Norman Silverman, MD
Professor Emeritus
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Publications (84)

Top publication keywords:
Transposition of Great VesselsCoronary Vessel AnomaliesEchocardiography, DopplerEchocardiographyHeart Septal Defects, VentricularPulmonary ArteryDiastoleHeart Defects, CongenitalIsolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular MyocardiumHeart Septal Defects, AtrialAbnormalities, MultipleScimitar SyndromeSystoleTetralogy of FallotUltrasonography, Prenatal

• Rare case of total anomalous pulmonary venous return into the right atrium in situs solitus.
  Cardiology in the young 2024 Caruso E, Farruggio S, Silverman NH
• In Memory of a Brilliant Pediatric Cardiologist: Dr. Abraham Rudolph.
  Pediatric cardiology 2023 Silverman N, Teitel D
• Functional assessment of atrial wall excursion and foramen ovale flap tracings in 3rd trimester as predictor of short-term hemodynamic stability in congenital heart defects fetuses.
  Journal of perinatal medicine 2022 Sylwestrzak O, Strzelecka I, Silverman NH, Respondek-Liberska M
• The development and efficacy of a paediatric cardiology fellowship online preparatory course.
  Cardiology in the young 2022 Motonaga KS, Sacks L, Olson I, Balasubramanian S, Chen S, Peng L, Feinstein JA, Silverman NH, Hanley FL, Axelrod DM, Krawczeski CD, Arunamata A, Kwiatkowski DM, Ceresnak SR
• Breaking the Rules: Left Common Carotid Artery from the Main Pulmonary Artery in an Infant with a Vascular Ring.
  CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2021 Juergensen S, Quezada E, Silverman NH, Gossett JG, Kouretas P, Reddy VM, Hogan W

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• Fetal Unguarded Mitral Valve Orifice, Aortic Atresia, and Severe Left Heart Enlargement.
  JACC. Case reports 2021 Howley LW, Strasburger J, Maleszewski JJ, Snowise S, Lund A, Schneider A, MacIver R, Edens E, Eyerly-Webb S, Silverman NH
• Risk Factors for Mortality and Circulatory Outcome Among Neonates Prenatally Diagnosed With Ebstein Anomaly or Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia: A Multicenter Study.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2020 Freud LR, McElhinney DB, Kalish BT, Escobar-Diaz MC, Komarlu R, Puchalski MD, Jaeggi ET, Szwast AL, Freire G, Levasseur SM, Kavanaugh-McHugh A, Michelfelder EC, Moon-Grady AJ, Donofrio MT, Howley LW, …
• The Natural and Unnatural History of Ventricular Septal Defects Presenting in Infancy: An Echocardiography-Based Review.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2020 Cox K, Algaze-Yojay C, Punn R, Silverman N
• Postoperative Recovery of Left Ventricular Function following Repair of Large Ventricular Septal Defects in Infants.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2019 Adamson GT, Arunamata A, Tacy TA, Silverman NH, Ma M, Maskatia SA, Punn R
• Cardiac Segmental Strain Analysis in Pediatric Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2019 Arunamata A, Stringer J, Balasubramanian S, Tacy TA, Silverman NH, Punn R
• Aortopulmonary window in tetralogy of Fallot with absent conal septum.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2018 Aurigemma D, Dixon C, Tucker S, Davis C, Silverman N
• Changing Management of the Patent Ductus Arteriosus: Effect on Neonatal Outcomes and Resource Utilization.
  American journal of perinatology 2017 Chock VY, Goel VV, Palma JP, Luh TM, Wang NA, Gaskari S, Punn R, Silverman NH, Benitz WE
• Tricuspid Atresia with Non-compaction: An Early Experience with Implications for Surgical Palliation.
  Pediatric cardiology 2016 Nguyen HH, Khan R, Silverman NH, Singh GK
• Assessment of Progressive Pathophysiology After Early Prenatal Diagnosis of the Ebstein Anomaly or Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia.
  The American journal of cardiology 2016 Selamet Tierney ES, McElhinney DB, Freud LR, Tworetzky W, Cuneo BF, Escobar-Diaz MC, Ikemba C, Kalish BT, Komarlu R, Levasseur SM, Puchalski MD, Satou GM, Silverman NH, Moon-Grady AJ
• Decompressing vein and bilateral superior venae cavae in a patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2016 Stauffer KJ, Arunamata A, Vasanawala SS, Behera SK, Kipps AK, Silverman NH
• Discordant Fetal and Post-Natal Diagnosis: Can We Do Better?
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2016 Silverman NH, Moon-Grady AJ
• Postnatal Outcome of Fetal Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation/Noncompaction.
