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Overview

William J. McKenna is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Additional contributions have been made in orthopedics and sports medicine, molecular biology, epidemiology, and surgery.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Sports injuries and prevention
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William J. McKenna include:

  • Lorenzo Monserrat
  • Perry Elliott
  • Juan Pablo Ochoa
  • Soledad García-Hernández
  • A Lamounier

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals, with notable frequent publication venues being:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • International Journal of Cardiology
  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • JACC Heart Failure

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by William J. McKenna are:

  • Epidemiology of the inherited cardiomyopathies (2020), published in Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: The Padua criteria (2020), published in International Journal of Cardiology
  • Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Characterization of Left Ventricular Phenotype and Differential Diagnosis With Dilated Cardiomyopathy (2020), published in Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Proposed diagnostic criteria for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: European Task Force consensus report (2023), published in International Journal of Cardiology
  • Vigorous Exercise in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2023), published in JAMA Cardiology

Best Publications

  • 2014 ESC Guidelines on diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    Perry M Elliott;Aris Anastasakis

  • Report of the 1995 World Health Organization/International Society and Federation of Cardiology Task Force on the Definition and Classification of cardiomyopathies.

    P Richardson;W McKenna;M Bristow;B Maisch

  • Classification of the cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the european society of cardiology working group on myocardial and pericardial diseases

    Perry Elliott;Bert Andersson;Eloisa Arbustini;Zofia Bilinska

  • Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases.

    Alida L. P. Caforio;Sabine Pankuweit;Eloisa Arbustini;Cristina Basso

  • Diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia Proposed Modification of the Task Force Criteria

    Frank I. Marcus;William J. McKenna;Duane Sherrill;Cristina Basso

  • American College of Cardiology/European Society of Cardiology clinical expert consensus document on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines

    Barry J. Maron;William J. McKenna;Gordon K. Danielson;Lukas J. Kappenberger

  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy. Task Force of the Working Group Myocardial and Pericardial Disease of the European Society of Cardiology and of the Scientific Council on Cardiomyopathies of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology.

    Wj Mckenna;Gaetano Thiene;Andrea Nava;F Fontaliran

  • HRS/EHRA Expert Consensus Statement on the State of Genetic Testing for the Channelopathies and Cardiomyopathies: This document was developed as a partnership between the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

    Michael J. Ackerman;Silvia G. Priori;Stephan Willems;Charles Berul

  • A molecular basis for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A β cardiac myosin heavy chain gene missense mutation

    Anja A.T. Geisterfer-Lowrance;Susan Kass;Gary Tanigawa;Hans-Peter Vosberg

  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia

    Frank I. Marcus;William J. McKenna;Duane Sherrill;Cristina Basso

  • Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol Consensus Statement of the Study Group of Sport Cardiology of the Working Group of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology and the Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology

    Domenico Corrado;Antonio Pelliccia;Hans Halvor Bjørnstad;Luc Vanhees

  • Long-term benefits of biventricular pacing in congestive heart failure: results from the MUltisite STimulation in cardiomyopathy (MUSTIC) study

    Cecilia Linde;Christophe Leclercq;Steve Rex;Stephane Garrigue

  • Alpha-tropomyosin and cardiac troponin T mutations cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a disease of the sarcomere.

    Ludwig Thierfelder;Ludwig Thierfelder;Hugh Watkins;Hugh Watkins;Calum MacRae;Calum MacRae;Roger Lamas

  • The management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    Paolo Spirito;Christine E. Seidman;William J. McKenna;Barry J. Maron

  • Differentiation of Heart Failure Related to Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Coronary Artery Disease Using Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

    J.A. McCrohon;J.C.C. Moon;S.K. Prasad;W.J. McKenna

  • The Myoblast Autologous Grafting in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (MAGIC) Trial: First Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study of Myoblast Transplantation

    Philippe Menasché;Ottavio Alfieri;Stefan Janssens;William McKenna

  • Identification of a deletion in plakoglobin in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy with palmoplantar keratoderma and woolly hair (Naxos disease).

    Godfrina McKoy;Nikos Protonotarios;Andrew Crosby;Adalena Tsatsopoulou

  • Recommendations for competitive sports participation in athletes with cardiovascular disease : a consensus document from the study group of sports cardiology of the working group of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology and the working group of myocardial and pericardial diseases of the european society of cardiology

    Antonio Pelliccia;Robert Fagard;Hans Halvor Bjørnstad;Aris Anastassakis

  • Mutations in the genes for cardiac troponin T and alpha-tropomyosin in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    Watkins H;McKenna Wj;Thierfelder L;Suk Hj

  • HRS/EHRA expert consensus statement on the state of genetic testing for the channelopathies and cardiomyopathies

    Michael J. Ackerman;Silvia G. Priori;Stephan Willems;Charles Berul

Frequent Co-Authors

Perry M. Elliott
Perry M. Elliott University College London
James C. Moon
James C. Moon University College London
Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins University of Oxford
Sanjay Sharma
Sanjay Sharma St George's, University of London
Gaetano Thiene
Gaetano Thiene University of Padua
Domenico Corrado
Domenico Corrado University of Padua
Michael P. Frenneaux
Michael P. Frenneaux University of East Anglia
Cristina Basso
Cristina Basso University of Padua
Christine E. Seidman
Christine E. Seidman Harvard University
A. John Camm
A. John Camm St George's, University of London

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