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Sharmila Dorbala, M.D.

TitleAssistant Professor of Radiology
InstitutionBrigham and Women's Hospital
DepartmentRadiology
AddressBrigham and Women's Hospital
Radiology
75 Francis St
Boston MA 02115
Phone617/732-6290
Fax617/582-6056

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  1. Skali H, Schulman AR, Dorbala S. (18)F-FDG PET/CT for the Assessment of Myocardial Sarcoidosis. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2013 May; 15(5):370.
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  2. Skali H, Schulman AR, Dorbala S. (18)F-FDG PET/CT for the Assessment of Myocardial Sarcoidosis. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2013 May; 15(5):352.
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  3. Osborne M, Kolli S, Padera RF, Naya M, Lewis E, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF, Blankstein R. Use of multimodality imaging to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis as well as identify recurrence following heart transplantation. J Nucl Cardiol. 2013 Apr; 20(2):310-2.
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  4. Skali H, Schulman AR, Dorbala S. 18F-FDG PET/CT for the assessment of myocardial sarcoidosis. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2013 Apr; 15(4):352.
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  5. Arsanjani R, Xu Y, Dey D, Fish M, Dorbala S, Hayes S, Berman D, Germano G, Slomka P. Improved Accuracy of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Using a Support Vector Machine Algorithm. J Nucl Med. 2013 Apr; 54(4):549-55.
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  6. Arsanjani R, Xu Y, Hayes SW, Fish M, Lemley M, Gerlach J, Dorbala S, Berman DS, Germano G, Slomka P. Comparison of Fully Automated Computer Analysis and Visual Scoring for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease from Myocardial Perfusion SPECT in a Large Population. J Nucl Med. 2013 Feb; 54(2):221-8.
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  7. Dorbala S, Di Carli MF, Beanlands RS, Merhige ME, Williams BA, Veledar E, Chow BJ, Min JK, Pencina MJ, Berman DS, Shaw LJ. Prognostic value of stress myocardial perfusion positron emission tomography: results from a multicenter observational registry. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Jan 15; 61(2):176-84.
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  8. Hoffmann U, Venkatesh V, White RD, Woodard PK, Carr JJ, Dorbala S, Earls JP, Jacobs JE, Mammen L, Martin ET, Ryan T, White CS. ACR Appropriateness Criteria(®) acute nonspecific chest pain-low probability of coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Radiol. 2012 Oct; 9(10):745-50.
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  9. Murthy VL, Naya M, Foster CR, Hainer J, Gaber M, Dorbala S, Charytan DM, Blankstein R, Di Carli MF. Coronary vascular dysfunction and prognosis in patients with chronic kidney disease. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Oct; 5(10):1025-34.
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  10. Murthy VL, Naya M, Foster CR, Gaber M, Hainer J, Klein J, Dorbala S, Blankstein R, Di Carli MF. Association between coronary vascular dysfunction and cardiac mortality in patients with and without diabetes mellitus. Circulation. 2012 Oct 9; 126(15):1858-68.
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  11. Bittencourt MS, Dorbala S, Steigner M, Rybicki F, Di Carli M, Blankstein R. Use of high-risk features from exercise treadmill testing to identify obstructive left main disease with normal myocardial perfusion imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2012 Aug; 19(4):814-7.
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  12. Mousavi N, Shah PB, Skali H, Steigner M, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF, Blankstein R. Correlative imaging of spontaneous coronary artery dissection. J Nucl Cardiol. 2012 Jun; 19(3):625-9.
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  13. Partington SL, Lanka V, Hainer J, Blankstein R, Skali H, Forman DE, Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Safety and feasibility of regadenoson use for suboptimal heart rate response during symptom-limited standard Bruce exercise stress test. J Nucl Cardiol. 2012 Oct; 19(5):970-8.
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  14. Dorbala S, Murthy VL. Coronary artery calcification and vascular function. J Nucl Cardiol. 2012 Apr; 19(2):227-9.
