Dr. Robert Levine, MD

• Cardiology

• Internal Medicine

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• Mass General Hospital

  Fellowship Hospital

• Mt Sinai Hospital Nyc

  Fellowship Hospital

• Harvard Medical School

  Medical School

• Massachusetts General Hospital

  Residency Hospital, 1972

• Boston Medical Center

  Internship Hospital, 1971

• Mitral Valve Area During Exercise After Restrictive Mitral Valve Annuloplasty Importance of Diastolic Anterior Leaflet Tethering, 2015-02-10

• Impact of Mitral Regurgitation on Exercise Capacity and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Ischemic Left Ventricular Dysfunction, 2011-09-21

• Gene Delivery of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium ATPase Inhibits Ventricular Remodeling in Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation, 2010-07-15

• Reciprocal interactions between mitral valve endothelial and interstitial cells reduce endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition and myofibroblastic activation, 2015-01-26

• Echocardiography Quantified Myocardial Strain - a Marker of Global and Regional Infarct Size that Stratifies Likelihood of Left Ventricular Thrombus, 2017-08-22

• Research Opportunities in the Treatment of Mitral Valve Prolapse, 2022-12-13

• Consequences of mitral valve prolapse on chordal tension:Ex vivoandin vivostudies in large animal models, 2011-09-28

• Role of LA Shape in Predicting Embolic Cerebrovascular Events in Mitral Stenosis Mechanistic Insights From 3D Echocardiography, 2015-03-18

• Relief of Mitral Leaflet Tethering Following Chronic Myocardial Infarction by Chordal Cutting Diminishes Left Ventricular Remodeling, 2010-09-08

• Effect of Myocardial Perfusion Pattern on Frequency and Severity of Mitral Regurgitation in Patients With Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease, 2014-05-16

• Impact of Left Ventricular to Mitral Valve Ring Mismatch on Recurrent Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation after Ring Annuloplasty, 2016-10-25

• Late Repair of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation does not Prevent Left Ventricular Remodeling: Importance of Timing for Beneficial Repair, 2013-09-10

• Response to Letter Regarding Article Familial Clustering of Mitral valve Prolapse in the Community, 2015-10-06

• Mitral Valve Enlargement in Chronic Aortic Regurgitation as a Compensatory Mechanism to Prevent Functional Mitral Regurgitation in the Dilated Left Ventricle, 2013-02-28

• Multiplanar strain quantification for assessment of right ventricular dysfunction and non-ischemic fibrosis among patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation, 2017-09-29

• A simplified D-shaped model of the mitral annulus to facilitate CT-based sizing before transcatheter mitral valve implantation, 2014-10-07

• Early Expression of Mitral Valve Prolapse in the Framingham Offspring: Phenotypic Spectrum, 2013-10-24

• Prothymosin alpha, a novel contributor to estradiol receptor alpha-mediated CD8+T-cell pathogenic responses and recognition of type 1 collagen in rheumatic heart valve disease, 2022-02-14

• Genetic association analyses highlight biological pathways underlying mitral valve prolapse, 2015-08-24

• Dynamic Changes of the Mitral Valve Annulus: A New Look at Mitral Valve Diseases, 2015-04-27

• Basic Mechanisms of Mitral Regurgitation, 2014-07-02

• Mitral Valve Dysfunction in Patients With Annular Calcification, 2022-08-16

• Atrioventricular Valve Development: New Perspectives on an Old Theme, 2012-05-11

• Effect of Losartan on Mitral Valve Changes After Myocardial Infarction, 2017-09-05

• A soft robotic sleeve mimicking the haemodynamics and biomechanics of left ventricular pressure overload and aortic stenosis, 2022-09-26

• Tissue-Based Markers of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Assessed via Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Three-Dimensional Echocardiography, 2018-11-20

• The Evolution of Mitral Valve Prolapse: Insights from the Framingham Heart Study, 2016-03-22

• CD45 Expression in Mitral Valve Endothelial Cells After Myocardial Infarction, 2016-10-06

