Armin Arbab-Zadeh, MD, MPH

Professional Titles

• Director, Cardiac Computed Tomography

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

Heart and Vascular Institute

Clinical Trial Keywords

Coronary Atherosclerosis; Coronary Artery Disease; Cardiac Computed Tomography

Videos

• Armin Zadeh, M.D. | Cardiac Computed Tomography

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests

Cardiac Computed Tomography, Coronary circulation and disease, Coronary risk prediction, Coronary/cardiac imaging, New approaches to identify patients at risk for suffering heart attacks, Prevention of Cardiac Events

Lab Website

CORE-320 Multicenter Trial Lab

• The central theme of the CORE-320 Multicenter Trial Lab's research is to support the Coronary Artery Evaluation Using 320-Row Multidetector CT Angiography (CORE 320) study, a multi-center multinational diagnostic study with the primary objective to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 320-MDCT for detecting coronary artery luminal stenosis and corresponding myocardial perfusion deficits in patients with suspected CAD compared with the reference standard of conventional coronary angiography and SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging. Armin Arbab-Zadeh, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Research Areas: coronary/cardiac imaging, coronary risk prediction, heart attack prevention, cardiac computed tomography, coronary circulation and disease

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?term=Arbab-Zadeh%20A&cmd=search&db=pubmed

Selected Publications

• Arbab-Zadeh A and Fuster V. The Myth of the Vulnerable Plaque.Transitioning from a focus on individual lesions to atherosclerotic plaque burden for coronary artery disease management. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2015;65:846-55.

   

• Arbab-Zadeh A and Hoe J. Quantification of coronary arterial stenoses by multi-detector computed tomography and correlation with conventional angiography: methods, caveats, and implications. Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging 2011;4:191-202.

   

• Arbab-Zadeh A, Carli MF, Cerci R, George RT, Chen MY, Dewey M, Niinuma H, Vavere AL, Betoko A, Plotkin M, Cox C, Clouse ME, Arai AE, Rochitte CE, Lima JA, Brinker J, Miller JM. Accuracy of CT Angiography and SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging 2015.

• Arbab-Zadeh A, Dijk E, Prasad A, Torres P, Fu Q, Zhang R, Thomas J, Palmer DM, Levine BD.  Effect of aging and physical activity on left ventricular compliance.  Circulation 2004;10:1799-1805.

   

• Arbab-Zadeh A, Miller JM, Rochitte C, Dewey M, Niinuma H, Gottlieb I, Paul N, Clouse M, Shapiro E, Hoe J, Lardo AC, Bush D, de Roos A, Cox C, Brinker J, Lima JAC.Diagnostic accuracy of CT coronary angiography according to coronary arterial calcification and pretest probability of coronary artery disease:The CORE-64 International, Multicenter Study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2012;59:379-87.

• Arbab-Zadeh A, Nakano M, Virmani R, Fuster V. Acute coronary events. Circulation    2012;125(9):1147-56.

• Arbab-Zadeh A, Perhonen M, Howden E, Peshock RM, Zhang R, Adams-Huet B, Haykowsky MJ, Levine BD. Cardiac Remodeling in Response to 1 Year of Intensive Endurance Training. Circulation. 2014 Dec 9;130(24):2152-61.

• Arbab-Zadeh A, Texter J, Ostbye KM, Kitagawa K, Brinker J, George RT,  Miller JH, Trost JC, Lange RA, Lima JAC, Lardo AC. Quantification of lumen stenoses with known dimensions by conventional angiography and computed tomography: implications for the use of angiography as a gold standard. Heart 2010;96:1358-1363.

• Arbab-Zadeh A. Stress testing and noninvasive coronary angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease: time for a new paradigm. Heart International 2012;7(1) e2:4-13.

• Arbab-Zadeh A. What does it take to retire invasive angiography. Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging  2016.

   

• Arbab-Zadeh A. What imaging characteristics determine risk of myocardial infarction and cardiac death? Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging 2015 Feb;8(2):e003081.

• Achenbach S, Arbab-Zadeh A, Cury R, Poon M, Weigold WG, editors. Cardiovascular CT Board Preparation by the SCCT. Society of Cardiovascular CT; 2012.

