Professor, Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Nicholas G. Smedira, MD
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Nicholas Smedira works in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He over the years received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Northern Ohio Live" and "Top MD". Dr. Nicholas G. Smedira is also a published doctor. He has 100 paper published. The most recent paper is: Long-term survival, valve durability, and reoperation for 4 aortic root procedures combined with ascending aorta replacement. He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Trends, Predictors, and Outcomes of Stroke After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States.
- Long-term survival, valve durability, and reoperation for 4 Aortic root procedures combined with ascending aorta replacement.
- Outcomes of Cardiac Surgery in Patients With Previous Solid Organ Transplantation (Kidney, Liver, and Pancreas).
- Saying yes or saying no!
- Outcomes of Heart Transplant After Left Ventricular Assist Device Specific and Related Infection.
- Long-Term Durability of Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves: Implications From 12,569 Implants.
- Impact of long-axis function on cardiac surgical outcomes in patients with radiation-associated Heart disease.
- Redo cardiac surgery in a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis and pectus carinatum: A technical challenge.
- Ventricular septal rupture complicating Acute myocardial infarction: a contemporary review.
- Differences in global and regional left ventricular myocardial mechanics in various morphologic subtypes of patients with obstructive hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy refer...
- Myocardial recovery: a focus on the impact of left ventricular assist devices.
- Mesenchymal Precursor Cells as Adjunctive Therapy in Recipients of Contemporary LVADs.
- Increased Aorto-Mitral Curtain Thickness Independently Predicts Mortality in Patients With Radiation-Associated Cardiac Disease Undergoing Cardiac Surgery.
- Percutaneous Lead Dysfunction in the HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device.
- Exercise Echocardiography in Asymptomatic or Minimally Symptomatic HCM: Exercise Capacity, and Not Rest or Exercise LV Outflow Tract Gradients Predicts Long-Term Outco...
- Pulmonary fibrosis on multidetector computed tomography and mortality in patients with radiation-associated cardiac Disease undergoing cardiac surgery.
- Less invasive versus conventional Heart valve surgery in patients with severe Heart failure.
- Prevalence and Outcomes of Unoperated Patients with Severe Symptomatic Mitral Regurgitation and Heart Failure: Comprehensive Analysis to Determine Potential Role of Mi...
- Predictors of long-term outcomes in symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive Cardiomyopathy patients undergoing surgical relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
- Advances and future directions for mechanical circulatory support.
- Mycoplasma hominis prosthetic Valve endocarditis: The value of molecular sequencing in cardiac surgery.
- Mitral Valve replacement in patients with severely calcified mitral Valve annulus: Surgical technique.
- Long-term survival of patients with radiation Heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery: a cohort study.
- Atrial myxoma mimicking a clot in transit.
- Use of a polytetrafluoroethylene graft to prevent recurrence of saphenous vein graft Aneurysm after coronary artery bypass grafting.
- An unexpected fate: looking beyond the Pericardial effusion.
- Unplanned Hospital Readmissions After HeartMate II Implantation: Frequency, Risk Factors, and Impact on Resource Use and Survival.
- Pump replacement for left ventricular assist device Failure can be done safely and is associated with low mortality.
- Axial and centrifugal continuous-flow rotary pumps: a translation from pump mechanics to clinical practice.
- Mechanical circulatory support for Heart failure: past, present and a look at the future.
- Relationship between baseline resting diastolic function and exercise capacity in patients with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy undergoing treadmill stress echocardiograph...
- Endoscopic tunneling of HeartMate II left ventricular assist device driveline.
- Independent and incremental role of quantitative right ventricular evaluation for the prediction of right ventricular Failure after left ventricular assist device impl...
- Outcomes associated with surgical management of infections related to the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device: Implications for destination therapy patients.
- Outcomes of Simultaneous Liver Transplantation and Elective Cardiac Surgical Procedures.
- Mechanical circulatory support after Heart transplantation.
- Long-term outcomes and clinical predictors for pacemaker-requiring bradyArrhythmias after cardiac transplantation: analysis of the UNOS/OPTN cardiac transplant database.
- Lessons learned from balloon Aortic valvuloplasty experience from the pre-transcatheter Aortic valve implantation era.
- Characteristics and surgical outcomes of symptomatic patients with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with abnormal papillary muscle morphology undergoing papillary muscle re...
- Duration of left ventricular assist device support: Effects on abnormal calcium cycling and functional recovery in the failing human Heart.
- Bridge to transplant experience: factors influencing survival to and after cardiac transplant.
- Impact of donor high-risk social behaviors on recipient survival in cardiac transplantation.
- Improved survival among ventricular assist device recipients with a concomitant implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
- Decision support in surgical management of ischemic Cardiomyopathy.
- Long-term outcomes and clinical predictors for pacing after cardiac transplantation.
- Cardiac magnetic resonance detection of myocardial scarring in hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: correlation with histopathology and prevalence of ventricular tachycardia.
- Man and machine: understanding the complex physiologic interactions to reduce complications.
