ReneJAlvarezJr.MD

PubMed

• 9 citations
  Outcomes of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Giant Cell Myocarditis: A Systematic Review.
  Preeyal M. Patel, Abhiraj Saxena, Chelsey T. Wood, Thomas J. O’Malley, Elizabeth J. Maynes
  Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020-11-30
• 12 citations
  Serum dilutions as a predictive biomarker for peri-operative desensitization: An exploratory approach to transplanting sensitized heart candidates
  Olga A. Timofeeva, Rene Alvarez, Justin Pelberg, Edward J. Yoon, Mohamed Alsammak
  Transplant Immunology. 2020-06-01
• 124 citations
  Coronary angiography predicts improved outcome following cardiac arrest: propensity-adjusted analysis.
  Joshua C. Reynolds, Clifton W. Callaway, Samar R. El Khoudary, Charity G. Moore, Rene Alvarez
  Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2009-03-25

Journal Articles

• Use of protek duo tandem heart for percutaneous right ventricular support in various clinical settings: a case series  
  Nicolais C, Suryapalam M, O'Murchu B, Bashir R, O'Neill B, Alvarez R, Forfia P, Vaidya A, Gomez-Abraham J, Hamad EA, Aggarwal V, JACC, 1/1/2018
• Use of protek duo cannula (RVAD) for percutaneous support in various clinical settings A safe and effective option  
  Gomez-Abraham JA, Brann S, Aggarwal V, O'Neill B, Alvarez R, Hamad E, Toyoda Y, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2018
• Preoperative screening for anti-platelet factor 4/heparin antibodies does not accurately predict heparin-induced thrombocytopenia post VAD  
  Plamenac JD, Kumar J, Lee G, Yu D, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Hamad EA, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2017
• Contemporary era of simultaneous heart kidney transplantation: a single center experience  
  Mangrolia H, Fonseka N, Ghanta M, Rao S, Karhadkar S, Alvarez R, Punnoose L, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2016
• Outcomes of older patients in the recent era of heart kidney transplantation  
  Punnoose L, Ramsey FV. Fisher SG, Ghanta M, Rao S, Karhadkar S, Alvarez R, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2016
• A novel approach to mechanical circulatory support in a patient with d-transposition of the great arteries  
  Singh A, Yoshizumi T, Kumar A, Gomez-Abraham J, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Dries D, Punnoose L, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Hamad EA, Bove A, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2016
• Patients with prosthetic valves and need for left ventricular assist device  
  Khan F, Singh A, Alvarez R, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2016
• A shock team improves survival in cardiogenic shock by decreasing time to intervention  
  Dillane C, Bove A, Cohen HA, Bashir R, O'Murchu B, O'Neill B, Gomez-Abraham J, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Dries D, Punnoose L, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Hamad EA, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2016
• Single center experience with successful left ventricular assist device explantation following myocardial recovery  
  Mizra A, Raza F, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Hamad EA, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2016
• Simple RVOT doppler measurements in addition to hemodynamic variables can help identify need for RVAD at timeof LVAD placement  
  Raza F, Soles EO, Mirza A, Forfia P, Schwartz D, Dries D, Tsai EJ, Punnoose L, Shiose A, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Bove A, Hamad EA, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2015
• Long-term outcomes in heart transplantation using donors with a history of past and present cocaine use  
