Fatih Yalcin
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title: Long-term prognostic importance of pressure overload related cardiac deformation and thrombus formation and importance of Dabigatran in long-term management of chronic heart diseases
Biography
Biography: Fatih Yalcin
Abstract
Prof. Yalcin has focused on pressure overload-induced heart remodeling in hypertension, his research interest is related to conventional and novel imaging methods including regional imaging and functional analysis of heart muscle tissue as summarized below.
He described regional heart geometry by real-time 3 dimensional imaging in patients with primary and secondary left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) to hypertension (AJC 2000). Tissue Doppler advantageous for assessment of diastology in cardiac diseases (JHH, 2002). Stress-induced high pressure gradients in hypertensive patients with focal hypertrophy (IJC 2002). CV pub. nb. 39, 2004). Increased stress-induced tissue dynamics in hypertension detected by tissue Doppler imaging (JHH, 2006). Longitudinal and spherical mitral anulus motion reflecting contractile function detected by real-time 3 dimensional imaging in patients with primary and secondary LVH to hypertension (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, 2008). He also described the “Stressed heart morphology” which has been documented in clinical conditions with both acute stress cardiomyopathy and chronic stress due to pressure overload in hypertension (IJC, 2009).
