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James  D.  Bergin
Degree(s): M.D.
Graduate School: Tufts Univ
Primary Appointment: Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests:
Pathophysiology and treatment of heart failure.

Email Address: jdb5r@Virginia.EDU
Research Description

Principal Investigator. Medtronic REDUCE Heart Failure Study - Reducing Decompensation Events Utilizing Intracardiac Pressures in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure / Chronicle ICD. The study utilizes an extra ICD lead for measuring pulmonary pressures in patients with heart failure

Co-Investigator. ICD use was associated with reduced mortality in both ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy and in patients with implantable defibrillators: mortality data and mechanistic insights from the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT).

Co-Investigator. Rationale and Design of the Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Vasopressin Antagonism in Heart Failure: Outcome Study with Tolvaptan (EVEREST)

Principal Investigator. HDE - DeBakey VAD Child Ventricular Assist System, 2005.

Selected Publications
  • Lim DS, Bergin JD, Ragosta M. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy complicated by atrial septal defect and pulmonary hypertension. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2008 Apr 1;71(5):659-64. No abstract available.
  • Adams JD, Fedoruk LM, Tache-Leon CA, Peeler BB, Kern JA, Tribble CG, Bergin JD, Kron IL. Does preoperative ejection fraction predict operative mortality with left ventricular restoration? Ann Thorac Surg. 2006 Nov;82(5):1715-9; discussion 1719-20.
  • Hummel JP, Lindner JR, Belcik JT, Ferguson JD, Mangrum JM, Bergin JD, Haines DE, Lake DE, DiMarco JP, Mounsey JP. Extent of myocardial viability predicts response to biventricular pacing in ischemic cardiomyopathy. Heart Rhythm. 2005 Nov;2(11):1211-7.
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