Ashish Pershad, M.D.

Ashish Pershad, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.A.I.

Expertise: Consultative Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Complex Peripheral Vascular Intervention

Dr. Pershad has been practicing cardiology since 1994. He earned his medical degree at Grant Medical School and the University of Bombay in Bombay, India. He interned in internal medicine at Health Cleveland, Inc. Fairview General Hospital and Lutheran Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, cardiology at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center and Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He completed an interventional cardiovascular fellowship and apprenticeship at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California. Dr. Pershad is board certified in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular diseases.  He is also current on his board certification in internal medicine. Dr. Pershad is one of a very few physicians certified in endovascular medicine by the American Board of Vascular Medicine.  His areas of expertise include minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, treatment of complex peripheral vascular disease and structural heart disease intervention (PFO and ASD Closures).  Dr. Pershad is originally from Hyderabad, India.

Research:

Dr. Pershad is participating in several prestigious national multi-center clinical trials.  He is currently the Principal Investigator for the Proctect II Clinical Trial comparing percutaneous left ventricular assist device to an intra-aortic balloon pump in high risk percutaneous coronary intervention.  He is also enrolling patients in the CHOICE Carotid Stent Registry for asymptomatic high risk patients with carotid artery stenosis.

Publications:

• One-Year Outcomes for Recanalization of Long Superficial Femoral Artery Chronic Total Occlusions with the Viabahn Stent Graft. Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Vol. 21;Number 16:June 2009.
• 2-year (Midterm) Results for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Percutaneous Interventions with Drug Eluting Stents.  Indian Heart Journal 09/08.
• Consensus Statement on SFA disease Management. Endovascular Today 09/08.
• Management of distal coronary perforations-A Case Report and Brief Review. Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2008;20: E187–E191.
• Immediate and Short term Outcomes following Recanalization of long CTO’s (>50 cm) of Native Coronary Arteries with the FrontrunnerTM Catheter. Journal of Invasive Cardiology Vol. 18;Issue 6:June 2006.
• Pronto catheter thrombectomy in Acute ST Segment Myocardial Infarction- A Case Series. Journal of Invasive Cardiology. Vol 18; Issue 6 June 2006.
• Popliteal Approach for Treatment of Flush SFA occlusions- A Percutaneous Alternative to Open Repair. Vascular Disease Management. Volume 3; Issue 3 May 2006.
• Distal protection of the LAD with the EX Filter wire during an Acute Coronary Syndrome. Journal of Invasive Cardiology Volume 16/Number 11:665-666 (2004).
• Closure Devices Are Not Benign: Case Closed or Artery Closed? Journal of Invasive Cardiology Volume 16/Number 10 (2004).
• Plaque excision with the SilverHawk device with adjunct PTA for the treatment of a proximal subclavian-vertebral artery stenosis in coronary-subclavian steal syndrome. Journal Of Invasive Cardiology Volume 16/Number 12 (2004).
• Renal artery aneurysm- Successful Exclusion with a Stent Graft.  Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. Vol.61:314-316 (2004).
• Bifurcation Disease: ”Optimal” angiographic result yet “suboptimal” long term outcome. Letter to the Editor. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 63:104-105. (2004).
• Subclavian Artery Pseudoaneurysm—Successful Exclusion with a Covered Self-Expanding Stent.   The Journal of Invasive Cardiology, 278-279, Vol. 14; 5.(May 2002).
• Perscusurge Guardwire Balloon-Associated Thrombus—A Limitation of the Percusurge Distal Protection System.  The Journal of Invasive Cardiology, 630-632. Vol 14. 14;10.(October 2002).
• Sponanteous Epigastric Arterial Bleeding Associated with Abciximab: Successful Percutaneous Treatment with Coil Gel-Foam Embolization. The Journal of Invasive Cardiology, 692-693, Vol. 14;11.(November 2002). 
• Coronary Recanalization and Aggressive Lipid Lowering: A Case Report. Journal of Invasive Cardiology 87-89. Vol. 11;2.(February 1999).
• Simvastatin and Rhabdomyolysis:  A Case Report and Brief Review.  Journal of Pharmacy Technology, 88-89. Vol. 15;3.(May/June 1999).
• Saddle Pulmonary Embolism: Diagnosis by Spiral CT Scan. Heart 2000;84:10.
• Precipitous labor in association with percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty-Successful delivery in the catheterization suite.  Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 49:459-60(2000).

Textbook Chapters:

• Right Ventricular Infarction. E. Medicine and Surgery, Boston Medical Publishing. An electronic textbook of medicine and surgery.
• Complications of Atherectomy Devices. Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

Review Articles:

• Management of Calcified Lesions in 2004. International Journal of Cardiovascular Interventions. Vol.7; No.4: 199-204. Dec. 2005.
• Cutting Balloon Angioplasty: The Past, the Present and the Future. Indian Heart Journal November 2004.

Abstracts:

• Topic: The Prognostic Significance of QT Interval Prolongation in a Clinical Population of Male Veterans. American College of Cardiology 2008.
• Topic: One Year Outcomes for Recanalization of Long SFA CTO's with the Viabahn (WL Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) Stent Graft in Claudicants. Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics . October 22-28 2007.
• Topic: Intermediate Term (2 Year) Outcome Following Unprotected Left Main Trunk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Drug Eluting Stents. Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics. October 22-28 2006.
• Topic:  Immediate and Short-term Outcome following Recanalization of long Chronic Total Occlusions (>50mm) of native coronary arteries with the Frontrunner™ Catheter. Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics   September 30, 2004, Washington, D.C.
• Topic: Does Percutaneous PFO Closure Result in “True” Functional Closure-A TCD sub-study. Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions Symposium.  April 28-May 1 2004, San Diego, CA.

TCT MD Website Featured Case Studies:

• Treatment of CTO in the Setting of an Anomalous Circumflex
• Percutaneous Treatment of an Infrarenal Stenosis of the Abdominal Aorta 
• LCX Intervention in a Patient with Anomalous Origin of the LMCA from the Right Sinus
• Recanalization of a CTO ISR of the RCA using a combination of the Frontrunner Catheter/Rotoblator/Restenting and IVBT
• Translocated “T” stenting in Bifurcating Renal Artery Stenosis
• Stepwise Approach to a “Bifurcating Bifurcation”
• Debulking in Diffuse Disease-An Adjunct for Optimal Stent Deployment or Unnecessary Tool
• Intermediate term (6 month) angiographic follow up of complex RCA lesions treated with multiple CYPHER Stents
• Unprotected Distal LMT PCI with Kissing drug eluting stents-Is IVUS guidance mandatory?
• Common Iliac CTO Recanalization with the Frontrunner Catheter and Triple Vessel Access.
• Recanalization of an Occluded SFA in the Setting of an Acute Ischemic Leg using Isolated Thrombolysis and the Trellis Device