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    Nitish Badhwar, MD

    TitleAssociate Professor of Clinical
    SchoolUCSF School of Medicine
    DepartmentMedicine
    Address500 Parnassus Avenue, MU
    San Francisco CA 94143
    Phone415-476-5706

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      Nitish Badhwar, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology Training Program. Dr. Badhwar received his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College (University of Delhi, India). After completing his internal medicine training from New York Hospital of Queens (affiliated with Cornell Medical School), he worked as faculty in the Department of Medicine at Hospital of St. Raphael (Yale University School of Medicine). He completed his Cardiology training at LSU and Cardiac Electrophysiology training at UCSF with Dr. Scheinman and subsequently joined the Cardiac Electrophysiology faculty at UCSF in 2003. He is a IBHRE Testamur (competency exam on pacing and defibrillation administered by Heart Rhythm Society).

      Clinical Interest: Dr. Badhwar's clinical interest is in mapping and ablation of supraventricular arrhythmias including junctional variants of SVT. He is interested in clinical and technical aspects of complex catheter ablation procedures including ventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. He started the epicardial ablation program at UCSF and is also working with Dr. Randall Lee in performing percutaneous epicardial left atrial appendage (LAA) ligation in patients with atrial fibrillation. He is also involved in device implantation including pacemakers, ICD and biventricular pacing for heart failure.

      Research Interest: Dr. Badhwar has worked with Dr Scheinman to describe the electrophysiologic characteristics of SVTs including atrial tachycardia arising from the coronary sinus musculature, para-hisian atrial tachycardia, left sided AVNRT, junctional tachycardia and nodofascicular tachycardia. Dr. Badhwar is also collaborating with Dr. Botvinick and Dr. DeMarco in assessing left ventricular dyssynchrony as well as optimal pacing sties in patients with heart failure requiring biventricular pacing. He is also part of multicenter ECHOCRT study that is evaluating role of biventricular pacing in heart failure patients with narrow QRS. He is doing a study with Dr. Randall Lee to evaluate clinical outcomes of combining LAA ligation with percutaneous catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation.


