Farouk A. Pirzada MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Education:

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery 1966: University of Kashmir, India
Internal Medicine: Malden Hospital, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Tufts Medical Center
Cardiolovascular Medicine: Cardiovascular Unit, Boston City Hospital

General field of research:

Cardiology, Electrophysiology

Affiliations other than medicine:

Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

Contact information:

Office
Melrose Medical Center, 50 Rowe Street #600, Melrose, MA 02178
Phone: (781) 979-3440
Fax: (781) 979-0258

fpirzada@partners.org

Keywords:

Cardiology; Electrophysiology

Recent publications:

Pirzada FA.  1997.  Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is becoming more accepted in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.  Pacing Clin Electrophysiol; 20(1 Pt 1):140-1.

Pirzada FA, Moschitto LJ, Diorio D.  1988.  Clinical experience with steroid-eluting unipolar electrodes.  Pacing Clin Electrophysiol; 11(11 Pt 2):1739-44.

Pirzada FA, Seltzer JP, Blair-Saletin D, Killian M.  1986. Five-year performance of the Medtronic 6971 polyurethane endocardial electrode.  Pacing Clin Electrophysiol;9(6 Pt 2):1173-80.

Levine PA, Seltzer JP, Pirzada FA.  1983.  The “pacemaker syndrome” in a properly functioning physiologic pacing system.  Pacing Clin Electrophysiol;6(2 Pt 1):279-82.

Levine PA, Pirzada FA.  1981. Pacemaker oversensing: a possible example of concealed ventricular extrasystoles.  Pacing Clin Electrophysiol;4(2):199-203.

Vokonas PS, Pirzada FA, Robbins SL, Hood WB Jr.  1978. Experimental myocardial infarction. XV. Segmental mechanical behavior and morphology of ischemic myocardium during hypothermia.  Am J Physiol; 235(6):H736-44.

Pirzada FA, Weiner JM, Hood WB Jr.  1978.  Experimental myocardial infarction. 14. Accelerated myocardial stiffening related to coronary reperfusion following ischemia.  Chest. 1978 Aug;74(2):190-5.

Weiner JM, Astein CS, Arthur JH, Pirzada FA, Hood WB Jr.  1976.  Persistence of myocardial injury following brief periods of coronary occlusion.  Cardiovasc Res; 10(6):678-86.