  Pediatric cardiology 2016 Stöllberger C, Wegner C, Benatar A, Chin TK, Dangel J, Majoor-Krakauer D, Mondal TK, Sivanandam S, Silverman NH, van Waning J, Finsterer J
• Echocardiographic presentation of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
  Cardiology in the young 2015 Silverman NH
• Near-fatal neonatal coronary ischaemia associated with intermittent aortic regurgitation: successful surgical treatment.
  Cardiology in the young 2015 Likes ML, Silverman NH, Albers EL, Choy R, Bhat A, McMullan DM
• Right Ventricular Systolic-to-Diastolic Time Index: Hypoplastic Left Heart Fetuses Differ Significantly from Normal Fetuses.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2015 Nawaytou HM, Peyvandi S, Brook MM, Silverman N, Moon-Grady AJ
• Outcomes and Predictors of Perinatal Mortality in Fetuses With Ebstein Anomaly or Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia in the Current Era: A Multicenter Study.
  Circulation 2015 Freud LR, Escobar-Diaz MC, Kalish BT, Komarlu R, Puchalski MD, Jaeggi ET, Szwast AL, Freire G, Levasseur SM, Kavanaugh-McHugh A, Michelfelder EC, Moon-Grady AJ, Donofrio MT, Howley LW, Tierney ES, …
• Routine intra-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiography yields better outcomes in surgical repair of CHD.
  Cardiology in the young 2015 Madriago EJ, Punn R, Geeter N, Silverman NH
• Echocardiography of congenital mitral valve disorders: echocardiographic-morphological comparisons.
  Cardiology in the young 2014 Silverman NH
• Prenatal findings in total anomalous pulmonary venous return: a diagnostic road map starts with obstetric screening views.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2014 Ganesan S, Brook MM, Silverman NH, Moon-Grady AJ
• Diagnosis and treatment of fetal cardiac disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
  Circulation 2014 Donofrio MT, Moon-Grady AJ, Hornberger LK, Copel JA, Sklansky MS, Abuhamad A, Cuneo BF, Huhta JC, Jonas RA, Krishnan A, Lacey S, Lee W, Michelfelder EC, Rempel GR, Silverman NH, Spray TL, Strasburger …
• Predictors of bronchopulmonary dysplasia or death in premature infants with a patent ductus arteriosus.
  Pediatric research 2013 Chock VY, Punn R, Oza A, Benitz WE, Van Meurs KP, Whittemore AS, Behzadian F, Silverman NH
• Left heart structures in human neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and the effect of fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion.
  Fetal diagnosis and therapy 2013 Rocha LA, Byrne FA, Keller RL, Miniati D, Brook MM, Silverman NH, Moon-Grady AJ
• The essential echocardiographic features of tetralogy of Fallot.
  Cardiology in the young 2013 Silverman NH
• Evaluation of risk factors for prediction of outcome in fetal spectrum of atrioventricular septal defects.
  Congenital heart disease 2013 Bader RS, Punn R, Silverman NH
• Fetal heterotaxy with tricuspid atresia, pulmonary atresia, and isomerism of the right atrial appendages at 22 weeks.
  AJP reports 2013 Solomon JE, Stock JH, Richardson RR, Silverman NH
• Transcatheter device closure of a congenital aortic-left atrial tunnel.
  Congenital heart disease 2013 Sun HY, Buccola KJ, Punn R, Silverman NH, Peng LF, Perry SB, Balasubramanian S
• Echocardiography of transposition of the great arteries.
  Cardiology in the young 2012 Mahle WT, Gonzalez JH, Kreeger J, Marx G, Duldani G, Silverman NH
• Echocardiographic diagnosis and prognosis of fetal left ventricular noncompaction.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2011 Arunamata A, Punn R, Cuneo B, Bharati S, Silverman NH
• Costs of prenatal detection of congenital heart disease.
  The American journal of cardiology 2011 Jegatheeswaran A, Oliveira C, Batsos C, Moon-Grady AJ, Silverman NH, Hornberger LK, Coyte P, Friedberg MK
• Fetal predictors of urgent balloon atrial septostomy in neonates with complete transposition.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2011 Punn R, Silverman NH
• Use of intravenous gamma globulin and corticosteroids in the treatment of maternal autoantibody-mediated cardiomyopathy.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2011 Trucco SM, Jaeggi E, Cuneo B, Moon-Grady AJ, Silverman E, Silverman N, Hornberger LK
• Anomalous coronary arteries from the opposite sinus of Valsalva in asymptomatic siblings treated with pulmonary arterial translocation.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2010 Obayashi DY, Yeh J, Silverman NH, Hanley FL
• Echocardiographic imaging of anomalous origin of the coronary arteries.
