Internal Medicine/Cardiology

Sarkis Baghdasarian, MD

• Dean’s Honor List, Biology , 2 years

• B. Sc. Biology with Distinction

• Dean’s Honor List, Medicine, 2 years

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society

• Teacher of the Year Award, Cardiovascular Fellowship, 2008, 2009
  

1. Original Research:

   1. Baghdasarian SB, Gordon S, Lieberman B. Evaluation of Serologic Testing for HIV-2 Among Patients at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Interventions to Reduce Error. Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2002 Nov-Dec; 24(6): 23-25, 61.

    

   2. Ahlberg AW, Baghdasarian SB, Athar H, Thompsen JP, Katten DM, Noble GL, Mamkin I, Shah AR, Leka IA, Heller GV. Symptom-limited exercise combined with dipyridamole stress: Prognostic value in assessment of known or suspected coronary artery disease by use of gated SPECT imaging. J Nucl Cardiol 2008;15:42-56.
      
      
   3. Begelman SM, Baghdasarian SB, Singh IM, Militello MA, Hursting MJ, Bartholomew JR. Argatroban Anticoagulation in Intensive Care Patients: Effects of Heart Failure and Multiple Organ System Failure. J Intensive Care Med. 2008 Sep-Oct;23(5):313-20.

    

   4. Baghdasarian, SB, Noble GL, Ahlberg AW, Katten D, Heller GV. Risk Stratification with Attenuation Corrected Stress Tc-99m Sestamibi SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in the Absence of ECG-gating due to Arrhythmias. J Nucl Cardiol 2009 Jul-Aug;16(4):533-9.

    

   5. Azemi, T, Ahlberg, AW, Baghdasarian SB, Kazi, F, Cyr, G, Katten, D, O’Sullivan, D, Fram, DB, Heller, GV. Diagnostic and Prognostic Significance of Electrocardiographic Changes during Vasodilator Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. Submitted for review.

    

   Reviews

   1. Baghdasarian SB, Jneid H, Hoogwerf B. Association of Dyslipidemia and Effects of Statins in Non-macrovascular Diseases. Clinical Therapeutics, 2004; 26: 337-351.

    

   2. Baghdasarian SB, Heller GV. The role of myocardial perfusion imaging in the diagnosis of patients with coronary artery disease: developments over the past year. Current Opinion in Cardiology. 20(5):369-374, September 2005.
      
      
   3. Baghdasarian SB, Paul D Thompson. How safe are very low LDL cholesterol levels? Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2006) 6, 306-307

    

   4. Baghdasarian SB, Heller GV: Patient preparation for nuclear imaging: when should anti-ischemic medications be withheld? J Nucl Cardiol2007, 14(6):775-781.

    

    

   Chapters:

   1. Baghdasarian SB, Abou Jawde R, Michota F. A 48-Year-Old Woman With Post-Op Shortness of Breath. In: The Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Case Reviews. Casey DM, Jewell JK, Longworth DL, Stoller JK, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003.

    

   2. AlMahameed S, Baghdasarian SB, Tso E, Lichtin A. Recurrent Spontaneous Hematoma in an Elderly Female. In: The Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Case Reviews. Casey DM, Jewell JK, Longworth DL, Stoller JK, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003.
      
      
   3. Romero J, Baghdasarian SB, Tachopoulou O, Keys T. A Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection with Fever And Shortness Of Breath. In: The Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Case Reviews. Casey DM, Jewell JK, Longworth DL, Stoller JK, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003.

    

   4. Hurbanek J, Baghdasarian SB, Palmer R. A 44-Year-Old Woman with Severe Iron Defeciency Anemia. In: The Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Case Reviews. Casey DM, Jewell JK, Longworth DL, Stoller JK, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003.
      
      
   5. Abou Jawde R, Baghdasarian SB, Schmitt S, Correia NG. A 59-Year-Old Male with Non-Healing Lower Extremity Ulcers. In: The Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Case Reviews. Casey DM, Jewell JK, Longworth DL, Stoller JK, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003.

    

    

   Abstracts:

   1. Azemi T, Baghdasarian SB, Kazi F, Ahlberg A, Nathan D, Leka I, Cyr G, Katten D, Fram D, Heller GV. Redefining Ischemic Electrocardiographic Changes During Vasodilator Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. J Nucl Cardiol 2007; 14 (4): S127.

    

   2. Baghdasarian SB, Mamkin I, Noble GL, Ahlberg AW, Katten DM, Heller GV.  Risk Stratification with Attenuation Corrected Stress SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in the Absence of ECG-Gating. J Nucl Cardiol 2006 13 (4) S36.
      
      
   3. Mamkin I, Baghdasarian SB, Athar H, Noble G, Ahlberg AW, Katten DM, Heller GV. Dipyridamole-Exercise Tc-99m Sestamibi Gated Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Provides Effective Risk Stratification of Elderly Patients. JACC 2006;47:106A.

    

   4. Boden WE, Baghdasarian S, Dada M, et al. Impact of comprehensive guidelines-based acute management of highrisk patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronarysyndromes. Circulation. 2006;112(suppl):II-745. Abstract.
      
      
   5. Baghdasarian SB, Paul D. Thompson, Harry Shi, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Murat E. Tuzcu, Steve Nissen. Effect of Amlodipine and Enalapril on Cardiovascular Events in Normotensive Coronary Artery Disease Patients with Concomitant Statin Use in the CAMELOT Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol 47 (2006) (Suppl A), p. 310A.

    

   6. Baghdasarian SB, Paul D. Thompson, Harry Shi, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Murat E. Tuzcu, Steve Nissen. Effect of Amlodipine and Enalapril on Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Insulin Resistance and Diabetes in the CAMELOT Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol 47 (2006) (Suppl A), p. 309A.
      Baghdasarian SB, Singh I, Begelman S, Bartholomew J. The Dosage of Argatroban in Critically Ill Patients with HIT. Presentated in the American Society of Hematology meeting. Blood 2004;104,1779.