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In-Hospital Outcomes And Hospitalizations For Acute Rheumatic Heart Disease: A United States National Study, Srikanth Yandrapalli, Abdallah Sanaani, Zeeshan Solangi, Merita Shehu, Sachin Sule, Wilbert S. Aronow

NYMC Faculty Posters

No abstract provided.

Chagas Heart Disease: A United States National Study, Srikanth Yandrapalli, Prakash Harikrishnan, Abdallah Sanaani, Wilbert S. Aronow, Sachin Sule, Alan L. Gass, Chhaya Aggarwal, William H. Frishman, Gregg C. Fonarow, Gregg M. Lanier, Howard A. Cooper, Julio Panza

NYMC Faculty Posters

No abstract provided.

Nationwide Trends In Inpatient Admissions Of Pulmonary Hypertension In The United States From 2000 To 2013, Rutuja R. Sikachi, Sonu Sahni, Dhruv Mehta, Abhishek Agarwal, Abhinav Agrawal

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (New York) Publications and Research

Introduction: Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is a disorder of the pulmonary vasculature with high mortality and bears a large economic burden on the healthcare system. We conducted a review of the largest inpatient database in the United States and analyzed the trends in hospitalizations due to PH from the turn of the century (2000) to 2013 to evaluate the rate of hospitalizations and determine the cost and mortality associated with PH.

Material and methods: We analyzed the National Inpatient Sample Database (NIS) for all patients in which PH (Primary or Secondary) or cor pulmonale was the primary discharge diagnosis …