Kevin Sharad Shah MD FACC, FHFSA

PubMed

• Integration of Patient Reported Quality-of-life Data into Risk Assessment in Heart Failure.
  Konstantinos Sideris, Mingyuan Zhang, Peter Wohlfahrt, Alfonso F Siu, Jincheng Shen
  Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2025-05-01
• Evaluating feasibility, health impact, and participant feedback of the Utah South Asian Cardiovascular Health Initiative (U-SACHI): A community-based screening and int...
  Kevin S Shah, Hafsa Zahid, Nagesh Gullapalli, Harini Krishnan, Korak Chakraborti
  Journal of Cardiology. 2025-03-19
• Epidemiology and Prognostic Significance of Acute Noncardiac Organ Dysfunction Across Cardiogenic Shock Subtypes.
  Anubodh S Varshney, Michael G Palazzolo, Christopher F Barnett, Erin A Bohula, James A Burke
  Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2025-02-25

Journal Articles

• Highlighting the South Asian Heart Failure Epidemic  
  Nikhilesh Srinivasan, Nagesh Gullapalli, Kevin S Shah, Cardiac Failure Reviews, 7/16/2024
• SGLT2 Inhibitors: Who Should Prescribe Them for Patients With Heart Failure?  
  Richard K. Cheng , Deidre M. Mooney , Christopher V. Chien , Kevin S. Shah , Amanda Vest , and John L. Jefferies, Journal of American College of Cardiology, 3/8/2021
• Challenges and the innovations in the care of advanced heart failure patients during COVID-19  
  Amin Yehya, Kevin S. Shah, Sumeet S. Mitter, Nasrien E. Ibrahim, Brett Sperry, Mahek Shah, Sunit-Preet Chaudhry, Navin Rajagopalan, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort, Rajeev Mo..., Heart Failure Reviews, 1/12/2021
• Stress Remains in the Eye of the Beholder  
  Kevin S Shah, Marat Fudim, JACC Case Reports, 2/5/2020
• Is Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction a Kidney Disorder?  
  Kevin S Shah, MD, James C Fang, MD, Current Hypertension Reports, 10/10/2019
• Takayasu’s Arteritis Presenting as Heart Failure in a 19-Year-Old Female  
  Andrew R. Benck, MD, Shivani Patel, MD, Emily Zern, MD, Kevin S. Shah, MD, Lillian R. Benck, MD, David Chang, MD, Chelsey J.F. Smith, MD, Michele A. Hamilton, MD, JACC: Case Reports, 10/2019
• Communication Skills The Art of Hearing What Is Not Said  
  Estefania Oliveros, MD, Yevgeniy Brailovsky, DO, MSC, Kevin S. Shah, MD, JACC: Case Reports, 10/2019
• Updates on Heart Transplantation.  
  Shah KS, Kittleson MM, Kobashigawa JA, Current Heart Failure Reports, 6/25/2019
• Complications After Heart Transplantation in Adults: an Update  
  Kevin S. Shah, Jon A. Kobashigawa, Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports, 4/2019
• Desensitization in Heart Transplant Recipients: Who, When, and How  
  Kevin Shah, Jignesh Patel, Clinical Transplantation, 1/30/2019
• Updates on Heart Transplantation  
  Kevin S Shah, Michelle M Kittleson, Jon A Kobashigawa, Current Heart Failure Reports, 11/8/2018
• Utilizing Biomarkers to Refine Risk Prediction in Atrial Fibrillation: A Step Towards Precision  
  Kevin S Shah, Elizabeth P Held, Journal of American College of Cardiology, 10/2018
• Perceived Barriers to Sacubitril/Valsartan Use in Patients with Heart Failure  
  Kevin S Shah, Boback Ziaeian, Freny V Mody, Ali Nsair, Gregg C Fonarow, Journal of Cardiac Failure
• Troponin in Heart Failure  
  Kevin S. Shah, Alan S. Maisel, Gregg C. Fonarow, Elsevier/Heart Failure Clinics, 1/1/2018
• Prognostic Usefulness of Proenkephalin in Stable Ambulatory Patients with Heart Failure  
  B Arbit, N Marston, K Shah, E Lee, H Aramin, P Clopton, AS Maisel, American Journal of Cardiology, 1/22/2016
• How B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) and Body Weight Changes Vary in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction compared to Reduced Ejection Fraction: Secondary Re...  
  Maisel AS, Shah KS, Barnard D, Jaski B, Frivold G, Marais J, Azer M, Miyamoto MI, Lombardo D, Kelsay D, Iqbal N, Taub PR, Kupfer K, Lee E, Clopton P, Zile M, Greenberg B., Journal of Cardiac Failure
• VAriability in Measurement of bnP In Routine Evaluation of heart failure (VAMPIRE).  
  Pam R. Taub, Kevin Shah, Kevin Jiang, Paul Clopton, Mitchell Saltzberg, Alan S. Maisel, Robert L. Fitzgerald, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology
• Outpatients with heart failure and low baseline BNP levels (<200 pg/mL) have the greatest magnitude of change when undergoing clinical decompensation. Journal of the A...  
  Pam R. Taub, Ellen Fitzpatrick, Kimberly Tran, Kevin Shah, Kevin Jiang, Paul Clopton, Mitchell Saltzberg, Robert Fitzgerald, Alan Maisel, the 2009 American College of Cardiology Conference
• Relationship of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels to S3 Detection and Strength in Emergency Department Patients with Acute Dyspnea: Secondary Results from the HEARD-IT...  
  Alan S. Maisel, W. Frank Peacock, Kevin S. Shah, Paul Clopton, Deborah Diercks, Brian Hiestand, Michael C. Kontos, Christian Mueller, Richard Nowak, Sean P. Collins., Am J Emerg Med
• Differential Release of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP) and B-type Natiuretic Peptide(BNP) in Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure:Secondary Results from the Biomark...  
  Alan Maisel, Salvatore Di Somma, Kevin Shah, Christian Mueller, Richard Nowak, W. Frank Peacock, MD, Piotr Ponikowski, Martin Mockel, Christopher Hogan, MD, Alan HB Wu..., ACute Heart Failure
• Review on natriuretic peptides: where we are, where we are going.  
  Kevin Jiang, Kevin Shah, Lori Daniels & Alan S Maisel, Expert Opinion
• Improved Mortality Associated with ACE-I and Beta Blocker Treatment in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: An Exploratory Analysis of the Biomarkers in Acu...  
  Alaeddin Ayyad, Niraj Parkekh, Kevin Shah, Paul Clopton, Inder Anand, Robert Christenson, Lori B. Daniels, Salvatore DiSomma, Gerasimos Filippatos, James McCord, Chris..., Journal of American College of Cardiology
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Books/Book Chapters

