Scholars@Duke

• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Transplantation
  • Hemodynamics
  • Left Ventricular Assist Devices
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Rao VN, Giczewska A, Chiswell K, Felker GM, Wang A, Glower DD, et al. Long-term outcomes of phenoclusters in severe tricuspid regurgitation. Eur Heart J. 2023 Jun 1;44(21):1910–23.
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    • Rao VN, Pagidipati NJ. Long-Term Outcomes Following Behavioral Weight Management Programs: Worth the Weight. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2023 Apr;16(4):e009965.
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    • Rao VN, Diez J, Gustafsson F, Mentz RJ, Senni M, Jankowska EA, et al. Practical Patient Care Considerations With Use of Vericiguat After Worsening Heart Failure Events. J Card Fail. 2023 Mar;29(3):389–402.
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    • Rao VN, Shah A, McDermott J, Barnes SG, Murray EM, Kelsey MD, et al. In-Hospital Virtual Peer-to-Peer Consultation to Increase Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure: A Pilot Randomized Trial. Circ Heart Fail. 2023 Feb;16(2):e010158.
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    • Kittipibul V, Yaranov DM, Jefferies JL, Silver MA, Burkhoff D, Rao VN, et al. Pressure-Volume Profiles in Heart Failure Across Sexes and Phenotypes. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2022 Dec 14;
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    • Murray EM, Greene SJ, Rao VN, Sun J-L, Alhanti BA, Blumer V, et al. Machine learning to define phenotypes and outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Findings from ASCEND-HF. Am Heart J. 2022 Dec;254:112–21.
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    • Rao VN, Mentz RJ, Coniglio AC, Kelsey MD, Fudim M, Fonarow GC, et al. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Hospitalized Heart Failure Outcomes in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. Circ Heart Fail. 2022 Nov;15(11):e009353.
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    • Rao VN, Kaltenbach LA, Granger BB, Fonarow GC, Al-Khalidi HR, Albert NM, et al. The Association of Digital Health Application Use With Heart Failure Care and Outcomes: Insights From CONNECT-HF. J Card Fail. 2022 Oct;28(10):1487–96.
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    • Rao VN, Andrews J, Applefeld WN, Gray JM, Molinger J, Felker GM, et al. Quantitative Blood Volume Analysis and Hemodynamic Measures of Vascular Compliance in Patients With Worsening Heart Failure. J Card Fail. 2022 Sep;28(9):1469–74.
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    • Shah A, Mentz RJ, Sun J-L, Rao VN, Alhanti B, Blumer V, et al. Emergency Department Visits Versus Hospital Readmissions Among Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure. J Card Fail. 2022 Jun;28(6):916–23.
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    • Minhas AMK, Salah HM, Khan MS, Rao VN, Tedford RJ, Reddy YNV, et al. Most Common Causes of Hospitalization Associated with Inpatient Mortality in the United States Between 2005-2018. Am J Med Sci. 2022 May;363(5):459–61.
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    • Yaranov DM, Jefferies JL, Silver MA, Burkhoff D, Rao VN, Fudim M. Discordance of Pressure and Volume: Potential Implications for Pressure-Guided Remote Monitoring in Heart Failure. J Card Fail. 2022 May;28(5):870–2.
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    • Rao VN, Fudim M, Wang J. Beyond the Anatomy of Renal Nerves: Functional Diversity of Renal Nerves. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2022 Feb;15(1):27–8.
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    • Rao VN, Kelsey MD, Blazing MA, Pagidipati NJ, Fortin TA, Fudim M. Unexplained Dyspnea on Exertion: The Difference the Right Test Can Make. Circ Heart Fail. 2022 Feb;15(2):e008982.
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    • Rao VN, Greene SJ. Breaking Clinical Inertia in Heart Failure Management. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2022 Jan;48(1):3–4.
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    • Rao VN, Obeid MJ, Rigiroli F, Russell SD, Patel CB, Molinger J, et al. Pericardial Adipose Tissue Volume and Left Ventricular Assist Device-Associated Outcomes. J Card Fail. 2022 Jan;28(1):149–53.
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    • Fudim M, Zhong L, Patel KV, Khera R, Abdelmalek MF, Diehl AM, et al. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Risk of Heart Failure Among Medicare Beneficiaries. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Nov 16;10(22):e021654.
