Vincent L. Sorrell, M.D.

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Position(s):

Anthony N. DeMaria Professor of Medicine and Radiology

Chair, Cardiovascular Imaging for the UK Enterprise

Assistant Division Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine

Affiliation(s):

Internal Medicine

CV Imaging Research Team

Cardiovascular Research Center

Other Affiliation(s):

CVRC - Affiliated Faculty

Internal Medicine - Cardiology

Bio / Education:

Youngstown State University, Pre-Medical Studies 1983
St. George's University School of Medicine (Grenada, W.I.), Basic Sciences, 1986
Youngstown State University, B.S. Combined Sciences 1987
St. George's University School of Medicine (Grenada, W.I.), M.D. 1989
St. Joseph's Hospital (Seton Hall University), Internship, Internal Medicine 1990
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Residency, Internal Medicine 1992
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Fellowship, Adult Cardiology 1994
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Fellowship, Advanced Imaging 1995

Selected Publications:

SORRELL VL, Davis MJ, Bove, AA. Origins of coronary artery ectasia. (1996) Lancet, 347(8995):136-7.

Berg RA, SORRELL VL, Kern KB, Hilwig RW, Altbach MI, Hayes MM, Bates KA, Ewy GA. Magnetic resonance imaging during untreated ventricular fibrillation reveals prompt right ventricular overdistension without left ventricular volume loss. (2005) Circulation, 111(9):1136-1140. PMID:15723975.

SORRELL VL, Altbach M, Kern KB, Squire S, Hilwig RW, Hayes MM, Ewy GA, Berg RA. Images incardiovascular medicine. Continuous cardiac magnetic resonance imaging during untreated ventricular fibrillation. (2005) Circulation, 111(19):e294. PMID:15897350.

Attaran RR, Ramaraj R, SORRELL VL, Movahed MR. Poor correlation of estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure between echocardiography and right heart catheterization in patients awaiting cardiac transplantation: Results from the clinical arena. (2009) Transplant Proc, 41(9):3827-30. PMID:19917395.

Lax D, Bhatt RD, Klewer SE, SORRELL VL. Are all ventricular septal defects created equal? (2010) J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 23(7):791.e5-7. PMID:200975530.

Abdy NA, Valdes SO, SORRELL VL, Klewer SE, Barber BJ. Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an adolescent. (2010) Congenit Heart Dis, 5(2):182-7.

Marcus F, Basso C, Gear K and SORRELL V. Pitfalls in the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia. (2010) Am J Cardiol, 105(7):1036-1039. PMID:20346327.

Kalra N, Klewer SE, Raasch, H and SORRELL VL. Update on tetralogy of fallot for the adult cardiologist including a brief historical and surgical perspective. (2010) Congenit Heart Dis, 5(3):208-219. PMID:20576040.

SORRELL VL, Ross WD, Kumar S, Klara, Left Ventricular endocardial and epicardial border length delineation with perflutren contrast during transthoracic echocardiography. (2011) Echocardiography, 28(7):176-6. PMID:21564278

Marcus Fl, Bluemke DA, Calkins H, SORRELL VL. Cardiac magnetic resonance for risk stratification of patients with frequent premature ventricular contractions. (2011) JACC, 57(15):1636-7. PMID: 21474047

SORRELL VL, Paleru, V, Altbach MI, Hilwig RW, Kern KB, Gaballa M, Ewy GZ, Berg RA. Mild hypothermia delays the development of stone heart from untreated sustained ventricular fibrillation-cardiovascular magnetic resonance study. (2011) Cardiovasc Magn Resos, 13(1):17. PMID:23175776

Plaisance BR, Winkler MA, Attili AK, SORRELL VL, Congenital bicuspid aortic valve first presenting as an aortic aneurysm. (2012) Am J Med, 125(4);e5-7. PMID:22444113

SORRELL VL, Pancyzk E, Alpert JS. A new disease: Bicuspid aortic valve aortopathy syndrome. (2012) Am J Med, 125(4);322-3. PMID:22444113

George B, Ruiz-Rodriguez E, Campbell C, Leung S, and SORRELL VL.Acute myocardial injury from carbon monoxide poisoning by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. (2014) Eur Heart J Cardiovasc, 15(4):466. PMID:24142404.

Leung S, SORRELL VL. Open Wide: Transient wide-open mitral regurgitation during transcatherter aortic valve implantation. (2014) JACC, 63(17):e45. PMID:24632285.

