Assistant Professor, Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Cardiology
Dr. Ron Blankstein, MD
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Blankstein works in the field of Cardiology. He graduated from Rush Medical College. He received 2 awards: "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACC)". Blankstein is a published doctor. He has 104 publications published. The most current publication "Association between a healthy cardiovascular risk factor profile and coronary artery calcium score: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA..." He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Coronary artery Calcium predicts Cardiovascular events in participants with a low lifetime risk of Cardiovascular disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (M...
- Rest-Only Myocardial CT Perfusion in Acute Chest Pain.
- Exercise Treadmill Testing.
- Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study.
- Quantifying FDG uptake to diagnose cardiac device infections: When and how should we do it?
- Coronary calcium scans and radiation exposure in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- The association of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, and metabolic Syndrome, with systemic inflammation and subclinical atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Stud...
- Use of cardiac CT and calcium scoring for detecting Coronary plaque: implications on prognosis and patient management.
- Quantification of Coronary flow reserve in patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy and its association with clinical outcomes.
- Disparities between ideal cardiovascular health metrics and subclinical atherosclerotic burden: more than meets the eye.
- Decreasing sample size in primary prevention studies: A potential role for Coronary artery calcium score.
- Incremental prognostic value of kidney function decline over Coronary artery disease for cardiovascular event prediction after Coronary computed tomography.
- Visceral Adiposity and the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Across Body Mass Index: The MESA Study.
- Interaction of Impaired Coronary Flow Reserve and Cardiomyocyte Injury on Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients Without Overt Coronary Artery Disease.
- A mimic of hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Infarct Tissue Heterogeneity by Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is A Novel Predictor of Mortality in Patients with Chronic Coronary Artery Disease and Lef...
- Can Advances in Nuclear Cardiology Hardware Overcome the Challenges of Imaging Obese Patients?
- Association of Coronary Artery Calcium and Coronary Heart Disease Events in Young and Elderly Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: A Secondary An...
- Quadricuspid Aortic valve: a rare but important abnormality.
- Risk Stratification by Regadenoson Stress Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease.
- Multi-modality Imaging: Bird's-eye view from The 63rd Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology : Washington, DC, March 29-31, 2014.
- Comparison of the use of downstream tests after exercise treadmill testing by cardiologists versus noncardiologists.
- Integration of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in pre-procedural planning and electroanatomical mapping for catheter ablation after a Fontan-Bjork correction of tr...
- Comparison of Image Quality, Myocardial Perfusion, and Left Ventricular Function Between Standard Imaging and Single-Injection Ultra-Low-Dose Imaging Using a High-Effi...
- Left Atrial Passive Emptying Function Determined by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Predicts Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence after Pulmonary Vein Isolation.
- Coronary Artery Disease Detected by Coronary CT Angiography Is Associated with Intensification of Preventive Medical Therapy and Lower LDL Cholesterol.
- Quantifying Myocardial inflammation using F18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in cardiac sarcoidosis.
- Screening for Coronary artery disease in patients with family historyâ¦how, when, and in whom?
- Baseline subclinical atherosclerosis burden and distribution are associated with frequency and mode of future Coronary revascularization: multi-ethnic study of atheros...
- Accuracy and reproducibility of automated, standardized Coronary transluminal attenuation gradient measurements.
- Myocardial blood flow quantification for evaluation of Coronary artery disease by positron emission tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomogr...
- Effects of Gender on Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction andCardiac Outcomes.
- Ethnic and sex differences in Fatty liver on cardiac computed tomography: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- Obesity and sleep apnea are independently associated with adverse left ventricular remodeling and clinical outcome in patients with Atrial fibrillation and preserved v...
- Vasodilator Stress Perfusion CMR Imaging Is Feasible and Prognostic in Obese Patients.
- Reply to Letter to the Editor RE: Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Enhances Prognostic Assessments of Patients with Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis.
- Incremental prognostic value of Coronary artery calcium score versus CT angiography among symptomatic patients without known Coronary artery disease.
- Inflammation goes with the flow: Implications for non-invasive identification of high-risk plaque.
- Polypill Therapy, Subclinical Atherosclerosis, and Cardiovascular Events-Implications for the Use of Preventive Pharmacotherapy: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atheroscle...
- Reduction in (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on serial cardiac positron emission tomography is associated with improved left ventricular ejection fraction in patients ...
- Preserved Coronary flow reserve effectively excludes high-risk Coronary artery disease on angiography.
- Coronary computed tomographic angiography in the emergency room: state of the art.
- Family history of coronary Heart disease and the incidence and progression of coronary artery calcification: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- The Yield of Downstream Tests after Exercise Treadmill Testing: A Prospective Cohort Study.
- Dyslipidemia, Coronary artery calcium, and incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: implications for statin therapy from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclero...
- Influence of Image Acquisition on Radiation Dose and Image Quality: Full versus Narrow Phase Window Acquisition Using 320 MDCT.
- Impact of coronary artery calcium on coronary Heart disease events in individuals at the extremes of traditional risk factor burden: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosc...
- Myocardial Extracellular Volume Expansion and the Risk of Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation After Pulmonary Vein Isolation.
- Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Enhances Prognostic Assessments of Patients with Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis.
- A systematic review: Burden and severity of subclinical cardiovascular Disease among those with nonalcoholic fatty liver; Should we care?
