Research
Approximately 12 of the 36 months of training in the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training Program are dedicated to research, mostly divided between the second and third years. Opportunities for clinical and basic science research are available with Children’s National faculty in Cardiology and other divisions as well as at the Children’s National Research Institute, including the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Washington Hospital Center, George Washington University, Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health. In addition, fellows will have access to the new JLABS @ Washington, D.C., a 32,000-square foot facility to be located at the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus, which opened in 2020. This one-of-a-kind research and innovation hub will drive discoveries that save and improve the lives of children. Fellows are provided support to prepare their research for presentation at national meetings and for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
In July 2010, Children’s National was awarded the prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to establish the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN). This is the first and to date only such funding awarded directly to a freestanding children's hospital and recognizes the outstanding strengths in clinical and translational research. Fellows benefit from statistical support for their projects through this grant. CTSI-CN is a partnership between Children’s National and George Washington University.
Our fellows have been very successful in their academic endeavors. They routinely publish manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and present their work at national meetings, with dozens of publications, posters and oral presentations over the last few classes. Highlights of our fellows’ recent research are included in the Cardiology Fellowship Program Overview.
Additionally, the work of our recent graduates is highlighted below.
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- Ogueri V. Congenitally Corrected TGA: From Fetus to Adulthood, Which Way Do We Go?. Presented at ACC Scientific Sessions: ACsC Scientific Session 2022; Washington, DC. 04/02/2022.
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- Misra P. The First Step. JAMA Cardiol 2021
- Misra P. Everything We Can. Acad Pediatr 2022.
- Lowrey L, Trivedi J, Ramakrishnan K, Sinha P, Deshpande S. Influence of Body Mass Index in Donor Recipient Size Mismatch in Pediatric Heart Transplantation. Circulation. 2021, abstract presentation.
- Kollar S, Balaras E, Olivieri LJ, Loke YH, Capuano F. Statistical shape modeling reveals the link between right ventricular shape, hemodynamic force, and myocardial function in repaired Tetralogy of Fallot patients. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2022.
- Kollar SE, Klas B, Capuano F, Toro-Salazar, OH, Olivieri L, Loke, YH. Segmental Displacement is Related to Right Ventricular Remodeling and Intracardiac Vorticity in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot Patients. ePoster Presentation at SCMR Virtual Scientific Sessions 2022.
- Kollar SE, Mandell J, Loke YH, Olivieri L. Improved Accuracy of 4D Flow with Ferumoxytol in Comparison to Gadolinium Contrast for Small Children with Congenital Heart Disease. Circulation 2021, abstract presentation.
- Hong J, Litt SJ, Moak JP. Cardiac arrhythmias in postural tachycardia syndrome and orthostatic intolerance. Cardiol Young 2022.
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- Schwartz B, Hom L, Von Kohorn I, Becker J, Cuzzi S, Grier-Clarke S, Kiernan S, Martin G. Newborn Pulse Oximetry Screening at a Community Hospital: An 8-year Experience. Pediatrics 2021.
- Schwartz BN, Klein JH, Barbosa MB, Hamersley SL, Hickey KW, Ahmadzia HK, Broth RE, Pinckert TL, Sable CA, Donofrio MT, Krishnan A. Expanding Access to Fetal Telecardiology During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Telemed J E Health 2021.
- Martin GR, Schwartz BN, Hom LA, Donofrio MT. Lessons Learned from Infants with Late Detection of Critical Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol 2022.
- Carillo ML, Levin MD, Spurney CF, Kozel BA. Global Longitudinal Strain and Longitudinal Early Diastolic Strain Rate May Identify Those Williams Syndrome Patients at Risk of Cardiomyopathy Development. Circulation. 2021, abstract presentation.
- Carillo M, Mandell J, Dham N. Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmia as a Harbinger of an Intracardiac Mass. Presented at 2020 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference; Virtual. 10/02/2020.
- Nyce J, Meyers B, Zhang J, et al. Assessment of abnormal right ventricular vorticity in repaired Tetralogy of Fallot patients using Doppler velocity reconstruction (DOVER). J Am Coll Cardiol 2022, abstract presentation.