- Human clinical fitting study of the DexAide right ventricular assist device.
- Abnormally thickened papillary muscle resulting in dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: an unusual presentation of hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Late diagnosis of multiple fibroelastomas in a 41-year-old woman with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Atrial fibrillation.
- Preoperative risk factors for mortality after biventricular assist device implantation.
- Long-term outcomes in high-risk symptomatic patients with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy undergoing alcohol septal ablation.
- Diagnostic value of left ventricular outflow area in patients with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: a real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic study.
- Prognosis of patients removed from a transplant waiting list for medical improvement: implications for organ allocation and transplantation for status 2 patients.
- Decay-accelerating factor expression may provide immunoprotection against antibody-mediated cardiac allograft rejection.
- Papillary muscle realignment for symptomatic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
- Left ventricular torsional mechanics after left ventricular reconstruction surgery for ischemic Cardiomyopathy.
- A comparative analysis between survivors and nonsurvivors with antibody mediated cardiac allograft rejection.
- Does right thoracotomy increase the risk of mitral Valve reoperation?
- Cardiac surgery after Mediastinal radiation: extent of exposure influences outcome.
- Effects of surgical ventricular restoration on left ventricular function: dynamic MR imaging.
- Extended use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after Lung transplantation.
- Asymmetry of systolic anterior motion of the mitral Valve in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: a real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic study.
- Bivalirudin provides rapid, effective, and reliable anticoagulation during off-pump Coronary revascularization: results of the "EVOLUTION OFF" trial.
- Determinants of ischemic mitral regurgitation in patients with chronic anterior wall Myocardial infarction: a real time three-dimensional echocardiography study.
- Occurrence and risk factors for reintervention after Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Clinical, imaging, and pathological characteristics of left ventricular thrombus: a comparison of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, transthoracic echocardi...
- Regional referral system for patients with Acute mechanical support: experience at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
- The impact of hypogammaglobulinemia on infection outcome in patients undergoing ventricular assist device implantation.
- Ventricular assist devices and aggressive immunosuppression: looking beyond overall survival.
- Allocating Hearts.
- A comparison of bivalirudin to heparin with protamine reversal in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardioPulmonary bypass: the EVOLUTION-ON study.
- Are allografts the biologic valve of choice for Aortic valve replacement in nonelderly patients? Comparison of explantation for structural valve deterioration of allog...
- Anticoagulation with bivalirudin for off-pump Coronary artery bypass grafting: the results of the EVOLUTION-OFF study.
- Duration of inotropic support after left ventricular assist device implantation: risk factors and impact on outcome.
- Influence of patient characteristics and arterial grafts on freedom from Coronary reoperation.
- Coregistered MR imaging myocardial viability maps and multi-detector row CT Coronary angiography displays for surgical revascularization planning: initial experience.
- Evaluation of left ventricular outflow tract area after septal reduction in obstructive hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: a real-time 3-dimensional echocardiographic study.
- Small intestinal submucosa intracardiac patch: an experimental study.
- Left main Dissection and thrombosis in a young athlete.
- Assessment of hemostatic activation during cardiopulmonary bypass for Coronary artery bypass grafting with bivalirudin: results of a pilot study.
- Early and midterm risk of coronary allograft vasculopathy in patients bridged to orthotopic Heart transplantation with ventricular assist devices.
- Surgical advances in Heart and lung transplantation.
- Usefulness of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for evaluation of myectomy in patients with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Cytoskeletal structure and recovery in single human cardiac myocytes.
- Contemporary outcomes of outpatients referred for cardiac transplantation evaluation to a tertiary Heart failure center: impact of surgical alternatives.
- HLA sensitization in ventricular assist device recipients: does type of device make a difference?
- Radial Artery bypass grafts have an increased occurrence of angiographically severe stenosis and occlusion compared with left internal mammary arteries and saphenous v...
- Edge-to-edge (Alfieri) Mitral repair: results in diverse clinical settings.
- Effectiveness of Atrial fibrillation surgery in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Effectiveness of bivalirudin as a replacement for heparin during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Conduction system abnormalities in patients with obstructive hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy following septal reduction interventions.
- Primary adenocarcinoma in a donor Lung: evaluation and surgical management.
- Importance of mitral Valve repair associated with left ventricular reconstruction for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy: a real-time three-dimensional echocardiogr...
- Images in cardiovascular medicine. Epicardial real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography during septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- A case of fatal West Nile virus meningoencephalitis associated with receipt of blood transfusions after open Heart surgery.
- Comparison of left ventricular diastolic function in obstructive hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in patients undergoing percutaneous septal alcohol ablation versus surgica...
- The Carbomedics Top Hat supraannular Aortic valve: a multicenter study.
- Mechanical treatment of Heart failure: the growing role of LVADs and artificial Hearts.
Schools
University Of Rochester School Of Medicine and Dentistry
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Northern Ohio Live
- Top MD
Education
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UCSF Medical Center -
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital
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Cleveland Clinic
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1124084207 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SMEDIRA |
| First Name Of The Provider | NICHOLAS |
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