  Jayarajan S, Taghavi S, Komaroff E, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Hamad E, Alvarez R, Wheatley G, Guy TS, Toyoda Y, Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 1/1/2015
• Atrial Septostomy: A Contempory Review  
  Al Maluli H, DeStephan CM, Alvarez R, Jr, Sandoval J, Clin Cardiol, 1/1/2015
• Age is a predictor of recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with left ventricular assist devices: results from an urban tertiary care center  
  Saway RA, Iorio N, Soles EO, Zhao H, Toyoda Y, Hamad EA, Alvarez R, Haluska O, Maranki J, Gastroenterology, 1/1/2015
• The amount of blood product given during left ventricular assist device implantation is not associate with the need for right ventricular assist device  
  Oliveros E, Soles EO, Raza F, Forfia P, Schwartz D, Dries D, Tsai EJ, Punnoose L, Shiose A, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Bove A, Hamad EA, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2015
• Psychosocial risk assessment in patients receiving ventricular assist devices does not correlate with outcomes  
  Fried L, Soles EO, Schwartz D, Toyoda Y, Shiose A, Bove A, Alvarez R, Hamad EA, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2015
• Race, gender and clinical characteristics do not predict outcomes in end-stage heart failure patients requiring inotropes  
  Nicolias CD, Bhatt RR, Freid LM, Hamad EA, Alvarez R, Bove A, Schwartz D, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2015
• Induction therapy prior to heart transplantation leads to freedom from antibody-mediated rejection without increasing infection  
  Brailovsky Y, Soles EO, Rakita V, Lakhter V, Zhao H, Schwartz D, Shiose A, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Bove A, Hamad EA, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 1/1/2015
• Acute tricuspid valve regurgitation caused by severe blunt chest traua  
  Al Maluli H, DeStephan C, Alvarez R, JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology), 1/1/2015
• Clinical characteristics and in hospital outcomes of heart transplant recipients with allograft vasculopathy undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights fr...  
  Dasari TW, Saucedo JF, Krim S, Alkhouli M, Fonarow GC, Alvarez R, Ibrahim H, Dai D, Wang TY, Costa M, Lindenfeld J, Messenger JC, Am Heart J, 1/1/2015
• Outpatient management of heart failure in the United States, 2006-2008  
  Mosalpuria K, Agarwal SK, Yaemsiri S, Pierre-Louis B, Saba S, Alvarez R, Russell SD, Tex Heart Inst J, 1/14/2014
• Single donor-derived strongyloidiasis in three solid organ transplant recipients: case series and review of the literature  
  Le M, Ravin K, Hasan A, Alvarez RJ, et al, American Journal of Transplantation, 1/1/2014
• Use of heavy drinking donors in heart transplantation is not associated with worse short- and medium-term mortality  
  Taghavi S, Jayarajan S, Komaroff E, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Hamad EA, Alvarez R, Wheatley GH, Guy T, Toyoda Y, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1/1/2014
• Response to "clarification of enrolled subjects in tolvaptan HF trials  
  Feldman AM, Hamad EA, Tsai EJ, Zhu W, Tilley D, Alvarez R, Cheung JY, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 1/1/2014
• Vasopressin antagonists for patients with acute heart failure: interpreting new clinical and translational data  
  Feldman AM, Hamad EA, Tsai EJ, Weizhong Z, Tilley D, Alvarez R, Cheung JY, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 1/1/2013
• The effect of hypothermia "dose" on vasopressor requirements and outcome after cardiac arrest  
  Huynh N, Kloke J, Gu C, Callaway CW, Guyette FX, Gebhardt K, Alvarez R, Tisherman SA, Rittenberger JC, Resuscitation, 1/1/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

