Alabama Chapter of the American College of Cardiology

2025 Ami Iskandrian Abstract Competition Winners

Research Category Winner: Lauren East, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham

Don't Cut That Out: Intracardiac Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Mimics Myxoma

Case Reports Category Winner: Akhilesh Gonuguntla, MBBS - University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Effect of Coronary Artery Calcium Score on Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome Staging: Insights from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

The Ami Iskandrian Young Investigator Abstract Poster Competition

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A Shocking Complication Following Cardioversion: CT Cracks the Conundrum

Soumyadeep Bag, MD, Catherine G. Meyers, BS, Final Rathi, DO, Dakota Turner, DO, Tanja Dudenbostel, MD, Kelsey Ivey, MD

From Diagnosis to Triumph: Confronting a Rare Case of Primary Cardiac Lymphoma

Soumyadeep Bag, MD, Pranayraj Kindapally, MD, Ali Hachem, MD, Frank Honkanem, MD, Farrah Ibrahim, MD

Role of Bioactive Lipid Mediators in Obesity and Resistant Hypertension

Soumyadeep Bag, MD, Shreya Sunil, Tampa Patra, Peng Li, Ganesh Halade, Vasundhara Kain, Tanja Dudenbostel

Don't Cut That Out: Intracardiac Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Mimics Myxoma

Lauren East MD, Daniel Duddleston MD, Laura Kukuc MD, Luke Joseph MD, Steven Lloyd MD PhD, & Marc Cribbs MD

Bevacizumab-Associated Heart Failure and Apical Thrombus Presenting as Acute Stroke: the Importance of Pre-Cancer Therapy Cardiovascular Risk Stratification

Grant Garrison, MD, Akhil Gonuguntla, MD, Alan Gambril, MD, Carrie Lenneman, MD

The Effect of Coronary Artery Calcium Score on Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome Staging: Insights from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Akhilesh Gonuguntla, MBBS, Anurag Tripathy, MD, Vibhu Parcha, MD, Stephen Clarkson, MD

Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 Inhibitor Use in Patients with Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Abhishek Kamath BS, Moses Sghayyer, MD, John LaForge, MD, Stephen A. Clarkson MD, MSPH

Mechanical Tricuspid Valve Thrombosis and Reversible Dysfunction: A Case Report

Mustafeez Ur Rahman, MD. Mohammad As Sayaideh , MD. Christopher Malozzi, DO. Bassam Omar, MD

Effect of High Platelet Reactivity on Adverse Events After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: The ADAPT-DES Study

Danial Saleem, Mahesh V. Madhavan, Björn Redfors, Thomas D. Stuckey, Bernhard Witzenbichler, Giora Weisz, Michael J. Rinaldi, Mengdan Liu, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Ajay J. Kirtane, Gregg W. Stone

SGLT2is in treatment of ATTR Cardiomyopathy and Concomitant DM

David Szarvas, MD, Syed Hyder, MD, Moses Sghayyer, MD, John LaForge, MD, Vibhu Parcha, MD, Stephen Clarkson, MD, MSPH

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Successful Combined Aortic and Mitral Valve Replacement in High Risk Patient with Rheumatic Heart Diseased

Mustafa Alkhawam MD, Ryan Wong MD, Panayotis N. Vardas MD, Hussein Abu Daya MD

Multimodality Imaging in a Patient with Multiple Diagnoses

Hycall Brooks IV; Andrew P. Miller, MD, FACC; Kyle W. Eudailey, MD

Pre-Operative Exposure to Physical Therapy for Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients

Lauren East MD, Joanna Joly MD, William Holman MD, John Lowman PT PhD CCS, Nicole Lohr MD PhD, Jose Tallaj MD, Peter Morris MD, Stephen Clarkson MD MSPH

Dyspnea and Beyond: Cardiac Sarcoidosis and the Critical Role of Early Imaging

Unwam Jumbo, MD; Mina Jacob, MD

Asymptomatic Hypoxemia: From Urgent Care to ECMO

John LaForge, MD; Joshua Furtney, MD; Keith Wille, MD, MSPH; Samuel McElwee, MD, FACC

