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Ron Blankstein
Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publications - 634
Citations - 25037
Ron Blankstein is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coronary artery disease & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 560 publications receiving 18043 citations. Previous affiliations of Ron Blankstein include Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute & Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership.
David A. Wood,Ehtisham Mahmud,Vinod H. Thourani,Janarthanan Sathananthan,Alice Virani,Athena Poppas,Robert A. Harrington,Joseph A. Dearani,Madhav Swaminathan,Andrea M. Russo,Ron Blankstein,Sharmila Dorbala,James Carr,Sean A. Virani,Kenneth Gin,Alan B. Packard,Vasken Dilsizian,Jean Francois Legare,Jonathon Leipsic,John G. Webb,Andrew D. Krahn +20 more
TL;DR: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to marked global morbidity and mortality and there have been appropriate but significant restrictions on routine medical care.
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Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ramping Up Safely to a New Normal.
William A. Zoghbi,Marcelo F. DiCarli,Ron Blankstein,Andrew D. Choi,Vasken Dilsizian,Frank A. Flachskampf,Jeffrey B. Geske,Paul A. Grayburn,Farouc A. Jaffer,Raymond Y. Kwong,Jonathan Leipsic,Thomas H. Marwick,Eike Nagel,Koen Nieman,Subha V. Raman,Michael Salerno,Partho P. Sengupta,Leslee J. Shaw,Y S Chandrashekhar +18 more
TL;DR: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created an unprecedented disruption to routine patient care and health care professionals scrambled within weeks to attend to the surge of affected individuals.
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Use of Cardiac Computerized Tomography to Predict Neo-Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Before Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement.
David J. Murphy,Yin Ge,Creighton W. Don,Abhishek R. Keraliya,Ayaz Aghayev,Róisín B. Morgan,Benjamin Z. Galper,Deepak L. Bhatt,Tsuyoshi Kaneko,Marcelo F. Di Carli,Pinak B. Shah,Michael L. Steigner,Ron Blankstein +12 more
TL;DR: Although the incidence of mitral stenosis has declined precipitously in the Western world due to the reduced incidence of rheumatic heart disease, mitral regurgitation remains one of the most common valvular pathologies.
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Comparison of myocardial fibrosis quantification methods by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for risk stratification of patients with suspected myocarditis.
Christoph Gräni,Christian Eichhorn,Loïc Bière,Kyoichi Kaneko,Venkatesh L. Murthy,Vikram Agarwal,Ayaz Aghayev,Michael L. Steigner,Ron Blankstein,Michael Jerosch-Herold,Raymond Y. Kwong +10 more
TL;DR: FWHM is the optimal semi-automated quantification method in risk-stratifying patients with suspected myocarditis, demonstrating the strongest association with MACE and the highest technical consistency.
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Family history of coronary heart disease and the incidence and progression of coronary artery calcification: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
Arvind K. Pandey,Michael J. Blaha,Kavita Sharma,Juan J. Rivera,Matthew J. Budoff,Ron Blankstein,Mouaz H. Al-Mallah,Nathan D. Wong,Leslee J. Shaw,J. Jeffrey Carr,Daniel J. O'Leary,Joao A.C. Lima,Moyses Szklo,Roger S. Blumenthal,Khurram Nasir +14 more
TL;DR: Family history of premature CHD is associated with enhanced development and progression of subclinical disease, independent of other risk factors, in a multiethnic, population-based study.