Irene D. Lytrivi, MD

Pediatric Cardiology
Accepting New Patients
Treats Children
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Overview

Irene Lytrivi, MD, is an authority on pediatric heart transplantation and pediatric heart failure due to cardiomyopathy or congenital/acquired heart disease. Before joining the Division of Cardiology in Columbia's Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Lytrivi was medical director of the Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Service at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Monmouth Medical College in New Jersey, followed by fellowship training at Mount Sinai in pediatric cardiology and noninvasive cardiac imaging, and in heart transplantation at Boston Children's Hospital.

Dr. Lytrivi's research focuses on improving outcomes for children with heart failure and those that have heart transplantation. She is interested in optimizing the selection criteria for heart transplantation and refining cardiac function evaluation with advanced non-invasive imaging techniques.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC

Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital

Languages

  • Greek
  • Spanish

Gender

  • Female

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Aetna

  • Aetna Signature Administrators
  • EPO
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • NYP Employee Plan
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  • POS
  • PPO
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Affinity Health Plan

  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Amida Care

  • Special Needs

Cigna

  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
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Emblem/GHI

  • Medicare Managed Care
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Emblem/HIP

  • ConnectiCare
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra

Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield

  • EPO
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
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Fidelis Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Healthfirst

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
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  • Medicare Managed Care

Local 1199

  • Local 1199

MagnaCare (National)

  • MagnaCare

Medicare

  • Railroad
  • Traditional Medicare

Multiplan

  • Multiplan

MVP Health Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Quality Health Management

  • Quality Health Management

UnitedHealthcare

  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Empire Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Oxford HMO
  • Oxford Liberty
  • POS
  • PPO

VNSNY CHOICE

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • SelectHealth
  • Special Needs

WellCare

  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

World Trade Center Health Plan

  • World Trade Center Health Plan

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • University of Athens Faculty of Medicine (Greece)
  • Residency: Monmouth Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Mount Sinai
  • Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Cardiology

Research

Selected Publications

Clinical guidelines for the management of patients with transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum.

Authors/Task Force Members:, Sarris GE, Balmer C, Bonou P, Comas JV, da Cruz E, Di Chiara L, Di Donato RM, Fragata J, Jokinen TE, Kirvassilis G, Lytrivi I, Milojevic M, Sharland G, Siepe M, Stein J, Büchel EV, Vouhé PR.

Cardiol Young. 2017 Apr;27(3):530-569.

Donor-recipient height ratio and outcomes in pediatric heart transplantation.

Patel A, Bock MJ, Wollstein A, Nguyen K, Malerba S, Lytrivi ID.

Pediatr Transplant. 2016 Aug;20(5):652-7.

Pediatric cardiac retransplantation: Waitlist mortality stratified by age and era.

Bock MJ, Nguyen K, Malerba S, Harrison K, Bagiella E, Gelb BD, Pinney SP, Lytrivi ID.

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015 Apr;34(4):530-7

Prognostic value of exercise testing during heart transplant evaluation in children.

Lytrivi ID, Blume ED, Rhodes J, Dillis S, Gauvreau K, Singh TP.

Circ Heart Fail. 2013 Jul;6(4):792-9