VeliKemalTopkaraMD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Failure & Transplantation

Physician

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Office
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Phone+1 608-263-1690

Fax+1 608-265-1918

New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Fellowship, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, 2013 - 2014
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 2009 - 2013
Baylor College of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 2006 - 2009
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityInternship, Transitional Year, 2005 - 2006
Hacettepe University FOMClass of 2003

NY State Medical License 2013 - 2026
WI State Medical License 2024 - 2025
MO State Medical License Active through 2013
PA State Medical License 2005 - 2006
American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

PubMed

PET/CT with Myocardial Blood Flow Assessment Is Prognostic of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Progression and Clinical Outcomes.
Nikil Prasad, Erin Harris, Ersilia M DeFilippis, Gabriel Sayer, Margarita Chernovolenko
Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025-02-03
Validation of the HeartMate 3 survival risk score in a large left ventricular assist device center.
Cathrine M Moeller, Gal Rubinstein, Daniel Oren, Andrea Fernandez Valledor, Dor Lotan
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2025-02-01
Evolving indications and management patterns in heart - kidney transplantation.
Frederick M Lang, Veli K Topkara
Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. 2025-01-01

Journal Articles

Trends in US Heart Transplant Waitlist Activity and Volume During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
Lauren Sinnenberg, Nosheen Reza, Michelle M Kittleson, Veli K Topkara, Maryjane A Farr, JAMA Cardiology
VA‐ECMO for Cardiogenic Shock in the Contemporary Era of Heart Transplantation: Which Patients Should Be Urgently Transplanted?
Yoshifumi Naka, Maryjane A Farr, Koji Takeda, Paolo Colombo, Hiroo Takayama, Arthur R Garan, Veli K Topkara, Clinical Transplantation

Trends in US Heart Transplant Waitlist Activity and Volume During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) PandemicJuly 2020
Trends in US Heart Transplant Waitlist Activity and Volume During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) PandemicJuly 2020
Outcomes Associated with Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) Inhibitors in Heart Transplant Recipients: A Meta-Analysis☆March 2018
Outcomes Associated with Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) Inhibitors in Heart Transplant Recipients: A Meta-Analysis☆March 2018
Prognostic Impact of Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index (PAPi) in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: Insights from the ESCAPE TrialMarch 2018
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LV Unloading and Myocardial Recovery : An Exciting Future in the Continuum of Remission to RecoveryMarch 30th, 2023
Myocardial Recovery in Patients Receiving Contemporary Left Ventricular Assist DevicesJune 2nd, 2016
International Genome-Wide Association Study Consortium Identifies Novel Loci Associated with Blood Pressure in Children and AdolescentsMarch 11th, 2016
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