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Bader Alhafez, MD

Medical Resident/Fellow

Cardiovascular Disease Fellow

Internal Medicine | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Medical Degree: University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine
  • Residency, Internal Medicine: University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
Contact Information

Peer Reviewed Publications

Chen, Luxi; Olojo, Temitayo; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen 2021. Invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella infection in a patient with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and gastrostomy tube: a case report. Journal of medical case reports, 15 1, 389

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Curbelo-Pena, Yuhamy; Lavie, Carl J; Ventura, Hector O; Loro-Ferrer, Juan Francisco; Mandras, Stacy A 2021. Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obesity and Ventricular Assist Devices Considered for Heart Transplantation: Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis. Journal of cardiac failure, 27 3, 338-348

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Lavie, Carl J; Milani, Richard V; Ventura, Hector O 2021. Interactions of hypertension, obesity, left ventricular hypertrophy, and heart failure. Current opinion in cardiology, 36 4, 453-460

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Garikapati, Kiran; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Desai, Sapna; Eiswirth, Clement; Krim, Selim; Patel, Hamang; Ventura, Hector O; Lavie, Carl J; Loro-Ferrer, Juan Francisco; Mandras, Stacy A 2021. Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Obesity and Ventricular Assist Devices: a Comprehensive Outcome Analysis. Obesity surgery, 31 2, 884-890

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Curbelo-Pena, Yuhamy; Lavie, Carl J; Ventura, Hector O; Loro-Ferrer, Juan Francisco; Mandras, Stacy A 2020. Bariatric surgery in obese patients with ventricular assist devices. BMC research notes, 13 1, 382

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Patel, Hamang; Loro-Ferrer, Juan Francisco; Ventura, Hector O; Lavie, Carl J; Mandras, Stacy A 2020. Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices, Beyond Just Bridging to Heart Transplantation. Obesity surgery, 30 12, 5123-5124

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Garikapati, Kiran; Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Desai, Sapna; Eiswirth, Clement; Krim, Selim; Patel, Hamang; Lavie, Carl J; Ventura, Hector O; Loro-Ferrer, Juan Francisco; Mandras, Stacy A 2020. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in obese patients with ventricular assist devices: a data note. BMC research notes, 13 1, 439

Nissen, Alexander P; Truong, Van Thi Thanh; Alhafez, Bader A; Puthumana, Jyothy J; Estrera, Anthony L; Body, Simon C; Prakash, Siddharth K 2020. Surgical repair of bicuspid aortopathy at small diameters: Clinical and institutional factors. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 159 6, 2216-2226.e2

Alhafez, Bader Aldeen; Truong, Van Thi Thanh; Ocazionez, Daniel; Sohrabi, Sahand; Sandhu, Harleen; Estrera, Anthony; Safi, Hazim J; Evangelista, Artur; Hurtado, Lydia Dux-Santoy; Guala, Andrea; Prakash, Siddharth K 2019. Aortic arch tortuosity, a novel biomarker for thoracic aortic disease, is increased in adults with bicuspid aortic valve. International journal of cardiology, 284 , 84-89

daSilva-deAbreu, Adrian; Zhao, Yelin; Serauto-Canache, Astrid; Alhafez, Bader; Aribindi, Katyayini; Balan, Prakash; Loyalka, Pranav; Kaaaar, Biswajit; Smalling, Richard; Anderson, H Vernon; Dhoble, Abhijeet; Siepmann, Timo; Arain, Salman A 2019. Predictors and Prognostic Impact of In-hospital Bleeding after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement According to BARC and VARC-2 Definitions. Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery, 34 6, 788-790