• Management of End-Stage Heart Failure 
  Chapter: Positive Isotropic Agents 
  Alvarez RJ, Feldman AMEditors: Stevenson LW.Wiley Press2000

Abstracts/Posters

• Outcomes in patients with mechanical and bioprosthetic valves undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation.
  Khan FK, Raza F, Haas DC. Soundarapandian V, Alvarez R, JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology), 1/20/2018
• The association of hyponatremia with race, ethnicity, and gender in patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure diagnoses.
  Sunder V, Alvarez R, Carabelli E, Division of Internal Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations, Thomas Jefferson University, 1/1/2018
• Identification of a novel obscurin protein variant in nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
  Catalano J, Paynton B, Kaniper S, Gerhard G, Alvarez R, Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University Annual Fellows, Residents and Medical Students Research Symposium, 1/1/2018
• Heart transplantation after bridge to transplant with novel approach to mechanical circulatory support in a patient with d-transposition of the great arteries.
  Gomez-Abraham J, Brann S, Keshavamurthy S, Hamad E, Alvarez R, Toyoda Y, ISHLT (International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation), 1/1/2018
• Can a left ventricular assist device cause autotriggering of a mechanical ventilator.
  Plamenac J, Kumar J, Edmundowicz D, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Hamad E, The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 37th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, 1/1/2017
• The association of baseline hyponatremia with ethnicity and gender in acute heart failure admissions.
  Sunder V, Alvarez R, Carabelli E, Weiner M, European Journal of Heart Failure, 1/1/2017
• Acute heart failure secondary to cardiac amyloidosis: a case series.
  Back S, Raza F, Alvarez R, Lewis Katz School of Medicine Research Symposium, 1/1/2016
• ST-elevation myocardial infarction and acute limb ischemia in a young female: an arterial conundrum.
  Mirza A, Suri J, Mangrolia H, Alvarez R, Hammad E, Lewis Katz School of Medicine Research Symposium, 1/1/2016
• Boot camp for ventricular assist device patient recovery beyond medical management.
  Hamad EA, Devlin V, McDonnell K, Robinson N, Welsh M, Kerr E, Cramer-Manchin B, Merkel J, Ciniglia L, Dougherty D, Wilson J, Alvarez R, ISHLT (International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation), 1/1/2016
• Single center experience with successful left ventricular assist device explantation following myocardial recovery.
  Mirza A, Raza F, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Toyoda Y, Alvarez R, Hamad E, Lewis Katz School of Medicine Research Symposium, ISHLT (International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation) Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, 1/1/2016
• Cardiac sarcoidosis-a case based review of the current literature on diagnosis, complications, and management.
  Klein EC, Al Maluli H, Pierce MJ, Cooper JA, Alvarez RJ, Lewis Katz School of Medicine Research Symposium, 1/1/2016
• Gene expression profiling: a great advance in detecting graft rejection.
  Alvarez RJ, Temple Heart & Vascular Institute, 1/1/2016
• Use of heavy drinking donors in heart transplantation is not associated with worse mortality.
  Taghavi S, Jayarajan SN, Komaroff E, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Hamad E, Alvarez R, Wheatley G, Guy TS, Toyoda Y, Transplantation, 1/1/2015
• Gastrointestinal bleeding and left ventricular assist devices: pre-operative risk factors and outcome in a minority population.
  Oliveros-Soles E, Iorio N, Andari Sawaya R, Zhao H, Toyoda Y, Maranki J, Haluszka O, Hamad E, Alvarez RJ, Temple University School of Medicine, 1/1/2015
• The Accountable Care Unit Model: The cardiology pavilion.
  Alvarez RJ, Edmundowicz D, Bowen K, Robinson N, Huber C, Freeman SL, Al Mulali H, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons: STS 51st Annual Meeting, 1/1/2015
• Successful usage of venovenous ECMO using dual lumen catheter for bridge to redo heart-lung transplantation.
  Shiose A, Gomez-Abraham J, Wheatley G, Guy TS, Hamad E, Dries D, Alvarez RJ, Patel N, Cordova F, Criner J, Toyoda Y, ISHLT (International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation), 1/1/2015
• First successful percutaneous right heart and respiratory support with single double lumen catheter and oxygenator.
  Shiose A, Yoshiya T, Edmundowicz D, O'Neill B, Bashir R, O'Murchu B, Gomez-Abraham J, Wheatley G, Guy TS, Punnoose L, Schwartz DR, Tsai E, Forfia P, Dires D, Alvarez R..., ISHLT (International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation), 1/1/2015
• Mechanical circulatory support for the failing heart: which device to choose.
  Ahmed M, Alvarez R, Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, 1/1/2015
• Use of heavy drinking donors in heart transplantation is not associated with worse short-and medium-term mortality.
  Taghavi S, Jayarajan S, Komaroff E, Shiose A, Schwartz D, Hamad E, Alvarez R, Wheately G, Guy T, Toyoda Y, Temple University School of Medicine, 1/1/2014
• Response to "clarification of enrolled subjects in tolvaptan HF trials."
  Feldman AM, Hamad E, Tsai E, Zhu W, Tilley DG, Alvarez R, Cheung JY, Clin Pharmacol Ther, 1/1/2014
• 130 Day-biventricular assist device support with centrimag implanted emergently for heartmate II driveline infection related to colon injury, followed by successful he...
  Shiose A, Hamad E, Alvarez R, Guey TS, Toyoda Y, Temple University School of Medicine, 1/1/2014
• Fourth-time re-transplant or LVAD implantation in a patient with severed coronary artery vasculopathy after third-time heart transplant.
  Hisamoto K, Shiose A, Leotta E, Wheatley G, Guy TS, Hamad EA, Alvarez RJ, Temple University School of Medicine, 1/1/2014
• A case of rapidly progressive AMR despite low DSA after treatment.
  Afari-Armah N, Geier S, Parekn H, Tsai E, Schwartz D, Bove A, Forifa P, Toyoda Y, Shiose A, Alvarez R, Hamad E, Afari-Armah N, Geier S, Parekn H, Tsai E, Schwartz D, Bove A, Forifa P, Toyoda Y, Shiose A, Alvarez R, Hamad E, 1/1/2014
• A multi-modality approach to antibody mediated rejection.
  Geier S, Parekh H, Li Y, Alvarez R, Tsai EJ, Fitzpatrick J, Nikolaidis LA, JCC (Journal of Cardiac Failure), 1/1/2013
• Valve surgery in a mucopolysaccharidois type I patient: early prosthetic valve endocarditis.
  Rocha RV, Alvarez RJ, Bermudez CA, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 1/1/2012
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Lectures

