Ramin Beygui, MD
Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Dr Beygui has practiced cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery at UCLA and Stanford University Medical Centers before joining UCSF Faculty, and is practicing the entire scope of his experience and expertise. This includes repair of aortic aneurysms and dissections, minimally invasive and open cardiac surgery for structural heart disease and coronary disease, minimally invasive surgery for atrial fibrillation, and cardiopulmonary transplantation. He has served as the director of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm at UCLA, the surgical director of Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation at Stanford University Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and Medical Director of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NorthBay Medical Center.

• Data Analytics of Electronic Medical Record to Study Racial Diversities in Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Treatment.
  Studies in health technology and informatics 2022 Panahiazar M, Chern Y, Riojas R, Latif OS, Hadley D, Beygui RE
• Efficacy and mortality of rotating sheaths versus laser sheaths for transvenous lead extraction: a meta-analysis.
  Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing 2021 Lee SY, Allen IE, Diaz C, Guo X, Pellegrini C, Beygui R, Cardona-Guarache R, Marcus GM, Lee BK
• Coronary artery disease detection using artificial intelligence techniques: A survey of trends, geographical differences and diagnostic features 1991-2020.
  Computers in biology and medicine 2020 Alizadehsani R, Khosravi A, Roshanzamir M, Abdar M, Sarrafzadegan N, Shafie D, Khozeimeh F, Shoeibi A, Nahavandi S, Panahiazar M, Bishara A, Beygui RE, Puri R, Kapadia S, Tan RS, Acharya UR
• Subxiphoid Hybrid Epicardial-Endocardial Atrial Fibrillation Ablation and LAA Ligation: Initial Sub-X Hybrid MAZE Registry Results.
  JACC. Clinical electrophysiology 2020 Ellis CR, Badhwar N, Tschopp D, Danter M, Jackson GG, Kerendi F, Walters T, Fang Q, Deuse T, Beygui R, Lee RJ
• Systematic Review of Gender Based Studies of Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in Last 20 Years
  Advancements in Cardiovascular Research 2019 Panahiazar M, Alizadehsani R, Bishara AM, Chern, Y, Hadley D, Beygui RE
• Reported mortality with rotating sheaths vs. laser sheaths for transvenous lead extraction.
  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 2019 Diaz CL, Guo X, Whitman IR, Marcus GM, Pellegrini CN, Beygui RE, Lee SY, Lee BK
• Hybrid and surgical procedures for the treatment of persistent and longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation.
  Expert review of cardiovascular therapy 2018 Sanchez JM, Al-Dosari G, Chu S, Beygui R, Deuse T, Badhwar N, Lee RJ
• Carcinoid Syndrome Complicating a Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report.
  Pancreas 2017 Gerson JN, Witteles RM, Chang DT, Beygui RE, Iagaru AH, Kunz PL
• Quantification of motion of the thoracic aorta after ascending aortic repair of type-A dissection.
  International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery 2016 Suh GY, Fleischmann D, Beygui RE, Cheng CP
• Volumetric Analysis Demonstrates True and False Lumen Remodeling Persists for 12 Months after TEVAR
  Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques 2016 GY Suh, K Hirotsu, R Beygui, MD Dake, D Fleischmann, CP Cheng
• Multipotency and cardiomyogenic potential of human adipose-derived stem cells from epicardium, pericardium, and omentum.
  Stem cell research & therapy 2016 Wystrychowski W, Patlolla B, Zhuge Y, Neofytou E, Robbins RC, Beygui RE
• Celecoxib Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Angiogenesis.
  ACS nano 2015 Margulis K, Neofytou EA, Beygui RE, Zare RN
• Mesenchymal stromal cell therapy: different sources exhibit different immunobiological properties.
  Transplantation 2015 Neofytou E, Deuse T, Beygui RE, Schrepfer S
• Immunobiology of fibrin-based engineered heart tissue.
  Stem cells translational medicine 2015 Conradi L, Schmidt S, Neofytou E, Deuse T, Peters L, Eder A, Hua X, Hansen A, Robbins RC, Beygui RE, Reichenspurner H, Eschenhagen T, Schrepfer S
• Cardiac metastases and tumor embolization: A rare sequelae of primary undifferentiated liver sarcoma.
  International journal of surgery case reports 2014 Dua MM, Cloyd JM, Haddad F, Beygui RE, Norton JA, Visser BC
• Aortic arch vessel geometries and deformations in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2014 Suh GY, Beygui RE, Fleischmann D, Cheng CP
• Multidisciplinary treatment for thoracic and abdominopelvic endometriosis.
  JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2014 Nezhat C, Main J, Paka C, Nezhat A, Beygui RE
• Wireless power transfer to deep-tissue microimplants.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014 Ho JS, Yeh AJ, Neofytou E, Kim S, Tanabe Y, Patlolla B, Beygui RE, Poon AS
• Congenital anomalies of the aortic arch in acute type-a aortic dissection: implications for monitoring, perfusion strategy, and surgical repair.
  Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2014 Maxwell BG, Harrington KB, Beygui RE, Oakes DA
• A histological and mechanical analysis of the cardiac lead-tissue interface: implications for lead extraction.
  Acta biomaterialia 2014 Rennert RC, Rustad K, Levi K, Harwood M, Sorkin M, Wong VW, Al-Ahmad A, Zei P, Hsia H, Beygui RE, Norton L, Wang P, Gurtner GC
• Human pluripotent stem cell tools for cardiac optogenetics.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2014 Zhuge Y, Patlolla B, Ramakrishnan C, Beygui RE, Zarins CK, Deisseroth K, Kuhl E, Abilez OJ
• Robust pluripotent stem cell expansion and cardiomyocyte differentiation via geometric patterning.
  Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro 2013 Myers FB, Silver JS, Zhuge Y, Beygui RE, Zarins CK, Lee LP, Abilez OJ
• Screening drug-induced arrhythmia [corrected] using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and low-impedance microelectrode arrays.
  Circulation 2013 Navarrete EG, Liang P, Lan F, Sanchez-Freire V, Simmons C, Gong T, Sharma A, Burridge PW, Patlolla B, Lee AS, Wu H, Beygui RE, Wu SM, Robbins RC, Bers DM, Wu JC
• Right-ventricular failure following left ventricle assist device implantation.
  Current opinion in cardiology 2013 Patlolla B, Beygui R, Haddad F
• Protein-polymer hybrid nanoparticles for drug delivery.
  Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 2012 Ge J, Neofytou E, Lei J, Beygui RE, Zare RN
• Bilateral thoracic endometriosis affecting the lung and diaphragm.
  JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2012 Nezhat C, King LP, Paka C, Odegaard J, Beygui R
• Drug release from electric-field-responsive nanoparticles.
  ACS nano 2011 Ge J, Neofytou E, Cahill TJ, Beygui RE, Zare RN
• Mediastinal goiter: a comprehensive study of 60 consecutive cases with special emphasis on identifying predictors of malignancy and sternotomy.
  American journal of surgery 2011 Hajhosseini B, Montazeri V, Hajhosseini L, Nezami N, Beygui RE
• Successful use of a pneumatic biventricular assist device as a bridge to transplantation in cardiogenic shock.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2011 Moriguchi J, Davis S, Jocson R, Esmailian F, Ardehali A, Laks H, Kwon M, Kittleson M, Kobashigawa J, Patel J, Marelli D, Plunkett M, Beygui R, Shemin R
• Adipose tissue-derived stem cells display a proangiogenic phenotype on 3D scaffolds.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A 2011 Neofytou EA, Chang E, Patlola B, Joubert LM, Rajadas J, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z, Robbins RC, Beygui RE
• A matrix micropatterning platform for cell localization and stem cell fate determination.
  Acta biomaterialia 2010 Huang NF, Patlolla B, Abilez O, Sharma H, Rajadas J, Beygui RE, Zarins CK, Cooke JP
• A prospective, randomized, crossover pilot study of inhaled nitric oxide versus inhaled prostacyclin in heart transplant and lung transplant recipients.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2009 Khan TA, Schnickel G, Ross D, Bastani S, Laks H, Esmailian F, Marelli D, Beygui R, Shemin R, Watson L, Vartapetian I, Ardehali A
• Endometriosis of the diaphragm: four cases treated with a combination of laparoscopy and thoracoscopy.
  Journal of minimally invasive gynecology 2009 Nezhat C, Nicoll LM, Bhagan L, Huang JQ, Bosev D, Hajhosseini B, Beygui RE
• The use of three-dimensional nanostructures to instruct cells to produce extracellular matrix for regenerative medicine strategies.
  Biomaterials 2009 Schenke-Layland K, Rofail F, Heydarkhan S, Gluck JM, Ingle NP, Angelis E, Choi CH, MacLellan WR, Beygui RE, Shemin RJ, Heydarkhan-Hagvall S
• Cell growth as a sheet on three-dimensional sharp-tip nanostructures.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A 2009 Choi CH, Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Wu BM, Dunn JC, Beygui RE, Kim CJ
• Tricuspid valve regurgitation after heart transplantation.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2008 Marelli D, Esmailian F, Wong SY, Kobashigawa JA, Kwon MH, Beygui RE, Laks H, Plunkett MD, Ardehali A, Shemin RJ
• Long-term outcomes of heart transplantation in older recipients.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2008 Marelli D, Kobashigawa J, Hamilton MA, Moriguchi JD, Kermani R, Ardehali A, Patel J, Noguchi E, Beygui R, Laks H, Plunkett M, Shemin R, Esmailian F
• Three-dimensional electrospun ECM-based hybrid scaffolds for cardiovascular tissue engineering.