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  15. Bettmann MA, Baginski SG, White RD, Woodard PK, Abbara S, Atalay MK, Dorbala S, Haramati LB, Hendel RC, Martin ET, Ryan T, Steiner RM. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® acute chest pain--suspected pulmonary embolism. J Thorac Imaging. 2012 Mar; 27(2):W28-31.
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  16. Hachamovitch R, Nutter B, Hlatky MA, Shaw LJ, Ridner ML, Dorbala S, Beanlands RS, Chow BJ, Branscomb E, Chareonthaitawee P, Weigold WG, Voros S, Abbara S, Yasuda T, Jacobs JE, Lesser J, Berman DS, Thomson LE, Raman S, Heller GV, Schussheim A, Brunken R, Williams KA, Farkas S, Delbeke D, Schoepf UJ, Reichek N, Rabinowitz S, Sigman SR, Patterson R, Corn CR, White R, Kazerooni E, Corbett J, Bokhari S, Machac J, Guarneri E, Borges-Neto S, Millstine JW, Caldwell J, Arrighi J, Hoffmann U, Budoff M, Lima J, Johnson JR, Johnson B, Gaber M, Williams JA, Foster C, Hainer J, Di Carli MF. Patient management after noninvasive cardiac imaging results from SPARC (Study of myocardial perfusion and coronary anatomy imaging roles in coronary artery disease). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jan 31; 59(5):462-74.
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  17. Slomka PJ, Berman DS, Xu Y, Kavanagh P, Hayes SW, Dorbala S, Fish M, Germano G. Fully automated wall motion and thickening scoring system for myocardial perfusion SPECT: method development and validation in large population. J Nucl Cardiol. 2012 Apr; 19(2):291-302.
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  18. Naya M, Murthy VL, Blankstein R, Sitek A, Hainer J, Foster C, Gaber M, Fantony JM, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF. Quantitative relationship between the extent and morphology of coronary atherosclerotic plaque and downstream myocardial perfusion. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Oct 18; 58(17):1807-16.
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  19. Murthy VL, Naya M, Foster CR, Hainer J, Gaber M, Di Carli G, Blankstein R, Dorbala S, Sitek A, Pencina MJ, Di Carli MF. Improved cardiac risk assessment with noninvasive measures of coronary flow reserve. Circulation. 2011 Nov 15; 124(20):2215-24.
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  20. Di Carli MF, Charytan D, McMahon GT, Ganz P, Dorbala S, Schelbert HR. Coronary circulatory function in patients with the metabolic syndrome. J Nucl Med. 2011 Sep; 52(9):1369-77.
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  21. Dorbala S, Beller GA, Shaw LJ, Udelson JE, Iskandrian AE. Advancing the research mission of ASNC. J Nucl Cardiol. 2011 Aug; 18(4):534-5.
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  22. Partington SL, Kwong RY, Dorbala S. Multimodality imaging in the assessment of myocardial viability. Heart Fail Rev. 2011 Jul; 16(4):381-95.
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  23. Dorbala S. Ask the doctor. I recently had a nuclear stress test and contrast agent got stuck in my gut, so the image couldn't be read. Is this a common problem, and is there anything that can be done about it? Harv Health Lett. 2011 May; 36(7):4.
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  24. Falk RH, Dorbala S. Pursuing an underdiagnosed disease: a simple imaging test for increasing suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2011 Mar; 38(3):467-9.
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  25. Al-Mallah MH, Sitek A, Moore SC, Di Carli M, Dorbala S. Assessment of myocardial perfusion and function with PET and PET/CT. J Nucl Cardiol. 2010 Jun; 17(3):498-513.
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  26. Blankstein R, Dorbala S. Adding calcium scoring to myocardial perfusion imaging: Does it alter physicians' therapeutic decision making? J Nucl Cardiol. 2010 Apr; 17(2):168-71.
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  27. Buckley O, Doyle L, Padera R, Lakdawala N, Dorbala S, Di Carli M, Kwong R, Desai A, Blankstein R. Cardiomyopathy of uncertain etiology: Complementary role of multimodality imaging with cardiac MRI and 18FDG PET. J Nucl Cardiol. 2010 Apr; 17(2):328-32.
