Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. Single center comparative outcomes of the edwards sapien and medtronic melody transcatheter heart valves in the pulmonary position.
   Faza N, Kenny D, Kavinsky C, Amin Z, Heitschmidt M, Hijazi Z.
   Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2012
   2012 Sep 25. doi: 10.1002/ccd.24680. [Epub ahead of print]
   
2. ACCF/SCAI/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2012 appropriate use criteria for diagnostic catheterization: American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions American Association for Thoracic Surgery Ameri...
   Patel MR, Bailey SR, Bonow RO, Chambers CE, Chan PS, Dehmer GJ, Kirtane AJ, Wann LS, Ward RP, Douglas PS, Patel MR, Bailey SR, Altus P, Barnard DD, Blankenship JC, Casey DE Jr, Dean LS, Fazel R, Gilchrist IC, Kavinsky CJ, Lakoski SG, Le DE, et al.
   Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2012
   2012 Sep 1
   80(3):E50-81. doi: 10.1002/ccd.24467. Epub 2012 Jun 7.
   
3. ACCF/SCAI/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2012 appropriate use criteria for diagnostic catheterization: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, American Association for Thor...
   Diagnostic Catheterization Writing Group, Patel MR, Bailey SR, Bonow RO, Chambers CE, Chan PS, Dehmer GJ, Kirtane AJ, Samuel Wann L, Parker Ward R; Technical Panel, Douglas PS, Patel MR, Bailey SR, Altus P, Barnard DD, Blankenship JC, Casey DE Jr, Dean LS, Fazel R, Gilchrist IC, Kavinsky CJ, et al.
   J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012
   2012 Jul
   144(1):39-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.04.013. No abstract available.
   
4. Innovative resource utilization to fashion individualized covered stents in the setting of aortic coarctation.
   Kenny D, Cao QL, Kavinsky C, Hijazi ZM.
   Catheter Cardiovasc Interv.
   2011 Sep 1
   78(3):413-8 doi: 10.1002/ccd.22999.
   
5. Percutaneous device closure of congenital and iatrogenic ventricular septal defects in adult patients
   Al-Kashkari W, Balan P, Kavinsky CJ, Cao QL, Hijazi ZM
   Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
   2010 Sep 17
   
6. Massive pulmonary embolism: review of management strategies with a focus on catheter-based techniques
   Lee L, Kavinsky CJ, Spies C
   Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther
   2010 Jun
   8(6):863-73
   
7. A case report of atrial fibrillation potentially induced by hydroxycut: a multicomponent dietary weight loss supplement devoid of sympathomimetic amines.
   Karth A, Holoshitz N, Kavinsky CJ, Trohman R, McBride BF.
   J Pharm Pract.
   2010 Jun
   23(3):245-9
   
8. Percutaneous pulmonic valve implantation
   Kumar A, Kavinsky C, Amin Z, Hijazi ZM
   Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med
   2009 Dec
   11(6):483-91
   
9. Recurrent events following patent foramen ovale closure in patients above 55 years of age with presumed paradoxical embolism
   Spies C, Khandelwal A, Timmemanns I, Kavinsky CJ, Schräder R, Hijazi ZM
   Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
   2008 Dec 1
   72(7):966-70
   
10. Percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy for massive pulmonary embolism using a conservative treatment strategy
    Spies C, Khandelwal A, Smith TH, Jolly N, Kavinsky CJ
    J Interv Cardiol
    2008 Dec
    21(6):566-71
    
11. Localized left atrial administration of tPA for the treatment of mechanical mitral valve thrombosis
    Desai S, Kavinsky C
    Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
    2008 Aug 1
    72(2):151-5
    

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• We are all doctors first. And therefore the comfort and treatment of our patients is first and foremost. So we try and set a tone with myself or my partners to try and put the patients at ease and assure them that they need to go no further. And whatever is best for them — whatever is available — we will be able to provide here at Rush University.

  For certain types of congenital or acquired structural disorders of the heart — which have historically been treated with conventional open heart surgery — we at Rush can offer non-surgical, less invasive treatments of their heart disorders.

  We all work together for the common good of the patient. So the traditional separations between us and surgery have disappeared. This is the vision of the Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease.