Department

Medicine

Position

Associate Professor

Articles

• Heart Rhythm Case Reports
  Tandon TS, Tandon TS,, Alla VM, Abuissa HS. Left atrial appendage closure in a patient with situs inversus totalis and interrupted vena cava a transhepatic approach. HeartRhythm Case Rep. 2020 Sep 15;6(11):871-874. doi: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2020.09.002. eCollection 2020 Nov. PMID: 33204625
  6, p. 871-874. 2020
• Heart Rhythm Case Reports
  Wilbur Freeman, Joseph Thibodeau, Hussam Abuissa. Unrecognized ventricular tachycardia in a patient with mitral annulus disjunction and syncope. HeartRhythm Case Rep. 2020 Jun 24;6(9):646-651. doi: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2020.06.015. eCollection 2020 Sep. PMID: 32983885
  6(9), p. 646-651 2020
• J Am Coll Cardiol
  Wilbur K Freeman, Katelyn R Freeman, Hussam S Abuissa. Spontaneous Pothole Cardioversion of a Wide Complex Tachycardia. J Am Coll Cardiol Case Rep. 2020 Jun, 2 (6) 951955
  6, p. 951955 2020
• J Am Coll Cardiol
  Omar Kousa, Toufik Mahfood-Haddad, Shantanu M. Patil, Himanshu Agarwal, Hussam Abuissa. Left Atrial Appendage Closure in a Patient with a Patent Foramen Ovale Septal Occluder Device. Accepted for publication in J Am Coll Cardiol Case Rep. 2020
• Clinical Cardiology
  Hussam Abuissa.Salih M, Darrat YH, Saadi A, Guddeti R, Mahfood Haddad T, Kabach A, Ayan M, Saurav A, Abuissa H, Elayi CS. Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on atrial fibrillation ablation in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Clin Cardiol. 2018 Nov;41(11):1430-1438
  41;11, p. 1430-38 2018
• American Journal of Cardiology
  Smer A, Saurav A, Azzouz MS, Salih M, Ayan M, Abuzaid A, Akinapelli A, Kanmanthareddy A, Rosenfeld LE, Merchant FM, Abuissa H. Meta-analysis of Risk of Ventricular Arrhythmias After Improvement in Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction During Follow-Up in Patients With Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators. Am J Cardiol. 2017 Jul 15;120(2):279-286
  120;2, p. 279-86 2017
• American Journal of Cardiology
  Smer A, Saurav A, Azzouz MS, Salih M, Ayan M, Abuzaid A, Akinapelli A, Kanmanthareddy A, Rosenfeld LE, Merchant FM, Abuissa H. Meta-analysis of risk of ventricular arrhythmias after improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction during follow-up in patients with primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Am J Cardiol. 2017. PMID: 285232777 2017
• Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
  Aiman Smer, Rebecca Dietz, Hussam Abuissa. Repetitive Non-Reentrant Ventriculo-Atrial Synchrony Induced Atrial Fibrillation Terminated with Inappropriate Shock. Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal. 2016;16: 139-144.
  16, p. 139-44 2016
• Clinical Cardiology
  Saurav A, Smer A, Abuzaid A, Bansal O, Abuissa H. Premature ventricular contraction-induced cardiomyopathy. Clin Cardiol. 2015 Apr;38(4):251-8.
  2015 Apr;38(4), p. 251-8 2015
• Texas Heart Institute Journal
  Deshmukh A, Ulveling K, Alla V, Abuissa H, Airey K. Prolonged QTc Interval and Torsades de Pointes Induced by Citalopram. Texas Heart Institute Journal. 2012 FEB;39(1):68-70.
  Feb 2012, p. 68-70 2012
• J Am Coll Cardiol
  Omar Kousa, Toufik Mahfood-Haddad, Shantanu M. Patil, Himanshu Agarwal, Hussam Abuissa. Left Atrial Appendage Closure in a Patient with a Patent Foramen Ovale Septal Occluder Device. Accepted for publication in J Am Coll Cardiol Case Rep. -0001

Publications

• Journal of Amerian Heart Society
  Kadri AN, Abuamsha H, Nusairat L, Kadri N, Abuissa H, Masri A, Hernandez AV. Causes and Predictors of 30-Day Readmission in Patients With Syncope/Collapse: A Nationwide Cohort Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Sep 18;7(18):e009746.
  7:18 2018
• Heart
  Smer A, Alla VM, Abuissa H. A 50-year-old man with incidental cardiac mass. Heart. 2017;103(3):189-2016-310337. Epub 2016 Sep 15. PMID:27634409 2016
• Journal of Cardiac Failure
  Saurav A, Smer A, Azzouz MS, Abuissa H, Hunter C. Impact of Non-apical Right Ventricular Lead Placement on Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling and Inter-ventricular Dys-synchrony in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Meta-analysis. J Card Fail. 2015 AUG;21(8):S43-. 2015
• Chest
  Abuzetun J, Burrns T, Hvass L, El Khashab M, McCashland D, Abuissa H, Airey K. Management of Stroke Risk in Patients Diagnosed With Atrial Fibrillation in a Tertiary Care Center. CHEST Journal. 2012 October 1;142(4_MeetingAbstracts):109A-. 2012

Presentations

• Geetanjali Dang, Mohammed Saleh, Maria Del Carmen Perez, Wilmary Garcia Flete, Raviteja Guddeti, Hussam Abuissa, VenkataAlla: SAFETY PROFILES OF LEADLESS PACEMAKERS (MICRA) DEVICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOODAND DRUG ADMINISTRATION MANUFACTURER AND USER FACILITY DEVICE EXPERIENCE (MAUDE) DATABASE. Poster Presentation American College of Cardiology, 3/2019 2019
• Dept of Medicine Grand RoundsCU School of Medicine"iFib: Are We There Yet?" 2019