PubMed Publications:

Gupta, VA ; Alnabelsi, TS ; Shringi, S ; Leung, SW ; Sorrell, VL "Cardiovascular Risk After Sepsis: Understanding the Role of Statin Indications and the Impact of Clinical Inertia on Prescribing Patterns." Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology and therapeutics 25, 6 (2020): 541-547. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Alnabelsi, TS ; Gupta, VA ; Su, LC ; Thompson, KL ; Leung, SW ; Sorrell, VL "Usefulness of Findings by Multimodality Imaging to Stratify Risk of Major Adverse Cardiac Events After Sepsis at 1 and 12 months." The American journal of cardiology 125, 11 (2020): 1732-1737. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Sorrell, VL ; Kotter, J.; Anaya, P. "What the EF Is Going on Here?" Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 33, 7 (2020): 812-814. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Hillerson, D ; Wool, T ; Ogunbayo, GO ; Sorrell, VL ; Leung, SW "Incidental Coronary Artery Calcification and Stroke Risk in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation." AJR. American journal of roentgenology 215, 2 (2020): 344-350. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Campbell, KS ; Yengo, CM ; Lee, LC ; Kotter, J.; Sorrell, VL ; Guglin, M.; Wenk, JF "Closing the therapeutic loop." Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 663, (2019): 129-131. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Misumida, N.; Ogunbayo, GO ; Kim, SM ; Abdel-Latif, A.; Ziada, KM ; Sorrell, VL "Clinical Outcome of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Diagnosed With or Without Coronary Angiography." Angiology 70, 1 (2019): 56-61. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Ogunbayo, GO ; Elayi, SC ; Ha, LD ; Olorunfemi, O.; Elbadawi, A.; Saheed, D.; Sorrell, VL "Outcomes of Heart Block in Myocarditis: A Review of 31,760 Patients." Heart, lung & circulation 28, 2 (2019): 272-276. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Jang, JJ ; Bhapkar, M.; Coles, A ; Vemulapalli, S ; Fordyce, CB ; Lee, KL ; Udelson, JE ; Hoffmann, U ; Tardif, JC ; Jones, WS ; Mark, DB ; Sorrell, VL ; Espinoza, A ; Douglas, PS ; Patel, MR ; PROMISE, Investigators. "Predictive Model for High-Risk Coronary Artery Disease." Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 12, 2 (2019): e007940. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Patel, AR ; Sugeng, L.; Lin, BA ; Smith, MD ; Sorrell, VL "Communication and Documentation of Critical Results from the Echocardiography Laboratory: A Call to Action." Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 31, 6 (2018): 743-745. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Gupta, VA ; Leung, SW ; Winkler, MA ; Sorrell, VL "Identifying Coronary Artery Calcification on Non-gated Computed Tomography Scans." Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 138 (2018): [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Winkler, M.; Issa, M ; Lowry, C ; Chornenkyy, Y ; Sorrell, V. "Intraarticular extravasation, an unusual complication of computed tomographic angiography performed with intraosseous needle intravenous access." Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy 8, 4 (2018): 516-519. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Gupta, VA ; Sousa, M.; Kraitman, N.; Annabathula, R.; Vsevolozhskaya, O.; Leung, SW ; Sorrell, VL "Coronary artery calcification predicts cardiovascular complications after sepsis." Journal of critical care 44, (2018): 261-266. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Gupta, VA ; Nanda, NC ; Sorrell, VL "Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnostic Assessment and Etiology of Heart Failure in Older Adults: Opacify, Quantify, and Rectify." Heart failure clinics 13, 3 (2017): 445-466. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Ogunbayo, GO ; Charnigo, R.; Darrat, Y.; Morales, G.; Kotter, J.; Olorunfemi, O.; Elbadawi, A.; Sorrell, VL ; Smyth, SS ; Elayi, CS "Incidence, predictors, and outcomes associated with pneumothorax during cardiac electronic device implantation: A 16-year review in over 3.7 million patients." Heart rhythm 14, 12 (2017): 1764-1770. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Gupta, V.; Sorrell, VL "Sometimes You Have to Tilt Your Head and Strain to Take a Picture of the Truth." Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography 30, 12 (2017): 1189-1192. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Sinner, GJ ; Gupta, VA ; Seratnahaei, A.; Charnigo, RJ ; Darrat, YH ; Elayi, SC ; Leung, SW ; Sorrell, VL "Atrioventricular dyssynchrony from empiric device settings is common in cardiac resynchronization therapy and adversely impacts left ventricular morphology and function." Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 34, 4 (2017): 496-503. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Hamlet, SM ; Haggerty, CM ; Suever, JD ; Wehner, GJ ; Grabau, JD ; Andres, KN ; Vandsburger, MH ; Powell, DK ; Sorrell, VL ; Fornwalt, BK "An interactive videogame designed to improve respiratory navigator efficiency in children undergoing cardiovascular magnetic resonance." Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 18, 1 (2016): 54. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Metawee, M.; Charnigo, R.; Morales, G.; Darrat, Y.; Sorrell, V.; Di Biase, L.; Natale, A.; Delisle, B.; Elayi, CS ; , ; Magic, "Digoxin and short term mortality after acute STEMI: Results from the MAGIC trial." International journal of cardiology 218, (2016): 176-180. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Sorrell, VL "Citation inflation: when the adoption of a new technique becomes an avenue for publication." Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) 33, 9 (2016): 1282-3. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]
Levitan, BM ; Manning, JR ; Withers, CN ; Smith, JD ; Shaw, RM ; Andres, DA ; Sorrell, VL ; Satin, J. "Rad-deletion Phenocopies Tonic Sympathetic Stimulation of the Heart." Journal of cardiovascular translational research 9, 5-6 (2016): 432-444. [PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]