• A patient's journey with HFrEF: and update on the current Guidelines and future of medical and surgical therapeutic. 
  Philadelphia, PA - 1/1/2018
• What's New in Heart Failure? 
  1/1/2018
• Advanced Options for Stage D Heart Failure Patients. 
  1/1/2017
• Systolic Heart Failure-Stage C and D 
  Pittsburgh, PA - 1/28/2011
• Systolic Heart Failure-Stage C and D Therapy 
  UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)-Passavant, Pittsburgh, PA - 1/25/2011
• Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: An Update 
  University of Miami - 1/1/2011
• PAH an Update. 
  1/1/2011
• "2011 Dr. Lauren Roth UPMC" 
  Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh, PA - 1/1/2011
• Pathophysiology of Heart failure. 
  1/1/2011
• From Controversy to Consensus in CV Care 
  1/1/2011
• The Struggle of the R and L 
  1/1/2011
• Heart Failure/Public Health Concern 
  1/1/2006
• Bi-V pacing in HF. 
  1/1/2005
• PAH-update. 
  TRHMC (The Reading Hospital and Medical Center) - 1/1/2005
• Heart Failure-Drugs and Devices: How, when and why. 
  TRHMC (The Reading Hospital and Medical Center) - 1/1/2005
• CPC-65 y/o female with RA and sudden death. 
  1/1/2005
• Women with HF. 
  1/1/2005
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Other

• Utilization of ABO compatible/non identical donor: A strategy to increase existing donor pool for heart transplantation. 
  Pramod B, Kormos R, Bermudez C, Bhama J, Shigemura N, Sareyyupoglu B, Tabata S, Horai T, Ramani R, Simon M, Cadaret L, Teuteberg J, Alvarez RJ, Mathier M, McNamara D, ...
• Medical Mystery: coughing and nausea for several months. 
  Alvarez R, The Philadelphia Inquirer
  1/24/2016
• Pennsylvania mom's efforts for heart transplant for autistic son highlights complexity of decision. 
  Alvarez RJ, KYW/CBS Philadelphia Interview
  http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/08/14/experts-cool-to-pa-moms-effort-to-get-heart-transplant
  1/1/2012
• Targeting Health Care Disparities. 
  Alvarez RJ, Heart of the Matter (Spring)
  1/1/2011
• President's Message. 
  Alvarez RJ, Heart of the Matter-Pennsylvania Chapter ACC (Fall)
  1/1/2011
• Governors Report. 
  Alvarez RJ, Heart of the Matter (Spring)
  1/1/2010
• Epidemic of Heart Failure 
  Alvarez RJ, WEEU Radio Show/Heart Month
  1/1/2006
• Organ Donation Raising Awareness 
  Alvarez RJ, WEEU Radio Show/Heart Month
  1/1/2006
• PHTN interview. 
  Alvarez RJ
  http://www.rodale.com/heart-disease-warning-signs
• The effect of Hypothermia "dose" on vasopressor requirements and outcome after cardic arrest. 
  Huynh N, Kloke J, GU C, Callaway CW, Guyette FX, Gebhardt K, Alvarez RJ, Tisherman S, Rittenberger J
• A positive PHQ-2 screen for depression among hospitalized patients with CHF predicts 6-month cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. 
  Rollman BL, Herbeck Belnap B, Mazumdar S, Houck PR, McNamara D, Alvarez RJ, Schulberg HC, Reynolds CF
• Simultaneous heart and liver transplantation for patients with congenital heart disease and end-stage liver cirrhosis. 
  Toyoda Y, Bermudez C, Bhama J, Horai T, Sareyyupoglu B, Bonde P, Tabata S, Shigemura N, Ramani R, Simon M, Cadaret L, Teuteberg J, Simon R. Alvarez RJ, Mathier M, McNa...
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