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Teresa De Marco, M.D.

Director of heart transplantation

Dr. Teresa De Marco is medical director of heart transplantation and co-director of the Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmia Research and Education (CARE) Center. She manages patients with pulmonary hypertension and is an expert in the most advanced treatments for the condition. She participates in multi-center studies evaluating state-of-the-art medications for pulmonary hypertension.

De Marco was certified in 2011 by the American Board of Internal Medicine in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. She earned a medical degree at the University of California at Irvine after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley. She completed an internship in internal medicine and a residency in internal medicine at UCSF Medical Center. She also completed fellowships in cardiology and heart transplantation. She is a professor of medicine at UCSF.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Advanced Heart Failure Evaluation and Therapies Program
400 Parnassus Ave., Sixth Floor, Suite A-6110
San Francisco, CA 94143-0118
Phone: (415) 353-4145
Fax: (415) 353-4166

Hours: Thursday
8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Cardiovascular Genetics Program
400 Parnassus Avenue, Plaza Level, Room 94
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-5354
Fax: (415) 476-5355

Hours: Monday
noon – 4 p.m

Heart Transplant Program
400 Parnassus Ave., Sixth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-4145
Fax: (415) 353-4166

Hours: Thursday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. (exact times vary depending on the number of doctors in clinic)

Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Plaza Level
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-9088
Fax: (415) 353-3889

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

More about Teresa De Marco

Additional Languages

Italian
Spanish

Education

UC Irvine School of Medicine 1982

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1985

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Heart Failure 1987
UCSF Medical Center, Cardiovascular Disease 1989

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Barnett CF, De Marco T. A chocolate a day keeps the doctor away? J Physiol. 2011 Dec 15; 589(Pt 24):5921-2.
  2. Weeks SG, Glantz SA, De Marco T, Rosen AB, Fleischmann KE. Secondhand smoke exposure and quality of life in patients with heart failure. Arch Intern Med. 2011 Nov 28; 171(21):1887-93.
  3. Koskenvuo JW, Mirsky R, Zhang Y, Helenius H, Angeli FS, De Marco T, Boyle AJ, Yeghiazarians Y. Evidence of diminished coronary flow in pulmonary hypertension: explaining angina pectoris in this patient group? Clin Physiol Funct Imaging. 2011 Nov; 31(6):477-84.
  4. Barnett CF, De Marco T. Can pulmonary arterial hypertension be diagnosed by an elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure outside of the guideline criteria? Chest. 2011 Sep; 140(3):828-9; author reply 829-30.
  5. Caleshu C, Sakhuja R, Nussbaum RL, Schiller NB, Ursell PC, Eng C, De Marco T, McGlothlin D, Burchard EG, Rame JE. Furthering the link between the sarcomere and primary cardiomyopathies: restrictive cardiomyopathy associated with multiple mutations in genes previously associated with hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy. Am J Med Genet A. 2011 Sep; 155A(9):2229-35.
  6. Mirsky R, Jahn S, Koskenvuo JW, Sievers RE, Yim SM, Ritner C, Bernstein HS, Angeli FS, Boyle AJ, De Marco T, Yeghiazarians Y. Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension with circulating angiogenic cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2011 Jul; 301(1):L12-9.
  7. Chen H, De Marco T, Kobashigawa EA, Katz PP, Chang VW, Blanc PD. Comparison of cardiac and pulmonary-specific quality-of-life measures in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Eur Respir J. 2011 Sep; 38(3):608-16.
  8. McGlothlin D, De Marco T. Transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2011 Jan-Feb; 53(4):312-23.
  9. Can pulmonary arterial hypertension be diagnosed by an elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure outside of the guideline criteria? Barnett CF, De Marco T. Chest. 2011 Sep;140(3):828-9;. Chest. Can pulmonary arterial hypertension be diagnosed by an elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure outside of the guideline criteria?. 2011; 3(140):828-9.
  10. Koskenvuo JW, Mirsky R, Zhang Y, Angeli FS, Jahn S, Alastalo TP, Schiller NB, Boyle AJ, Chatterjee K, De Marco T, Yeghiazarians Y. A comparison of echocardiography to invasive measurement in the evaluation of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a rat model. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Jun; 26(5):509-18.
  11. Metra M, Eichhorn E, Abraham WT, Linseman J, Böhm M, Corbalan R, DeMets D, De Marco T, Elkayam U, Gerber M, Komajda M, Liu P, Mareev V, Perrone SV, Poole-Wilson P, Roecker E, Stewart J, Swedberg K, Tendera M, Wiens B, Bristow MR. Effects of low-dose oral enoximone administration on mortality, morbidity, and exercise capacity in patients with advanced heart failure: the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group ESSENTIAL trials. Eur Heart J. 2009 Dec; 30(24):3015-26.
  12. Amabile N, Heiss C, Chang V, Angeli FS, Damon L, Rame EJ, McGlothlin D, Grossman W, De Marco T, Yeghiazarians Y. Increased CD62e(+) endothelial microparticle levels predict poor outcome in pulmonary hypertension patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2009 Oct; 28(10):1081-6.
  13. Jensen BC, Swigart PM, De Marco T, Hoopes C, Simpson PC. {alpha}1-Adrenergic receptor subtypes in nonfailing and failing human myocardium. Circ Heart Fail. 2009 Nov; 2(6):654-63.
  14. Chen H, Shiboski SC, Golden JA, Gould MK, Hays SR, Hoopes CW, De Marco T. Impact of the lung allocation score on lung transplantation for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Sep 1; 180(5):468-74.
  15. Khush KK, Tasissa G, Butler J, McGlothlin D, De Marco T. Effect of pulmonary hypertension on clinical outcomes in advanced heart failure: analysis of the Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness (ESCAPE) database. Am Heart J. 2009 Jun; 157(6):1026-34.
  16. McManus D, De Marco T. Pulmonary Hypertension. In Crawford M (ed): Current Diagnosis and Therapy: Cardiology, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill/Lange. 2009; 352-70.
  17. Peacock WF, Costanzo MR, De Marco T, Lopatin M, Wynne J, Mills RM, Emerman CL. Impact of intravenous loop diuretics on outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure: insights from the ADHERE registry. Cardiology. 2009; 113(1):12-9.
  18. Boehmer JP, Carlson MD, De Marco T, Jaski BE, Higgins SL, Kennergren C, Epstein AE. Adjudication of mortality events in a heart failure-arrhythmia trial by a multiparameter descriptive method: comparison with methods used in heart failure trials and methods used in arrhythmia trials. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2008 Nov; 23(2):101-10.
  19. Peacock WF, De Marco T, Fonarow GC, Diercks D, Wynne J, Apple FS, Wu AH. Cardiac troponin and outcome in acute heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2008 May 15; 358(20):2117-26.
  20. Chen H, De Marco T, Golden JA, Gould MK. Utility of CT for predicting pulmonary hypertension in patients with parenchymal lung disease: similar results, different conclusion? Chest. 2008 Apr; 133(4):1053-4; author reply 1054.

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