Associate Professor of Medicine

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Penn Cardiac Care at Radnor
250 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087

Appointments
Contact: Debbie Tomei (610) 902-2273

Clinical Specialty:

• Cardiovascular Medicine

Practice Location:

• Penn Cardiac Care at Radnor

Education:

• MD: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
• Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Research Interest:

• Interventional Echocardiography
•  Intracardiac Echocardiography
• Percutaneous Valve Repair
• 3D Imaging
• Valvular Heart Disease

Selected Publications:

1. Silvestry FE, Kim B, Pollack B, Haimowitz JE, Murray RK, Furth EE, Nisenbaum HL, Kochman ML, Freedman N, Pine R, Herrmann H. Cardiac Whipple Disease: Demonstration of Whipple Bacillus by Electron Microscopy in the Myocardium of a Patient Before Death. Annals of Internal Medicine 1997, 126:214-216.
2. Wadden TA, Berkowitz RI, Silvestry FE, Vogt RA, St. John Sutton MG, Stunkard AJ, Foster FD, Aber JL. The Fen-Phen Finale: A Study of Weight Loss and Valvular Heart Disease. Obesity Research. 1998, 6:278-284.
3. Kawut SM, Silvestry FE, Ferrari VA, DeNofrio D, Axel L, Palevsky HI:
   Extrinsic compression of the left main coronary artery by the pulmonary
   artery in patients with long-standing pulmonary hypertension. American
   Journal of Cardiology 1999, 83(6):984-986.
4. Wadden TA; Silvestry FE; Aber JL; Berkowitz RI; Foster GD; Sutton MGS. Valvular heart disease in fenfluramine-phentermine-treated patients: A comparison with control patients. Obesity Research 1999, Vol 7(3): 309-310.
5. Kizer JR, Silvestry FE, Kimmel SE, Kasner SE, Wiegers SE, Erwin MB,
   Schwalm SA, Viswanathan MN, Pollard JR, Keane MG, St. John Sutton MG. Racial
   differences in the prevalence of cardiac sources of embolism in subjects
   with unexplained stroke or transient ischemic attack evaluated by
   transesophageal echocardiography. American Journal Cardiology. 2002, 90 (4):
   395-400.
6. Herrmann HC, Silvestry FE, Glaser R, See V, Bradbury D, Chang G,
   Hirshfeld JW, Horwitz PA, Kelly M. MD Percutaneous Patent Foramen Ovale and
   Atrial Septal Defect Closure in Adults: Results and Device Comparison in 100
   Consecutive Implants at a Single Center. Catheterization and Cardiovascular
   Therapeutics 2005, 64:197­203.
7. Ilkhanoff L, Naidu SS, Rohatgi S, Ross MJ, Silvestry FE, and Herrmann
   HC. Transcatheter Device Closure of Interatrial Septal Defects in Patients
   With Hypoxia. J Interv Cardiol. 2005 Aug; 18(4):227-32.
8. Luxenberg DM, Silvestry FE, Herrmann HC, Cao QL, Rohatgi S, Hijazi
   ZM. Use of a new 8 French intracardiac echocardiographic catheter to guide
   device closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale in small
   children and adults: initial clinical experience. J Invasive Cardiol. 2005
   Oct;17(10):540-5.
9. Lankipalli RS, Lax K, Toca FM, Bavaria JE, Milas BL, Ferrari VA,
   Silvestry FE. Images in Cardiovascular Medicine: Infected Patent Ductus
   Arteriosus. Circulation. 2005 Dec 20; 112(25): e364-5.
10. Feldman T, Wasserman HS, Herrmann HC, Gray W, Block PC, Whitlow P, St
    Goar F, Rodriguez L, Silvestry F, Schwartz A, Sanborn TA, Condado JA, Foster
    E. Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair Using the Edge-to-Edge Technique: 6
    Month Results of the EVEREST Phase I Clinical Trial. Journal American
    College of Cardiology, Dec 2005; 46: 2134 - 2140.