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Aris
Karatasakis
MD

Aris Karatasakis portrait
Faculty
Pinned
Academic
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Sites of Practice
UW Medical Center - Montlake

Background

Dr. Karatasakis was born in Greece and earned his M.D. from the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern, an internal medicine residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and both a general cardiology fellowship (serving as chief fellow) and an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship at the University of Washington. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, adult comprehensive echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. His scholarly interests include the diagnosis and management of inflammatory cardiomyopathies and outcomes in heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.

Medical School

Lékarská Fakulta, Univerzity Karlovy Czechia

Residency

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Recent Publications and Presentations

Karatasakis A, Brilakis ES. Chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention failure: Learning from failure. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2019;93(6):1039-1040. doi:10.1002/ccd.28274

Suero-Abreu GA, Karatasakis A, Rashid S, Tysarowski M, Douglas A, Patel R, Siddiqui E, Bhardwaj A, Gerula CM, Matassa D. Factors Associated with Disparities in Appropriate Statin Therapy in an Outpatient Inner City Population. Healthcare (Basel). 2020 Sep 24;8(4):361. doi: 10.3390/healthcare8040361. PMID: 32987753; PMCID: PMC7712578.

Xenogiannis I, Gkargkoulas F, Karmpaliotis D, Alaswad K, Jaffer FA, Yeh RW, Patel M, Mahmud E, Choi JW, Burke MN, Garcia S, Doing AH, Dattilo P, Toma C, Uretsky B, Krestyaninov O, Khelimskii D, Moses JW, Lembo NJ, Parikh M, Kirtane AJ, Ali ZA, Russo JJ, Hakemi E, Hall AB, Nikolakopoulos I, Vemmou E, Karatasakis A, Danek B, Rangan BV, Abdullah S, Banerjee S, Brilakis ES. Temporal Trends in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Insights From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry. J Invasive Cardiol. 2020 Apr;32(4):153-160. Epub 2020 Mar 20. PMID: 32198318.

Danek BA, Karatasakis A, Abdullah K, Iwnetu R, Kalsaria P, Shunk K, Zimmet J, Vidovich M, Bavry AA, Rangan BV, Roesle M, Griza D, Stanley K, Banerjee S, Khalili H, Brilakis ES, Abdullah SM. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Prasugrel for Prevention of Early Saphenous Vein Graft Thrombosis. J Invasive Cardiol. 2020 Dec;32(12):E305-E312. Epub 2020 

Karatasakis A, Sarikaya B, Liu L, Gunn ML, Kudenchuk PJ, Gatewood MO, Maynard C, Sayre MR, Counts CR, Carlbom DJ, Edwards RM, Branch KRH. Prevalence and Patterns of Resuscitation-Associated Injury Detected by Head-to-Pelvis Computed Tomography After Successful Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Feb;11(3):e023949. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.023949. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 35043689.

Liu L, Karatasakis A, Kudenchuk PJ, Kirkpatrick JN, Sayre MR, Carlbom DJ, Johnson NJ, Probstfield JL, Counts C, Branch KRH. Scoping review of echocardiographic parameters associated with diagnosis and prognosis after resuscitated sudden cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2023 Mar;184:109719. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109719. Epub 2023 Feb 2. PMID: 36736949.

CONTACTS

Mailing Address:
University of Washington Medical Center,
1959 NE Pacific Street,
Box 356422,
Seattle, WA 98195-6422

Non-Clinical Administrative Support:
Linda Liu

Clinical Contacts:
For appointments or other clinical matters, please contact the Heart Institute.