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  28. Heller GV, Calnon D, Dorbala S. Recent advances in cardiac PET and PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2009 Nov-Dec; 16(6):962-9.
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  29. Al-Mallah MH, Hachamovitch R, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF. Incremental prognostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging in patients referred to stress single-photon emission computed tomography with renal dysfunction. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2009 Nov; 2(6):429-36.
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  30. Dorbala S, Hachamovitch R, Curillova Z, Thomas D, Vangala D, Kwong RY, Di Carli MF. Incremental prognostic value of gated Rb-82 positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging over clinical variables and rest LVEF. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2009 Jul; 2(7):846-54.
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  31. El Fakhri G, Kardan A, Sitek A, Dorbala S, Abi-Hatem N, Lahoud Y, Fischman A, Coughlan M, Yasuda T, Di Carli MF. Reproducibility and accuracy of quantitative myocardial blood flow assessment with (82)Rb PET: comparison with (13)N-ammonia PET. J Nucl Med. 2009 Jul; 50(7):1062-71.
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  32. Demehri S, Rybicki F, Nallamshetty K, Ersoy H, Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Extracardiac Findings in Low Dose Attenuation Correction CT Thoracic Images: A Rubidium-82 PET-CT Study. American Journal of Roentgenology . 2009; 192(5).
  33. Curillova Z, Yaman BF, Dorbala S, Kwong RY, Sitek A, El Fakhri G, Anagnostopoulos C, Di Carli MF. Quantitative relationship between coronary calcium content and coronary flow reserve as assessed by integrated PET/CT imaging. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2009 Oct; 36(10):1603-10.
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  34. Thomas D, Grant FD, Kwong R, Nose V, Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Multimodality imaging of an unusual case of cardiac paraganglioma. J Nucl Cardiol. 2009 Jul-Aug; 16(4):644-7.
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  35. Thomas D, Al-Mallah M, Forman DE, Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Attenuated Pulse Pressure Response to Exercise Identifies Patients With Normal Myocardial Perfusion Imaging at Risk for Future Events. Journal of the American College of Cardiology . 2009; 53(10):A 292.
  36. Poppas A, Cummings J, Dorbala S, Douglas PS, Foster E, Limacher MC. Survey results: a decade of change in professional life in cardiology: a 2008 report of the ACC women in cardiology council. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Dec 16; 52(25):2215-26.
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  37. Eckart RE, Field ME, Hruczkowski TW, Forman DE, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF, Albert CE, Maisel WH, Epstein LM, Stevenson WG. Association of electrocardiographic morphology of exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmia with mortality. Ann Intern Med. 2008 Oct 7; 149(7):451-60, W82.
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  38. Anagnostopoulos C, Almonacid A, El Fakhri G, Curillova Z, Sitek A, Roughton M, Dorbala S, Popma JJ, Di Carli MF. Quantitative relationship between coronary vasodilator reserve assessed by 82Rb PET imaging and coronary artery stenosis severity. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2008 Sep; 35(9):1593-601.
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  39. Schenker MP, Dorbala S, Hong EC, Rybicki FJ, Hachamovitch R, Kwong RY, Di Carli MF. Interrelation of coronary calcification, myocardial ischemia, and outcomes in patients with intermediate likelihood of coronary artery disease: a combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography study. Circulation. 2008 Apr 1; 117(13):1693-700.
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  40. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S, Curillova Z, Kwong RJ, Goldhaber SZ, Rybicki FJ, Hachamovitch R. Relationship between CT coronary angiography and stress perfusion imaging in patients with suspected ischemic heart disease assessed by integrated PET-CT imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2007 Nov-Dec; 14(6):799-809.
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  41. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S, Meserve J, El Fakhri G, Sitek A, Moore SC. Clinical myocardial perfusion PET/CT. J Nucl Med. 2007 May; 48(5):783-93.
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  42. Dorbala S, Hachamovitch R, Curillova Z, Kwong RY, Di Carli MF. Incremental Prognostic Value of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Assessment Over Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Rubidium-82 PET/CT Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007; 49(9):109 A.
