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Mehran Attari, MD

Affiliated Faculty, Integrative Cardiologist

Education/Credentials
  • Fellowship: St. Luke's Medical Center, University of Wisconsin (Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology)
  • Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center (Cardiovascular Disease)
  • Residency: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University (Internal Medicine)
  • Medical Degree: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Board Certifications & Licenses

American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiac Electrophysiology) (Certification Date: 20041103) - (Recertification Date: 20180401)
American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease) (Certification Date: 20031105)

Contact Information
Research Interests

Clinical Interest:

Resynchronization Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure

Research Interest:

- Atrial fibrillation ablation and mechanisms

- Novel approaches to arrhythmia management, including neuromodulation

- Prevention of sudden cardiac death

- Device therapy in heart failure

- Ventricular arrhythmias and new mapping modalities and ablation techniques, including epicardial ablation

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Clinical Interests

Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiology

Cardiovascular Disease

Internal Medicine

Peer Reviewed Publications

Zhou, Ying; Lower, Elyse E; Li, Hui-Ping; Costea, Alexandru; Attari, Mehran; Baughman, Robert P 2017. Cardiac Sarcoidosis: The Impact of Age and Implanted Devices on Survival. Chest, 151 1, 139-148

Yousuf, Mian Atif; Haq, Sulsal; O'Donnell, Robert E; Attari, Mehran 2015. Hemodynamically significant atrial septal defect after atrial fibrillation ablation: A hole to remember. Heart rhythm : the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, 12 9, 1987-9

Abo-Salem, Elsayed; Fowler, John C; Attari, Mehran; Cox, Craig D; Perez-Verdia, Alejandro; Panikkath, Ragesh; Nugent, Kenneth 2014. Antibiotic-induced cardiac arrhythmias. Cardiovascular therapeutics, 32 1, 19-25

Shizukuda, Yukitaka; Muth, James; Chaney, Curtis; Attari, Mehran 2012. Anomalous ridge on the left atrial side of the atrial septum. Annals of cardiac anaesthesia, 15 2, 161-2

Silbiger, Jeffrey J; Ashtiani, Ramin; Attari, Mehran; Spruill, Tanya M; Kamran, Mazullah; Reynolds, Deborah; Stein, Russell; Rubinstein, David 2011. Atheroscerlotic heart disease in Bangladeshi immigrants: risk factors and angiographic findings. International journal of cardiology, 146 2, e38-40

McMullan, Jason; Valento, Matthew; Attari, Mehran; Venkat, Arvind 2007. Care of the pacemaker/implantable cardioverter defibrillator patient in the ED. The American journal of emergency medicine, 25 7, 812-22

Badhwar, Nitish; Kalman, Jonathan M; Sparks, Paul B; Kistler, Peter M; Attari, Mehran; Berger, Marcie; Lee, Randall J; Sra, Jasbir; Scheinman, Melvin M 2005. Atrial tachycardia arising from the coronary sinus musculature: electrophysiological characteristics and long-term outcomes of radiofrequency ablation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 46 10, 1921-30

Kamran, Mazullah; Attari, Mehran; Webber, Geoffrey 2005. Images in cardiovascular medicine. Ventricular septal defect complicating an acute myocardial infarction. Circulation, 112 22, e337-8

Krum, David; Goel, Anil; Hauck, John; Schweitzer, Jeff; Hare, John; Attari, Mehran; Dhala, Anwer; Cooley, Ryan; Akhtar, Masood; Sra, Jasbir 2005. Catheter location, tracking, cardiac chamber geometry creation, and ablation using cutaneous patches. Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing, 12 1, 17-22

Attari, Mehran; Dhala, Anwer 2004. Role of invasive and noninvasive testing in risk stratification of sudden cardiac death in children and young adults: an electrophysiologic perspective. Pediatric clinics of North America, 51 5, 1355-78

Madias, John E; Attari, Mehran 2004. Exercise-triggered transient R-wave enhancement and ST-segment elevation in II, III, and aVF ECG leads: a testament to the "plasticity" of the QRS complex during ischemia. Journal of electrocardiology, 37 2, 121-6

Madias, John E; Narayan, Virenjan; Attari, Mehran 2003. Detection of P waves via a "saline-filled central venous catheter electrocardiographic lead" in patients with low electrocardiographic voltage due to anasarca. The American journal of cardiology, 91 7, 910-4

Madias, John E; Bravidis, Demetrius; Attari, Mehran 2002. Posterior myocardial infarction and complete right bundle- branch block. Chest, 122 5, 1860-4