Associate Professor, Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine

Cardiology

Dr. Merritt H. Raitt, MD

Dr. Merritt H. Raitt is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACC)". Merritt H. Raitt is a published doctor. He published 47 publications, including: 'Recipient to donor conduction of atrial tachycardia following orthotopic heart transplantation.'

Publications

Inappropriate implantable defibrillator shocks: an adverse outcome that can be prevented.
The Effect of Spironolactone on Ventricular TachyArrhythmias in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators.
Shocks burden and increased mortality in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients.
Tachycardia With Typical Left Bundle Branch Block Morphology and VA Block: What is the Differential Diagnosis?
Prognostic importance of defibrillator shocks in patients with Heart failure.
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks: a double-edged sword?
Predicting imminent episodes of ventricular tachyarrhythmia using Heart rate.
Fish oil supplementation and risk of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular Fibrillation in patients with implantable defibrillators: a randomized controlled trial.
Have increasing rates of defibrillator implantation reduced the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?
Reversal of electrical remodeling after cardioversion of persistent Atrial fibrillation.
Electrophysiologic predictors of the recurrence of persistent Atrial fibrillation within 30 days of cardioversion.
Time-dependent predictors of primary cardiac arrest in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
No benefit from deFibrillation threshold testing in the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial).
Prognostic value of baseline electrophysiology studies in patients with sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmia: the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (A...
Unusual migration of an abandoned fractured lead.
Effect of fish oil on ventricular tachyarrhythmia in three studies in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
Omega-3 fatty acids: antiarrhythmic, proarrhythmic or both?
Prediction of the recurrence of Atrial fibrillation after cardioversion in the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) study.
Ventricular tachyarrhythmia prediction.
Comparison of arrhythmia recurrence in patients presenting with ventricular Fibrillation versus ventricular tachycardia in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defib...
Analysis of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) Trial.
Life-threatening ventricular Arrhythmias due to transient or correctable causes: high risk for death in follow-up.
Beta-adrenergic receptor downregulation and recovery in Heart and lung in the Fischer 344 rat: effects of aging and correlation with mRNA levels.
Development of an aortic valve mass after radiofrequency catheter ablation.
Clinical predictors of the deFibrillation threshold with the unipolar implantable deFibrillation system.
A prospective randomized comparison in humans of biphasic waveform 60-microF and 120-microF capacitance pulses using a unipolar deFibrillation system.
Ventricular Arrhythmias detected after transvenous defibrillator implantation in patients with a clinical history of only ventricular fibrillation. Implications for us...
Appearance of abnormal Q waves early in the course of acute myocardial infarction: implications for efficacy of thrombolytic therapy.
ECG findings in acute myocardial infarction. Are there sex-related differences?
Runaway pacemaker during high-energy neutron radiation therapy.
Advances in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy.
Subacute ventricular free wall rupture complicating myocardial infarction.
Relation between symptom duration before thrombolytic therapy and final myocardial infarct size.
Management of ventricular Fibrillation with transvenous defibrillators without baseline electrophysiologic testing or antiarrhythmic drugs.
Prospective randomized comparison of biphasic waveform tilt using a unipolar deFibrillation system.
Combined historical and electrocardiographic timing of acute anterior and inferior myocardial infarcts for prediction of reperfusion achievable size limitation.
Signal-averaged P wave duration predicts early recurrence of Atrial fibrillation after cardioversion.
"Stable" ventricular tachycardia is not a benign rhythm : insights from the antiarrhythmics versus implantable defibrillators (AVID) registry.
Patients at lower risk of arrhythmia recurrence: a subgroup in whom implantable defibrillators may not offer benefit. Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillator ...
Atrial fibrillation: a risk factor for increased mortality--an AVID registry analysis.
Follow-up of patients with unexplained syncope and inducible ventricular tachyArrhythmias: analysis of the AVID registry and an AVID substudy. Antiarrhythmics Versus I...
Lead- and device-related complications in the antiarrhythmics versus implantable defibrillators trial.
A prospective randomized evaluation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator size on unipolar deFibrillation system efficacy.
Recipient to donor conduction of Atrial tachycardia following orthotopic heart transplantation.
Virus persists in beta cells of islets of Langerhans and infection is associated with chemical manifestations of diabetes. II. Morphologic observations.
Introduction of the Liverpool Care Pathway for end of life care to emergency medicine.

Schools

University of California At San Diego
University of Washington

Conditions Treated

Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
Congestive Heart Failure
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Hyperlipidemia
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Doctors Specialties

Cardiology
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Accepted Insurances

Awards

Fellow (FACC)

Education

University of Washington

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