Titles:
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine with Tenure

Contact:
Email: gorcsanj@upmc.edu

Degrees:

Administrative Title:

• 2004 Ad Hoc Study Section Member NIH NHLBI K-Awards
• 2004 Chair, American Society of Echocardiography National Scientific Sessions
• 2005 Chair, American Society of Echocardiography Dyssynchrony Writing Group

Publications:

• Gorcsan J, Snow FR, Paulsen W, Nixon JV. Noninvasive estimation of left atrial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure and mitral regurgitation by Doppler echocardiography. Am Heart J 1991;121:858-863.
• Gorcsan J, Diana P, Ball BA, Hattler BG. Intraoperative determination of cardiac output by transesophageal continuous-wave Doppler. Am Heart J 1992;123:171-176.
• Gorcsan J, Lazar J, Romand J, Pinsky MR. On-line determination of stroke volume using echocardiographic automated border detection in the canine left ventricle. Am Heart J 1993; 125:1316-26.
• Gorcsan J, Lazar JM, Schulman DS, Follansbee WP. Comparison of left ventricular function by echo automated border detection and by radionuclide ejection fraction. Am J Cardiol 1993;72:810-815.
• Gorcsan J, Romand J, Mandarino W, Pinsky MR. Assessment of left ventricular performance by pressure-area relations using echocardiographic automated border detection. J Am Coll Cardiol 1994;23:242-252.
• Gorcsan J, Gasior TA, Mandarino WA, Hattler BG, Pinsky MR. Assessment of the immediate effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on ventricular performance by pressure-area relations. Circulation 1994;89:180-190.
• Gorcsan J, Denault A, Gasior TA, Mandarino WA, Kancel MJ, Deneault LG, Hattler BG, Pinsky MR. Rapid estimation of left ventricular contractility from end-systolic relations using echocardiographic automated border detection and femoral arterial pressure. Anesthesiology 1994;81:553-562.
• Gorcsan J, Edwards TD, Ziady GM, Katz WE, Griffith BP. Transesophageal echocardiography to evaluate patients with severe pulmonary hypertension for lung transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 1995;59:717-22.
• Oe M, Gorcsan J, Mandarino WA, Kawai A, Griffith BP, Kormos RL. Automated echocardiographic measures of right ventricular area as an index of volume and end-systolic prssure-area relations to assess right ventricular function. Circulation 1995;92:1026-1033.
• Katz WE, Gasior TA, Quinlan JJ, Lazar JM, Firestone L, Griffith BP, Gorcsan J. The immediate effects of lung transplantation on right ventricular morphology and function in patients with variable degrees of pulmonary hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;27:384-91.
• Katz WE, Ferson PF, Lee RE, Killinger WA, Thompson ME, Gorcsan J. Metastatic malignant melanoma to the heart. Circulation 1996;93:1066.
• Gorcsan J, Denault A, Pinsky MR. Left ventricular pressure-volume relations using transesophageal automated border detection: Comparison with conductance catheter technique. Am Heart J 1996;131:554-52.
• Schirba FC, Rogers RM, Keenan RJ, Slivka WA, Gorcsan J, et al. Improved elastic recoil of the lung and the physiological impact of lung reduction surgery for diffuse emphysema. N Eng J Med 1996;334:1095-9.
• Gorcsan J, Gulati, VK, Mandarino WA, Katz WE. Color-coded measures of myocardial velocity by tissue Doppler imaging to quantify regional left ventricular function. Am Heart J 1996;131:1203-13.
• Gulati VK, Katz WE, Follansbee WP, Gorcsan J. Mitral annular descent velocity by tissue Doppler echocardiography as an index of global left ventricular function. Am J Cardiol 1996;77:979-984.
• Gorcsan J, Murali S, Counihan PJ, et al. Right ventricular performance and contractile reserve in patients with severe heart failure: Assessment by pressure-area relations and association with outcome. Circulation 1996;94:3190-3197.
• Denault AY, Gorcsan J, Mandarino WA, Pinsky MR. End-systolic relations using automated border detection and arterial pressure to assess left ventricular performance. Am J Physiol 1997;272;H138-H147.
• Katz WE, Gulati VK, Mahler CM, Gorcsan J. Quantitative evaluation of the segmental left ventricular response to dobutamine stress by tissue Doppler echocardiography. Am J Cardiol 1997;79:1036-1042.
• Gorcsan J, Strum DP, Mandarino WA, Gulati VK, Pinsky MR. Quantitative assessment of alterations in regional left ventricular contractility by color-coded tissue Doppler echocardiography: Comparison with sonomicrometry and pressure-volume relations. Circulation 1997;95:2423-2433.
• Mandarino WA, Pinsky MR, Gorcsan J. Assessment of left ventricular contractile state by preload-adjusted maximal power using echocardiographic automated border detection. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:861-868.
• Gorcsan J, Feldman AM, Kormos RL, Mandarino WA, Demetris AJ, Batista RJV. Heterogeneous immediate effects of partial left ventriculectomy on cardiac performance. Circulation 1998;97:839-842.
• Mankad S, Murali S, Kormos RL, Mandarino W, Gorcsan J. Evaluation of tissue Doppler echocardiography in the detection of allograft rejection in cardiac transplant recipients. Am Heart J 1999;138:721-30
• Sade LE, Severyn DA, Kanzaki H, Dohi K, Gorcsan J. Second-generation tissue Doppler with color-coded wall displacement for assessment of regional ventricular function. Am J Cardiol 2003;92:554-560.
• Kanzaki H, Jacques, D, Sade LE, Severyn D, Schwartzman D, Gorcsan J. Regional correlation by color-coded tissue Doppler to quantify improvements in mechanical left ventricular synchrony following biventricular pacing therapy. Am J Cardiol 2003;92:752-755.
• Gorcsan J, Severyn DA, Murali S, Kormos RL. Noninvasive assessment of myocardial recovery on chronic left ventricular assist device: Results associated with successful device removal. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003;22:1304-1313.
• Schwartzman D, Kanzaki H, Bazaz R, Gorcsan J. Impact of catheter ablation on pulmonary vein morphology and mechanical function. J Cardiovasc Electro 2004;15:1-7.
• Gorcsan J, Kanzaki H, Dohi K, Schwartzman D. Usefulness of echocardiographic tissue synchronization imaging to predict acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. Am J Cardiol 2004;93:1178-1181.
• Sade LE, Kanzaki H, Severyn D, Dohi K, Gorcsan J. Quantification of radial mechanical dyssynchrony in left bundle branch block and cardiomyopathy by tissue displacement imaging. Am J Cardiol 2004;94:514-8.
• Kanzaki H, Bazaz R, Schwartzman D, Dohi K, Sade LE, Gorcsan J. A mechanism for immediate reduction in mitral regurgitation following cardiac resynchronization therapy: Insights from mechanical activation strain mapping. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004;44:1619-25
• Jacques DC, Pinsky MR, Severyn DA, Gorcsan J. Influence of alterations in loading on mitral annular velocity by tissue Doppler and its associated ability to predict filling pressures. Chest 2004;126:1910-8.
• Simon MA, Kormos RL, Murali S, Nair P, Heffernan M, Gorcsan J, McNamara D. Myocardial recovery using ventricular assist devices: prevalence, clinical characteristics and outcomes. Circulation 2005 (In Press).
• Dohi K, Suffoletto MS, Schwartzman D, Ganz L, Pinsky MR, Gorcsan J. Utility of echocardiographic radial strain imaging to quantify left ventricular dyssynchrony and predict acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. Am J Cardiol 2005;96:112-6.