Sumeet Chugh

Summary

Affiliation: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi How to approach sudden cardiac arrest: current knowledge and clinical practice
    Sumeet S Chugh
    The Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Indian Heart J 63:341-6. 2011
  2. ncbi Determinants of prolonged QT interval and their contribution to sudden death risk in coronary artery disease: the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
    Circulation 119:663-70. 2009
  3. ncbi The future of fellowship training in clinical cardiac electrophysiology: Program directors' perspective 2008
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Heart Rhythm 6:1606-12. 2009
  4. ncbi Population-based analysis of sudden death in children: The Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048
    Heart Rhythm 6:1618-22. 2009
  5. ncbi Women have a lower prevalence of structural heart disease as a precursor to sudden cardiac arrest: The Ore-SUDS (Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study)
    Sumeet S Chugh
    The Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 54:2006-11. 2009
  6. ncbi Early identification of risk factors for sudden cardiac death
    Sumeet S Chugh
    The Heart Institute, 5702 South Tower, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Nat Rev Cardiol 7:318-26. 2010
  7. ncbi Epidemiology of sudden cardiac death: clinical and research implications
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
    Prog Cardiovasc Dis 51:213-28. 2008
  8. ncbi Current burden of sudden cardiac death: multiple source surveillance versus retrospective death certificate-based review in a large U.S. community
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Heart Rhythm Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 44:1268-75. 2004
  9. ncbi Factors associated with pulseless electric activity versus ventricular fibrillation: the Oregon sudden unexpected death study
    Carmen Teodorescu
    The Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Circulation 122:2116-22. 2010
  10. ncbi Postmortem molecular screening in unexplained sudden death
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97239, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 43:1625-9. 2004

Research Grants

  1. Determinants of Sudden Death Risk with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    Sumeet Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2009
  2. Determinants of Sudden Death Risk with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    Sumeet S Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2010
  3. Determinants of Sudden Death Risk with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    Sumeet Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2009
  4. Prolonged Ventricular Depolarization and Sudden Death in the Community
    Sumeet S Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2010

Collaborators

  • Steven M Markowitz
  • Mark S Link
  • Sanjiv Narayan
  • G A Nichols
  • E S Kaufman
  • Eric C Stecker
  • Jonathan Jui
  • Karen Gunson
  • Kyndaron Reinier
  • John H McAnulty
  • Benjamin T John
  • Ronald Mariani
  • Carmen Teodorescu
  • Pulla R Reddy
  • Catherine Vickers
  • Jack Kron
  • Janneke A E Kammeraad
  • Mershed Samara
  • Audrey Uy-Evanado
  • Celia Dervan
  • Tejwant Singh
  • Mehdi Zargarian
  • Megan Sono
  • Carmen Socoteanu
  • Justin Waltz
  • Erin Wallace
  • Vivek Dogra
  • Kathy Crispell
  • Katherine R Strelich
  • Win-K Shen
  • Jack L Titus
  • Balaji K Tamarappoo
  • William D Edwards
  • Seshadri Balaji
  • Blair D Halperin
  • Ronald P Oliver