• The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine 
  Chapter: Cardiovascular System 
  Page 463 - 486Kevin S Shah, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Mehdi Nojo, Barbara Natterson-HorowitzEditors: Martin Brune and Wulf Schiefenhovel.Oxford University Press2018
• Baliga's Text Book of Internal Medicine: An Intensive Board Review Book with 1480 Multiple Choice Questions 
  Chapter: Biomarkers - TnI & BNP 
  Page 100 - 115Devin Kehl, Kevin Shah, Alan MaiselEditors: Baliga R.Blendon-MillerEdition 1,2018
• Cardiac Biomarkers 
  Chapter: Heart Failure: Natriuretic Peptide Use in the Hospital 
  Page 207 - 213Kevin Shah, James IwazEditors: Alan S Maisel, Alan Jaffe.SpringerEdition 1,2016
• Cardiac Biomarkers 
  Chapter: Caveats Using Natriuretic Peptide Levels 
  Page 227 - 236Trenton M. Gluck, Kevin Shah, Alan S. MaiselEditors: Alan S Maisel, Alan S Jaffe.SpringerEdition 1,2016
• Emergencies in Cardiology 
  Chapter: Biomarkers in Acute Care 
  Kevin S Shah, Vaishal M ToliaEditors: Peacock WF, Maisel AS..Jaypee Bros., New DehliEdition 1,
• Heart Failure How To Do It Right 
  Chapter: Management of the Patient with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction 
  Alan Maisel, Gerassimos Filippatos, Kevin Shah, Jeffrey ChanEditors: Maisel.Jaypee Brothers, IndiaEdition 1,2014
• European Society of Cardiology Acute Cardiac Care Textbook 
  Chapter: Biomarkers in Acute Heart Failure 
  Kevin Shah, Pam Rajendran, Alan MaiselEditors: Tubaro M.Oxford UniversityEdition 2,
• Heart Failure: How To Really Do It Right 
  Chapter: Heart Failure and ACS 
  Kevin Shah, Jeffrey ChanEditors: Maisel A.Edition 1,
• The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiac Care 
  Chapter: Biomarkers in Acute Heart Failure 
  Rajiv Choudhury, Kevin Shah, Alan MaiselEditors: Tubaro.OxfordEdition 2,
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Abstracts/Posters

