Associate Professor, Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. Howard J. Willens, MD
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Howard Willens is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He attended Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University has a rank of 18 in research and a 49 in primary care He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACC)". Howard J. Willens, MD is a published doctor. He has 67 papers published. The most current publication "Transesophageal echocardiographic findings in blue toe syndrome exacerbated by anticoagulation."
Publications
- Epicardial Fat in Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure.
- Transendocardial Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Mononuclear Bone Marrow Cells for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: The TAC-HFT Randomized Trial.
- Appropriate use criteria for stress echocardiography: impact of updated criteria on appropriateness ratings, correlation with pre-authorization guidelines, and effect ...
- Correlation of CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores with Transesophageal Echocardiography Risk Factors for Thromboembolism in a Multiethnic United States Population wi...
- Utilization of radionuclide Myocardial perfusion imaging in two health care systems: Assessment with the 2009 ACCF/ASNC/AHA appropriateness use criteria.
- Appropriateness use criteria for transthoracic echocardiography: Relationship with radiology benefit managers preauthorization determination and comparison of the new ...
- Effect of performing real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in addition to two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography on operator diagnosti...
- Orthodeoxia platypnea Syndrome in a patient with lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum due to long-term steroid use.
- Cor triatriatum sinister in an adult: management guided by real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and stress echocardiography.
- Diagnosis of a bilobed left Atrial appendage and pectinate muscles mimicking thrombi on real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography.
- Echocardiographic epicardial fat: a review of research and clinical applications.
- Adherence to appropriateness criteria for transthoracic echocardiography: comparisons between a regional department of Veterans Affairs health care system and academic...
- Effects of age and pulmonary arterial hypertension on the different phases of right Atrial function.
- Noninvasive differentiation of Pulmonary arterial and venous hypertension using conventional and Doppler tissue imaging echocardiography.
- Threshold values of high-risk echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness.
- Prevalence of Mitral annulus calcification in African Americans: comparison with non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics.
- Comparison of epicardial and Pericardial fat thickness assessed by echocardiography in African American and non-Hispanic White men: a pilot study.
- Extensive left atrial thrombus in a cocaine user with a bioprosthetic mitral Valve, sinus rhythm, and left ventricular dysfunction.
- Effects of weight loss after bariatric surgery on epicardial fat measured using echocardiography.
- Prevalence and clinical correlates of Mitral annulus calcification in Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites.
- The relation between mitral annular calcification and mortality in patients undergoing diagnostic Coronary angiography.
- Usefulness of arterial compliance in the thigh in predicting exercise capacity in individuals without Coronary heart disease.
- Effects of weight loss after gastric bypass on right and left ventricular function assessed by tissue Doppler imaging.
- Aortic pressure augmentation predicts adverse cardiovascular events in patients with established Coronary artery disease.
- Digoxin use is associated with increased platelet and endothelial cell activation in patients with nonvalvular Atrial fibrillation.
- Comparison of the relation of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and muscular Artery compliance in healthy women versus healthy men.
- Tissue Doppler imaging of the right and left ventricle in severe obesity (body mass index >35 kg/m2).
- Ankle/Brachial index in the primary care setting.
- Evaluation and management of left Atrial lymphoma guided by transesophageal echocardiography.
- Relationship of peripheral arterial compliance and standard cardiovascular risk factors.
- Mobile components associated with rapidly developing mitral annulus calcification in patients with Chronic renal failure: review of mobile elements associated with mit...
- Rapid resolution of left ventricular thrombus in antiphospholipid Syndrome.
- Images in Geriatric Cardiology - Staphylococcus aureus Mitral Valve Endocarditis.
- Images in Geriatric Cardiology - Type II Aortic Dissection.
- Images in Geriatric Cardiology: Ruptured Chordae Tendineae Complicating Mitral Valve Prolapse.
- Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Dilated Sinus of Valsalva in a Patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.
- Lidoflazine and propranolol combination treatment in chronic stable Angina.
- Myocarditis in legionnaires' Disease.
- Studies on the possible mechanisms of lidoflazine arrhythmogenicity.
- Comparison of noninvasive arrhythmia induction techniques with electrophysiologic studies and evaluation of lorcainide in patients with symptomatic ventricular tachyca...
- Comparative effects of abrupt withdrawal of propranolol and verapamil in Angina pectoris.
- Superiority of verapamil to propranolol in stable Angina pectoris: a double-blind, randomized crossover trail.
- Cost-effectiveness in clinical cardiology. II. Preventive strategles and arrhythmla therapies.
- Cost-effectiveness in clinical cardiology. Part 1: Coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.
- Severe Pulmonary hypertension associated with diastolic left ventricular dysfunction.
- Diastolic left ventricular dysfunction leading to severe reversible Pulmonary hypertension.
- A technique for performing transesophageal echocardiography safely in patients with Zenker's diverticulum.
- Thromboembolic complications in cardiac amyloidosis detected by transesophageal echocardiography.
- Acute myocardial infarction. Then and now.
- Cardiovascular manifestations of cocaine abuse. A case of recurrent dilated Cardiomyopathy.
- Transesophageal echocardiography to diagnose and assess repair of aortic cusp perforation caused by directional Coronary atherectomy.
- Combined pulmonary embolectomy and right Atrial thromboembolectomy guided by transesophageal echocardiography.
- The mechanism of dysrhythmias in variant Angina pectoris: occlusive versus reperfusion.
- A noninvasive comparison of left ventricular performance in sickle cell anemia and chronic Aortic regurgitation.
- Hydralazine therapy in severe Chronic heart failure: inability of radionuclide left ventricular ejection fraction measurement to predict the hemodynamic response.
- Advances in cardiac diagnosis: nuclear cardiology.
- Clopidogrel-induced mixed hepatocellular and cholestatic liver injury.
- Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of Diseases of the thoracic aorta: part II-atherosclerotic and traumatic Diseases of the aorta.
- Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of diseases of the thoracic aorta: part 1. Aortic dissection, Aortic intramural hematoma, and penetrating atheroscler...
- Diagnosis of accessory mitral Valve tissue by transesophageal echocardiography.
- Transesophageal echocardiographic findings in blue toe Syndrome exacerbated by anticoagulation.
- Late intracapsular hemorrhage in an anticoagulated patient with a breast implant.
- Use of sidelights for patient positioning in nuclear medicine imaging.
- The prognostic value of functional capacity in patients with mild to moderate Heart failure.
- Selective impairment of atrioventricular conduction by 2-(2-pyridyl)-ethylamine and 2-(2-thiazolyl)-ethylamine, two histamine H1-receptor agonists.
- Severe volume depletion leading to Mitral insufficiency.
Schools
Weill Cornell Medical College
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardioversion, Elective
- Chest CT (incl. Heart and Lungs)
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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
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center -
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System -
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Hospital
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University of Miami Hospital -
Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1861400442 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WILLENS |
| First Name Of The Provider | HOWARD |
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