• Cerci R, VavereAL, Miller JM, Yoneyama K, Ninuma H, Dewey M, Rochitte C, Clouse ME, Laham R, Hoe J, Lardo AC, Cox C, Lima JA, Arbab-Zadeh A. Patterns of coronary arterial lesion calcification by a novel, cross-sectional CT angiographic assessment. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 2013 Oct;29(7):1619-27.

• Godoy G, Vavere AL, Miller JM, Niinuma H, Lemos P, Paul N, Hoe J, Clouse ME, Ramos CD, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Quantitative coronary arterial stenosis assessment by Multidetector Computed Tomography and Invasive Coronary Angiography for Identifying Patients with Myocardial Perfusion Abnormalities. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2012;19:922-30.

• Miller JM, Rochitte C, Dewey M, Arbab-Zadeh A, Niinuma H, Gottlieb I, Paul N, Clouse M, Shapiro E, Hoe J, Lardo AC, Bush D, de Roos A, Cox C, Brinker J, Lima JAC.Coronary artery evaluation using 64-row multidetector computed tomography angiography (CORE-64): results of a multicenter, international trial to assess diagnostic accuracy compared with conventional coronary angiography. New England Journal of Medicine 2008;359:2324-2336.

• Rahsepar AA and Arbab-Zadeh A. Stress Testing vs. CT Coronary Angiography for Evaluating Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: Review and Expert Recommendations.  Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports 2015.

• Rochitte CE, George RT, Chen MY, Arbab-Zadeh A, Dewey M, Miller JM, Niinuma H, Yoshioka K, Kitagawa K, Nakamori S, Laham R, Vavere AL, Cerci R, Mehra V, Nomura C, Kofoed KF, Jinzaki M, Kuribayashi S, De Roos A, Laule M, Swee Yaw T, Hoe J, Paul N, Rybicki FJ, Brinker J, Arai A, Cox C, Clouse ME, Di Carli MF, Lima JA. Computed tomography angiography and perfusion to assess coronary artery stenosis causing perfusion defects by SPECT: The CORE320 Study. European Heart Journal 2014;35:1120-30.

• Sharma A and Arbab-Zadeh A. Assessment of coronary heart disease by CT angiography: Current and evolving applications. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2012;19:796-806.

• Tanami Y, Jinzaki M, Kishi S, Matheson M, Vavere AL, Rochitte CE, Dewey M, Chen MY, Clouse ME, Cox C, Kuribayashi S, Lima JA, Arbab-Zadeh A. Lack of association between epicardial fat volume and extent of coronary artery calcification, severity of coronary artery disease, or presence of myocardial perfusion abnormalities in a diverse, symptomatic patient population: results from the CORE320 multicenter study. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging. 2015 Mar;8(3):e002676.

• Tanami Y, Miller JM, Vavere AL, Rochitte C, Dewey M, Niinuma H, Clouse ME, Cox C, Brinker J, Lima J, Arbab-Zadeh A. Nuclear stress perfusion imaging vs. ct coronary angiography for identifying patients with obstructive coronary artery disease as defined by conventional angiography: insights from the core-64 multicenter study. Heart International 2014; 9(1): 1 – 6.

• Yan R, Miller JM, Rochitte C, Dewey M, Niinuma H, Clouse ME, Vavere AL, Brinker J, Lima JAC, Arbab-Zadeh A. Predictors of inaccurate coronary arterial stenosis assessment by CT angiography. Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging 2013 Sep;6(9):963-72.

   

Courses & Syllabi

Cardiac CT Practicum - The Total Experience, Johns Hopkins University, http://jhucardiacct.org/content/cardiac-ct-practicum-total-experience, 1/11/16

Honors

• Fellow, American College of Cardiology
• Clinician Scientist Award, Johns Hopkins University
• Finalist, National Cardiology Fellow Forum of Excellence
• Young Investigator Award, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Memberships

• American College of Cardiology
• American Heart Association,
• American Medical Association
• American Society of Internal Medicine
• Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Professional Activities

• Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Guideline Writing Committee
• Society of Cardiovascular CT, Co-Director
• The CorE-320 Multicenter Study, Director
• The CorE-320 Multicenter Study, Steering Committee