Mahesh K. Vidula, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
11-132 South Pavilion
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
11-132 South Pavilion
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
BS (Biological Engineering)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2011.
MD (Medicine)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2015.
Permanent linkBS (Biological Engineering)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2011.
MD (Medicine)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2015.
Description of Clinical Expertise
I am a cardiologist and cardiac imager with specialized training in multimodality imaging (echocardiography, cardiac MRI, nuclear cardiology, and cardiac CT). I have a special interest in caring for patients with inflammatory heart diseases, including cardiac sarcoidosis, pericarditis, myocarditis, and patients with systemic inflammatory diseases.Description of Research Expertise
I have a strong research interest in the role of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of patients with cardiac sarcoidosis and other inflammatory heart diseases. I am also involved in several projects focused on valvular heart diseases.Selected Publications
Austin MA, Tertulien T, Mekonen B, Vidula MK, Reza N: Novel fibrosis pattern in an arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy caused by a titin-truncating variant. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2025.Bhasin V, Litt H, Ziadi MC, Sanghavi M, Vidula M: Reversible left ventricular apical hypertrophy in a patient with stress cardiomyopathy. Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Annual Sessions 2025.
Ghonim M, Ghonim M, Ohley W, Alhamshari AS, Vidula MK, Hu J, Litt HI, Witschey WR, Bravo PE: Phenotyping individuals with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis with CMR and PET: Focus on outcomes. Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Annual Sessions 2025.
Rojulpote C, Bhattaru A, Patil S, Adams SL, Salas JA, Vidula MK, Perez RP, KC W, Patterson K, Clancy CB, Rossman M, Goldberg L, Bravo PE: Assessing the effect of repeat positron emission tomography imaging on treatment response and cardiovascular outcomes among a homogenously treated cohort of patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2025.
Ghonim M, Ghonim M, Ohley W, Alhamshari AS, Vidula MK, Hu J, Litt HI, Witschey WR, Bravo PE: T2 mapping has limited performance in predicting FDG-defined myocardial inflammation in patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis. Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Annual Sessions 2025.
Ohley W, Ghonim M, Ghonim M, Alhamshari AS, Vidula MK, Goldberg LR, Nazarian S, Bravo PE: Comparing ventricular arrhythmia origin to inflammation and scar location in cardiac sarcoidosis patients receiving immunosuppression therapy. American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session 2025.
Frost CL, Vidula MK, Hu R, Herrmann HC, Chen T, Pouch A: Dynamic segmentation of 3D-transesophageal echocardiography using an automated neural network for transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 2025.
Vidula MK, Han Y.: Medium-term outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with myocardial injury: Cautiously optimistic. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging S1936-878X(24): 00302-4, Aug 9 2024.
Vidula MK, Selvaraj S, Rojulpote C, Bhattaru A, Kc W, Hansbury M, Schubert E, Clancy C, Rossman M, Goldberg LR, Farwell M, Pryma D, Bravo PE. : Relationship of ketosis with myocardial glucose uptake among patients undergoing FDG PET/CT for evaluation of cardiac sarcoidosis. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 17(8): e016774, Aug 2024.
Selvaraj S, Vidula MK, Claggett B, Rojulpote C, Clancy CB, Rossman M, Pryma D, Goldberg LR, Bravo PE. : Diagnostic utility of SGLT2 inhibitors to facilitate myocardial glucose suppression during evaluation of myocardial inflammation. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging 17(7): 827-829, Jul 2024.