Division Faculty
Ivan A. D'Cruz, MD
Title:
Professor of Medicine
Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, VAMC
Contact Information:
Email:
ivan.d'cruz@med.va.gov
Office: (901) 523-8990 ext. 6028
Clinical/Research Interest:
Interests include pericardial diseases (effusion, tamponade and constriction), interrelations between ventricular shape, size, function and hypertrophy in cardiomyopathy and hypertension, intracardiac calcifications, endstage renal disease, coronary sinus anatomy and physiology.
Dr. D'Cruz also serves as senior associate editor of the journal Echocardiography and is on the editorial board of Chest
Royal College of Physicians of London, Member 1962; fellow1985
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, member 1961, fellow 1976
Joined UT: 1994
Recent Publications:
- Echocardiographic Diagnosis. Macmillan, 1983. 434 pages.- D'Cruz IA, Shirwany A, Kaiser J, Minderman D. Update on
echocardiography of coronary sinus anatomy and physiology. Echocardiography.
Accepted for publication, 2002
- Akhtar A, D'Cruz IA, Ramanathan KB, Umpierrez M. Diffuse locally
invasive lipomatosis of the pericardium. Echocardiography 2003; 20:173-177
- Bittrick J, D'Cruz IA, Wall BM, Mansour N, Mangold T. Differences and
similarities between patients with and without end-stage renal disease, with
regard to location of intracardiac calcification. Echocardiography 2002,
19:1-6
- D'Cruz IA, Kanuru N. Echocardiography of serous effusions adjacent to
the heart. Echocardiography 2001; 18:445-456.
- D'Cruz IA, Johns C, Shala MB. Dynamic cyclic changes in coronary sinus caliber in patients with and without congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol 1999;83:275-277.
- D'Cruz IA. Spatial and temporal periodicity during atrial fibrillation. Circulation 1999;100:212.
- D'Cruz IA, Shala MB, Johns C. Echocardiography of the coronary sinus in adults. Clin Cardiol 2000;23:149-154.
- D'Cruz IA, Taylor J, Kaiser J. Retrograde systolic flow in the coronary sinus due to selective tricuspid regurgitant jet entry. Echocardiography 2000;17:341-343.
- D'Cruz IA, Shirwany A. Small thrombus on sinotubular ridge of ascending aorta. Am J Geriatr Cardiol 2001;10:104-105.
- Madu EC, D'Cruz IA, Wall B, Mansour N, Shearin S. Transesophageal echocardiographic spectrum of calcific mitral abnormalities in patients with end-stage renal disease. Echocardiography 2000;17:29-35.
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