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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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Improved Cardiac Risk Assessment With Noninvasive Measures of Coronary Flow Reserve
Venkatesh L. Murthy,Masanao Naya,Courtney Foster,Jon Hainer,Mariya Gaber,Gilda Di Carli,Ron Blankstein,Sharmila Dorbala,Arkadiusz Sitek,Michael J. Pencina,Marcelo F. Di Carli +10 more
TL;DR: Noninvasive quantitative assessment of coronary vasodilator function with positron emission tomography is a powerful, independent predictor of cardiac mortality in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease and provides meaningful incremental risk stratification over clinical and gated myocardial perfusion imaging variables.
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Absence of Coronary Artery Calcification
Ammar Sarwar,Leslee J. Shaw,Michael D. Shapiro,Ron Blankstein,Udo Hoffman,Ricardo C. Cury,Suhny Abbara,Thomas J. Brady,Matthew J. Budoff,Roger S. Blumenthal,Khurram Nasir,Khurram Nasir,Khurram Nasir +12 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the absence of CAC is associated with a very low risk of future cardiovascular events, with modest incremental value of other diagnostic tests in this very low-risk group.
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Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Enhances Prognostic Assessments of Patients With Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis
Ron Blankstein,Michael T. Osborne,Masanao Naya,Alfonso H. Waller,Chun K. Kim,Venkatesh L. Murthy,Pedram Kazemian,Raymond Y. Kwong,Michifumi Tokuda,Hicham Skali,Robert F. Padera,Jon Hainer,William G. Stevenson,Sharmila Dorbala,Marcelo F. Di Carli +14 more
TL;DR: The presence of focal PD and FDG uptake on cardiac PET identifies patients at higher risk of death or VT, and these findings offer prognostic value beyond Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare clinical criteria, the presence of extra-cardiac sarcoidosis and LVEF.
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Effects of Sex on Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Cardiac Outcomes
Venkatesh L. Murthy,Masanao Naya,Viviany R. Taqueti,Courtney Foster,Mariya Gaber,Jon Hainer,Sharmila Dorbala,Ron Blankstein,Ornella Rimoldi,Paolo G. Camici,Marcelo F. Di Carli +10 more
TL;DR: The high prevalence of CMD in both sexes suggests that it may be a useful target for future therapeutic interventions, and coronary flow reserve was a powerful incremental predictor of major adverse cardiac events regardless of sex.
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Diagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
Elliott D. Crouser,Lisa A. Maier,Kevin C. Wilson,Catherine A. Bonham,Adam S. Morgenthau,Karen C. Patterson,Karen C. Patterson,Eric Abston,Richard C. Bernstein,Ron Blankstein,Edward S. Chen,Daniel A. Culver,Wonder P. Drake,Marjolein Drent,Alicia K. Gerke,Michael Ghobrial,Praveen Govender,Nabeel Hamzeh,W. Ennis James,Marc A. Judson,Liz Kellermeyer,Shandra L Knight,Laura L. Koth,Venerino Poletti,Subha V. Raman,Melissa H. Tukey,Gloria Westney,Robert P. Baughman +27 more
TL;DR: The panel used systematic reviews of the evidence to inform clinical recommendations in favor of or against various diagnostic tests in patients with suspected or known sarcoidosis.