Deepak K. Parashara, MD

Chief of Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Medical School, Dayanand Medical College, Punjab University
Residency, Boston V.A. Medical Center; Boston, MA
Fellowship, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center; Philadelphia, PA

Clinical Interests

• Invasive cardiology
• Interventional cardiology

Research Interests

• Invasive cardiology
• Interventional cardiology

Publications

• Parashara DK, Jacobs LE, Kotler MN, et al. Systolic indentation of the left ventricular outflow tract in Eisenmenger Syndrome. Echocardiography 1992;9;4:353-6.
• Parashara DK, Ledley GS, Kotler MN, Yazdanfar S. The combined presence of myocardial bridging and fixed coronary artery stenosis. Am Heart J 1993;125:1170-2.
• Parashara DK, Jacobs LE, Ledley GS, Yazdanfor S, et al. Intravascular Ultrasound for angiographically indeterminant left main coronary artery. Echocardiography 1994; 11;1:65-9.
• Parashara DK, Jacobs LE, Kotler MN, Yasdanfar S, et al. Systolic compression of coronary artery with pseudoaneurysm of mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa presenting as angina. Am Heart J 1995;129;417-21.
• Parashara DK, Kotler MN, Ledley GS, Yazdanfar S. Is selective internal mammary artery angiography a prerequisite to myocardial revascularization in patients with peripheral vascular disease? Cath and Cardio Diag 1994;32:343-5.

Research Projects

Active projects

Principal Investigator: A randomized, double-blind, triple dummy trial to compare Otomixaban to unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide in patients with unstable angina / non-ST elevation myocardial infarction scheduled to undergo an early invasive strategy (Protocol No. EFC6204), Sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis.