Assistant Professor, Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Salim S. Virani, MD
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Salim Virani is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to Baylor College of Medicine. He received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACC)". Salim S. Virani, MD is a published MD. He has 98 papers published. The most current publication "Using a tailored health information technology- driven intervention to improve health literacy and medication adherence in a Pakistani population with vascular disease..."
Publications
- Trends in Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics Among Employees of a Large Healthcare Organization (from the Baptist Health South Florida Employee Study).
- Case-based educational intervention to assess change in providers' knowledge and attitudes towards the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association C...
- Efficacy of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin-Receptor Blockers in Coronary Artery Disease without Heart Failure in the Modern Statin Era: a Met...
- The impact of multiple single day blood pressure readings on cardiovascular risk estimation: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.
- Acute Coronary Syndromes: Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
- Relationship of the triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratio to the remainder of the lipid profile: The Very Large Database of Lipids-4 (V...
- The promise of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 inhibitors for the treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia.
- Coronary Artery Disease Performance Measures and Statin Use in Patients With Recent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or Recent Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (from ...
- Genetics of familial hypercholesterolemia.
- Is 2015 the primetime year for preHypertension? PreHypertension: a cardiovascular risk factor or simply a risk marker?
- High-sensitivity troponin T and cardiovascular events in systolic blood pressure categories: atherosclerosis risk in communities study.
- Frequency and practice-level variation in inappropriate aspirin use for the primary prevention of cardiovascular Disease: insights from the National Cardiovascular Dis...
- Gender disparities in evidence-based statin therapy in patients with cardiovascular Disease.
- Implications of the 2013 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guidelines for Adults in Contemporary Cardiovascular Practice: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry.
- Relation between playing position and Coronary artery calcium scores in retired national football league players.
- Pre-Morbid Body Mass Index and Mortality After Incident Heart Failure: The ARIC Study.
- Eligibility for Statin Therapy According to New Cholesterol Guidelines and Prevalent Use of Medication to Lower Lipid Levels in an Older US Cohort: The Atherosclerosis...
- Association between lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 mass and subclinical Coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in Retired National Football League players.
- Is High-Intensity Statin Therapy Associated With Lower Statin Adherence Compared With Low- to Moderate-Intensity Statin Therapy? Implications of the 2013 American Coll...
- Association of Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference with Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Retired NFL Players.
- One-year outcomes associated with using observation services in triaging patients with nonspecific chest pain.
- Prognostic significance of hyponatremia among ambulatory patients with Heart failure and preserved and reduced ejection fractions.
- What Is New in the 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Risk in Adults?
- Frequency and Practice Level Variation In Inappropriate and Non-recommended Prasugrel Prescribing: Insights from the NCDR(®)PINNACLE Registry.
- Decrease the incentives to order lipid panels-reply.
- Revascularization improves mortality in elderly patients with Acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock.
- Neck Circumference Is Not Associated With Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Retired National Football League Players.
- Rare LPL gene variants attenuate triglyceride reduction and HDL cholesterol increase in response to fenofibric acid therapy in individuals with mixed dyslipidemia.
- Small Dense Low-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol Concentrations Predict Risk for Coronary Heart Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.
- Novel therapies for treating familial hypercholesterolemia.
- The Effect of Lipid Modification on Peripheral Artery Disease after Endovascular Intervention Trial (ELIMIT).
- Association between statins and infections after Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Comparison by meta-analysis of percutaneous Coronary intervention versus Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with a mean age of ≥70 years.
- Application of speckle-tracking in the evaluation of carotid Artery function in subjects with hypertension and diabetes.
- Rare APOA5 promoter variants associated with paradoxical HDL cholesterol decrease in response to fenofibric acid therapy.
- Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Gene and Recurrent Coronary Heart Disease or Mortality in Patients With Established Atherosclerosis.
- Patients with severe chronic kidney disease benefit from early revascularization after Acute coronary syndrome.
- Cardiovascular biomarkers and subclinical brain Disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study.
- Comparison by Meta-Analysis of Mortality After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Women Versus Men.
- Acute Aortic Valve Rupture From Infective Endocarditis After Transrectal Prostate Biopsy: A Call to Revise the AHA Guidelines for Prevention of Infective Endocarditis.
- Association Between Preoperative Diuretic Use and In-hospital Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery.
- A novel mutation in the ABCA1 gene causing an atypical phenotype of Tangier Disease.
- Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol reporting and goal attainment in primary care.
- Implementation Strategies to Improve Non-HDL-Cholesterol Goal Attainment: Current Evidence and a Conceptual Framework for Future Directions.
- Outcomes of Preoperative Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Therapy in Patients Undergoing Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
- ST elevation: telling pathology from the benign patterns.
- Treating Chronically Ill People with Diabetes Mellitus with Limited Life Expectancy: Implications for Performance Measurement.
- LPL gene variants affect apoC-III response to combination therapy of statins and fenofibric acid in a randomized clinical trial of individuals with mixed dyslipidemia.
- Association of gender with morbidity and mortality after isolated Coronary artery bypass grafting. A propensity score matched analysis.
- Associations between Lipoprotein(a) Levels and Cardiovascular Outcomes in African Americans and Caucasians: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.
- Subclinical changes in serum creatinine and mortality after Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Carotid arterial wall characteristics are associated with incident ischemic stroke but not Coronary heart disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.
- Frequency and correlates of treatment intensification for elevated cholesterol levels in patients with cardiovascular Disease.
- Segmental analysis of carotid arterial strain using speckle-tracking.
- Barriers to Non-HDL Cholesterol Goal Attainment by Providers.
- Variants in the APOA5 gene region and the response to combination therapy with statins and fenofibric acid in a randomized clinical trial of individuals with mixed dys...
- Relation of cholesterol and lipoprotein parameters with carotid Artery plaque characteristics: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) carotid MRI study.
- Institutional, provider, and patient correlates of low-density lipoprotein and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal attainment according to the Adult Treatmen...
- Usefulness of single nucleotide polymorphism in chromosome 4q25 to predict in-hospital and long-term development of Atrial fibrillation and survival in patients underg...
- Isolated Coronary artery bypass grafting in obese individuals: a propensity matched analysis of outcomes.
- Cardiac troponin T measured by a highly sensitive assay predicts Coronary heart disease, heart failure, and mortality in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
- Real-Time Co-Registration Using Novel Ultrasound Technology: Ex Vivo Validation and In Vivo Applications.
- Non-HDL Cholesterol as a Metric of Good Quality of Care: Opportunities and Challenges.
- Clinical implications of JUPITER (Justification for the Use of statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin) in a U.S. population insights from...
- Efficacy and tolerability of multidrug therapy for hypertriglyceridemia.
- Images in echocardiography: a freely floating saphenous vein graft.
- Obesity: an independent predictor of in-hospital postoperative renal insufficiency among patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
- Cardiac sarcoidosis: a clinical entity uncommonly recognized.
- Incidental diagnosis of interrupted Aortic arch in a 72-year-old man.
- Does preoperative statin therapy improve outcomes in patients undergoing isolated cardiac Valve surgery?
- Rescue percutaneous Coronary intervention for graft failure immediately after Coronary artery bypass grafting: case report and review of literature.
- Lipid management: considerations in Acute coronary syndrome.
- Novel markers of inflammation in atherosclerosis.
- Preoperative statin therapy is not associated with a decrease in the incidence of postoperative Atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
- Contrast echocardiography for right-sided Heart conditions: case reports and literature review.
- The role of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 as a marker for atherosclerosis.
- Cor triatriatum dexter.
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken-heart Syndrome.
- Left main Coronary artery stenosis: factors predicting cardiac events in patients awaiting Coronary surgery.
- Off-pump Coronary artery grafting in patients with left main Coronary artery disease.
- Correlation between apoptotic endothelial microparticles and serum interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein in healthy men.
- Noncardiac surgery following percutaneous Coronary intervention.
- Graves' Disease and pulmonary hypertension: report of 2 cases.
- Using a tailored health information technology- driven intervention to improve health literacy and medication adherence in a Pakistani population with vascular Disease...
- Heart Disease and stroke statistics--2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association.
- Executive summary: heart Disease and stroke statistics--2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association.
- Update on therapies targeting HDL: the mystery continues.
- Automatic quantification of muscle volumes in magnetic resonance imaging scans of the lower extremities.
- Preoperative statin therapy decreases risk of postoperative renal insufficiency.
- Therapy and clinical trials: HDL-cholesterol and niacin therapy--past, present, and future.
- Relationship between circulating levels of RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted) and carotid plaque characteristics: the Atherosclero...
- Variability and persistence of aspirin response in lower extremity peripheral arterial Disease patients.
- How to identify patients with vulnerable plaques.
- Prosthesis-patient mismatch affects long-term survival after mechanical Valve replacement.
- Management of failed thrombolysis after Acute myocardial infarction: an overview of current treatment options.
- Postprandial hypertriglyceridemia increases circulating levels of endothelial cell microparticles.
- Redefining Myocardial Infarction: What Is New In The ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Third Universal Definition Of Myocardial Infarction?
Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Baylor College of Medicine -
Jackson Memorial Hospital - Jackson Health System -
Aga Khan Medical College
Hospital
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Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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