Kousik Krishnan, MD

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. Usefulness of Transesophageal Echocardiography to Confirm Clinical Utility of CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc and CHADS(2) Scores in Atrial Flutter.
   Parikh MG, Aziz Z, Krishnan K, Madias C, Trohman RG.
   Am J Cardiol.
   2011 Nov 29
   
2. Intercostal Muscle Twitching from Right Ventricular Apical Pacing.
   Kakodkar SA, Parikh MG, Madias C, Trohman RG, Krishnan K.
   Pacing Clin Electrophysiol.
   2011 Aug 7
   doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03184.x
   
3. Detection of Atrial Fibrillation with Concurrent Holter Monitoring and Continuous Cardiac Telemetry Following Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack
   Lazzaro MA, Krishnan K, Prabhakaran S
   J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis
   2010 Jul 23
   
4. Right coronary artery occlusion during RF ablation of typical atrial flutter
   Mykytsey A, Kehoe R, Bharati S, Maheshwari P, Halleran S, Krishnan K, Razminia M, Mina A, Trohman RG
   J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol
   2010 Jul
   21(7):818-21
   
5. Reversible cardiomyopathy in an adolescent with idiopathic aortic cusp ventricular tachycardia
   Kakodkar S, Krishnan K, Awad S, Halleran S, Mykytsey A, Al-Anani S, Trohman RG
   Pediatr Cardiol
   2010 Jan
   31(1):147-50
   
6. Isthmus dependent atrial flutter cycle length correlates with right atrial cross-sectional area
   Krishnan K, Gupta A, Halleran SM, Chawla D, Avery EF, Bienias JL, Trohman RG
   Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J
   2009 May 15
   9(3):167-73
   
7. Re: EP challenges in adult congenital heart disease
   Krishnan K, Trohman RG
   Heart Rhythm
   2009 Feb
   6(2):e1; author reply e1
   
8. Rescue permanent iliac vein pacing after epicardial lead failure: an unusual reversal of pacing fortune
   Gupta A, Halleran SM, Krishnan K, Trohman RG
   Europace
   2008 Oct
   10(10):1236-8
   

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• In medicine there are a lot of conditions and a lot of advancements that have been made with medicines and treatments that are just treating the problem. Whereas in cardiac electrophysiology, many of the conditions that we treat such as arrhythmias, tachycardias, we can actually cure them of their problems, and when they are done with us we can legitimately say that your problem is gone. And so that’s part of the allure for me of being an electrophysiologist is that for many of my patients, I have something that I can legitimately say will fix their problem, not just treat it for the rest of their life.

  I want to be pushing forward the limits of our field and keeping up with the advances in technology but also never forgetting that on the other end of that catheter or the other end of that scalpel is a patient — somebody’s mother, somebody’s father or brother or sister. And that no matter how much technology we have at our disposal, that it’s still a human-to-human interaction, and that there’s a person there. And that’s what I never want to lose track of.