Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cardiology
Dr. Theofanie Mela, MD
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Theofanie Mela works in the field of Cardiology. She received awards:"Boston Magazine" and "Super Doctor". Theofanie Mela is a published doctor. She has 66 papers published. The most current publication "T-wave alternans and dispersion of the QT interval as risk stratification markers in patients susceptible to sustained ventricular arrhythmias." She is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Clinical safety of the ProMRI pacemaker system in patients subjected to thoracic spine and cardiac 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging scanning conditions.
- Prognostic implication of baseline PR interval in cardiac resynchronization therapy recipients.
- Reduced appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy after cardiac resynchronization therapy-induced left ventricular function recovery: a meta-analysis ...
- Increased Perforation Risk with an MRI-Conditional Pacing Lead: A Single-Center Study.
- Prediction of hospitalization due to heart Diseases by supervised learning methods.
- REPLACE DARE (Death After Replacement Evaluation) Score: Determinants of All-Cause Mortality After Implantable Device Replacement Or Upgrade from the REPLACE Registry.
- Does Prior Valve Surgery Change Outcome in Patients Treated with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy?
- Pacemakers and ICDs.
- EFFORTLESS S-ICD registry: another step in the right direction.
- QRS morphology, left ventricular lead location, and clinical outcome in patients receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- The Anatomical and Electrical Location of the Left Ventricular Lead Predicts Ventricular Arrhythmia in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.
- A novel pacing method to suppress repolarization alternans in vivo: implications for arrhythmia prevention.
- The burden of inappropriate shocks in young people and how to avoid them.
- Anatomical left ventricular lead location and clinical outcome: not a one size fit all strategy.
- Electrical Delay in Apically Positioned Left Ventricular Leads and Clinical Outcome After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.
- Management Strategy in 249 Consecutive Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred to a Dedicated Program.
- Unpredictable battery depletion of St Jude Atlas II and Atlas+ II HF implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.
- Heart failure in pressure overload hypertrophy. The relative roles of ventricular remodeling and myocardial dysfunction.
- Magnesium deficiency during lactation as a precipitant of ventricular tachyArrhythmias.
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator sensing Failure due to endocardial R wave electrical alternans.
- Para-Hisian entrainment: a novel pacing maneuver to differentiate orthodromic atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia from atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.
- Utility of implantable cardioverter defibrillator electrograms to estimate repolarization alternans preceding a tachyarrhythmic event.
- Images in cardiovascular medicine. Sleep (vagal)-induced Atrial fibrillation.
- Anterior and posterior right middle pulmonary veins in a patient undergoing catheter ablation for Atrial fibrillation.
- Successful release of entrapped circumferential mapping catheters in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation for Atrial fibrillation.
- Three-dimensional reconstruction of the Coronary sinus using rotational angiography.
- Radiographic left ventricular-right ventricular interlead distance predicts the Acute hemodynamic response to cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- Acute predictors of subAcute complete heart block after alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Usefulness of a novel "response score" to predict hemodynamic and clinical outcome from cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- Three-dimensional anatomy of the left atrium by magnetic resonance angiography: implications for catheter ablation for Atrial fibrillation.
- Left ventricular lead proximity to an akinetic segment and impact on outcome of cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- Fungal infection of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: case series of five patients managed over 22 years.
- Left ventricular lead electrical delay predicts response to cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- Factors affecting error in integration of electroanatomic mapping with CT and MR imaging during catheter ablation of Atrial fibrillation.
- Remote magnetic navigation to guide endocardial and epicardial catheter mapping of scar-related ventricular tachycardia.
- Increased incidence of subAcute lead perforation noted with one implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
- Echocardiographic measures of Acute haemodynamic response after cardiac resynchronization therapy predict long-term clinical outcome.
- Compression of the left atrium by the thoracic aorta in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation procedure for Atrial fibrillation.
- Coronary venospasm causing chest pain during implantation of cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- The impact of age and gender on cardiac resynchronization therapy outcome.
- Usefulness of high-speed rotational Coronary venous angiography during cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- Catheter ablation of peri-AV nodal atrial tachycardia from the nonCoronary cusp of the aortic valve.
- Effect of presenting rhythm on image integration to direct catheter ablation of Atrial fibrillation.
- Short PR interval in the absence of preexcitation: a characteristic finding in a patient with Fabry Disease.
- Image integration using intracardiac ultrasound to guide catheter ablation of Atrial fibrillation.
- Timing of delayed perforation with the St. Jude Riata lead: a single-center experience and a review of the literature.
- Multiple ICD discharges associated with lead fracture without triggering of high impedance alert.
- Ventricular arrhythmia following alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Atrial tachycardia after ablation of persistent Atrial fibrillation: identification of the critical isthmus with a combination of multielectrode activation mapping and...
- Esophageal injury and temperature monitoring during Atrial fibrillation ablation.
- Impact of tricuspid regurgitation and prior Coronary bypass surgery on the geometry of the Coronary sinus: a rotational Coronary angiography study.
- Impact of segmental left ventricle lead position on cardiac resynchronization therapy outcomes.
- Catheter ablation of Atrial fibrillation the search for substrate-driven end points.
- Complication rates associated with pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator generator replacements and upgrade procedures: results from the REPLACE registry.
- H1N1 influenza A virus induced atrioventricular block.
- Pulmonary vein isolation with complex fractionated Atrial electrogram ablation for paroxysmal and nonparoxysmal Atrial fibrillation: A meta-analysis.
- A Novel Lead Configuration for Optimal Spatio-Temporal Detection of Intracardiac Repolarization Alternans.
- On the estimation of T-wave alternans using the spectral fast fourier transform method.
- Cardiovascular implantable electronic device replacement infections and prevention: results from the REPLACE Registry.
- T-wave alternans and dispersion of the QT interval as risk stratification markers in patients susceptible to sustained ventricular Arrhythmias.
- Coronary arterial dimension-to-left ventricular mass ratio in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Reduction in Myocardial collagen cross-linking parallels left ventricular dilatation in rat models of systolic chamber dysfunction.
- Inappropriate ICD therapy due to lead-related noise in an active fixation ICD lead.
- Long-term infection rates associated with the pectoral versus abdominal approach to cardioverter- defibrillator implants.
- A novel method to capture the onset of dynamic electrocardiographic ischemic changes and its implications to arrhythmia susceptibility.
Schools
National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Ectasia
- Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Boston Magazine
- Super Doctor
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
University of Massachusetts -
Mount Sinai Beth Israel -
University of Athens
Hospital
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Emerson Hospital -
Massachusetts General Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1366423832 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | MELA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | THEOFANIE | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021142621 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiac Electrophysiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 305.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1366423832 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | MELA |
| First Name Of The Provider | THEOFANIE |
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