  43. Dorbala S, Hachamovitch R, Kwong RY,Curillova Z, Di Carli MF. Incremental Prognostic Value of Rubidium-82 Myocardial Perfusion PET-CT Imaging in Patients With Known or Suspected CAD. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007; 49(9):109 A.
  44. Dorbala S, Vangala D, Sampson U, Limaye A, Kwong R, Di Carli MF. Value of vasodilator left ventricular ejection fraction reserve in evaluating the magnitude of myocardium at risk and the extent of angiographic coronary artery disease: a 82Rb PET/CT study. J Nucl Med. 2007 Mar; 48(3):349-58.
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  45. Sampson UK, Dorbala S, Limaye A, Kwong R, Di Carli MF. Diagnostic accuracy of rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging with hybrid positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the detection of coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007 Mar 13; 49(10):1052-8.
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  46. Larose E, Ganz P, Reynolds HG, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF, Brown KA, Kwong RY. Right ventricular dysfunction assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging predicts poor prognosis late after myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007 Feb 27; 49(8):855-62.
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  47. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Cardiac PET-CT. J Thorac Imaging. 2007 Feb; 22(1):101-6.
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  48. Dorbala S, Giugliano RP, Logsetty G, Vangala D, Mishra R, Crugnale S, Yang D, Di Carli MF. Prognostic value of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with elevated cardiac troponin I levels and atypical clinical presentation. J Nucl Cardiol. 2007 Jan; 14(1):53-8.
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  49. Dorbala S, Hachamovitch R, Di Carli MF. Myocardial perfusion imaging and multidetector computed tomographic coronary angiography: appropriate for all patients with suspected coronary artery disease? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Dec 19; 48(12):2515-7.
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  50. Dorbala S, Hassan A, Heinonen T, Schelbert HR, Di Carli MF. Coronary vasodilator reserve and Framingham risk scores in subjects at risk for coronary artery disease. J Nucl Cardiol. 2006 Nov; 13(6):761-7.
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  51. Schleipman AR, Castronovo FP, Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Occupational radiation dose associated with Rb-82 myocardial perfusion positron emission tomography imaging. J Nucl Cardiol. 2006 May-Jun; 13(3):378-84.
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  52. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Integrated PET/CT for cardiac imaging. Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2006 Mar; 50(1):44-52.
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  53. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S, Hachamovitch R. Integrated cardiac PET-CT for the diagnosis and management of CAD. J Nucl Cardiol. 2006 Mar-Apr; 13(2):139-44.
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  54. M.F. Di Carli, S. Dorbala, A. Limaye, U.K. Sampson, R.Y. Kwong, M. Schenker, M.J. Lipton, F. Rybicki, S.Z. Goldhaber, R. Hachamovitch. Clinical Value of Hybrid PET/CT Cardiac Imaging: Complementary Roles of Multi-Detector CT Coronary Angiography and Stress PET Perfusion Imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006; 47(4):115 A.
  55. Dorbala S, Crugnale S, Yang D, Di Carli MF. Effect of body mass index on left ventricular cavity size and ejection fraction. Am J Cardiol. 2006 Mar 1; 97(5):725-9.
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  56. Crugnale S and Dorbala S. Patient Preparation. Cardiac PET and PET-CT Imaging; Eds. Di Carli M.F, Lipton M.J. 2006.
  57. Dorbala S, Curillova Z and Di Carli MF. Case illustrations of cardiac PET and integrated PET/CT. Cardiac PET and PET-CT Imaging; Eds. Di Carli M.F, Lipton M.J. 2006.
  58. Dorbala S and Di Carli MF. Cardiovascular CT: Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET-CT. 2006.
  59. Dorbala S and Di Carli MF. PET and Integrated PET/CT Myocardial Imaging Protocols and Quality Assurance. Cardiac PET and PET-CT Imaging; Eds. Di Carli M.F, Lipton M.J. 2006.
  60. Di Carli, MF and Dorbala S. Cardiac Computed Tomography Self-Assessment Program: Nuclear CT/ Hybrid Devices Integration. 2006.