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- Curren V, Dham N, Spurney C. Diagnosis, Prevention, Treatment and Surveillance of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity in Pediatric Cancer Survivors. Hearts 2021.
- Klein J, Donofrio MT. Fetal Echocardiography for the General Pediatrician. Pediatr Ann 2021.
- Klein JH, Beaton A, Tompsett A, Wiggs J, Sable C. Effect of anaemia on the diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease using World Heart Federation criteria. Cardiol Young 2019.
- de Loizaga SR, Arthur L, Arya B, Beckman B, Belay W, Brokamp C, Hyun Choi N, Connolly S, Dasgupta S, Dibert T, Dryer MM, Gokanapudy Hahn LR, Greene EA, Kernizan D, Khalid O, Klein J, Kobayashi R, Lahiri S, Lorenzoni RP, Otero Luna A, Marshall J, Millette T, Moore L, Muhamed B, Murali M, Parikh K, Sanyahumbi A, Shakti D, Stein E, Shah S, Wilkins H, Windom M, Wirth S, Zimmerman M, Beck AF, Ollberding N, Sable C, Beaton A. Rheumatic Heart Disease in the United States: Forgotten But Not Gone: Results of a 10 Year Multicenter Review. J Am Heart Assoc 2021.
- Scheel A, Ssinabulya I, Aliku T, Bradley-Hewitt T, Clauss A, Clauss S, Crawford L, DeWyer A, Donofrio MT, Jacobs M, Klein J, Moore TE, Okello E, Scheel J, Shaw R, Sable C, Lwabi P, Watkins DA, Beaton A. Community study to uncover the full spectrum of rheumatic heart disease in Uganda. Heart 2019.
- Ralston BH, Willett C, Namperumal S, et al. Use of Virtual Reality for Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Simulation. Cureus 2021.
- Schramm J, Sivalingam S, Moreno GE, Thanh DQL, Gauvreau K, Doherty-Schmeck K, Jenkins KJ. Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: A Rare Disease with a Global Reach. Children 2021.
- Schramm J, Ito S, Frank LH, Spurney CF. Acute Chest Pain in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patient With Anomalous Coronary Artery: An Etiologic Conundrum. J Am Coll Cardiol Case Rep 2021.
- Schramm J and Spurney CF. Evaluation and Management of Cardiac Complications in Neuromuscular Disorders. Book chapter in: T. Bertorini, ed. Neuromuscular Disorders: Treatment and Management. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders; 2021.
- Udine ML, Evans F, Burns KM, Pearson GD, Kaltman JR. Geographical variation in infant mortality due to congenital heart disease in the USA: a population-based cohort study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2021.
- Udine ML, Kaltman JR, Li Q, Liu J, Sun D, Cheung MC, Sabouni S, Al Dulaimi A, Sable C. Effects of blood pressure percentile, body mass index, and race on left ventricular mass in children. Cardiol Young 2022.
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- Mandell JG, Christopher AB, Olivieri LJ, Loke YH. Diagnosis of a coronary sinus atrial septal defect by 4D flow MRI. Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance 2020.
- Mandell JG, Loke YH, Mass PN, Opfermann J, Cleveland V, Aslan S, Hibino N, Krieger A, Olivieri LJ. Aorta size mismatch predicts decreased exercise capacity in patients with successfully repaired coarctation of the aorta. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2021.
- Loke YH, Capuano F, Mandell J, Cross RR, Cronin I, Mass P, Balaras E, Olivieri LJ. Abnormal Pulmonary Artery Bending Correlates With Increased Right Ventricular Afterload Following the Arterial Switch Operation. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2019.
- Romanowicz J, Leonetti C, Dhari Z, et al. Treatment With Tetrahydrobiopterin Improves White Matter Maturation in a Mouse Model for Prenatal Hypoxia in Congenital Heart Disease. J Am Heart Assoc 2019.
- Romanowicz J, Cross R. Index of Suspicion: Supraventricular Tachycardia in a Full Term Neonate. Pediatrics in Review. 2020.
- Romanowicz J, Guerrelli D, Dhari Z, Mulvany C, Reilly M, Swift L, Vasandani N, Ramadan M, Leatherbury L, Ishibashi N, Posnack NG. Chronic perinatal hypoxia delays cardiac maturation in a mouse model for cyanotic congenital heart disease. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2021.
