Selected Publications

Ravishankar C: Editorial: The interstage period after Stage II is just as “risky” as the traditional interstage period in HLHS.(accepted for publication). JACC Advances 2024.

C Goldberg, F Trachtenberg, JW Gaynor, W Mahle, C Ravishankar, SM Schwartz, J Cnota, R Ohye, R Gongwer, M Taylor, S Paridon, P Frommelt, K Afton, A Atz, K Burns, J Detterich, K Hill, A Cabrera, A Lewis, C Pizarro, A Shah, B Sharma, and J Newburger: Longitudinal follow-up of children with HLHS and association between Norwood shunt type and long-term outcomes: The Single Ventricle Reconstruction III Study. Circulation 148(17): 1330-1339. October 2023.

Balsara SL, Burstein D, Ittenbach RF, Kaplinski M, Gardner MM, Ravishankar C, Rossano J, Goldberg DJ, Mahle M, O'Connor MJ, Mascio CE, Gaynor JW, Preminger TJ.: Combined ventricular dysfunction and atrioventricular valve regurgitation after the Norwood procedure are associated with attrition prior to superior cavopulmonary connection. JTCVS Open 16: 714-725. October 2023.

Kathryn O. Stack MD, Charlotte Schluger BA, Amy L. Roberts PhD, Kendall Lawrence MD, Sheri Balsara MD, Mallory Hunt MD, Michelle Kaplinski MD MPH5, Monique M. Gardner MD, Chitra Ravishankar MD, Joseph Rossano MD, David J. Goldberg MD, Marlene Mahle BS, Matthew J. O’Connor MD, Christopher E. Mascio MD, J. William Gaynor MD, Danielle Burstein MD : Impact of Ventricular Dysfunction and Atrioventricular Valve Regurgitation on Pre-Fontan Attrition. Ann Thorac Surg 116(4): 778-785. October 2023.

Thomas A. Miller, Edgar J. Hernandez, J. William Gaynor3, Mark W. Russell, Jane W. Newburger, Wendy Chung, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, James F. Cnota, Sinai C. Zyblewski, William T. Mahle, Victor Zak, Chitra Ravishankar, Jonathan R. Kaltman, Brian W. McCrindle, Shanelle Clarke, Jodie K. Votava-Smith, Eric M. Graham, Mike Seed, Nancy Rudd, Daniel Bernstein, Teresa M. Lee6, Mark Yandell, Martin Tristani-Firouzi : Genetic and clinical variables act synergistically to impact neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with single ventricle heart disease. Commun Med 3(1): 127, September 2023.

Shustak R, Huang J, Tam JV, Stagg A, Giglia T, Ravishankar C, Mercer-Rosa L, Guevara J, Gardner M.: Neighborhood Social Vulnerability and Interstage Weight Gain: Evaluating the Role of a Home Monitoring Program. J Am Heart Ass 12(18): e030029, September 2023.

Rachel J. Shustak, MD MSCE; Jennifer Faerber, PhD; Alyson Stagg, CRNP; Chitra Ravishankar, MD; Laura Mercer‐Rosa, MD, MSCE; Therese M. Giglia, MD; Monique M. Gardner, MD: COVID-19 Infections and Interstage Patients (Poster). World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery August 2023.

Therese M. Giglia, MD; Rachel A. Keashen, CRNP; Whitney Petrosa, MSN, CPNP-AC Jacquelyn Sager, MSN, CRNP; Bhavya S. Doshi, MD; Nina R. Griffonetti; Michele P. Lambert, MD, MSTR; Jarrett Linder, MD, MS; Xianqun Luan; Karen Murphy, RN, BSN; Shobha S. Natarajan, MD; Matthew J. O’Connor, MD; Chitra Ravishankar, MD; Benjamin J. Samelson-Jones, MD, PhD; Kelly L. Veneziale, RN, BSN; Jamie Weller, MD; Hilary B. Whitworth, MD, MSCE; Kyle Winser; Char Witmer, MD, MSCE; Leslie J. Raffini, MD, MSCE: Novel Multidisciplinary Program Correlates With Reduction In Thrombosis Rate In Inpatients with Pediatric Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease (Oral presentation). World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery 2023 August 2023.

Stagg A, Giglia TM, Gardner MM, Shustak RJ, Natarajan SS, Hehir DA, Szwast AL, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C, Preminger TJ: Feasibility of Digital Stethoscopes in Telecardiology Visits for Interstage Monitoring in Infants with Palliated Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol Page: 1-8, June 2023.

O'Byrne ML, Song L, Huang J, Lemley B, Goldberg D, Gardner MM, Ravishankar C, Rome JJ, Glatz AC. : Attributable mortality benefit of digoxin treatment in hypoplastic left heart syndrome after the Norwood operation: An instrumental variable-based analysis using data from the Pediatric Health Information Systems Database. Am Heart J. 263: 35-45, May 2023.