• Fact or Artifact in Two-Dimensional Echocardiography: Avoiding Misdiagnosis and Missed Diagnosis, 2016-03-09

• Saddle-shaped mitral valve annuloplasty rings improve leaflet coaptation geometry, 2011-02-16

• Myocardial Contractile Mechanics in Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation - Multicenter Data Using Stress Perfusion Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2022-05-11

• Anatomy of the Mitral Valve Apparatus - Role of 2D and 3D Echocardiography, 2013-04-15

• Familial Clustering of Mitral Valve Prolapse in the Community, 2014-10-31

• Atrial Fibrillation and Mitral Valve Prolapse: Time to Intervene?, 2019-01-29

• Functional mitral stenosis after surgical annuloplasty for ischemic mitral regurgitation: Importance of subvalvular tethering in the mechanism and dynamic deterioration during exertion, 2010-02-01

• Translational Research on the Mitral Valve: from Developmental Mechanisms to New Therapies, 2011-09-07

• Left Ventricular Geometry Predicts Optimal Response to Percutaneous Mitral Repair via MitraClip - Integrated Assessment by Two- and Three-Dimensional Echocardiography, 2019-02-21

• Primary cilia defects causing mitral valve prolapse, 2019-05-22

• Does the Flow Know? Mitral Regurgitant Jet Direction and Need for Valve Repair in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy, 2021-01-25

• TargetedMybpc3Knock-Out Mice with Cardiac Hypertrophy Exhibit Structural Mitral Valve Abnormalities, 2015-04-21

• Polymer Injection Therapy to Reverse Remodel the Papillary Muscles: Efficacy in Reducing Mitral Regurgitation in a Chronic Ischemic Model, 2010-08-24

• GWAS-driven Gene-set Analyses, Genetic and Functional Follow-up SuggestGLIS1as a Susceptibility Gene for Mitral Valve Prolapse, 2019-04-24

• Impact of left atrial compliance improvement on functional status after percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty, 2018-09-23

• Novel Heart Failure Biomarkers Predict Improvement of Mitral Regurgitation in Patients Receiving Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-The BIOCRT Study, 2016-06-02

• Progression of Tricuspid Regurgitation after Surgery for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation, 2021-02-16

• Mitral regurgitation post infarction: The mitral valve adapts to the times, 2020-12-15

• Myocardial Infarction Alters Adaptation of the Tethered Mitral Valve, 2016-01-26

• Learning curve for quantification of right ventricular size and systolic function in pulmonary arterial hypertension: comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance and three-dimensional echocardiography, 2012-02-01

• Ovine Model of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation, 2018-10-18

• Progression of Mitral Regurgitation in Rheumatic Valve Disease: Role of Left Atrial Remodeling, 2022-03-11

• Developmental basis of adult cardiovascular diseases Valvular heart diseases, 2012-06-03

• Leaflet Area as a Determinant of Tricuspid Regurgitation Severity in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension, 2015-04-27

• Mechanical effects of MitraClip on leaflet stress and myocardial strain in functional mitral regurgitation - A finite element modeling study, 2019-10-10

• Mitral Regurgitation After Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty Insights Into Mechanisms and Impact on Clinical Outcomes, 2020-09-16

• Integration of Functional Imaging, Cytometry, and Unbiased Proteomics Reveals New Features of Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Ischemic Mitral Valve Regurgitation in Human Patients, 2021-08-12

• Mitral Valve Prolapse: Multimodality Imaging and Genetic Insights, 2017-11-06

• Mutations inDCHS1Cause Mitral Valve Prolapse, 2015-08-10

• Direct planimetry of the left ventricular outflow tract area by simultaneous biplane imaging: Challenging the need for a circular assumption of the left ventricular outflow tract in the assessment of aortic stenosis, 2021-03-11

• Design of a Catheter-Based Device for Performing Percutaneous Chordal-Cutting Procedures, 2009-06-01

• Myocardial Perfusion Pattern for Stratification of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Response to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, 2015-07-29