  Biomaterials 2008 Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Schenke-Layland K, Dhanasopon AP, Rofail F, Smith H, Wu BM, Shemin R, Beygui RE, MacLellan WR
• Human adipose stem cells: a potential cell source for cardiovascular tissue engineering.
  Cells, tissues, organs 2008 Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Schenke-Layland K, Yang JQ, Heydarkhan S, Xu Y, Zuk PA, MacLellan WR, Beygui RE
• Hypoxic cell death is reduced by pH buffering in a model of engineered heart tissue.
  Artificial cells, blood substitutes, and immobilization biotechnology 2008 Brown DA, MacLellan WR, Dunn JC, Wu BM, Beygui RE
• Lung transplantation in older patients?
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2007 Mahidhara R, Bastani S, Ross DJ, Saggar R, Lynch J, Schnickel GT, Gjertson D, Beygui R, Ardehali A
• Donor brain death mechanisms and outcomes after heart transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 2007 Cohen O, De La Zerda DJ, Beygui R, Hekmat D, Laks H
• Ethnicity as a predictor of graft longevity and recipient mortality in heart transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 2007 Cohen O, De La Zerda D, Beygui RE, Hekmat D, Laks H
• Influence of systematically varied nano-scale topography on cell morphology and adhesion.
  Cell communication & adhesion 2007 Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Choi CH, Dunn J, Heydarkhan S, Schenke-Layland K, MacLellan WR, Beygui RE
• The role of cytoprotective cytokines in cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury.
  The Journal of surgical research 2007 Anderson CD, Heydarkhan-Hagvall S, Schenke-Layland K, Yang JQ, Jordan MC, Kim JK, Brown DA, Zuk PA, Laks H, Roos KP, Maclellan WR, Beygui RE
• Analysis of pH gradients resulting from mass transport limitations in engineered heart tissue.
  Annals of biomedical engineering 2007 Brown DA, Maclellan WR, Wu BM, Beygui RE
• Analysis of oxygen transport in a diffusion-limited model of engineered heart tissue.
  Biotechnology and bioengineering 2007 Brown DA, MacLellan WR, Laks H, Dunn JC, Wu BM, Beygui RE
• Alcohol use in donors is a protective factor on recipients' outcome after heart transplantation.
  Transplantation 2007 De La Zerda DJ, Cohen O, Beygui RE, Kobashigawa J, Hekmat D, Laks H
• Cell interaction with three-dimensional sharp-tip nanotopography.
  Biomaterials 2006 Choi CH, Hagvall SH, Wu BM, Dunn JC, Beygui RE, CJ Kim CJ
• Modified reperfusion in clinical lung transplantation: the results of 100 consecutive cases.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2005 Schnickel GT, Ross DJ, Beygui R, Shefizadeh A, Laks H, Saggar R, Lynch JP, Ardehali A
• Modulation of gene expression in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes by surface modification of polylactide-co-glycolide substrates.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A 2005 Brown DA, Beygui RE, MacLellan WR, Laks H, Dunn JC, Wu BM
• Gelatin-embedded cell-polymer constructs for histological cryosectioning.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials 2005 Brown DA, Chou YF, Beygui RE, Dunn JC, Wu BM
• Expression of cardiomyocytic markers on adipose tissue-derived cells in a murine model of acute myocardial injury.
  Cytotherapy 2005 Strem BM, Zhu M, Alfonso Z, Daniels EJ, Schreiber R, Beygui R, Begyui R, MacLellan WR, Maclellan WR, Hedrick MH, Fraser JK
• Repair of the symptomatic aberrant aortic arch aneurysm without hypothermic circulatory arrest.
  Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery 2004 Beygui RE, Esmailian F, Rigberg DA, Laks H
• Prevention of spinal cord ischemia in an ovine model of abdominal aortic aneurysm treated with a self-expanding stent-graft.
  Journal of endovascular surgery : the official journal of the International Society for Endovascular Surgery 1999 Beygui RE, Kinney EV, Pelc LR, Krievins D, Whittemore J, Fogarty TJ, Zarins CK
• Subclavian vein thrombosis: outcome analysis based on etiology and modality of treatment.
  Annals of vascular surgery 1997 Beygui RE, Olcott C, Dalman RL
• Etiology of aortic aneurysm.
  Surgical technology international 1996 Zarins CK, Beygui RE