Glenn A. Hirsch, M.D., M.H.S., FACC

Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Clinical Expertise

General Cardiology; Cardiovascular Critical Care; Echocardiography; Cardiac MRI

Recent Publications

• Martin LD, Mathews S, Ziegelstein RC, Martire C, Howell EE, Hellmann DB, Hirsch GA. Prevalence of asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction in at-risk medical inpatients. Am J Med. 2013 Jan;126(1):68-73. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2012.06.020. Epub 2012 Nov 20.

• Hays AG, Kelle S, Hirsch GA, Soleimanifard S, Yu J, Agarwal HK, Gerstenblith G, Schär M, Stuber M, Weiss RG. Regional coronary endothelial function is closely related to local early coronary atherosclerosis in patients with mild coronary artery disease: pilot study. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 May 1;5(3):341-8. Epub 2012 Apr 5.

• Hirsch GA, Bottomley PA, Gerstenblith G, Weiss RG. Allopurinol acutely increases adenosine triphospate energy delivery in failing human hearts. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Feb 28;59(9):802-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.10.895..

• Wright SM, Gozu A, Burkhart K, Bhogal H, Hirsch GA. Clinicians' perceptions about how they are valued by the academic medical center. Am J Med. 2012 Feb;125(2):210-6. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.10.014.

• McLean RC, Hirsch GA, Becker LC, Kasch-Semenza L, Gerstenblith G, Schulman SP. Polymorphisms of the beta adrenergic receptor predict left ventricular remodeling following acute myocardial infarction. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2011 Jun;25(3):251-8. doi: 10.1007/s10557-011-6307-7.

• Kelle S, Hays AG, Hirsch GA, Gerstenblith G, Miller JM, Steinberg AM, Schär M, Texter JH, Wellnhofer E, Weiss RG, Stuber M. Coronary artery distensibility assessed by 3.0 Tesla coronary magnetic resonance imaging in subjects with and without coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol.2011 Aug 15;108(4):491-7. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2011.03.078. Epub 2011 May 31.

• Hays AG, Hirsch GA, Kelle S, Gerstenblith G, Weiss RG, Stuber M. Noninvasive visualization of coronary artery endothelial function in healthy subjects and in patients with coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol.2010 Nov 9;56(20):1657-65. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.06.036.

• Kelle S, Schlendorf K, Hirsch GA, Gerstenblith G, Fleck E, Weiss RG, Stuber M. Gadolinium Enhanced MR Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging at 3.0 Tesla. Cardiol Res  Pract.2010 Oct 11;2010:856418. doi: 10.4061/2010/856418.

• Maslov MY, Chacko VP, Hirsch GA, Akki A, Leppo MK, Steenbergen C, Weiss RG. Reduced in vivo high-energy phosphates precede adriamycin-induced cardiac dysfunction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2010 Aug;299(2):H332-7. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00727.2009. Epub 2010 May 21.

• Chow GV, Hirsch GA, Spragg DD, Cai JX, Cheng A, Ziegelstein RC, Marine JE. Prognostic significance of cardiac troponin I levels in hospitalized patients presenting with supraventricular tachycardia. Medicine (Baltimore). 2010 May;89(3):141-8. doi: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3181dddb3b.

• Hirsch GA, Ingkanisorn WP, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G, Dyke CK, Rhoads KL, Thompson R, Aletras AH, Arai AE. Age-related vascular stiffness and left ventricular size after myocardial infarction. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2007 Jul-Aug;16(4):222-8.

• Hsu LY, Natanzon A, Kellman P, Hirsch GA, Aletras AH, Arai AE. Quantitative myocardial infarction on delayed enhancement MRI. Part I: Animal validation of an automated feature analysis and combined thresholding infarct sizing algorithm. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2006 Mar;23(3):298-308.

• Larson AC, Kellman P, Arai A, Hirsch GA, McVeigh E, Li D, Simonetti OP. Preliminary investigation of respiratory self-gating for free-breathing segmented cine MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2005 Jan;53(1):159-68.

• Duquaine D, Hirsch GA, Chakrabarti A, Han Z, Kehrer C, Brook R, Joseph J, Schott A, Kalyanaraman B, Vasquez-Vivar J, Rajagopalan S. Rapid-onset endothelial dysfunction with adriamycin: evidence for a dysfunctional nitric oxide synthase. Vasc Med. 2003 May;8(2):101-7.

• Hirsch GA, Blumenthal RS. Usefulness of non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol determinations in the diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemia. Am J Cardiol. 2003 Apr 1;91(7):827-30.