Irene D. Lytrivi, MD
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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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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