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      1. Hoffmayer KS, Bhave PD, Marcus GM, James CA, Tichnell C, Chopra N, Moxey L, Krahn AD, Dixit S, Stevenson W, Calkins H, Badhwar N, Gerstenfeld EP, Scheinman MM. An electrocardiographic scoring system for distinguishing right ventricular outflow tract arrhythmias in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy from idiopathic ventricular tachycardia. Heart Rhythm. 2013 Apr; 10(4):477-82.
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      2. Sung RK, Kim AM, Tseng ZH, Han F, Inada K, Tedrow UB, Viswanathan MN, Badhwar N, Varosy PD, Tanel R, Olgin JE, Stephenson WG, Scheinman M. Diagnosis and ablation of multiform fascicular tachycardia. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2013 Mar; 24(3):297-304.
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      3. Mandyam MC, Vedantham V, Scheinman MM, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Gerstenfeld EP, Olgin JE, Marcus GM. Alcohol and vagal tone as triggers for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Am J Cardiol. 2012 Aug 1; 110(3):364-8.
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      4. Hsu JC, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Vedantham V, Tseng ZH, Marcus GM. Predictors of fluoroscopy time and procedural failure during biventricular device implantation. Am J Cardiol. 2012 Jul 15; 110(2):240-5.
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      5. Hsu JC, Friday J, Lee BK, Azadani PN, Lee RJ, Badhwar N, Tseng ZH, Olgin JE, Marcus GM. Predictors of axillary vein location for vascular access during pacemaker and defibrillator lead implantation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011 Dec; 34(12):1585-92.
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      6. Badhwar N, Kusumoto F, Goldschlager N. Arrhythmias in the coronary care unit. J Intensive Care Med. 2012 Sep-Oct; 27(5):267-89.
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      7. Hoffmayer KS, Yang Y, Joseph S, McCabe JM, Bhave P, Hsu J, Ng RK, Lee BK, Badhwar N, Lee RJ, Tseng ZH, Olgin JE, Narayan SM, Marcus GM, Scheinman MM. Predictors of unusual ECG characteristics in cavotricuspid isthmus-dependent atrial flutter ablation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011 Oct; 34(10):1251-7.
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      8. Pellegrini CN, Scheinman MM, Badhwar N. Idiopathic epicardial ventricular tachycardia with origin remote from vascular structures. J Electrocardiol. 2011 Nov-Dec; 44(6):792-5.
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      9. Iwai S, Badhwar N, Markowitz SM, Stambler BS, Keung E, Lee RJ, Chung JH, Olgin JE, Scheinman MM, Lerman BB. Electrophysiologic properties of para-Hisian atrial tachycardia. Heart Rhythm. 2011 Aug; 8(8):1245-53.
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      10. Di Biase L, Al-Ahamad A, Santangeli P, Hsia HH, Sanchez J, Bai R, Bailey S, Horton R, Gallinghouse GJ, Burkhardt DJ, Lakkireddy D, Yang Y, Badhwar N, Scheinman M, Tung R, Dello Russo A, Pelargonio G, Casella M, Tomassoni G, Shivkumar K, Natale A. Safety and outcomes of cryoablation for ventricular tachyarrhythmias: results from a multicenter experience. Heart Rhythm. 2011 Jul; 8(7):968-74.
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      11. Nguyen DT, Wang ZJ, Vedantham V, Badhwar N. Images in cardiovascular medicine. Odynophagia after atrial fibrillation ablation. Circulation. 2011 Mar 1; 123(8):e253-4.
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      12. Nguyen DT, Scheinman M, Olgin J, Badhwar N. Wenckebach during supraventricular tachycardia. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2010 Dec; 3(6):671-3.
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      13. Yang Y, Varma N, Badhwar N, Tanel RE, Sundara S, Lee RJ, Lee BK, Tseng ZH, Marcus GM, Kim AM, Olgin JE, Scheinman MM. Prospective observations in the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of intra-isthmus reentry. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2010 Oct; 21(10):1099-106.
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      14. Nguyen DT, Scheinman M, Badhwar N. Supraventricular Tachycardia With No Ventriculoatrial Conduction: What Is the Mechanism? J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2010 Jul 23.
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      15. Nguyen DT, Scheinman M, Badhwar N. Supraventricular tachycardia with alternating cycle lengths: what is the mechanism? Heart Rhythm. 2011 Mar; 8(3):478-9.
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      16. Armstrong EJ, Dubey A, Scheinman MM, Badhwar N. Lithium-associated Mobitz II block: case series and review of the literature. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011 May; 34(5):e47-51.
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      17. Botvinick EH, O'Connell JW, Badhwar N. Imaging synchrony. J Nucl Cardiol. 2009 Nov-Dec; 16(6):846-8.
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      18. Marcus GM, Smith LM, Ordovas K, Scheinman MM, Kim AM, Badhwar N, Lee RJ, Tseng ZH, Lee BK, Olgin JE. Intracardiac and extracardiac markers of inflammation during atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2010; 7(2):149-54.
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      19. Hsu JC, Tanel RE, Lee BK, Scheinman MM, Badhwar N, Lee RJ, Tseng ZH, Olgin JE, Marcus GM. Differences in accessory pathway location by sex and race. Heart Rhythm. 2010 Jan; 7(1):52-6.
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      20. Sakhuja R, Smith LM, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM, Olgin JE, Marcus GM. Test characteristics of neck fullness and witnessed neck pulsations in the diagnosis of typical AV nodal reentrant tachycardia. Clin Cardiol. 2009 Aug; 32(8):E13-8.
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      21. Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Electrophysiological diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2009 Apr; 32(4):473-4.