• Significantly Elevated Lp(A) Concentrations among South Asians in Utah and Residual Cardiovascular Risk: Results from U-SACHI
  N Gullapalli, K Chakraborti , H Zahid , D Sundar, K Fernandez, A Nazeer, L Vayo , E Dranow, A Locke, K Sundar, KS Shah, American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, Atlanta, GA, 4/7/2024
• Comparing Sex Differences Within Cardiovascular Risk Among Utah South Asians Results from the U-SACHI
  K Chakraborti, N Gullapalli, H Zahid, K Sundar, K Fernandez, A Nazeer, L Vayo, E Dranow, A Locke, K Sundar; KS Shah., American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, Atlanta, GA, 4/6/2024
• Prevalence of Donor Specific Antibody in Heart Transplant Recipients with Antibody-Mediated Rejection as Compared to Abnormal Intragraft mRNA Transcripts by Molecular ...
  K. Shah, R. J. Levine, S. Dimbil, S. Sana, P. F. Halloran, J. Patel, D. H. Chang, E. Kransdorf, M. Kittleson, J. A. Kobashigawa, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, 6/2/2019
• Increasing Doses of Pain Medications Pre-Heart Transplant as a Risk Factor for Outcomes after Transplant
  K. Shah, D. H. Chang, J. Patel, R. J. Levine, S. Dimbil, E. Passano, J. A. Kobashigawa, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, 6/2/2019
• Heart Transplant Patients with Histologic Normal and Molecular Microscope Abnormal Biopsies: An Exploratory Analysis
  Kevin S Shah, Ryan Levine, Sean Sana, Philip F Halloran, Jon A Kobashigawa, ISHLT 2019 Scientific Program, Orlando, FL, 4/2019
• 5-Year Outcome of Photopheresis in Heart-Transplantation with Refractory/Persistent Rejection
  Jignesh Patel, Sadia Dimbil, Ryan Levine, Evan Kransdorf, Lawrence Czer, Robert Cole, Kevin Shah, Jon Kobashigawa, Cutting Edge of Transplantation 2019, Phoenix, AZ, 2/21/2019
• Do Patients with Significant Peripheral Arterial Disease Undergoing Heart Transplantation Have Acceptable Outcome Post Transplant?
  David Chang, Sadia Dimbil, Ryan Levine, Jignesh Patel, Robert Cole, Gabriel Esmailian, Nena Musto, Lawrence, Czer, Kevin Shah, Jon Kobashigawa, Cutting Edge of Transplantation 2019, Phoenix, AZ, 2/21/2019
• Increasing Use of Pain Medications as a Risk Factor for Outcomes After Heart Transplantation
  Kevin Shah, Jignesh Patel, Ryan Levine, Sadia Dimbil, Elizabeth Passano, Jon Kobashigawa, Cutting Edge of Transplantation, Phoenix, AZ, 2/21/2019
• Heart Transplant Patients with Abnormal Endomyocardial Biopsies by Histology and Normal Molecular Microscope Results: An Exploratory Analysis
  Kevin Shah, Sadia Dimbil, Ryan Levine, Sean Sana, Philip Halloran, Jignesh Patel, Jon Kobashigawa, Cutting Edge of Transplantation, Phoenix, AZ, 2/21/2019
• Dizziness, Clots, and Heart Failure: Reasons to Stay Out of the Lymelight
  Kevin S Shah , Daniel Heikali , and Pooya I Bokhoor, Circulation: Volume 138, Issue Suppl_1: Abstracts From the American Heart Association's 2018 Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL, 11/5/2018
• Perceived Barriers to Sacubitril/Valsartan Use in Patients with Heart Failure
  K Shah, B Ziaeian, F Mody, A Nsair, G Fonarow, Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Meeting, Nashville, TN, 9/16/2018
• A Rare Case of a Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy Complicated by Acute Pulmonary Emboli in the Setting of Antiphospholipid Syndrome with Successful Bridge To Heart Transplant...
  Kevin S Shah, Darko Vucicevic, Lillian Honoris, Arnold Baas, International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation, San Diego, CA, 4/5/2017
• Social Media Following and Cardiology Journal Impact Factor
  Kevin S Shah, American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, Washington, D.C, 3/18/2017
• An Atypical Presentation of a Common Cardiomyopathy
  Kevin S Shah, Jeffrey Hsu, American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session, Washington, D.C., 3/18/2017
• Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm: A Rare Cause of Complete Heart Block
  Saito A, Shah K, Joel I, Yang E, Critical Care Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 1/21/2017
• Copeptin As a Surrogate for Volume Status and Serial Monitoring in Heart Failure
  Shah K, Lee E, Marston N, Peacock WF, Filippatos G, Maisel A., American College of Cardiology, San Diego, CA, 3/15/2015
• Heart Failure Patients with Elevated Pro-Endothelin Have Improved Mortality on Statin Therapy.
  Iwaz J, Shah K, WF Peacock, G Filippatos, AS Maisel, American College of Cardiology, San Diego, CA, 3/14/2015
• Does Copeptin Provide Additional Risk Stratification in Chest Pain Patients With a Mild Troponin Elevation?
  Marston N, Shah K, Mueller C, Neath SX, Christenson R, McCord J, Nowak R, Vilke G, Daniels LB, Hollander J, Apple F, Cannon C, Nagurney J, Schreiber D, deFilippi C, Ho..., American Heart Association, Chicago, IL, 11/11/2014
• How BNP and Body Weight Changes Vary in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction compared to Reduced Ejection Fraction: Secondary Results of the HABIT (HF Assess...
  Shah K, Barnard D, Jaski B, Frivold G, Marais HJ, Azer M, Miyamoto M, Lombardo D, Kelsay D, Iqbal N, Taub P, Clopton P, Greenberg B, Maisel A, American College of Cardiology, Washington D.C., 3/31/2014
• Serial Sampling of Copeptin levels Improves Diagnosis and Risk Stratification in Patients presenting with Chest Pain: Results from the CHOPIN Trial.
  Nicholas A Marston, Kevin S Shah, Christian Mueller, Sean-Xavier Neath, Robert Christenson, James McCord, Richard M Nowak, Gary M Vilke, Lori B Daniels, Judd Hollander..., American College of Cardiology, Washington D.C., 3/30/2014
• Mid-regional Proadrenomedullin Predicts Long-term Mortality In Patients With Chest Pain
  Shah K, Marston N, Mueller C, Neath SX, Christenson R, McCord J, Hollander J, Apple F, Cannon C, Nagurney J, Schreiber D, Hogan C, Diercks D, Limkakeng A, Anand I, Jaf..., American College of Cardiology, Washington D.C., 3/29/2014
• 90-Day Mortality in Patients with Elevated Copeptin: Secondary Results from the Biomarkers in ACute Heart Failure (BACH) Study.
  Yang Xue, Kevin Shah, Alan S. Maisel., J Am. Coll. Cardiol
• Improved survival in patients with HFNEF discharged on beta blocker and ACE inhibitors
  Kevin Shah, Niraj Parekh, Paul Clopton, Inder Anand, Robert Christenson, Lori B Daniels, et al., American College of Cardiology, San Francisco
• Coccidioities Immitis Masquerading as Pott’s Disease.
  Deepak Asudani, Kevin Shah, Alfred Kaye, Society of Hospital Medicine, Maryland
• Comparison of a point-of-care method to measure BNP levels with a standard lab-based instrument in patients with congestive heart failure.
  Kevin Jiang, Kevin Shah, Garrett Terracciano, Sneha Bhamre, Albert Chiu, Emanuela Pentova, Diosdado Baja, Joseph Treister, Robert Fitzgerald, 2008 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Annual Meeting
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Lectures