Detail Information

Publications22

  1. ncbi How to approach sudden cardiac arrest: current knowledge and clinical practice
    Sumeet S Chugh
    The Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Indian Heart J 63:341-6. 2011
    ..The persisting low survival rates following SCA continue to emphasize that achievement of efficient risk stratification and primary prevention must remain our major target for management of SCA...
  2. ncbi Determinants of prolonged QT interval and their contribution to sudden death risk in coronary artery disease: the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
    Circulation 119:663-70. 2009
    ..We evaluated determinants of prolonged QTc and the relationship of prolonged QTc to SCD risk among patients with coronary artery disease in the general population...
  3. ncbi The future of fellowship training in clinical cardiac electrophysiology: Program directors' perspective 2008
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Heart Rhythm 6:1606-12. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Population-based analysis of sudden death in children: The Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048
    Heart Rhythm 6:1618-22. 2009
    ..There is a lack of prospective population-based data regarding sudden death in children...
  5. ncbi Women have a lower prevalence of structural heart disease as a precursor to sudden cardiac arrest: The Ore-SUDS (Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study)
    Sumeet S Chugh
    The Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 54:2006-11. 2009
    ..Our aim was to utilize a community-based approach to identify sex-related differences in risk factors for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)...
  6. ncbi Early identification of risk factors for sudden cardiac death
    Sumeet S Chugh
    The Heart Institute, 5702 South Tower, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Nat Rev Cardiol 7:318-26. 2010
    ..This Review will discuss the potential utility of these markers as early identifiers of risk, and suggests a framework for the conduct of future studies for the discovery, validation, and deployment of novel SCD risk factors...
  7. ncbi Epidemiology of sudden cardiac death: clinical and research implications
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
    Prog Cardiovasc Dis 51:213-28. 2008
    ....
  8. ncbi Current burden of sudden cardiac death: multiple source surveillance versus retrospective death certificate-based review in a large U.S. community
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Heart Rhythm Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 44:1268-75. 2004
    ..To assess the validity of retrospective surveillance, a simultaneous comparison was made with a death certificate-based method of determining SCD incidence...
  9. ncbi Factors associated with pulseless electric activity versus ventricular fibrillation: the Oregon sudden unexpected death study
    Carmen Teodorescu
    The Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
    Circulation 122:2116-22. 2010
    ..Given significantly lower survival from PEA versus VF, we comprehensively investigated PEA correlates by incorporating first-responder data with lifetime clinical history information...
  10. ncbi Postmortem molecular screening in unexplained sudden death
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97239, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 43:1625-9. 2004
    ..We examined the prevalence of defects in arrhythmia-related candidate genes among patients with unexplained sudden cardiac death (SCD)...
  11. ncbi Independent contribution of diabetes to increased prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation
    Gregory A Nichols
    Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, USA
    Diabetes Care 32:1851-6. 2009
    ..We sought to compare the prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation in age- and sex-matched patients with and without type 2 diabetes...
  12. ncbi Physical activity as a trigger of sudden cardiac arrest: the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study
    Pulla R Reddy
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, United States
    Int J Cardiol 131:345-9. 2009
    ..Vigorous physical activity has been suggested as a prominent trigger but has not been well-evaluated in the general population. We performed a community-based study to analyze the role of physical activity as a potential trigger of SCA...
  13. ncbi A community-based evaluation of sudden death associated with therapeutic levels of methadone
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland 97239, USA
    Am J Med 121:66-71. 2008
    ..Because of the established utility of this drug and with the eventual goal of enhancing safety of use, we performed a community-based study to evaluate this association...
  14. ncbi Nonautomatic focal atrial tachycardia: characterization and ablation of a poorly understood arrhythmia in 38 patients
    Janneke A E Kammeraad
    Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, 707 SW Gaines Road, Portland, OR 97201, USA
    Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 26:736-42. 2003
    ..In conclusion, NAFAT is a rare arrhythmia which predominantly affects women with no other associated cardiac disease. It mainly occurs in the right atrium, affects all ages and is amenable to catheter ablation...
  15. ncbi Cardiac pathologic findings reveal a high rate of sudden cardiac death of undetermined etiology in younger women
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore 97239, USA
    Am Heart J 146:635-9. 2003
    ..In contrast, the sudden cardiac death rate in age-matched men showed a decreasing trend (-2.8%). Due to under-representation of younger adults in published autopsy series, etiologies of sudden cardiac death merit further investigation...
  16. ncbi Global remodeling of the ventricular interstitium in idiopathic myocardial fibrosis and sudden cardiac death
    Benjamin T John
    Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
    Heart Rhythm 1:141-9. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: IMF involves diffuse and heterogeneous remodeling of the ventricular interstitium, with a predilection for the LV inferior wall. TGF-beta(1) is a potential mediator of interstitial remodeling in IMF and SCD...
  17. ncbi Arrhythmias after orthotopic heart transplantation
    Eric C Stecker
    Department of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97201, USA
    J Card Fail 11:464-72. 2005
    ..At the same time, autonomic denervation and altered anatomy after transplantation complicate drug and device therapies...
  18. ncbi Population-based analysis of sudden cardiac death with and without left ventricular systolic dysfunction: two-year findings from the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study
    Eric C Stecker
    Heart Rhythm Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
    J Am Coll Cardiol 47:1161-6. 2006
    ..The SCD cases with normal LV function had several distinguishing clinical characteristics. These findings support the aggressive development of alternative screening methods to enhance identification of patients at risk...
  19. ncbi Allelic variants of SCN5A and risk of sudden cardiac arrest in patients with coronary artery disease
    Eric C Stecker
    Heart Rhythm Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97239, USA
    Heart Rhythm 3:697-700. 2006
    ..Most sudden cardiac arrests occur in patients who have associated significant coronary artery disease (CAD), but current methods of risk stratification are inadequate...
  20. ncbi Incidence of sudden cardiac arrest is higher in areas of low socioeconomic status: a prospective two year study in a large United States community
    Kyndaron Reinier
    Heart Rhythm Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
    Resuscitation 70:186-92. 2006
    ..For effective deployment of strategies for community-based prevention such as the automated external defibrillator, neighborhood socioeconomic status is likely to be an important consideration...
  21. ncbi Native QRS duration predicts the occurrence of arrhythmic events in ICD recipients
    Eric C Stecker
    Heart Rhythm Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, UHN-62, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA
    Europace 8:859-62. 2006
    ..Extent of QRS prolongation could guide the decision to initiate prophylactic anti-arrhythmic therapy in ICD patients...
  22. ncbi Genetic basis for chamber-specific ventricular phenotypes in the rat infarct model
    Sumeet S Chugh
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA
    Cardiovasc Res 57:477-85. 2003
    ..The existence of this and other such distinct electrophysiologic phenotypes in right (RV) vs. left ventricles (LV) could be explained by chamber-specific patterns of gene expression...

Research Grants4

  1. Determinants of Sudden Death Risk with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    Sumeet Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..A postmortem, case control approach will be used to compare LV myocardial interstitial remodeling in a subgroup of SCD cases with isolated LVH, vs. controls with isolated LVH, vs. normal controls. ..
  2. Determinants of Sudden Death Risk with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    Sumeet S Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..A postmortem, case control approach will be used to compare LV myocardial interstitial remodeling in a subgroup of SCD cases with isolated LVH, vs. controls with isolated LVH, vs. normal controls. ..
  3. Determinants of Sudden Death Risk with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
    Sumeet Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..A postmortem, case control approach will be used to compare LV myocardial interstitial remodeling in a subgroup of SCD cases with isolated LVH, vs. controls with isolated LVH, vs. normal controls. ..
  4. Prolonged Ventricular Depolarization and Sudden Death in the Community
    Sumeet S Chugh; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....