Leila Haghighat, MD, MPhil
Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Publications (20)

Top publication keywords:
Cardiovascular AgentsCardiologyCardiomyopathy, HypertrophicBone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors, Type IIVascular MalformationsAtrioventricular BlockIschemiaProbioticsAngiogenesis Inducing AgentsLiver CirculationImmunocompromised HostPeripheral Arterial DiseaseTelangiectasia, Hereditary HemorrhagicLactobacillus acidophilusDeath, Sudden, Cardiac

• Countywide burden, pathology, and genetics of lethal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: from the POST SCD study.
  Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology 2025 Haghighat L, Connolly A, Delling FN, Abraham TP, Moffatt E, Tseng ZH
• Longitudinal Evaluation of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Fatigue Syndrome by Rest, Stress, and Speckle-Tracking Strain Echocardiography.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2025 Tsai KK, Chang AY, Abouzeid CM, Aras MA, Fang Q, Bibby D, Haghighat L, Hilton JF, Daud AI, Schiller NB
• New and future heart failure drugs.
  Nature cardiovascular research 2024 Haghighat L, DeJong C, Teerlink JR
• Evaluating Pregnancy Safety During Cardiology Training.
  JAMA cardiology 2024 Haghighat L, Kalantarian S, DesJardin JT, Pellegrini CN
• Homelessness and Incidence and Causes of Sudden Death: Data From the POST SCD Study.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Haghighat L, Ramakrishna S, Salazar JW, Feng J, Chiang J, Moffatt E, Tseng ZH

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• ECG Challenge: AV Block or Something Else?
  Circulation 2023 Haghighat L, Goldschlager N, Oesterle A
• Comparison of the amount of artifacts induced by zirconium and titanium implants in cone-beam computed tomography images.
  BMC medical imaging 2022 Shokri A, Vafaee F, Haghighat L, Shahabi S, Farhadian M, Jamalpour MR
• Comfort Measures Only in Myocardial Infarction: Prevalence of This Status, Change Over Time, and Predictors From a Nationwide Study.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2022 Haghighat L, Reinhardt SW, Saly DL, Lu D, Matsouaka RA, Wang TY, Desai NR
• Development and Evaluation of Resident-Championed Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents.
  POCUS journal 2021 Haghighat L, Israel H, Jordan E, Bernstein EL, Varghese M, Cherry BM, Van Tonder R, Honiden S, Liu R, Sankey C
• Association Between Mobility Measured During Hospitalization and Functional Outcomes in Older Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction in the SILVER-AMI Study.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Hajduk AM, Murphy TE, Geda ME, Dodson JA, Tsang S, Haghighat L, Tinetti ME, Gill TM, Chaudhry SI
• Review of the Current Basic Science Strategies to Treat Critical Limb Ischemia.
  Vascular and endovascular surgery 2019 Haghighat L, Ionescu CN, Regan CJ, Altin SE, Attaran RR, Mena-Hurtado CI
• Evolution of Intrahepatic Shunts in a Patient With Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia.
  Annals of internal medicine 2018 Haghighat L, Brandt EJ, Proctor DD, Garcia-Tsao G, Pollak J, Young LH
• Review of the Latest Percutaneous Devices in Critical Limb Ischemia.
  Journal of clinical medicine 2018 Haghighat L, Altin SE, Attaran RR, Mena-Hurtado C, Regan CJ
• Hepatic Shunting of Eggs and Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling in Bmpr2(+/-) Mice with Schistosomiasis.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2015 Crosby A, Soon E, Jones FM, Southwood MR, Haghighat L, Toshner MR, Raine T, Horan I, Yang P, Moore S, Ferrer E, Wright P, Ormiston ML, White RJ, Haight DA, Dunne DW, Morrell NW
• The potential risks of probiotics among HIV-infected persons: Bacteraemia due to Lactobacillus acidophilus and review of the literature.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2015 Haghighat L, Crum-Cianflone NF
• Reduced BMPR2 expression induces GM-CSF translation and macrophage recruitment in humans and mice to exacerbate pulmonary hypertension.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2014 Sawada H, Saito T, Nickel NP, Alastalo TP, Glotzbach JP, Chan R, Haghighat L, Fuchs G, Januszyk M, Cao A, Lai YJ, Perez Vde J, Kim YM, Wang L, Chen PI, Spiekerkoetter E, Mitani Y, Gurtner GC, Sarnow P…
• FK506 activates BMPR2, rescues endothelial dysfunction, and reverses pulmonary hypertension.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2013 Spiekerkoetter E, Tian X, Cai J, Hopper RK, Sudheendra D, Li CG, El-Bizri N, Sawada H, Haghighat R, Chan R, Haghighat L, de Jesus Perez V, Wang L, Reddy S, Zhao M, Bernstein D, Solow-Cordero DE, …
• Neutrophil elastase is produced by pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells and is linked to neointimal lesions.
  The American journal of pathology 2011 Kim YM, Haghighat L, Spiekerkoetter E, Sawada H, Alvira CM, Wang L, Acharya S, Rodriguez-Colon G, Orton A, Zhao M, Rabinovitch M
• Expanding the diversity of mycobacteriophages: insights into genome architecture and evolution.
  PloS one 2011 Pope WH, Jacobs-Sera D, Russell DA, Peebles CL, Al-Atrache Z, Alcoser TA, Alexander LM, Alfano MB, Alford ST, Amy NE, Anderson MD, Anderson AG, Ang AA, Ares M, Barber AJ, Barker LP, Barrett JM, …
• Hypercalcemia in patients in the burn intensive care unit.
  Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association 2007 Sam R, Vaseemuddin M, Siddique A, Haghighat L, Kazlauskaite R, An G, Hanumadass ML