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Kan Liu, MD, PhD

Upstate Community Hospital
4900 Broad Road
Syracuse, NY 13215
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CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

SPECIALTIES

Internal Medicine
Cardiology
Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Cardiovascular MRI
Echocardiography
Nuclear Cardiology

LANGUAGES

English
Chinese

PATIENT TYPE

Adults

RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND AFFILIATIONS

Medicine

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Endothelial dysfunction in coronary artery disease
  • Lipotoxicity/glucotoxicity and endothelial/myocyte dysfunction in diabetes
  • Clinical and genetic analysis of valve diseases/Strain/strain rate imagine in cardiomyopathy

ASSOCIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS

American College of Cardiology (ACC)
American College of Physicians (ACP)
American Heart Association (AHA)
American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT)
Society of Cardiovascular MRI (SCMR)

EDUCATION

Fellowship: Washington University at St. Louis, 2009, Cardiology
Residency: University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals, 2006, Internal Medicine
Additional Training: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2003, Research Assistant Professor
Additional Training: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2002, Instructor, Internal Medicine
PhD: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2001, Internal Medicine and Cellular Biology
MD: Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, 1992

RESEARCH ABSTRACT

Selected Publications

Sun ZX, Singh P, Wei TM, Kozman H, Liu K. Is the Heart Really Stressed Out of Energy? J Am Coll Cardiol: Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 (in press).

Lei J, Dhamoon AS, Wang JF, Iannuzzi M, Liu K. Walking the Tightrope: Using Quantitative Doppler  Echocardiography to Optimize Ventricular Filling Pressures in Patients Hospitalized for Acute Heart Failure. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care. 2015 (in press).

Liu K, Krone JK.  What Truly Causes the Adverse Outcome of Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy? J Am Coll Cardiol: Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014, 7(7):742-743.

Dhamoon A, Liu K.  How can we improve inpatient management of heart failure? J Am Coll Cardiol: Heart Failure. 2014, 2:199-200

Liu K, Ronald K. Evaluation of Coronary Steal in Myocardium Supplied by Coronary Collaterals: The Role of Speckle Tracking Analysis in Resting and Stress Echocardiography. Echocardiography, 2013, 30:1111-1117

Boppana S, Bhatta L, Liu K.  Reversible Tricuspid Regurgitation in Acute and Chronic Cardiomyopathies: Medical Management vs. Surgical Intervention? J Am Coll Cardiol: Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013,6:920-921.

Liu K, Carhart R. Reverse McConnell's sign: a unique right ventricular feature of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol.  2013, 11: 1232-1235.

Tian J, Wang J, Li Y, Villarreal D, Carhart R, Dong Y, Wen Y, Liu K.  Endothelial Function in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Receiving Early Intensive Insulin Therapy. Am J Hypertens.  2012, 25(12):1242-1248.

Tian J Wen YL, Yan Li, Cheng H, Yang HY,  Wang JF, Kozman H, Villarreal D, Liu K.. Vascular endothelial dysfunction in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and effects of 2-year and 5-year multi-factorial intervention. Echocardiography, 2011, 28 (10): 1133-1140.

Dhakal P, Liu K, Kozman H. Beta receptor antagonist cessation resulted in Tako- tsubocardiomyopathy in a male quadriplegic patient. Mayo Clin Proc 2011, 86(2):168.

Liu K, Paterson AJ, Zhang F, et al. Accumulation of protein O-GlcNAc modification inhibits proteasomes in the brain and coincides with neuronal apoptosis in brain areas with high O-GlcNAc metabolism.J Neurochem. 2004 May;89(4):1044-1055.

Liu K, Paterson AJ, Konrad RJ, et al. Streptozotocin, an O-GlcNAcase inhibitor, blunts insulin and growth hormone secretion. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2002 Aug 30;194(1-2):135-146.

Liu K, Paterson AJ, Chin E, et al. Glucose stimulates protein modification by O-linked GlcNAc in pancreatic beta cells: linkage of O-linked GlcNAc to beta cell death. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000, 97(6):2820-2825.

Liu K, Ou J, Saku K, et al. Efficient nuclear delivery of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides and selective inhibition of CETP expression by apo E peptide in a human CETP-stably transfected CHO cell line. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 1999, 19:2207-2213.

PUBLICATIONS

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