Section Head Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Ochsner Clinic
Cardiology
Dr. Hector O. Ventura, MD
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Dr. Hector O. Ventura is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He over the years received 5 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Fellow (FACP)", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Fellow (FACC)". Hector Ventura is also a published physician. He has 87 paper published. The most recent paper is: The Obesity Paradox in Heart Failure: Is it All About Fitness, Fat, or Sex? Hector Ventura is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- The Obesity Paradox in Heart Failure: Is it All About Fitness, Fat, or Sex?
- Critical impact of fitness in the prevention and treatment of heart failure.
- Risks and benefits of weight loss in heart failure.
- Effects of Obesity and Weight Changes on Cardiac and Vascular Structure and Function: Does the Clinical Impact Carry Any Weight?
- Left-ventricular hypertrophy in obesity.
- Heart Failure in Ethnic Minorities: Slow and Steady Progress.
- Obesity Paradox, Cachexia, Frailty, and Heart Failure.
- Disparate effects of metabolically healthy obesity in coronary heart disease and heart failure.
- Clinical implications of weight loss in heart failure.
- Effects of left ventricular geometry and obesity on mortality in women with normal ejection fraction.
- Fragmented QRS Complexes-A Novel but Underutilized Electrocardiograhic Marker of Heart Disease.
- Racial/Ethnic differences in B-type natriuretic Peptide levels and their association with care and outcomes among patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings fr...
- Analyzing the weight of evidence on the obesity paradox and heart failure-is there a limit to the madness?
- Impact of Obesity and the Obesity Paradox on Prevalence and Prognosis in Heart Failure.
- Transcatheter Potts shunt: An innovative IDEA.
- Micronutrients in chronic heart failure.
- Aldosterone Antagonists: Evidence-Based Yet Underutilized Effective Heart Failure Therapy.
- Exercise training as treatment of depression in heart failure.
- Impact of obesity on outcomes in myocardial infarction combating the "obesity paradox".
- Association of Left Ventricular Geometry With Left Atrial Enlargement in Patients With Preserved Ejection Fraction.
- Should We Start Prescribing Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Chronic Heart Failure?
- Relationship between arterial impedance and concentric remodeling in patients with normal systolic function: impact on prevalence and survival.
- Left atrial volume index predictive of mortality independent of left ventricular geometry in a large clinical cohort with preserved ejection fraction.
- Progression from Concentric Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Normal Ejection Fraction to Left Ventricular Dysfunction.
- Geographic variations of acute heart failure syndromes The importance of clinical registries.
- Book Review: Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons Who Revolutionized Medicine, by David KC Cooper, MD, Kaplan Publishing, August 2010, Hardcover, 448 pages, ISBN-10: 16071...
- Nitroprusside in refractory heart failure.
- Weighing in on obesity and the obesity paradox in heart failure.
- Advances in mechanical circulatory support: year in review.
- Metabolic syndrome and heart failure--the risk, paradox, and treatment.
- Antihypertensive therapy for prehypertension: relationship with cardiovascular outcomes.
- The use of nitroprusside in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
- Heart transplantation for a patient with Kearns-Sayre syndrome and end-stage heart failure.
- Nitroprusside and the treatment of hypertension.
- Impact of exercise training and depression on survival in heart failure due to coronary heart disease.
- The "obesity paradox" in coronary heart disease.
- Heart failure in Hispanic patients: coming together?
- Body composition and heart failure prevalence and prognosis: getting to the fat of the matter in the "obesity paradox".
- Historical vignettes in heart failure.
- Value of weight reduction in patients with cardiovascular disease.
- The obesity paradox, weight loss, and coronary disease.
- Exercise training and heart failure in older adults-dismal failure or not enough exercise?
- Heart failure and cardiac catheterization.
- Clinical impact of left ventricular hypertrophy and implications for regression.
- High-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and prognosis in advanced heart failure.
- Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and cardiovascular diseases.
- New data on the clinical impact of exercise training, fish oils, and statins in heart failure.
- Obesity and cardiovascular disease: risk factor, paradox, and impact of weight loss.
- History of heart failure.
- Disparate effects of obesity and left ventricular geometry on mortality in 8088 elderly patients with preserved systolic function.
- Usefulness of heart rate as an independent predictor for survival after heart transplantation.
- Cardiovascular outcomes and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors: beyond blood pressure control. Editorial to: "Secondary prevention of coronary disease with ...
- Cardiac carcinoid.
- Dietary intake of nuts and cardiovascular prognosis.
- Obesity and hypertension, heart failure, and coronary heart disease-risk factor, paradox, and recommendations for weight loss.
- Metabolic parameters derived from cardiopulmonary stress testing for prediction of prognosis in patients with heart failure: the ochsner experience.
- Advanced heart failure and management strategies.
- The "obesity paradox": is smoking/lung disease the explanation?
- Successful transition from intravenous to inhaled prostacyclin in a patient with pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure.
- The obesity paradox: impact of obesity on the prevalence and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases.
- The eye as an indicator of heart failure in diabetic patients.
- Obesity, hypertension, and the heart.
- Impact of obesity on the risk of heart failure and its prognosis.
- Impact of left ventricular geometry on prognosis-a review of ochsner studies.
- Fish oil in primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention.
- Disparate effects of left ventricular geometry and obesity on mortality in patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.
- Is heart failure more prevalent in patients with peripheral arterial disease? A meta-analysis.
- Obesity, heart disease, and favorable prognosis--truth or paradox?
- Dickinson Woodruff Richards and cardiac catheterization.
- The obesity paradox and discrepancy between peak oxygen consumption and heart failure prognosis--it's all in the fat.
- CAMELOT tales: trials and tribulations of Sir Lancelot and Lady Guinevere.
- Peak oxygen consumption and heart failure prognosis in women.
- Research at ochsner clinic: highlights in its history.
- Understanding the basics of cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
- Left ventricular geometry and mortality in patients >70 years of age with normal ejection fraction.
- Adjunctive sildenafil for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension after mitral valve replacement.
- Osborn waves in sepsis.
- Comparison of cardiac and peripheral arterial stiffening and ventriculovascular uncoupling in patients with uncomplicated hypertension versus patients with hypertensio...
- Ancient Egyptian medicine and the concept of heart failure.
- Fish oils produce anti-inflammatory effects and improve body weight in severe heart failure.
- Edward D. Freis--a true pioneer.
- Left ventricular geometry and survival in patients with normal left ventricular ejection fraction.
- History vignettes in heart failure.
- H.J.C. "Jeremy" Swan, MD: in memory of his contributions to cardiovascular medicine.
- Preventive cardiology and non-invasive cardiology research at the ochsner clinic foundation.
- Lunar Society and the discovery of digitalis.
Schools
National University Of Buenes Aires School Of Medicine
Central Military Hospital Argentina
Internal Medicine Ochsner
National University Hospital Argentina
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACP)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Ochsner Clinic Foundation -
University of Buenos Aires
Hospital
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Ochsner Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1013940048 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | VENTURA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | HECTOR | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 701212429 | |
| NPPES Provider State | LA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiac Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 5551.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 43.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.77 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1013940048 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VENTURA |
| First Name Of The Provider | HECTOR |
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