- Romanowicz J, Sinha P, Donofrio MT, Schidlow DN. Predicting Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgical Management Based on Fetal Echocardiography in Heterotaxy Syndrome. Am J Perinatol 2021.
- Voleti S, Olivieri L, Hamann K, Gordish-Dressman H, Spurney C. Troponin I Levels Correlate with Cardiac MR LGE and Native T1 Values in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy and Identify Early Disease Progression. Pediatr Cardiol 2020.
- Voleti S, Adelbai M, Hovis I, Colyer J, Burns KM, Lewis EO, Arurang JK, Kikuharu A, Gonzales M, Pedro SJ, Zimmerman M, Krishnan A, Beaton A, Sable C, Dougherty S. Novel handheld ultrasound technology to enhance non-expert screening for rheumatic heart disease in the Republic of Palau: A descriptive study. J Paediatr Child Health 2021.
- Voleti S, Okello E, Murali M, Sarnacki R, Majwala A, Ssembatya R, Bakka O, Namisanvu H, Njeri A, Matovu A, DeStigter K, Sable C, Beaton A. The personal and clinical impact of screen-detected maternal rheumatic heart disease in Uganda: a prospective follow up study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2020.
- Voleti S, Bukhari SM, Tongut A, Yerebakan C, Ito S, Loke YH. Anomalous Right Coronary Artery off the Pulmonary Artery Strikes When You Least Expect It! CASE 2020.
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- Kumthekar RN, Sumihara K, Moak JP. Pediatric radiofrequency ablation of cardiac parasympathetic ganglia to achieve vagal denervation. HeartRhythm Case Rep. 2020 Sep 14;6(11):879-883. PMID: 33204627.
- Kumthekar RN, Sinha L, Opfermann JD, Mass P, Clark BC, Yerebakan C, Berul CI. Surgical pericardial adhesions do not preclude minimally invasive epicardial pacemaker lead placement in an infant porcine model. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2020 Nov;31(11):2975-2981. PMID: 32841456.
- Kumthekar RN, Opfermann JD, Mass P, Clark BC, Moak JP, Sherwin ED, Whitman T, Marshall M, Berul CI. Percutaneous epicardial placement of a prototype miniature pacemaker under direct visualization: An infant porcine chronic survival study. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2020 Jan; 43: 93-99.
- Clark BC, Kumthekar R, Mass P, Opfermann JD, Berul CI. Chronic performance of subxiphoid minimally invasive pericardial Model 20066 pacemaker lead insertion in an infant animal model. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2019; Oct 15.
- Kumthekar RN, Opfermann JD, Mass P, Moak JP, Sherwin ED, Whitman T, Marshall M, Berul CI. Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Epicardial Placement of a Prototype Miniature Pacemaker with Leadlet under Direct Visualization: A Feasibility Study in an Infant Porcine Model. Heart Rhythm Journal. 2019; Mar 1.
- Kumthekar R, Berul CI. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and Biventricular Pacing in Pediatric Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Preventing Death and Delaying Heart Transplant. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. Vol 49, pages 38-42, 2018.
- Mokshagundam D, Olivieri LJ, McCarter R, Kim A, Sable CA, Spurney CF, Dham N. Cardiac changes in pediatric cancer survivors. J Investig Med. 2020 Dec;68(8):1364-1369. PMID: 32868378.
- Mokshagundam D. ed. Wernovsky, G. Myocarditis. In: Pediatric Cardiology. London, UK: Elsevier; 2019: 1173-1178.
- Zimmerman M, Scheel A, DeWyer A, Nambogo JL, Otim IO, Tompsett A, Rwebembera J, Okello E, Sable C, Beaton A. Determining the Risk of Developing Rheumatic Heart Disease Following a Negative Screening Echocardiogram. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021 Feb 12;8:632621. PMID: 33644137.
