Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics-Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Addresses

TCH-West Tower (Clinic)

Room: TXWT-19thFL
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-5704

Education

MD from Universidad Nacional De Cordoba

01/1978 - Cordoba, Argentina

Residency at Hospital Privado Cordoba

Cordoba, Argentina

Fellowship at Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo

Bergamo, Italy

Certifications

Argentina Board of Pediatrics

Professional Interests

• Ventricular Function Evaluation by Non-Invasive Methods
• Cardiomyopathies
• 3-D Imaging During Interventional Cath Procedures

Websites

Selected Publications

• Lai WW, Geva T, Shirali GS, Frommelt PC, Humes RA, Brook MM, Pignatelli RH, Rychik J. " Guidelines and standards for performance of a pediatric echocardiogram: a report from the Task Force of the Pediatric Council of the American Society of Echocardiography. " J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2006 Dec ; 19 (12) : 1413-30.
  Pubmed PMID: 17138024.
• McMahon CJ, Pignatelli RH, Nagueh SF, Lee VV, Vaughn W, Valdes SO, Kovalchin JP, Jefferies JL, Jefferies JL, Dreyer WJ, Denfield SW, Clunie S, Towbin JA, Eidem BW. " Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy in children: characterisation of clinical status using tissue Doppler-derived indices of left ventricular diastolic relaxation. " Heart. 2007 Jun ; 93 (6) : 676-81.
  Pubmed PMID: 17135224.
• McMahon CJ, Chang AC, Pignatelli RH, Miller-Hance WC, Eble BK, Towbin JA, Denfield SW. " Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy in association with trisomy 13. " Pediatr Cardiol. ; 26 (4) : 477-9.
  Pubmed PMID: 15549619.
• Ganame J, Mertens L, Eidem BW, Claus P, D'hooge J, Havemann LM, McMahon CJ, Elayda MA, Vaughn WK, Towbin JA, Ayres NA, Pignatelli RH. " Regional myocardial deformation in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: morphological and clinical correlations. " Eur. Heart J.. 2007 Dec ; 28 (23) : 2886-94.
  Pubmed PMID: 17971400.
• Stapleton GE, Stapleton SL, Martinez A, Ayres NA, Kovalchin JP, Bezold LI, Pignatelli R, Eidem BW. " Evaluation of longitudinal ventricular function with tissue Doppler echocardiography in children treated with anthracyclines. " J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007 May ; 20 (5) : 492-7.
  Pubmed PMID: 17484989.
• Petit CJ, Altman CA, Pignatelli RH. " Transthoracic echocardiographic assistance for interatrial stenting in low birth-Weight neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and intact atrial septum. " Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2010 Sep 1; 76 (3) : 425-30.
  Pubmed PMID: 20839358.
• Blinder JJ, Martinez HR, Craigen WJ, Belmont J, Pignatelli RH, Jefferies JL. " Noncompaction of the left ventricular myocardium in a boy with a novel chromosome 8p23.1 deletion. " Am. J. Med. Genet. A. 2011 Sep ; 155 (9) : 2215-20.
  Pubmed PMID: 21834050.
• Petit CJ, Justino H, Pignatelli RH, Crystal MA, Payne WA, Ing FF. " Percutaneous atrial septal defect closure in infants and toddlers: predictors of success. " Pediatr Cardiol. 2013 Feb ; 34 (2) : 220-5.
  Pubmed PMID: 22806712.
• Lowry AW, Pignatelli RH, Justino H. " Percutaneous atrial septal defect closure in a child with interrupted inferior vena cava: Successful femoral venous approach. " Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2011 Oct 1; 78 (4) : 590-3.
  Pubmed PMID: 21936042.
• Jefferies JL, Pignatelli RH, Martinez HR, Robbins-Furman PJ, Liu P, Gu W, Lupski JR, Potocki L. " Cardiovascular findings in duplication 17p11.2 syndrome. " Genet. Med.. 2012 Jan ; 14 (1) : 90-4.
  Pubmed PMID: 22237436.
• Pignatelli R, Law MA, Martinez H, Altman C, Ayres N, Jefferies JL, Ganame J. " Two-dimensional speckle strain imaging: in the management of paraganglioma, acute junctional tachycardia, and myocardial dysfunction in a child. " Tex Heart Inst J. 2012 ; 39 (1) : 119-21.
  Pubmed PMID: 22412245.
• Selamet Tierney ES, Levine JC, Chen S, Bradley TJ, Pearson GD, Colan SD, Sleeper LA, Campbell MJ, Cohen MS, De Backer J, Guey LT, Heydarian H, Lai WW, Lewin MB, Marcus E, Mart CR, Pignatelli RH, Printz BF, Sharkey AM, Shirali GS, Srivastava S, Lacro RV. " Echocardiographic methods, quality review, and measurement accuracy in a randomized multicenter clinical trial of marfan syndrome. " J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2013 Jun ; 26 (6) : 657-66.
  Pubmed PMID: 23582510.
• Havemann L, McMahon CJ, Ganame J, Price J, Fraser CD, Eidem BW, Pignatelli RH. " Rapid ventricular remodeling with left ventricular unloading postventricular assist device placement: new insights with strain imaging. " J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2006 Mar ; 19 (3) : 355.e9-355.e11.
  Pubmed PMID: 16500504.
• Carlson KM, Justino H, O'Brien RE, Dimas VV, Leonard GT, Pignatelli RH, Mullins CE, Smith EO, Grifka RG. " Transcatheter atrial septal defect closure: modified balloon sizing technique to avoid overstretching the defect and oversizing the Amplatzer septal occluder. " Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2005 Nov ; 66 (3) : 390-6.
  Pubmed PMID: 16142805.

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