• The Auditory Midbrain of People with Tinnitus: Abnormal Sound-Evoked Activity Revisited, 2009-08-20

• Mitral Valve Adaptation: Can We Win the Race?, 2018-03-09

• Filamin-A as a balance between Erk/Smad activities during cardiac valve development, 2018-10-05

• Application of polymer-mesh device to remodel left ventricular-mitral valve apparatus in ischemic mitral regurgitation, 2017-11-14

• Transvalvular Flow Rate Determines Prognostic Value of Aortic Valve Area in Aortic Stenosis, 2020-04-21

• Malignant Mitral Valve Prolapse: Risk and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death, 2022-03-22

• Diastolic Leading to Systolic Anterior Motion New Technology Reveals Physiology, 2014-11-03

• Transcatheter MitraClip repair alters mitral annular geometry - device induced annular remodeling on three-dimensional echocardiography predicts therapeutic response, 2019-12-26

• Human pre-valvular endocardial cells derived from pluripotent stem cells recapitulate cardiac pathophysiological valvulogenesis, 2019-04-26

• Relations of Augmented Systolic Annular Expansion and Leaflet/Papillary Muscle Dynamics in Late-Systolic Mitral Valve Prolapse Evaluated by Echocardiography with a Speckle Tracking Analysis, 2021-02-10

• Relative Impact of Surgical Mitral Repair and MitraClip on Annular Remodeling - A Potential Mechanism for Therapeutic Response to Mitral Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation, 2021-09-10

• Mitral Apparatus Assessment by Delayed Enhancement CMR - Relative Impact of Infarct Distribution on Mitral Regurgitation, 2014-04-24

• Mitral Valve Mechanics Following Posterior Leaflet Patch Augmentation, 2013-03-26

• Proinflammatory Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 Associates With Mitral Valve Leaflet Disruption Following Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty, 2022-01-20

• Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony and the Mitral Valve Apparatus: An Orchestra That Needs to Play in Sync, 2019-01-16

• Genetics of syndromic and non-syndromic mitral valve prolapse, 2018-01-19

• Mitral Valve Prolapse A Disease of Valve and Ventricle*, 2018-08-21

• Efficacy of Polymer Injection for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation Persistent Reduction of Mitral Regurgitation and Attenuation of Left Ventricular Remodeling, 2015-01-14

• Utilization of Engineering Advances for Detailed Biomechanical Characterization of the Mitral-Ventricular Relationship to Optimize Repair Strategies: A Comprehensive Review, 2023-05-17

• Surgical as Opposed to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Improves Basal Septal Hypertrophy, 2018-08-22

• Mitral Leaflet Changes Following Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Evidence for Maladaptive Valvular Remodeling, 2017-09-27

• Exercise Dynamics in Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Implications, 2017-01-17

• Attenuated Mitral Leaflet Enlargement Contributes to Functional Mitral Regurgitation After Myocardial Infarction, 2020-02-04

• Undersized Mitral Annuloplasty Increases Strain in the Proximal Lateral Left Ventricular Wall, 2016-10-05

• Left Atrial Strain Impairment Precedes Geometric Remodeling as a Marker of Post-Myocardial Infarction Diastolic Dysfunction, 2020-08-19

• Mitral Valve Adaptation to Isolated Annular Dilation: Insights into the Mechanism of Atrial Functional Mitral Regurgitation, 2017-12-13

• Right Ventricular Dysfunction Impairs Effort Tolerance Independent of Left Ventricular Function Among Patients Undergoing Exercise Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, 2016-10-25

• Histopathological insights into mitral valve prolapse-induced fibrosis, 2023-03-07

• Ecocardiografia tridimensional. Nuevas perspectivas sobre la caracterizacion de la valvula mitral, 2010-01-15

• Different characteristics of heart failure due to pump failure and bradyarrhythmia, 2014-12-06

• Impact of Net Atrioventricular Compliance on Clinical Outcome in Mitral Stenosis, 2013-10-04