Professor, Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Cardiology
Dr. David J. Skorton, MD
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Dr. David J. Skorton is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He graduated from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has a rank of 19 in research and a 29 in primary care He has 1 awards "Elected Member". David Skorton has written publications. He has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: '28th Bethesda Conference. Task Force 5: Assessment, approval, and regulation of new technology.'
Publications
- Congenital heart disease in adults: catheterization laboratory considerations.
- Recertification: mandatory or voluntary? Teaching old docs new tricks.
- Estimation of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Semiautomated Edge Detection.
- Joseph K. Perloff.
- Echocardiographic evaluation of isolated pulmonary valve disease in adolescents and adults.
- 28th Bethesda Conference. Task Force 5: Assessment, approval, and regulation of new technology.
- 'Current perspective': magnetic resonance imaging in coronary artery disease.
- Multicenter trial of automated border detection in cardiac MR imaging.
- Automated myocardial edge detection on MR images: accuracy in consecutive subjects.
- Nonangiographic assessment of coronary artery bypass graft patency.
- Training in the care of adult patients with congenital heart disease.
- Cardiac ultrasound. Progress and prospects.
- Task Force 1: The underserved.
- Detection of myocardial viability with ultrasound tissue characterization: myocardial contrast echocardiography and integrated backscatter imaging.
- The use of imaging techniques for cardiovascular tissue characterization: determinants of myocardial image intensity.
- Guidelines for training in adult cardiovascular medicine. Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS). Task Force 9: training in the care of adult patients with congen...
- Quantification of myocardial ischemia and infarction by left ventricular imaging.
- Accuracy of the echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic regurgitation.
- An unusual mechanism for a fistulous communication between the aorta and right side of the heart.
- Flail aortic valve leaflets: M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic manifestations.
- Digital image processing of two dimensional echocardiograms: identification of the endocardium.
- Adverse reactions to cardiovascular drugs (Part II--Antiarrhythmic agents).
- The metacarpal index in spontaneous pneumothorax.
- Quantification of left ventricular function by two-dimensional echocardiography: consideration of factors restricting image quality.
- In vivo quantitation of regional myocardial blood flow by positron-emission computed tomography.
- Immediate diagnosis of acute myocardial contusion by two-dimensional echocardiography: studies in a canine model of blunt chest trauma.
- Heterogeneity of left ventricular segmental wall thickening and excursion in 2-dimensional echocardiograms of normal human subjects.
- Quantitative texture analysis in two-dimensional echocardiography: application to the diagnosis of experimental myocardial contusion.
- Detection of acute myocardial infarction in closed-chest dogs by analysis of regional two-dimensional echocardiographic gray-level distributions.
- Adverse reactions to cardiovascular drugs (part 1).
- Mitral valve A wave and mitral stenosis.
- Computer-assisted edge detection in two-dimensional echocardiography: comparison with anatomic data.
- In vitro analysis of boundary identification techniques used in quantification of two-dimensional echocardiograms.
- Rethrombosis after reperfusion with streptokinase: importance of geometry of residual lesions.
- Ultrasonic backscatter and collagen in normal ventricular myocardium.
- Ebstein's anomaly and pregnancy.
- Automatic real-time endocardial edge detection in two-dimensional echocardiography.
- Rational gain compensation for attenuation in cardiac ultrasonography.
- Range- and azimuth-dependent variability of image texture in two-dimensional echocardiograms.
- Computer-assisted quantitation of myocardial fibrosis in histologic sections.
- Computerized three-dimensional finite element reconstruction of the left ventricle from cross-sectional echocardiograms.
- Diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis by two-dimensional echocardiography: studies in a new experimental model and in patients.
- Variation of left ventricular myocardial gray level on two-dimensional echocardiograms as a result of cardiac contraction.
- Congenital heart disease in the adolescent: an Iowa perspective.
- Computerized boundary identification in two-dimensional echocardiography: wishful thinking or a reality?
- Effects of psychotropic drugs on the cardiovascular system.
- Relations between 2-dimensional echocardiographic wall thickening abnormalities, myocardial infarct size and coronary risk area in normal and hypertrophied myocardium ...
- Digital signal and image processing in echocardiography. The American Society of Echocardiography.
- Artifactual regional gray level variability in contrast-enhanced two-dimensional echocardiographic images: effect on measurement of the coronary perfusion bed.
