Kiran K Khush M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
505 Parnassus Ave # M1181 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Kiran Khush practices Geriatric Medicine in San Francisco, CA. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Khush works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lessons from the PROVE-IT trial. Higher dose of potent statin better for high-risk patients.
- A full house: complications from an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus.
- The history of the coronary care unit.
- Thiazolidinediones in heart failure: slippery when wet.
- Effect of pulmonary hypertension on clinical outcomes in advanced heart failure: analysis of the Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness (ESCAPE) database.
- Differentially expressed RNA from public microarray data identifies serum protein biomarkers for cross-organ transplant rejection and other conditions.
- Influence of donor and recipient sex mismatch on heart transplant outcomes: analysis of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Registry.
- Relation of improvement in estimated glomerular filtration rate with atorvastatin to reductions in hospitalizations for heart failure (from the Treating to New Targets [TNT] study).
- Pregnancy-related human leukocyte antigen sensitization leading to cardiac allograft vasculopathy and graft failure in a heart transplant recipient: a case report.
- Circulating cell-free DNA enables noninvasive diagnosis of heart transplant rejection.
- Noninvasive monitoring of infection and rejection after lung transplantation.
- Monitoring pharmacologically induced immunosuppression by immune repertoire sequencing to detect acute allograft rejection in heart transplant patients: a proof-of-concept diagnostic accuracy study.
- Paradoxical Vessel Remodeling of the Proximal Segment of the Left Anterior Descending Artery Predicts Long-Term Mortality After Heart Transplantation.
- Assessment of Heart Transplant Waitlist Time and Pre- and Post-transplant Failure: A Mixed Methods Approach.
- Association of periarterial neovascularization with progression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy and long-term clinical outcomes in heart transplant recipients.
Clinical Trials
Publications
- PLOS ONEIdentification of Common Blood Gene Sigtures for the Diagnosis of Rel2013
- CellTemporal response of the human virome to immunosuppression and antiviral therapy.2013
- CIRCULATION-HEART FAILUREDonor Predictors of Allograft Use and Recipient Outcomes After Heart Transplantation2013
- TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGSPregncy-Related Human Leukocyte Antigen Sensitization Leading to Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy2013
- AMERICAN JOURL OF TRANSPLANTATIONBeta-Adrenergic Receptor Polymorphisms and Cardiac Graft Function in Potential Organ Donors2012
- AMERICAN JOURL OF TRANSPLANTATIONThe 4G/4G Genotype of the PAI-12012
- CIRCULATION-HEART FAILUREElectrocardiographic Characteristics of Potential Organ Donors2012
- AMERICAN JOURL OF CARDIOLOGYRelation of Improvement in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate With Atorv2012
- JOURL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATIONInfluence of donor and recipient sex mismatch on heart transplant outcomes2012
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE TIOL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMUniversal noninvasive detection of solid organ transplant rejection2011
- JOURL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATIONSingle-nucleotide polymorphisms in the beta2011
- PLOS COMPUTATIOL BIOLOGYDifferentially Expressed R from Public Microarray Data Identifies Serum Protein Biomarkers2010
- AMERICAN HEART JOURLEffect of pulmory hypertension on clinical outcomes in advanced heart failure2009
- EXPERT OPINION ON EMERGING DRUGSNew developments in immunosuppressive therapy for heart transplantation2009
- JOURL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHYAssociation of African American race with elevated pulmory artery Diastolic pressure2007
- JOURL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATIONDonor cardiac troponin I levels do not predict recipient survival after cardiac transplantation2007
- CIRCULATIONEffect of high-dose atorvastatin on hospitalizations for heart failure2007
- JOURL OF CARDIAC FAILUREEffects of statin therapy on the development and progression of heart failure2006
- JOURL OF CARDIAC FAILURENesiritide acutely increases pulmory2006
- Congestive heart failure (Greenwich, Conn.)Obese patients have lower B-type and atrial triuretic peptide levels compared with nonobese.2006
- CADIAN JOURL OF CARDIOLOGYThe history of the corory care unit2005
- Current cardiology reportsA full house: complications from an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus.2005
- JOURL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHYAge and aneurysm position predict patterns of left ventricular dysfunction after subarachnoid2005
- CLEVELAND CLINIC JOURL OF MEDICINELessons prom the PROVE-IT trial - Higher dose of potent statin better for high-risk patients2004
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