- Voleti S, Adelbai M, Hovis I, Colyer J, Burns KM, Lewis EO, Arurang JK, Kikuharu A, Gonzales M, Pedro SJ, Zimmerman M, Krishnan A, Beaton A, Sable C, Dougherty S. Novel handheld ultrasound technology to enhance non-expert screening for rheumatic heart disease in the Republic of Palau: A descriptive study. J Paediatr Child Health. 2021 Jul;57(7):1089-1095. PMID: 33624369.
- Stein E, Pulle J, Zimmerman M, Otim I, Atala J, Rwebembera J, Oyella LM, Harik N, Okello E, Sable C, Beaton A. Previous Traditional Medicine Use for Sore Throat among Children Evaluated for Rheumatic Fever in Northern Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Dec 14;104(3):842–7. PMID: 33319727.
- Scheel A, Mirabel M, Nunes MCP, Okello E, Sarnacki R, Steer AC, Engelman D, Zimmerman M, Zühlke L, Sable C, Beaton A. The inter-rater reliability and individual reviewer performance of the 2012 world heart federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of latent rheumatic heart disease. Int J Cardiol. 2021 Apr 1;328:146-151. PMID: 33186665.
- Okello E, Ndagire E, Atala J, Bowen AC, DiFazio MP, Harik NS, Longenecker CT, Lwabi P, Murali M, Norton SA, Omara IO, Oyella LM, Parks T, Pulle J, Rwebembera J, Sarnacki RJ, Spurney CF, Stein E, Tochen L, Watkins D, Zimmerman M, Carapetis JR, Sable C, Beaton A. Active Case Finding for Rheumatic Fever in an Endemic Country. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Aug 4;9(15):e016053. PMID: 32750303.
- Okello E, Murali M, Rwebembera J, Atala J, Bowen AC, Harik N, Kaudha G, Kitooleko S, Longenecker C, Ndagire E, Omara IO, Oyella LM, Parks T, Pulle J, Sable C, Sarnacki R, Stein E, Zimmerman M, de Klerk N, Carapetis J, Beaton A. Cross-sectional study of population-specific streptococcal antibody titres in Uganda. Arch Dis Child. 2020 Sep;105(9):825-829. PMID: 32601082.
- Zimmerman MS, Smith AGC, Sable CA, Echko MM, Wilner LB et al. Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020; 4: 185-200.
- Zimmerman M, Sable C. Congenital heart disease in low-and-middle-income countries: Focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2020; 184: 36-46.
- Okello E, Murali M, Rwebembera J, Zimmerman MS, et al.Cross-sectional study of population-specific streptococcal antibody titres in Uganda. Arch Dis Child. 2020
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- Adams AD, Aggarwal N, Fries MH, Donofrio MT, Iqbal SN. Neonatal and maternal outcomes of pregnancies with a fetal diagnosis of congenital heart disease using a standardized delivery room management protocol. J Perinatol. 2020;40(2):316-323.
- Adams AD, Aggarwal N, Iqbal SN, et al. Umbilical Cord Blood Gas in Newborns with Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: Insight into In-Utero and Delivery Hemodynamics. Pediatr Cardiol. 2019;40(8):1575-1583.
- Shade JK, Cartoski MJ, Nikolov P, Prakosa A, Doshi A, Binka E, Olivieri L, Boyle PM, Spevak PJ, Trayanova NA. Ventricular arrhythmia risk prediction in repaired Tetralogy of Fallot using personalized computational cardiac models. Heart Rhythm. 2020 Mar;17(3):408-414.
- Trayanova NA, Doshi AN, Prakosa A. How personalized heart modeling can help treatment of lethal arrhythmias: A focus on ventricular tachycardia ablation strategies in post-infarction patients. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2020;12(3):e1477.
- Doshi AN, Clark BC, Berul CI. Ablation of a Unique Focal Ventricular Tachycardia in Repaired Truncus Arteriosus. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology 2017; 3(8): 913-14.
- DeWyer A, Scheel A, Webel AR, Longenecker CT, Kamarembo J, Aliku T, Engel ME, Bowen AC, Bwanga F, Hovis I, Chang A, Sarnacki R, Sable C, Dale JB, Carapetis J, Rwebembera J, Okello E, Beaton A. Prevalence of group A β-hemolytic streptococcal throat carriage and prospective pilot surveillance of streptococcal sore throat in Ugandan school children. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Apr; 93: 245-251.