- Cardiac allograft involvement by post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder.
- Association of resting Heart rate with carotid and aortic arterial stiffness: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
- The Incidence, Pattern, and Prognostic value of Left Ventricular Myocardial Scar by Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.
- Stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging provides effective cardiac risk reclassification in patients with known or suspected stable Coronary artery disease.
- Detection of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease Using Regadenoson Stress and 82Rb PET/CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.
- Acute coronary syndrome unmasking a puzzling coronary anatomy: role of multimodality anatomic and functional imaging.
- Prognostic interplay of Coronary artery calcification and underlying vascular dysfunction in patients with suspected Coronary artery disease.
- Myocardial Extracellular Volume Fraction From T1 Measurements in Healthy Volunteers and Mice: Relationship to Aging and Cardiac Dimensions.
- Meta-analysis of Coronary CT angiography in the emergency department.
- Outcomes After Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials.
- Use of multimodality imaging to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis as well as identify recurrence following Heart transplantation.
- Single Resting hsTnT Level Predicts Abnormal Myocardial Stress Test in Acute Chest Pain Patients With Normal Initial Standard Troponin.
- Neurologic adverse effects of ranolazine in an elderly patient with renal impairment.
- High-sensitivity troponin T and C-reactive protein to identify patients without cardiac structural and functional abnormalities as assessed by cardiac CT and SPECT ima...
- Multimodality imaging of an adult with Shone complex.
- Coronary vascular dysfunction and prognosis in patients with chronic kidney disease.
- Evolution of Coronary Computed Tomography Radiation Dose Reduction at a Tertiary Referral Center.
- Stress CT perfusion: coupling Coronary anatomy with physiology.
- Correlative imaging of spontaneous coronary artery Dissection.
- SCCT curriculum guidelines for general (level 1) cardiovascular CT training.
- A randomized, multicenter, multivendor study of Myocardial perfusion imaging with regadenoson CT perfusion vs single photon emission CT.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Coronary Heart and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction to Guide Statin Allocation: The Multi-Ethnic Study ...
- What is the best imaging test for patients with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy? It depends on the clinical question!
- Coronary CT angiography for Acute chest pain in the emergency department.
- Cardiac Masses on Cardiac CT: A Review.
- A systematic review of internet-based worksite wellness approaches for cardiovascular Disease risk management: outcomes, challenges & opportunities.
- Introduction to noninvasive cardiac imaging.
- Comparison of dual-source 64-slice adenosine stress CT perfusion with stress-gated SPECT-MPI for evaluation of left ventricular function and volumes.
- Infarct detection with a comprehensive cardiac CT protocol.
- A comparison of reconstruction and viewing parameters on image quality and accuracy of stress Myocardial CT perfusion.
- Incremental value of myocardial perfusion over regional left ventricular function and coronary stenosis by cardiac CT for the detection of Acute coronary syndromes in ...
- Selecting the best noninvasive imaging test to guide treatment after an inconclusive exercise test.
- Highlights of the 2011 scientific session of the american society of nuclear cardiology : denver, colorado, september 8-11, 2011.
- Improved cardiac risk assessment with noninvasive measures of Coronary flow reserve.
- Quantitative relationship between the extent and morphology of Coronary atherosclerotic plaque and downstream myocardial perfusion.
- Associations between C-reactive protein, Coronary artery calcium, and cardiovascular events: implications for the JUPITER population from MESA, a population-based coho...
- Detection of hemodynamically significant Coronary artery stenosis: incremental diagnostic value of dynamic CT-based myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging by CMR Provides Strong Prognostic Value to Cardiac Events Regardless of Patient's Sex.
- The relationship between resting Heart rate and incidence and progression of coronary artery calcification: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA).
- Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease Events Among Asymptomatic Persons With Low Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
- The effect of Heart rhythm on patient radiation dose with dual-source cardiac computed tomography.
- The prognostic value of cardiac CT after Coronary artery bypass surgery as easy as 1, 2, 3?
- Association between obesity, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein ?2 mg/L, and subclinical atherosclerosis: implications of JUPITER from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Ather...
- Guideline for minimizing radiation exposure during acquisition of Coronary artery calcium scans with the use of multidetector computed tomography: a report by the Soci...
- The relationship between insulin resistance and incidence and progression of Coronary artery calcification: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
- The role of radionuclide Myocardial perfusion imaging for asymptomatic individuals.
- Novel techniques for assessment of left ventricular systolic function.
- Selecting a noninvasive imaging study after an inconclusive exercise test.
- Use of 100 kV versus 120 kV in cardiac dual source computed tomography: effect on radiation dose and image quality.
- Association between a healthy cardiovascular risk factor profile and Coronary artery calcium score: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA...
- Anomalous origin of the Coronary artery arising from the opposite sinus: prevalence and outcomes in patients undergoing Coronary CTA.
- Cardiac sarcoidosis-state of the art review.
- Use of imaging and clinical data to screen for cardiovascular Disease in asymptomatic diabetics.
Schools
Rush University
University Chicago Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
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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
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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University of Chicago -
Rush Medical College
Hospital
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1326238452 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BLANKSTEIN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | RON | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021156110 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 270.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1326238452 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BLANKSTEIN |
| First Name Of The Provider | RON |
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