Gregory A. Ewald, MD

Specialty Areas
Heart Failure / Transplant
Congestive Heart Failure
Cardiology

Areas of Clinical Interest
Congestive heart failure, CHF, cardiac transplant, acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy, coronary heart disease, heart attack, endocarditis, angina pectoris

Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2003-2013 (Best Doctors, Inc.)
Listed in America's Top Doctors, 2007-2012 (Castle & Connolly Ltd.)

Editorial Responsibilities

Reviewer
Journal of Cardiac Failure
American Journal of Cardiology
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association, Great America Peer Review Committee (1A), 07/00 - 06/02
Circulation

Selected or Recent Journal Articles
Wang TF, Klein JL, Woodard PK, Hassan A, Joseph SM, Ewald GA, Uy GL. Plasmacytoma-Like Post-Transplantation Lymphoproliferative Disease Occurring in a Cardiac Allograft: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Jun 18.

Herrero P, Laforest R, Shoghi K, Zhou D, Ewald G, Pfeifer J, Duncavage E, Krupp K, Mach R, Gropler R. Feasibility and dosimetry studies for 18F-NOS as a potential PET radiopharmaceutical for inducible nitric oxide synthase in humans. J Nucl Med. 2012 Jun.

Kushnir VM, Sharma S, Ewald GA, Seccombe J, Novak E, Wang IW, Joseph SM, Gyawali CP. Evaluation of GI bleeding after implantation of left ventricular assist device. Gastrointest Endosc. 2012 May.

LaRue S, Shanks A, Wang IW, Ewald G, Anderson D, Joseph S. Left ventricular assist device in pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Aug.

Foster ER, Cunnane KB, Edwards DF, Morrison MT, Ewald GA, Geltman EM, Zazulia AR. Executive dysfunction and depressive symptoms associated with reduced participation of people with severe congestive heart failure. Am J Occup Ther. 2011 May-Jun.

O'Connor RD, Xu J, Ewald GA, Ackerman JJ, Peterson LR, Gropler RJ, Bashir A. Intramyocardial triglyceride quantification by magnetic resonance spectroscopy: In vivo and ex vivo correlation in human subjects. Magn Reson Med. 2011 May.

Nath DS, Tiriveedhi V, Basha HI, Phelan D, Moazami N, Ewald GA, Mohanakumar T. A role for antibodies to human leukocyte antigens, collagen-V, and K-α1-Tubulin in antibody-mediated rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Transplantation. 2011 May 15.

O'Connor RD, Xu J, Ewald GA, Ackerman JJ, Peterson LR, Gropler RJ, Bashir A. Intramyocardial triglyceride quantification by magnetic resonance spectroscopy: In vivo and ex vivo correlation in human subjects. Magn Reson Med. 2011 Jan 10.

Topkara VK, Kondareddy S, Malik F, Wang IW, Mann DL, Ewald GA, Moazami N. Infectious complications in patients with left ventricular assist device: etiology and outcomes in the continuous-flow era. Ann Thorac Surg. 2010 Oct.

Nath DS, Angaswamy N, Basha HI, Phelan D, Moazami N, Ewald GA, Mohanakumar T. Donor-specific antibodies to human leukocyte antigens are associated with and precede antibodies to major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A in antibody-mediated rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy after human cardiac transplantation. Hum Immunol. 2010 Dec.

Joseph SM, Cedars AM, Ewald GA, Geltman EM, Mann DL. Acute decompensated heart failure: contemporary medical management. Tex Heart Inst J. 2009.

Keteyian SJ, Isaac D, Thadani U, Roy BA, Bensimhon DR, McKelvie R, Russell SD, Hellkamp AS, Kraus WE; HF-ACTION Investigators. Safety of symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with chronic heart failure due to severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Am Heart J. 2009 Oct.

Flynn KE, Lin L, Ellis SJ, Russell SD, Spertus JA, Whellan DJ, Piña IL, Fine LJ, Schulman KA, Weinfurt KP; HF-ACTION Investigators. Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure. Am Heart J. 2009 Oct.

Forman DE, Clare R, Kitzman DW, Ellis SJ, Fleg JL, Chiara T, Fletcher G, Kraus WE; HF-ACTION Investigators. Relationship of age and exercise performance in patients with heart failure: the HF-ACTION study. Am Heart J. 2009 Oct.

Atchley AE, Kitzman DW, Whellan DJ, Iskandrian AE, Ellis SJ, Pagnanelli RA, Kao A, Abdul-Nour K, O'Connor CM, Ewald G, Kraus WE, Borges-Neto S; HF-ACTION Investigators. Myocardial perfusion, function, and dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure: baseline results from the single-photon emission computed tomography imaging ancillary study of the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION) Trial. Am Heart J. 2009 Oct.

Internal Medicine / Cardiovascular Diseases

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Heart and Vascular Center

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Health Insurance Plans Accepted

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