Dinesh K Kalra MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1725 w harrison st ste 1159 (cardiology clinic) Chicago IL, 60612About
Cardiac Imaging and Lipid Expert Treats patients in Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Education and Training
baylor college of medicine MD 1995
Institute Med Scis 1994
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Disease (Internal Medicine)
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Myocardial hibernation in coronary artery disease.
- Increased myocardial gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and nitric oxide synthase-2: a potential mechanism for depressed myocardial function in hibernating myocardium in humans.
- Relation of tissue Doppler-derived myocardial velocities to serum levels and myocardial gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and inducible nitric oxide synthase in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy having coronary artery bypass grafting
- Hoarseness, hemoptysis and a hole in the aorta: a case review.
- Homocysteine and cardiovascular disease.
- Myocardial viability-State of the art: Is it still relevant and how to best assess it with imaging?
- Pardon the Interruption: An Interrupted Inferior Vena Cava Discovered During Attempted Implantation of a Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device.
- Membranous ventricular septum aneurysm, differentiated from sinus of valsalva aneurysm using cardiac CT.
- Cardiac Imaging in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease.
- Pulmonary hypertension: diagnosis, imaging techniques, and novel therapies.
- Stress test to STEMI: Utility of coronary CTA in the diagnosis and management of anomalous right coronary artery from the left coronary cusp.
- An unusual echo after ventricular tachycardia ablation.
- 75-Year-Old Woman With Multiple Systemic Emboli.
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Areas of expertise and specialization
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Stroke
- Varicose Veins
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Pain
- Peripheral Artery Disease (pad)
- Swelling
- Vascular Disease
Professional Memberships
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
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