Dr Uzair Ansari

Work experience

• January 2024 – present -> Aster Clinic, Discovery Gardens
• March 2023- December 2023 –> Al Futtaim Health Hub, Dubai Festival City
• October 2019 – present -> Specialist Cardiologist, University Hospital Mannheim (currently on sabbatical)

Education and Training

• MBBS –M S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore
• Residency Internal Medicine – University Hospital Rostock, Germany
• Residency Internal Medicine and Cardiology – University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg

Languages known

English, Hindi, German

Memberships

• German Society of Cardiology
• European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

Awards/Recognitions

Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)

Research papers/publications

More than 70 research papers published in leading scientific journals including text-book chapters and reviews.

Some examples are:

• Ansari U, Overhoff D, Burkhoff D, Fastner C, Yücel G, Röger S, Rudic B, Liebe V, Borggrefe M, Akin I, Kuschyk J, Papavassiliu T, Tülümen E. Septal myocardial scar burden predicts the response to cardiac contractility modulation in patients with heart failure. Scientific Reports. 2022Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 28;12(1):20504.

• Ansari U, El-Battrawy I, Fastner C, Behnes M, Sattler K, Huseynov A, Baumann S, Tulumen E, Borggrefe M, Akin I. Clinical outcomes associated with catecholamine use in patients diagnosed with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2018 Mar 20;18(1):54.

• Ansari U, Behnes M, Hoffmann J, Natale M, Fastner C, El-Battrawy I, Rusnak J, Kim SH, Lang S, Hoffmann U, Bertsch T, Borggrefe M, Akin I. Galectin-3 Reflects the Echocardiographic Grades of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction. Ann Lab Med. 2018 Jul;38(4):306-15.

• Ansari U, Behnes M, Hoffmann J, Weidner K, Kuche P, Rusnak J, Kim SH, Natale M, Reckord N, Lang S, Hoffmann U, Bertsch T, Fatar M, Borggrefe M, Akin I. Galectin-3 reflects the echocardiographic quantification of right ventricular failure. Scand Cardiovasc J. 2021 Dec;55(6):362-370.

• Ansari U, Janssen S, Baumann S, Borggrefe M, Waldeck S, Schönberg S, Papavassiliu T, Overhoff D. Sparse 3D contrast-enhanced whole-heart imaging for coronary artery evaluation. 2022 Jan 10.

• Fastner C, Brachmann J, Lewalter T, Zeymer U, Sievert H, Ledwoch J, Geist V, Hochadel M, Schneider S, Senges J, Akin I, Ansari U. Adverse events and stroke prevention by interventional left atrial appendage occlusion in patients with low CHA₂DS₂ -VASc score-results from the multicenter German LAARGE registry. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 Apr 6.

• El-Battrawy I, Besler J, Ansari U, Liebe V, Schimpf R, Tülümen E, Rudic B, Lang S, Odening K, Cyganek L, Wolpert C, Zhou X, Borggrefe M, Akin I. Long-term follow-up of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in Short QT syndrome. Clin Res Cardiol. 2019 Oct;108(10):1140-1146.

• Overhoff D, Ansari U, Hohneck A, Tülümen E, Rudic B, Kuschyk J, Lossnitzer D, Baumann S, Froelich MF, Waldeck S, Akin I, Borggrefe M, Schoenberg SO, Papavassiliu T. Prediction of cardiac events with non-contrast magnetic resonance feature tracking in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy. ESC Heart Fail. 2021 Nov 24.

Speciality Areas/Interests

Preventive Cardiology, Heart Failure Management, Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiac Imaging