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      22. Turakhia MP, Scheinman M, Badhwar N. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: where is the pathway? Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2009; 9(2):130-3.
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      23. Kim AM, Badhwar N, Lee RJ. Remote navigation guided ablation of incessant atrial tachycardia in a patient with restricted venous access. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2009 Sep; 20(9):1061-4.
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      24. Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Atrial fibrillation after atrial flutter ablation: is atrial fibrillation the primary arrhythmia? J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2008 Nov; 19(11):1151-2.
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      25. Kim AM, Turakhia M, Lu J, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Marcus GM, Tseng ZH, Scheinman M, Olgin JE. Impact of remote magnetic catheter navigation on ablation fluoroscopy and procedure time. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2008 Nov; 31(11):1399-404.
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      26. Turakhia M, Prasad M, Olgin J, Badhwar N, Tseng ZH, Lee R, Marcus GM, Lee BK. Rates and severity of perforation from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads: a 4-year study. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2009 Jan; 24(1):47-52.
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      27. Lee KW, Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Supraventricular tachycardia-Part II: History, presentation, mechanism, and treatment. Curr Probl Cardiol. 2008 Oct; 33(10):557-622.
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      28. Pellegrini CN, Lee K, Olgin JE, Turakhia MP, Tseng ZH, Lee R, Badhwar N, Lee B, Varosy PD. Impact of advanced age on survival in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Europace. 2008 Nov; 10(11):1296-301.
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      29. McCabe JM, Smith LM, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM, Olgin JE, Marcus GM. Protracted CRP elevation after atrial fibrillation ablation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2008 Sep; 31(9):1146-51.
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      30. Lee KW, Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Supraventricular tachycardia--part I. Curr Probl Cardiol. 2008 Sep; 33(9):467-546.
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      31. Marcus GM, Smith LM, Whiteman D, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM, Olgin JE. Alcohol intake is significantly associated with atrial flutter in patients under 60 years of age and a shorter right atrial effective refractory period. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2008 Mar; 31(3):266-72.
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      32. Marcus GM, Smith LM, Vittinghoff E, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM, Olgin JE. A first-degree family history in lone atrial fibrillation patients. Heart Rhythm. 2008 Jun; 5(6):826-30.
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      33. Marcus GM, Smith LM, Glidden DV, Wilson E, McCabe JM, Whiteman D, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM, Olgin JE. Markers of inflammation before and after curative ablation of atrial flutter. Heart Rhythm. 2008 Feb; 5(2):215-21.
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      34. Yang Y, Saenz LC, Varosy PD, Badhwar N, Tan JH, Kilicaslan F, Keung EC, Natale A, Marrouche NF, Scheinman MM. Using the initial vector from surface electrocardiogram to distinguish the site of outflow tract tachycardia. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2007 Jul; 30(7):891-8.
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      35. Turakhia MP, Varosy PD, Lee K, Tseng ZH, Lee R, Badhwar N, Scheinman M, Lee BK, Olgin JE. Impact of renal function on survival in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2007 Mar; 30(3):377-84.
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      36. Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia: Diagnosis and management. Curr Probl Cardiol. 2007 Jan; 32(1):7-43.
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      37. Marcus GM, Ren X, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Foster E, Olgin JE. Repeat transseptal catheterization after ablation for atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2007 Jan; 18(1):55-9.
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      38. Marcus GM, Yang Y, Varosy PD, Ordovas K, Tseng ZH, Badhwar N, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM, Olgin JE. Regional left atrial voltage in patients with atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2007 Feb; 4(2):138-44.
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      39. Badhwar N, Kalman JM, Sparks PB, Kistler PM, Attari M, Berger M, Lee RJ, Sra J, Scheinman MM. Atrial tachycardia arising from the coronary sinus musculature: electrophysiological characteristics and long-term outcomes of radiofrequency ablation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005 Nov 15; 46(10):1921-30.
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      40. Matsushita T, Hongo RH, Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Define the mechanism of the tachycardia and explain the results of para-Hisian pacing. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2004 Apr; 15(4):504-5.
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      41. Matsushita T, Badhwar N, Collins KK, Van Hare GF, Barbato G, Lee BK, Lee RJ, Scheinman MM. Usefulness of a ventricular extrastimulus from the summit of the ventricular septum in diagnosis of septal accessory pathway in patients with supraventricular tachycardia. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Mar 1; 93(5):643-6.
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      42. Hamdan MH, Badhwar N, Scheinman MM. Role of invasive electrophysiologic testing in the evaluation and management of adult patients with focal junctional tachycardia. Card Electrophysiol Rev. 2002 Dec; 6(4):431-5.
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