Megha Agarwal, MD

• Cardio-Oncology
• Women and Heart Disease

1. Thomson L, Wei J, Agarwal M, Haft-Baradaran A, Shufelt C, Mehta P, Gill E, Johnson D, Kenkre T, Handberg E, Li D, Sharif B, Berman D, Petersen J, Pepine C, Bairey Merz CN. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Myocardial Perusion Reserve Index Is Reduced in Women With Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015;8:4
2. Minissian M, Agarwal M, Shufelt C, Mehta P, Bairey-Merz N, Do Women with Statin-related Myalgias have low Vitamin D Levels? BMC Research Notes. 2015;8:449. doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1356-9.
3. Ishimori M, Agarwal M, Beigel R, Ng R, Firooz N, Nugent L, Weisman M, Siegel R. Systemic lupus erythematosus cardiomyopathy- a case series demonstrating a reversible form of left ventricular dysfunction. Echocardiography 2014;31:563-568.
4. Agarwal M, Shufelt C, Mehta P, Gill E, Berman D, Li D, Sharif B, Li N, Bairey-Merz N, Thomson L. Cardiac Risk Factors and Myocardial Perfusion Reserve in Women with Microvascular Coronary Dysfunction. Cardiovasc Diagn and Ther. 2013 Sep; 3(3):146-52. PMID: 24282763
5. Shufelt CL, Thomson LE, Goykhman P, Agarwal M, Mehta PK, Sedlak T, Li N, Gill E, Samuels B, Azarbal B, Kar S,,Kothawade K, Minissian M, Slomka P, Berman DS, Bairey Merz CN. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging myocardial perfusion reserve index assessment in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction and reference controls. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. 2013 Sep; 3(3):153-160. PMID: 24282764
6. Mehta PK, Goykhman P, Agarwal M, Shufelt C, Slomka P, Yang Y, Xu Y, Shaw LJ, Berman DS, Bairey Merz CN, Thomson LJ. Reproducibility of Myocardial Perfusion Reserve – Variations in Measurements from Post Processing using Commercially Available Software. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 2012; 2(4)268-277. PMID: 24282727
7. Agarwal M, Mehta P, Dwyer J, Dwyer K, Shircore M, Nordstrom C, Sun P, Paul-Labrador M, Yang Y, Bairey-Merz N. Differing Relations to Early Atherosclerosis between Vitamin C from Supplements vs. Food in the Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study: A Prospective Cohort Study. Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2012;6:113-21. Epub 2012 Sep 7. PMID: 23002405
8. Perkel D, Naghi J, Agarwal M, Morrissey R, Phan A, Willix R, Schwarz ER The potential effects of IGF-1 for patients with chronic heart failure. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2012 Mar;17(1):72-8. PMID: 21454724
9. Agarwal M, Phan A, Wilcox R, Philip K, Schwarz ER. Is Vitamin D Deficiency Also Associated with Heart Failure?: a Review of Current Evidence. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Sep-Dec;16(3-4):354-63. PMID: 21304056
10. Agarwal M, Naghi J, Philip K, Phan A, Willix RD Jr, Schwarz ER. Growth Hormone and Testosterone in Heart Failure Therapy. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2010 Aug; 11(11):1835-44. PMID: 20486829

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• 2013 - Fellow of the Year, Cardiology, University of California Irvine

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