- Chang AY, Scheel A, Dewyer A, Hovis IW, Sarnacki R, Aliku T, Okello E, Bwanga F, Sable C, Maurer TA, Beaton AZ. Prevalence, Clinical Features and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Group A Streptococcal Skin Infections in School Children in Urban Western and Northern Uganda. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2019 Dec; 38(12): 1183-1188.
- Hovis IW, Namuyonga J, Kisitu GP, et al. Decreased Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease Confirmed Among HIV-positive Youth. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2019; 38(4): 406-409.
- Hovis IW, Schidlow DN, Moak JP. Complete congenital heart block: A case of multilevel block. Heart Rhythm Case Reports. 2017; 3 (6): 294-297.
- Jaimes R 3rd, McCullough D, Siegel B, et al. Lights, camera, path splitter: a new approach for truly simultaneous dual optical mapping of the heart with a single camera. BMC Biomed Eng. 2019;1:25
- Jaimes R 3rd, McCullough D, Siegel B, et al. Plasticizer Interaction With the Heart: Chemicals Used in Plastic Medical Devices Can Interfere With Cardiac Electrophysiology. Circ Arrhythmia Electrophysiol. 2019;12(7):e007294.
- Siegel, B; Olivieri, L; Gordish-Dressman, H; Spurney, C. Myocardial Strain Using Cardiac MR Feature Tracking and Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients. Pediatric Cardiology. 2017.
- Siegel B, Spurney C. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy: Early Diagnosis and Treatment. Internal Medicine Review. 2017.
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- Hartz J, Li JS, Akintoye OO, Hornik CP. Clinicians' adherence to guidelines on evaluation of hypertension in children and adolescents. World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery. 2016; 7 (4): 440-5.
- Hartz J, Yingling L, Powell-Wiley TM. Use of Mobile Health Technology in the Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2016;18(12):130.
- Ahuja C, Ayers C, Hartz J, Adu-Brimpong J, Thomas S, Mitchell V, Peters-Lawrence M, Sampson D, Brooks AT, Wallen G, Johnson A, Graham L, Graham A, Rivers J, Yingling L, Powell-Wiley TM. Examining relationships between perceptions and objective assessments of neighborhood environment and sedentary time: Data from the Washington, D.C. Cardiovascular Health and Needs Assessment. Prev Med Rep. 2017; 7:42-48.
- Koerdt S, Hartz J, Hollatz S, Frohwitter G, Kesting MR, Ewert P, Oberhoffer R, Deppe H. Dental prevention and disease awareness in children with congenital heart disease. Clin Oral Investig. 2017.
- Adu-Brimpong J, Coffey N, Ayers C, Berrigan D, Yingling LR, Thomas S, Mitchell V, Ahuja C, Rivers J, Hartz J, Powell-Wiley TM. Optimizing Scoring and Sampling Methods for Assessing Built Neighborhood Environment Quality in Residential Areas. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 ;14(3): e273.
- Hartz J, Clark BC, Ito S, Sherwin ED, Berul CI. Transvenous nonfluoroscopic pacemaker implantation during pregnancy guided by 3-dimensional electroanatomic mapping. Heart Rhythm Case Rep. 2017; 3(10):490-492.
- Hartz J, Yingling L, Ayers C, Adu-Brimpong J, Rivers J, Ahuja C, Powell-Wiley TM. Clustering of health behaviors and cardiorespiratory fitness among US adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2018.
- Clauss S, Hartz J. Treatment strategies for hypercholesterolemia. Curr Pediatr Rev. 2018.
- Penk JS, Loke YH, Waloff KR, Frank LH, Stockwell DC, Spaeder MC, Berger JT. Unplanned admissions to a pediatric cardiac critical care unit: a review of 2 years' experience. Pediatric critical care Medicine. 2015; 16 (2): 155-60.
- Olivieri LJ, Krieger A, Loke YH, Nath DS, Kim PC, Sable CA. Three-dimensional printing of intracardiac defects from three-dimensional echocardiographic images: feasibility and relative accuracy. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2015; 28:392-7.
