Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Cardiology

Rajat is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He attended University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He received 3 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACC)". Rajat has written publications. He has 23 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Masked Hypertension and Elevated Nighttime Blood Pressure in CKD: Prevalence and Association with Target Organ Damage.' Rajat accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Electrocardiographic Measures and Prediction of Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Death in CKD.
• Masked Hypertension and Elevated Nighttime Blood Pressure in CKD: Prevalence and Association with Target Organ Damage.
• Optimal QT Correction Formula in Sinus Tachycardia for Identifying Cardiovascular and Mortality Risk: Findings from the Penn Atrial Fibrillation Free Study.
• Atrial Fibrillation and the Risk of Stroke: Does Timing Matter?
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Sudden Versus Non-sudden Cardiac Death: The Cardiovascular Health Study.
• Mineral Metabolism and the Right Ventricle: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
• Obesity related risk of sudden cardiac death in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.
• High-Sensitivity Troponin T and N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) and Risk of Incident Heart Failure in Patients with CKD: The Chronic Renal Insuff...
• Serum aldosterone and death, end-stage renal Disease, and cardiovascular events in blacks and whites: findings from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.
• Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Incident Atrial Fibrillation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS).
• Appropriateness of Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators at Time of Generator Replacement: Are Indications Still Met?
• Cardiomyocyte injury assessed by a highly sensitive troponin assay and sudden cardiac death in the community: the cardiovascular health study.
• Unipolar Voltage Abnormality is Associated with Greater Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Aldhoon: Unipolar voltage mapping in ICM.
• Ventricular Premature Depolarization QRS Duration as a New Marker of Risk for the Development of VPD Induced Cardiomyopathy.
• Inflammation and Sudden Cardiac Death in a Community-based Population of Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study.
• Assessing Arrhythmia Burden After Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Using an Implantable Loop Recorder: The ABACUS Study.
• CKD and Sudden Cardiac Death: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Approaches.
• Common genetic variation near the connexin-43 gene is associated with resting Heart rate in African Americans: A genome-wide association study of 13,372 participants.
• Chronic kidney disease and cardiac remodelling in patients with mild Heart failure: results from the REsynchronization reVErses Remodeling in Systolic Left vEntricular...
• Risk of stroke and Atrial fibrillation after radiofrequency catheter ablation of typical Atrial flutter.
• Noninvasive programmed ventricular stimulation early after ventricular tachycardia ablation to predict risk of late recurrence.
• The clinical utility of entrainment pacing.

Schools

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• University of Mi Med Sch

Procedures Preformed

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• Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
• Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
• Cardiac Imaging
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Conditions Treated

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• Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
• Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Aortic Aneurysm
• Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiology
• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Regional Top Doctor
• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Fellow (FACC)

Education

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• Johns Hopkins University
• UCSF
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
• University of Michigan Medical School

Hospital

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• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1477699015
Last Name Of The Provider	DEO
First Name Of The Provider	RAJAT
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