givertz
Michael M. Givertz Brigham and Women's Hospital
John Gorcsan
John Gorcsan Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Marvin A. Konstam
Marvin A. Konstam Tufts Medical Center
Prakash Deedwania
Prakash Deedwania United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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