  Cardiology in the young 2010 Cohen MS, Herlong RJ, Silverman NH
• Echocardiography of the aortopulmonary window, aorto-ventricular tunnels, and aneurysm of the sinuses of Valsalva.
  Cardiology in the young 2010 Mahle WT, Kreeger J, Silverman NH
• Surgical management of life threatening events caused by intermittent aortic insufficiency in a native valve: case report.
  Journal of cardiothoracic surgery 2010 Martin MH, Perry SB, Prochazka JV, Hanley FL, Silverman NH
• Aortic and mitral valve stenosis with regurgitation: not due to rheumatic heart disease.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2010 Talluto CJ, Silverman NH
• A continuous heparin infusion does not prevent catheter-related thrombosis in infants after cardiac surgery.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2010 Schroeder AR, Axelrod DM, Silverman NH, Rubesova E, Merkel E, Roth SJ
• The history of the development of paediatric echocardiography.
  Cardiology in the young 2009 Mahle WT, John JB, Silverman NH
• Cardiac segmental analysis in left ventricular noncompaction: experience in a pediatric population.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2009 Punn R, Silverman NH
• Screening for aortic root dilation in marfan syndrome using the ratio of the aortic root to descending aortic diameters in children.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2009 Kemna MS, Murphy DJ, Silverman NH
• Doppler assessment of the ratio of the systolic to diastolic duration in normal children: relation to heart rate, age and body surface area.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2009 Sarnari R, Kamal RY, Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Prenatal detection of congenital heart disease.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2009 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH, Moon-Grady AJ, Tong E, Nourse J, Sorenson B, Lee J, Hornberger LK
• Anatomy, echocardiography, and surgical approach to double outlet right ventricle.
  Cardiology in the young 2008 Mahle WT, Martinez R, Silverman N, Cohen MS, Anderson RH
• Acute renal failure in cardiothoracic surgery patients: what is the best definition of this common and potent predictor of increased morbidity and mortality.
  American journal of surgery 2008 Falvo A, Horst HM, Rubinfeld I, Blyden D, Brandt MM, Jordan J, Faber MD, Silverman N
• Idiopathic premature closure of the ductus arteriosus: an indication for early delivery.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2008 Soslow JH, Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Extension of Doppler-derived echocardiographic measures of pulmonary vascular resistance to patients with moderate or severe pulmonary vascular disease.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2008 Vlahos AP, Feinstein JA, Schiller NB, Silverman NH
• Morphological studies of pulmonary arteriovenous shunting in a lamb model of superior cavopulmonary anastomosis.
  Pediatric cardiology 2007 McMullan DM, Reddy VM, Gottliebson WM, Silverman NH, Perry SB, Chan F, Hanley FL, Riemer RK
• Surgical management of coronary artery arising from the wrong coronary sinus, using standard and novel approaches.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2007 Gulati R, Reddy VM, Culbertson C, Helton G, Suleman S, Reinhartz O, Silverman N, Hanley FL
• Right ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2007 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH, Dubin AM, Rosenthal DN
• Mechanical dyssynchrony in children with systolic dysfunction secondary to cardiomyopathy: a Doppler tissue and vector velocity imaging study.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2007 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH, Dubin AM, Rosenthal DN
• The systolic to diastolic duration ratio in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a novel Doppler index of right ventricular function.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2007 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Atrioventricular septal defect recently diagnosed by fetal echocardiography: echocardiographic features, associated anomalies, and outcomes.
  Congenital heart disease 2007 Friedberg MK, Kim N, Silverman NH
• Echocardiographic diagnosis of persistent fifth aortic arch.
  Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 2007 Bernheimer J, Friedberg M, Chan F, Silverman N
• Segmental wall-motion abnormalities after an arterial switch operation indicate ischemia.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2006 Rouine-Rapp K, Rouillard KP, Miller-Hance W, Silverman NH, Collins KK, Cahalan MK, Bostrom A, Russell IA
• The systolic to diastolic duration ratio in children with heart failure secondary to restrictive cardiomyopathy.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2006 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Morphology and function of the bicuspid aortic valve with and without coarctation of the aorta in the young.
  The American journal of cardiology 2006 Ciotti GR, Vlahos AP, Silverman NH
• Diagnosis and prognosis of fetuses with double outlet right ventricle.
  Prenatal diagnosis 2006 Kim N, Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Images in cardiovascular medicine. Near sudden death from cardiac lipoma in an adolescent.
  Circulation 2006 Friedberg MK, Chang IL, Silverman NH, Ramamoorthy C, Chan FP
• Echo-morphological correlates concerning the functionally univentricular heart in the setting of isomeric atrial appendages.
  Cardiology in the young 2006 Mahle WT, Silverman NH, Marx GR, Anderson RH
• Aortopulmonary window with anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery: two cases highlighting the importance of complete pre-operative echocardiographic evaluation of the coronary arteries in all conotruncal anomalies.