- Two-dimensional echocardiographic image texture analysis: reduction of regional variability using polar coordinates.
- Myocardial infarct size threshold for two-dimensional echocardiographic detection: sensitivity of systolic wall thickening and endocardial motion abnormalities in smal...
- New directions in cardiac imaging.
- Assessment of fibrosis in infarcted human hearts by analysis of ultrasonic backscatter.
- Computers in cardiac imaging.
- Two-dimensional echocardiography in coronary artery disease: present status and new directions.
- Ultrasound study of acoustic properties of the normal canine heart: comparison of backscatter from all chambers.
- Alterations in ventricular excitability in conscious dogs during development of chronic heart failure.
- Measurement of left ventricular mass in vivo using gated nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.
- Life insurance for children with cardiovascular disease.
- Measurement of right ventricular volume using cine computed tomography.
- Dominantly inherited dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Finite element analysis of myocardial diastolic function using three-dimensional echocardiographic reconstructions: application of a new method for study of acute isch...
- Ultrasound characterization of acute myocardial ischemia by quantitative texture analysis.
- Sectional and segmental variability of left ventricular function: experimental and clinical studies using ultrafast computed tomography.
- Videodensitometric analysis of human coronary stenoses: validation in vivo by intraoperative high-frequency epicardial echocardiography.
- Visual estimates of percent diameter coronary stenosis: "a battered gold standard".
- The evolution of echocardiography.
- Ultrasound characterization of acoustic properties of acute intracardiac thrombi: studies in a new experimental model.
- Videodensitometric analysis of coronary stenoses. In vivo geometric and physiologic validation in humans.
- Quantitation in echocardiography.
- Ultrasound bioeffects and regulatory issues: an introduction for the echocardiographer.
- Clinical potential of ultrasound tissue characterization in cardiomyopathies.
- The effect of coronary angioplasty on coronary flow reserve.
- Changes in cross-sectional area of the coronary lumen in the six months after angioplasty: a quantitative analysis of the variable response to percutaneous translumina...
- Determination of left ventricular mass in dogs with rapid-acquisition cardiac computed tomographic scanning.
- Feasibility of identifying amyloid and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with the use of computerized quantitative texture analysis of clinical echocardiographic data.
- Chronic hypoxaemia and decompensated erythrocytosis in cyanotic congenital heart disease.
- Echocardiographic assessment of schizophrenics and manics: a reexamination of early necropsy findings.
- Tissue determinants of nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation times. Effect of water and collagen content in muscle and tendon.
- In vitro NMR characterization of mammalian myocardium: effect of specimen integrity on relaxation times.
- Ultrasound tissue characterization: can the state of the myocardium be assessed directly yet noninvasively?
- Nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry of the normal heart: relationship between collagen content and relaxation times of the four chambers.
- Cyclic variation of ultrasound backscatter in normal myocardium is view dependent: clinical studies with a real-time backscatter imaging system.
- Noninvasive assessment of myocardial composition and function in the hypertrophied heart.
- Exercise echocardiography and quantitative angiography: improved identification of physiologically significant coronary artery stenoses.
- Characterization of acute experimental left ventricular thrombi with quantitative backscatter imaging.
- How will we treat our number one killer?
- Cardiac evaluation of the patient with stroke.
- Effect of tissue fat and water content on nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation times of cardiac and skeletal muscle.
- Tissue characterization of chronic myocardial infarction.
- Magnetic resonance characterization of blood coagulation in vitro. Effect of platelet depletion.
- Automated identification of left ventricular borders from spin-echo magnetic resonance images. Experimental and clinical feasibility studies.
- Ultrafast computed tomography in cardiac imaging: a review.
- Diagnosis of recent myocardial infarction with quantitative backscatter imaging: preliminary studies.
- Quantitation of the extent of acute myocardial infarction by phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- The evaluation of coronary bypass graft patency: direct and indirect techniques other than coronary arteriography.
- Insurability and employability.
- Myocardial collagen concentration and nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation times in the spontaneously hypertensive rat.
- Interventricular differences in myocardial T2 measurements: experimental and clinical studies.
- Effects of instrument adjustments on quantitative echocardiographic gray level texture measures.
Schools
Northwestern Center Feinberg School of Medicine
Uc Los Angeles Center Health Science
Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Elected Member
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hospital
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NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
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