• Considerations of Race and Ethnicity Use in Clinical Research 
  National Minority Alliance (Virtual - 10/22/2021
• COVID-19 & The Cardiovascular System: The Intersection of Research & Patient Care 
  Virtual Visiting Professor Lecture Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine - 3/3/2021
• AHA Conversation From the Heart -- Hypertension in South Asians: Recognizing and Managing High Blood Pressure 
  Virtual - 3/2/2021
• A Practical Approach to Cardiorenal Syndrome: APC Grand Rounds 
  Virtual - 11/6/2020
• COVID 19 Iceberg and Inflammatory Heart disease: Emerging Science during a pandemic 
  Virtual Cardiology Grand Rounds - 7/17/2020
• South Asian Patient at Elevated Cardiovascular Risk. How Does Ethnicity Impact Cardiometabolic Risk? 
  American College of Cardiology (ACC) 19 Scientific Sessions - 3/17/2019
• Case Presentation: South Asian Patient at Elevated Cardiometabolic Risk 
  2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019
• Treatment of the Sensitized Patient Pre-Transplant: What’s The Right Thing? 
  Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEoT) 2019 - 2/23/2019
• Not The Model Minority (of Health): Cardiovascular Disease and South Asians 
  Los Angeles, CA - 4/19/2017
• The Evolution of Cardiovascular Disease 
  Delmenhorst, Germany - 9/30/2016
• Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Can a Second Measurement of Copeptin Improve Acute Myocardial Infarction Rule Out? 
  University of California San Diego - 5/2014
• Mid-region pro-atrial natriuretic peptide and the diagnosis of heart failure in the setting of atrial fibrillation: an exploratory analysis of the biomarkers in acute ... 
  European Society of Cardiology Congress 2009: Barcelona, Spain
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