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    • Rao VN, Murray E, Butler J, Cooper LB, Cox ZL, Fiuzat M, et al. In-Hospital Initiation of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Nov 16;78(20):2004–12.
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    • Salah HM, Pandey A, Soloveva A, Abdelmalek MF, Diehl AM, Moylan CA, et al. Relationship of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Jacc Basic Transl Sci. 2021 Nov;6(11):918–32.
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    • Ferraro RA, Ogunmoroti O, Zhao D, Ndumele CE, Rao V, Pandey A, et al. Hepatocyte Growth Factor and Incident Heart Failure Subtypes: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2021 Sep;27(9):981–90.
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    • Rao VN, Fudim M, Savarese G, Butler J. Polypharmacy in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Progress, Not Problem. Am J Med. 2021 Sep;134(9):1068–70.
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    • Rao VN, Bush CG, Mongraw-Chaffin M, Hall ME, Clark D, Fudim M, et al. Regional Adiposity and Risk of Heart Failure and Mortality: The Jackson Heart Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Jul 20;10(14):e020920.
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    • Mentz RJ, Rao VN. Worsening Heart Failure Events in HFpEF: Underlying Biology Not Treatment Location. Jacc Heart Fail. 2021 May;9(5):383–5.
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    • Rao VN, Kelsey MD, Kelsey AM, Russell SD, Mentz RJ, Patel MR, et al. Acute cardiovascular hospitalizations and illness severity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clin Cardiol. 2021 May;44(5):656–64.
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    • Rao VN, Pandey A, Zhong L, Ambrosy AP, Fudim M. Loop Diuretic Use and Outcomes in Chronic Stable Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction-Reply. Mayo Clin Proc. 2021 Feb;96(2):503–6.
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    • Rao VN, Fudim M, Mentz RJ, Michos ED, Felker GM. Regional adiposity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Eur J Heart Fail. 2020 Sep;22(9):1540–50.
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    • Jang S, Ogunmoroti O, Ndumele CE, Zhao D, Rao VN, Fashanu OE, et al. Association of the Novel Inflammatory Marker GlycA and Incident Heart Failure and Its Subtypes of Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Circulation Heart Failure. 2020 Aug;13(8):e007067.
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    • Rao VN, Fudim M, Griffin A, Rymer JA, Jones WS, Koweek LMH, et al. Lawn Mower Versus Left Ventricular Assist Device: A Case of Traumatic Coronary Injury. Jacc Case Rep. 2020 Mar;2(3):406–10.
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    • Feng KY, Loungani RS, Rao VN, Patel CB, Khouri MG, Felker GM, et al. Best Practices for Prognostic Evaluation of a Patient With Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy. Jacc Cardiooncol. 2019 Dec;1(2):273–9.
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    • Kochar A, Rymer J, Samad Z, Duke Cardiovascular Education Group. Disrupting Fellow Education Through Group Texting: WhatsApp in Fellow Education? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Dec 25;72(25):3366–9.
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    • Rao VN, Zhao D, Allison MA, Guallar E, Sharma K, Criqui MH, et al. Adiposity and Incident Heart Failure and its Subtypes: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). Jacc Heart Failure. 2018 Dec;6(12):999–1007.
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    • Fliotsos M, Zhao D, Rao VN, Ndumele CE, Guallar E, Burke GL, et al. Body Mass Index From Early-, Mid-, and Older-Adulthood and Risk of Heart Failure and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: MESA. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2018 Nov;7(22):e009599.
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    • Rao VN, Ulrich JN, Viera AJ, Parlin A, Fekrat S, Chavala SH. AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE PATTERNS IN PATIENTS WITH RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION. Retina. 2016 Dec;36(12):2304–10.
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    • Rao VN, Sheridan SL, Tuttle LA, Lin F-C, Shimbo D, Diaz KM, et al. The effect of numeracy level on completeness of home blood pressure monitoring. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2015 Jan;17(1):39–45.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Fudim M, Parikh K, Ganesh A, Molinger J, Ray N, Coburn A, et al. Splanchnic nerve block with botulinum toxin for therapy of chronic heart failure - mechanism of action (SPONGE-HF). In: Eur J Heart Fail. 2023. p. 594–6.
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