  European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology 2005 Greenway SC, Bradley TJ, Caldarone CA, Silverman NH, Hanley FL, Smallhorn JF
• Cardiac ventricular diastolic and systolic duration in children with heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
  The American journal of cardiology 2005 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• ACCF/AHA/AAP recommendations for training in pediatric cardiology. A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence (ACC/AHA/AAP Writing Committee to Develop Training Recommendations for Pediatric Cardiology).
  Circulation 2005 Graham TP, Beekman RH, Allen HD, Bricker JT, Freed MD, Hurwitz RA, McQuinn TC, Schieken RM, Strong WB, Zahka KG, Sanders SP, Colan SD, Cordes TM, Donofrio MT, Ensing GJ, Geva T, Kimball TR, Sahn DJ, …
• ACC/AHA/AAP recommendations for training in pediatric cardiology.
  Pediatrics 2005 Allen HD, Bricker JT, Freed MD, Hurwitz RA, McQuinn TC, Schieken RM, Strong WB, Zahka KG, Sanders SP, Colan SD, Cordes TM, Donofrio MT, Ensing GJ, Geva T, Kimball TR, Sahn DJ, Silverman NH, Sklansky …
• ACCF/AHA/AAP recommendations for training in pediatric cardiology. Task force 2: pediatric training guidelines for noninvasive cardiac imaging endorsed by the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2005 Sanders SP, Colan SD, Cordes TM, Donofrio MT, Ensing GJ, Geva T, Kimball TR, Sahn DJ, Silverman NH, Sklansky MS, Weinberg PM, American Society of Echocardiography, Society of Pediatric …
• Isomerism of the left atrial appendage associated with ventricular noncompaction.
  The American journal of cardiology 2005 Friedberg MK, Ursell PC, Silverman NH
• Myofibroblastic tumor of the heart: a rare intracardiac tumor.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2005 Gandy KL, Burtelow MA, Reddy VM, Silverman NH
• Mitral valve leaflet excursion velocity in the pediatric population: a comparable diastolic index to the color M-mode propagation velocity.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2005 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Measurement of the Tei index: a comparison of M-mode and pulse Doppler methods.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2004 Tham EB, Silverman NH
• Changing indications for fetal echocardiography in a University Center population.
  Prenatal diagnosis 2004 Friedberg MK, Silverman NH
• Accuracy of coronary artery anatomy using two-dimensional echocardiography in d-transposition of great arteries using a two-reviewer method.
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 2004 Gremmels DB, Tacy TA, Brook MM, Silverman NH
• Association between cardiac tumors and tuberous sclerosis in the fetus and neonate.
  The American journal of cardiology 2003 Tworetzky W, McElhinney DB, Margossian R, Moon-Grady AJ, Sallee D, Goldmuntz E, van der Velde ME, Silverman NH, Allan LD
• Reliability of intraoperative contrast transesophageal echocardiography for detecting interatrial communications in patients with other congenital cardiovascular malformations.
  The American journal of cardiology 2003 Cassorla L, Miller-Hance WC, Rouine-Rapp K, Reddy VM, Hanley FL, Silverman NH
• Hypoxia-induced cleavage of caspase-3 and DFF45/ICAD in human failed cardiomyocytes.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2002 Todor A, Sharov VG, Tanhehco EJ, Silverman N, Bernabei A, Sabbah HN
• Prenatal resection of a fetal pericardial teratoma.
  Fetal diagnosis and therapy 2002 Sydorak RM, Kelly T, Feldstein VA, Sandberg PL, Silverman NH, Harrison MR, Albanese CT
• Simplified echocardiographic criteria for decision making in perimembranous ventricular septal defect in childhood.
  The American journal of cardiology 2002 Puchalski MD, Brook MM, Silverman NH
• Abraham Morris Rudolph.
  Cardiology in the young 2002 Silverman NH, Silverman H
• Comparison between transcatheter and surgical closure of secundum atrial septal defect in children and adults: results of a multicenter nonrandomized trial.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2002 Du ZD, Hijazi ZM, Kleinman CS, Silverman NH, Larntz K, Amplatzer Investigators
• Value of clinical and echocardiographic features in predicting outcome in the fetus, infant, and child with tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve complex.
  The American journal of cardiology 2002 Moon-Grady AJ, Tacy TA, Brook MM, Hanley FL, Silverman NH
• Maternal anti-Ro and anti-La antibody-associated endocardial fibroelastosis.
  Circulation 2002 Nield LE, Silverman ED, Taylor GP, Smallhorn JF, Mullen JB, Silverman NH, Finley JP, Law YM, Human DG, Seaward PG, Hamilton RM, Hornberger LK