Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Luis C. Afonso, MD
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Luis Afonso practices Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Wayne State University School of Medicine is ranked 63 in research and 85 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Fellow (FACC)". Luis C. Afonso, MD is a published physician as well. He has 101 publications published. The latest was: Metabolic abnormalities in hypertension. Doctor Luis C. Afonso, MD accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Lipomatous hypertrophy of the right ventricle and interventricular septum associated with ventricular arrhythmia.
- Data on Coronary artery calcium score performance and cardiovascular risk reclassification across gender and ethnicities.
- The metabolic syndrome, Coronary artery calcium score and cardiovascular risk reclassification.
- An Incidentally Discovered Pedunculated Degenerative Cyst on the Aortic Valve.
- Meta-analysis of the effects of carvedilol versus metoprolol on all-cause mortality and hospitalizations in patients with Heart failure.
- Prevention of pericarditis with colchicine: an updated meta-analysis.
- Novel oral anticoagulants in patients undergoing cardioversion for Atrial fibrillation.
- HMG-CoA enzyme inhibitors for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy.
- Association of Cystatin C with Measures of Obesity and Its Impact on Cardiovascular Events Among Healthy US Adults.
- Major Electrocardiographic Abnormalities and 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D Deficiency: Insights from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey-III.
- Is bacteriostatic saline superior to normal saline as an echocardiographic contrast agent?
- Persistent Aortic insufficiency secondary to Impella device implantation.
- Comparison of patients with peripartum Heart failure and normal (≥55%) versus low (<45%) left ventricular ejection fractions.
- Trileaflet Aortic valve commissural fusion: a rare cause of Aortic valve disease and systolic ejection sounds.
- Preventive angioplasty in ST-segment elevation Myocardial infarction.
- Polymethyl methacrylate induced Pulmonary embolism.
- Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in a Multiethnic US Population.
- Comparative analysis of red cell distribution width and high sensitivity C-reactive protein for coronary Heart disease mortality prediction in multi-ethnic population:...
- Association of novel biomarkers with future cardiovascular events and the influence of ethnicity.
- Role of echocardiography in guiding the optimal timing of surgery in infective Endocarditis.
- Association of Helicobacter pylori seropositivity with all-cause mortality: fact or fiction?
- Device lead screw tip induced pericarditis - A subtle complication in need of wider recognition.
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A New Tool to Evaluate an Old Enigma.
- Effect of long-term exposure to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol beginning early in life on the risk of coronary Heart disease: a Mendelian randomization anal...
- Two-dimensional strain profiles in patients with physiological and pathological hypertrophy and preserved left ventricular systolic function: a comparative analyses.
- Purulent Pericardial Effusion From Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Combined use of direct renin inhibitor and carvedilol in Heart failure with preserved systolic function.
- Red cell distribution width and risk of peripheral artery Disease: analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004.
- Role of Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Predicting Cerebrovascular Events in Patients Following Myocardial Infarction.
- Gender and Ethnic Differences in Red Cell Distribution Width and Its Association With Mortality Among Low Risk Healthy United State Adults.
- Echocardiography in hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: the role of conventional and emerging technologies.
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators save lives from lightning-related electrocution too!
- Aortic valve myxoma at the extreme age: a review of literature.
- Innocent left ventricular outflow tract membrane masquerading as vegetation.
- Predictors of stroke in patients with severe systolic dysfunction in sinus rhythm: role of echocardiography.
- Prevalence, determinants, and clinical significance of cardiac troponin-I elevation in individuals admitted for a Hypertensive emergency.
- Acute Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Cardiac Abnormalities: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy or Neurogenic Stunned Myocardium? a case report.
- QT dispersion at rest and during adenosine stress Myocardial perfusion imaging correlation with Myocardial Jeopardy Score.
- Comparative prognostic utility of conventional and novel lipid parameters for cardiovascular Disease risk prediction: do novel lipid parameters offer an advantage?
- Characteristics of a tandem system of ionization chambers in X-ray beams, mammography level.
- Immune response of bovines stimulated by synthetic vaccine SBm7462 against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus.
- Outcomes and risk prediction model for peripheral arterial disease in patients with stable Coronary artery disease.
- Coronary vascular dysfunction in premenopausal women with diabetes mellitus.
- Stroke secondary to calcific bicuspid Aortic valve: case report and literature review.
- Influence of obesity on outcomes in Atrial fibrillation: yet another obesity paradox.
- Diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging and stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of left main and triple vessel Coronary artery disease: a comparative...
- ''UnSTEADy''ness in elderly: unexplained syncope induced by tachycardia in elderly with AV nodal Disease and LV diastolic dysfunction.
- Comparison of five-year outcome in African Americans versus Caucasians following percutaneous Coronary intervention.
- An unusual case of diaphragmatic stimulation following cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- A gender-stratified comparative analysis of various definitions of metabolic Syndrome and cardiovascular risk in a multiethnic u.s. Population.
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy: current trends and future directions.
