1. Inter-study reproducibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance tagging
    Donekal S, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Berkowitz S, Wu CO, Choi EY, Fernandes V, Yan R, Harouni AA, Bluemke DA and Lima JA Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2013, 15:37 (10 May 2013)
  2. The Role of MRI in Assessing Risk for Future Cardiovascular Disease Events Including Heart Failure
    Sirisha Donekal MD, Joao AC Lima MD.Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep (2013) 7:88–94
  3. Interstitial fibrosis, LV remodeling and myocardial mechanical behavior in a population based multi-ethnic cohort: MESA study
    Sirisha Donekal, Joao Lima et al,   10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.001073
  4. Diffuse interstitial myocardial fibrosis by T1 mapping: Review
    Sirisha Donekal M.D, Joao A.C Lima M.D (2013) Transl Med 2: 107. Doi: 10.4172/2161-1025.1000107
  5. Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: Association between Left Atrial Function Using Tissue Tracking from Cine MR Imaging and Myocardial Fibrosis
    Masamichi Imai, PhD, MD, Bharath Ambale Venkatesh, PhD, Sanaz Samiei, BSc, Sirisha Donekal, MD, João A. C. Lima, MD et al 10.1148/radiol.14131971
  6. Prognostic Implications of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Asymptomatic Women and Men: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
    Ravi K. Sharma, MD; Gustavo Volpe, MD; Boaz D. Rosen, MD; Bharat Ambale‐Venkatesh, PhD; Sirisha Donekal, MD; João A. C. Lima, MD et al doi: .1161/JAHA.114.000975
  7. Diastolic function assessed from tagged MRI predicts heart failure and atrial fibrillation over an 8-year follow-up period: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
    Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh, Anderson C. Armstrong, Chia-Ying Liu, Sirisha Donekal, Kihei Yoneyama, Colin O. Wu, Antoinette S. Gomes, Gregory W. Hundley, David A. Bluemke, Joao A. Lima 10.1093/ehjci/jet189
  8. Association between left atrial function using multimodality tissue tracking from cine MRI and myocardial scar in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
    Imai M, Venkatesh BA, Samiei S, Habibi M, Armstrong AC, Heckbert S, Donekal S, Bluemke DA, Wu CO, Lima JA Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2013 Jan 30;15(1):1
  9. Prognostic value of myocardial circumferential strain for incident heart failure and cardiovascular events in asymptomatic individuals: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
    Choi EY, Rosen BD, Fernandes VR, Yan RT, Yoneyama K, Donekal S, Opdahl A, Almeida AL, Wu CO, Gomes AS, Bluemke DA European heart journal. 2013 Aug 7;34(30):2354-61
  10. Regional myocardial functional patterns: Quantitative tagged magnetic resonance imaging in an adult population free of cardiovascular risk factors: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
    Bharath Ambale Venkatesh PhD, Sirisha Donekal MD, João A.C. Lima MD1, 10.1002/jmri.24749
  11. Association of Longitudinal Changes in Left Ventricular Structure and Function With Myocardial FibrosisThe Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Study
    Bharath Ambale Venkatesh, Gustavo J. Volpe, Sirisha Donekal, João A.C. Lima Hypertension. 2014; 64: 508-515
  12. LEFT ventricular dyssynchrony IN asymptomatic women PREDICTS adverse cardiovascular OUTCOME: MULTI ethnicity study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
    Sharma R, Gustavo V, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Rosen B, Donekal S, Fernandes V, Wu C, Carr J, Bluemke D, Lima J. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2014 Apr 1;63(12_S)
  13. Association of subclinical atherosclerosis using carotid intima-media thickness, carotid plaque, and coronary calcium score with left ventricular dyssynchrony: The multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
    Sharma RK, Donekal S, Rosen BD, Tattersall MC, Volpe GJ, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Nasir K, Wu CO, Polak JF, Korcarz CE, Stein JH. Atherosclerosis. 2015 Apr 30;239(2):412-8
  14. Regional myocardial functional patterns: Quantitative tagged magnetic resonance imaging in an adult population free of cardiovascular risk factors: The multi‐ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
    Venkatesh BA, Donekal S, Yoneyama K, Wu C, Fernandes VR, Rosen BD, Shehata ML, McClelland R, Bluemke DA, Lima JA Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2015 Jul 1;42(1):153-9v
  15. Natural history of myocardial function in an adult human population: serial longitudinal observations from MESA
    Yoneyama, Kihei, Sirisha Donekal, Bharath A. Venkatesh, Colin O. Wu, Chia-Ying Liu, Marcelo Souto Nacif, Anderson Armstrong et al. ” JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging(2016)
  16. Association of Aortic Stiffness With Left Ventricular Remodeling and Reduced Left Ventricular Function Measured by Magnetic Resonance Imaging The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
    Ohyama Y, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Noda C, Chugh AR, Teixido-Tura G, Kim JY, Donekal S, Yoneyama K, Gjesdal O, Redheuil A, Liu CY.  Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. 2016 Jul 1;9(7):e004426
  17. Association of myocardial fibrosis and prior cardiovascular disease: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
    Venkatesh BA, Liu CY, Liu YC, Donekal S, Sharma R, Ohyama Y, Wu CO, Post WS, Hundley G, Bluemke DA, Lima JA. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2016 Jan 27;18(1):1.
  18. Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Myocardial Fibrosis With Early Cardiac Dysfunction in Type 1 Diabetes: The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study
    Anderson C. Armstrong, Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh, Evrim Turkbey, Sirisha Donekal, Elzbieta Chamera, Jye-Yu Backlund, Patricia Cleary, John Lachin, David A. Bluemke, João A.C. Lima and for the DCCT/EDIC Research GroupDiabetes  Care 2016 Dec; dc161889. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc16-1889
  19. Comparison of Effectiveness and Safety of Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Vascular Brachytherapy for Saphenous Vein Graft In-Stent Restenosis
    Sundeep Mishra, MD, Roswitha M. Wolfram, MD, Rebecca Torguson, BS, William W. Chu, MD, PhD, Zhenyi Xue, MS, Natalie Gevorkian, MD, Sirisha Donekal, MBBS, Rosanna Chan, PhD, Augusto D. Pichard, MD, Lowell F. Satler, MD, Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD, Ron Waksman, MD The American Journal of Cardiology Volume 97, Issue 9, 1 May 2006, Pages 1303–1307
  20. Effectiveness of the novel anti-diabetes medication Exenatide in everyday practice: Comparison with clinical trials
    Sirisha Donekal, Mansur E. Shomali Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice Volume 80, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages e4–e6

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