Richard Cheng, MD

Cheng's research is focused on how to rescue patients in cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest and on optimizing the performance of minimally invasive repair of leaky heart valves. His research interests include temporary mechanical circulatory support, stents and stent-valves (tiny tubes that can be placed surgically to keep blood vessels open) in patients with heart failure, minimally invasive mitral and tricuspid valve repair, and coronary artery disease after heart transplantation.

He is also active as a site principal investigator in several national and international catheter-based heart failure and valvular heart disease trials and participates in some of their steering committees. He is a facutly at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, New York Valves, and Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics. 

1. Haghighat L, Cheng R, Barnett C, Brusca S, Park JG, Carnicelli A, Nguyen A, Nair R, Morrow D, O'Brien C. Characteristics and survival predictors among patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. JACC Adv.
2. Wu Y, Baudart S, Cheng R, Kallianos K, Ruaysungnoen R, DesJardin J, Aras M, Soni K, Fiedler A, Smith J, Klein L. Percutaneous management and outcomes of outflow graft obstruction in patients with left ventricular assist device: a single-center experience. JHLT Open
3. Yurkova I, Baudart S, Strehlow A, Brusca AB, Cheng R, Klein L. Impella SmartAssist technology: practical foundations and clinical management. J Card Fail. 2025;31(11):1719-30. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.09.005
4. Wu Y, Gao L, Lazo J, Maritnez B, Grewal S, Yurkova I, Galeota J, Nash C, Culter M, Tarango N, Prasad P, Cheng R, Motiwala S, De Marco T. Care of adult heart transplant recipients for the primary care provider: a practical roadmap. J Clin Med
5. Cheng R, Alvarez Villela M, Masoumi A, Esposito ML, Baran DA, Rommel KP, Fudim M, Mahfoud F, Lansky A, Burkhoff D, Kapur NK. Charting the course for careers in interventional heart failure: training, challenges, and future directions (Expert consensus). J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv. 2025
6. Kim I, Starling R, Passano E, Mirocha J, Bernhardt P, Azarbal B, Cheng R, Esmailian F, Khush K, Mancini D, Patel J, Sato T, Varnous S, Kobashigawa J. Ten-year follow-up cohort of the everolimus versus azathioprine multi-national prospective study focusing on intravascular ultrasound findings. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2024 Jul 30:S1053-2498(24)01779-0. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2024.07.02.
7. Urey MA, Hibbert B, Jorde U, Eckman P, Simard T, Labinaz M, Nazer B, Wiley M, Gupta B, Sauer A, Shah H, Sorajja P, Pineda AM, Missov E, Mahmud E, Kahwash R, Lilly S, Latib A, Murthy S, Fam N, Garcia S, Chung ES, Klein L, Cheng R, Houston BA, Amoroso NS, Chang L, Gafoor S, Chaudhry SP, Hermiller J, Schwartz JG, Aldaia L, Koulogiannis K, Gray WA, Zahr F. Left atrial to coronary sinus shunting for treatment of symptomatic heart failure: the ALT FLOW early feasibility study one year results. Eur J Heart Fail. 2024 Apr 12. Doi: 10.1002/ejhf.3241.
8. Drazner MH, Ambardekar AV, Berlacher K, Blumer V, Chatur S, Cheng R, Cheng RK, Grandin EW, Gorodeski EZ, Kataria R, Katz JN, Kittleson MM, Krishnamoorthy A, Lala A, Lenneman AJ, Lohr NL, Margulies KB, Mentz RJ, Reza N, Wilcox J, Youmans QR, Zieroth S, Teerlink JR. The HFSA advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship consensus conference. J Card Fail. 2023 Sep 30:S1071-9164(23)00346-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2023.09.007.
9. Cowger JA, Basir MB, Baran DA, Hayward CS, Rangaswami J, Walton A, Tita C, Minear S, Hakemi E, Klein L, Cheng R, Wu R, Mohanty BD, Heuring JJ, Neely E, Shah P. Safety and performance of the Aortix device in acute decompensated heart failure and cardiorenal syndrome. JACC: Heart Failure. 2023 Sep 20:S2213-1779(23)00368-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.06.018.
10. Cheng R, Azarbal B, Smith J. Donor-transmitted coronary artery disease: another avenue to expand heart transplantation? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023 Aug 29;82(9):768-770. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.07.001.
11. Ya’Qoub L, Cheng R, Simon M, Agrawal H. Coronary steal syndrome caused by a fistula communicating saphenous venous graft aneurysm to the right atrium managed by transcatheter closure. J Invasive Cardiol. 2023 Dec; 35(12).
12. Cheng R and Conrad M. Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a note of caution. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Feb 7;12(3):e028898.
13. Brusca SB, Caughron H, Njoroge J, Cheng R, O’Brien CG, Barnett CF. The shock team: a multidisciplinary approach to early patient phenotyping and appropriate case escalation in cardiogenic shock. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2022 May 1;37(3):241-249.

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