- Relationship between red cell distribution width and microalbuminuria: a population-based study of multiethnic representative US adults.
- Homocysteine and reclassification of cardiovascular Disease risk.
- Diagnostic approach and role of MRI in the assessment of Acute myocarditis.
- Calcific Aortic valve and spontaneous embolic stroke: a review of literature.
- Renal Disease and cardiac mortality in survivors of sudden cardiac death.
- Traditional cardiovascular risk factors and severity of angiographic Coronary artery disease in the elderly.
- Thromboembolic complications of left ventricular noncompaction: case report and brief review of the literature.
- Determinants of amount of contrast utilized in patients undergoing percutaneous Coronary procedures.
- Unusual pulmonary venous flow profile in a patient with mitral Valve perforation secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
- Predictors of residual cardiovascular risk in patients on statin therapy for Primary prevention.
- Comparison of Mortality and Morbidity in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure With Preserved Versus Decreased Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction.
- Healthy eating index and mortality in a nationally representative elderly cohort.
- Preserved or slightly depressed ejection fraction and outcomes after Myocardial infarction.
- Red cell distribution width and risk of coronary Heart disease events.
- Impact of lipid-lowering therapy on outcomes in Atrial fibrillation.
- Severity of Coronary artery disease in obese patients undergoing Coronary angiography: "obesity paradox" revisited.
- Complex Endocarditis in an immunocompromised host: the role of three-dimensional echocardiography.
- Effects of antiHypertensive therapy on platelet cytosolic calcium responses to low density lipoprotein cholesterol.
- Metabolic abnormalities in Hypertension.
- Glycosylated hemoglobin and prevalent metabolic Syndrome in nondiabetic multiethnic U.S. adults.
- Crack whips the Heart: a review of the cardiovascular toxicity of cocaine.
- Single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging in the diagnosis of left main Disease.
- Valvular perforation in left-sided native Valve infective endocarditis.
- Myocardial cleft, crypt, diverticulum, or Aneurysm? Does it really matter?
- Ethnic and sex differences in disease burden in patients undergoing Coronary angiography: the confounding influence of obesity.
- Association of ERBB2 gene status with histopathological parameters and Disease-specific survival in gastric carcinoma patients.
- Findings at left Heart cardiac catheterization in nonagenarians.
- Purification, amino-acid sequence and partial characterization of two toxins with anti-insect activity from the venom of the South American scorpion Tityus bahiensis (...
- Evidence for the occurrence of LDL receptors in extracts of schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni.
- Candida kefyr endocarditis in a patient with hypertrophic obstructive Cardiomyopathy.
- Epileptic patients who survived sudden cardiac death have increased risk of recurrent Arrhythmias and death.
- Acute pulmonary edema following pericardiocentesis for cardiac tamponade.
- Switch from a type 2 to a type 1 T helper cell response and cure of established Leishmania major infection in mice is induced by combined therapy with interleukin 12 a...
- Usefulness of intravenously administered fluid replenishment for detection of patent foramen ovale by transesophageal echocardiography.
- IL-12 is required for natural killer cell activation and subsequent T helper 1 cell development in experimental leishmaniasis.
- Gastrointestinal bleeding in tetralogy of fallot.
- An unusual case of undifferentiated connective tissue Disease presenting as cardiac tamponade.
- Vaccine for prophylaxis and immunotherapy, Brazil.
- Reversal of right ventricular apex pacing-induced left ventricular apical dyskinesis: utility of intraoperative 3D echocardiography in resynchronization therapy.
- Incremental value of contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of Atrial myxoma.
- Acute myocarditis: can novel echocardiographic techniques assist with diagnosis?
- Usefulness of microalbuminuria in patients with the metabolic Syndrome to predict subclinical atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease outcomes.
- Incremental utility of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis and preoperative assessment of cleft mitral Valve in adults.
- Myocardial infarction with angiographically normal Coronary arteries in the contemporary era.
- Quadricuspid aortic valve associated with unruptured sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm.
- Images in cardiovascular medicine. Metastatic extracavitary cardiac melanoma: the role of contemporary imaging techniques in diagnosis and surgical planning.
- Cocaine-induced chest pain and beta-blockade: an inner city experience.
- Quantification of Myocardial iron overload by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging T2* and review of the literature.
- Spectrum of electrocardiographic and angiographic Coronary artery disease findings in patients with cocaine-associated myocardial infarction.
Schools
Goa University Goa Medical College
Detroit Med Center
Detroit Med Center Wayne State University
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
- Cardioversion, Elective
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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
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Blue Care Network PCP Focus Network
- Group Employees PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Cofinity PPO
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- Preferred PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Molina
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Priority PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Wayne State University School of Medicine -
Goa Medical College
Hospital
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DMC - Detroit Receiving Hospital -
DMC Harper University Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1023058575 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | AFONSO | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | LUIS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 482012153 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MI | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 199.0 | |
| 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] | 1023058575 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | AFONSO |
| First Name Of The Provider | LUIS |
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