  61. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S . Integrated PET/CT for cardiac imaging. 2006; 50(1):44-52.
  62. M.P.Schenker, S. Dorbala, A.M. Limaye, U.K. Sampson, R.Y.Kwong, M.J. Lipton, F.J.Rybicki, M.F. Di Carli. Relationship Between Coronary Calcium and Myocardial Ischemia in Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease : A Combined Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Study. Circulation. 2005; 112(17):II-473.
  63. S. Dorbala, A.Limaye, U.Sampson, S.Crugnale, D. Yang, J.Fitzgerald, M.F. Di Carli. Optimal Timing of Transmission Map for Rubidium 82 Stress Positron Emission Tomography (PET-CT) Myocardial perfusion Imaging. J Nucl Med. 2005; 46(5 ):267 P.
  64. Mishra RK, Dorbala S, Logsetty G, Hassan A, Heinonen T, Schelbert HR, Di Carli MF. Quantitative relation between hemodynamic changes during intravenous adenosine infusion and the magnitude of coronary hyperemia: implications for myocardial perfusion imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005 Feb 15; 45(4):553-8.
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  65. Dorbala S, Brozena S, Zeb S, Galatro K, Homel P, Ren JF, Chaudhry FA. Risk stratification of women with peripartum cardiomyopathy at initial presentation: a dobutamine stress echocardiography study. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2005 Jan; 18(1):45-8.
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  66. Hauser TH, Dorbala S, Sulaiman A, Di Carli MF. Quantitative relation of ST-segment depression during exercise to the magnitude of myocardial ischemia as assessed by single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Sep 15; 94(6):703-8.
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  67. Di Carli MF and Dorbala S. Detection and evaluation of coronary artery disease with myocardial perfusion-gated SPECT imaging. Clinical Cardiovascular Imaging: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease; Eds. St. John Sutton MG, Rutherford JD. 2004.
  68. Slater J, Selzer F, Dorbala S, Tormey D, Vlachos HA, Wilensky RL, Jacobs AK, Laskey WK, Douglas JS, Williams DO, Kelsey SF. Ethnic differences in the presentation, treatment strategy, and outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (a report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry). Am J Cardiol. 2003 Oct 1; 92(7):773-8.
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  69. Di Carli MF, Dorbala S. Cardiology patient page. Exercise testing and nuclear scanning. Circulation. 2003 Apr 29; 107(16):e100-2.
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  70. Di Carli M.F. and Dorbala S. Exercise Testing and Nuclear Scanning. Circulation. 2003; 107(16):e100-102.
  71. Burrell S, Dorbala S, Di Carli MF. Single photon emission computed tomography perfusion imaging for assessment of myocardial viability and management of heart failure. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2003 Jan; 5(1):32-9.
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  72. Dorbala S, Di Carli MF. Metabolic Imaging of Myocardial Stunning. Heart Metabolism. 2003; 19:18-22.
  73. Li VH, Dorbala S, Narula D, DePuey G, Steinberg JS. QT dispersion and viable myocardium in patients with prior myocardial infarction and severe left ventricular dysfunction. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2002 Jan; 7(1):53-9.
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  74. Di Carli MF and Dosrbala S. Competing technologies for assessing myocardial viability. Harrison's online. Eds. Braunwald E, Fauci AS, Isselbacher KJ, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL and Jameson JL. 2002.
  75. Dorbala s and Steinberg JS. P wave signal averages electrocardiogram. Electrocardiology in clinical practice: Eds. Zareba, Maison-Blanche and Locati. 2001.
  76. Nichols K, Dorbala S, DePuey EG, Yao SS, Sharma A, Rozanski A. Influence of arrhythmias on gated SPECT myocardial perfusion and function quantification. J Nucl Med. 1999 Jun; 40(6):924-34.
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  77. Dorbala S, Cohen AJ, Hutchinson LA, Menchavez-Tan E, Steinberg JS. Does radiofrequency ablation induce a prethrombotic state? Analysis of coagulation system activation and comparison to electrophysiologic study. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 1998 Nov; 9(11):1152-60.
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