Impact of Baseline Kidney Function Awareness on Physician Behavior and Outcomes During Invasive Cardiac Procedures

Hajira Malik, MD, Mariam Riad, MD, Madhuri S. Mulekar, Haris Manan, MD, Adam Miller, MD, Abdul Moiz Qureshi, MD, Sangya Sharma, MD, Nasser Lakkis, MD

Seeing Things: A Case of Ranolazine Induced Acute Neurological Toxicity

Preston Nicely, MD, Luke Joseph, MD, Danial Saleem, MD, Samuel McElwee, MD, and T. Sean Dunn, MD

Evaluation of Health Literacy in Cardiac Patients and Exploration of Social Determinants of Health in a Southern US-based University Hospital

Celestine Odigwe MD, Mayfield, Hanna, Mulyala, Rajasekhar MD, Riad, Mariam MD, Mulekar, Madhuri Ph.D,

Malozzi, Christopher DO, FACC, Lakkis, Nasser MSc-MD, FACC, Omar Bassam MD, Ph.D, FACC

Heart Failure Due to Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Dehiscence: Diagnosis and Management

Usama M. Oguz; Mohammad As Sayaideh; Celestine I. Odigwe; Nagaraj Sanchitha Honganur; Alexis Parks; Christopher Michael Malozzi; Bassam A. Omar

Reanalyzing the ISCHEMIA Trial: Identifying Key Predictors of Primary Outcome Using Machine Learning

Sahaj Patel; Akhil Pampana; Mokshad Gaonkar; Nirva Patel; Naman Shetty; Abdulla Shahid; Nehal Vekariya; Garima Arora; Pankaj Arora

Lipomatous Atrial Septal Hypertrophy Causing Superior Vena Cava Obstruction: A Systematic Review

Prutha Pathak, Siddharth Patel, Jason Mathew, Amogh Reddy, Ashish Basu, Hinal Rathi, Mahmoud Abodorra

Rare Complication of Myocardial infarction: Ventricular Septal Defect

Brent Ruiz, MD; Hajira Malik, MD; Celestine Odigwe, MD; Alexis Parks, MD, Sanchitha Honganur, MD; Mohammad Sayaideh, MD; Bassam Omar, MD, PhD

"Unexpected Breakthrough" -- Subacute ICD Lead Perforation Resulting in Cardiac Tamponade

Thomas Ruli, Jr., MD, Usman Hasnie, MD, William Maddox, MD, Samuel McElwee, MD

Higher Modified Body Mass Index is Associated with Decreased Mortality and Bleeding After Treatment for Severe PE

Danial Saleem, Mahesh V. Madhavan, Caroline Der Nigoghossian, Elissa Driggin, Shayan N. Nouri, John Burton, Heidi Lumish, Michael Lavelle, Jianhua Li, Erika B. Rosenzweig, Koji Takeda, Ajay J. Kirtane, Justin Fried, Daniel Brodie, Cara Agerstrand, Andrew J. Einstein, Matthew Maurer, Sahil A. Parikh, Sanjum S. Sethi, Matthew T. Finn

Discovery of a Pericardial Cyst in a Case of Pulmonary Embolism

Sangya Sharma, DO, Mariam Riad, MD , Bassam Omar, MD,Christopher Malozzi, DO

Hand-Injection Left Ventriculogram Causes Poor Opacification and Inaccurate Conclusions

Sangya Sharma, DO, Usama Oguz, MD, Bassam Omar, MD, Christopher Malozzi, DO

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Associated With Lenvatinib and Pembrolizumab Therapy

Sangya Sharma, DO, Mariam Riad, MD, Celeste Trice, DO, Bassam Omar, MD, Christopher Malozzi, DO

Myocarditis in Meningococcemia

Hamid A. K. Shirwany, MD

Chest Pain in a Young Woman: Challenges in Risk-Stratifying Anomalous Coronary Arteries

Jack Simmons, MD, Grant Garrison, MD, Danial Saleem, MD, Lauren East, MD, Hareem Farooq, MD, Darryl Prime, MD, Nicole Lohr, MD