- Loke T, Krieger A, Sable C, Olivieri L. Novel uses for three-dimensional printing in congenital heart disease. Current Pediatrics Reports. 2016; Online: 1-7.
- Siallagan D, Loke YH, Olivieri L, Opfermann J, Ong CS, de Zélicourt D, Petrou A, Daners MS, Kurtcuoglu V, Meboldt M, Nelson K, Vricella L, Johnson J, Hibino N, Krieger A. Virtual surgical planning, flow simulation, and 3-dimensional electrospinning of patient-specific grafts to optimize Fontan hemodynamics. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017.
- Ong CS, Loke YH, Opfermann J, Olivieri L, Vricella L, Krieger A, Hibino N. Virtual Surgery for Conduit Reconstruction of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2017; 8:391-393.
- Olivieri LJ, Krieger A, Loke YH, Nath DS, Kim PC, Sable CA. Three-dimensional printing of intracardiac defects from three-dimensional echocardiographic images: feasibility and relative accuracy. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 2015; 28 (4): 392-7.
- Talemal L, Donofrio MT. Hemodynamic consequences of a restrictive ductus arteriosus and foramenovale in fetal transposition of the great arteries. J Neonatal Perinatal Med. 2016 Sep 16; 9: 317-20.
- Gaur L, Talemal L, Bulas D, Donofrio MT. Utility of fetal magnetic resonance imaging in assessing the fetus with cardiac malposition. Prenat Diagn. 2016 Aug; 36: 752-9.
- Talemal L, Olivieri L, Krishnan A. Ductal constriction during dexamethasone treatment in an anti-SSAantibody-exposed fetus with signs of myocardial inflammation. Cardiol Young. 2016 Jun; 26: 1021-4.
- Tague L, Donofrio MT, Fulgium A, McCarter R, Limperopoulos C, Schidlow DN. Common Findings in Late-Gestation Fetal Echocardiography. J Ultrasound Med. 2017; 36:2431-2437.
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- Clark BC, Georgekutty J, Berul CI. Myocardial ischemia secondary to synthetic cannabinoid (K2) use in pediatric patients. J Pediatr. 2015 Sept: :757-761.
- Clark, BC, Berul CI. Arrhythmia diagnosis and management throughout life in congenital heart disease. Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy. 2016; 14 (3): 301-320.
- Clark, BC, Krishnan, A, McCarter, R, Scheel, J, Sable, C, Beaton, A. Using a low-risk population to estimate the specificity of the WHF criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 2016; 29 (3): 253-258.
- Clark B, Cunningham M, Sinha P, Kanter J, Donofrio M. Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery: late pediatric presentation of a rare disease. Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Case Reports. 2016.
- Cunningham M, Doroshow D, Olivieri L, Moak M. Junctional ectopic tachycardia secondary to myocarditis associated with sudden cardiac arrest. Heart Rhythm Case Reports. 2016.
- Cunningham ME, Donofrio MT, Peer SM, Zurakowski D, Jonas R, Sinha P. Optimal timing for elective early primary repair of tetralogy of Fallot- analysis of intermediate term outcomes. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2016.
- Cunningham ME, Donofrio MT, Peer SM, Zurakowski D, Jonas R, Sinha P. Influence of age and weight on technical repair of tetralogy of Fallot. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2016.
- Cunningham ME, Berger JT. Pediatric Pulmonary hypertensive crisis medications: A stepping stone for the future. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2016; 17 (5): 465-6.
- Ploutz M, Lu JC, Scheel J, Webb C, Ensing GJ, Aliku T, Lwabi P, Sable C, Beaton A. Handheld echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease by non-experts. Heart. 2015.
- May LJ, Ploutz M, Hollander SA, Reinhartz O, Almond CS, Chen S, Maeda K, Kaufman BD, Yeh J, Rosenthal DN. A novel pediatric treatment intensity score: development and feasibility in heart failure patients with ventricular assist devices. J heart and lung transpl. 2015: 509-15.
- Bradley-Hewitt T, Dantin A, Ploutz M, Aliku T, Lwabi P, Sable C, Beaton A. The impact of echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease on patient quality of life. The Journal ofPediatrics. 2016; 16 : 1-7.
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