Vakhtang Khelashvili

Chief of Congenital Heart Disease Service at Joe Ann University Hospital, Pediatric Cardiologist, Interventional Cardiologist

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Experiencefrom 1996 to present the Jo Ann University Hospital, Director of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Invasive Cardiology
 1989–1996 – Cardiac center, resuscitator
 1987–1989 –  Tbilisi Cardiology Research Institute, cardiologist

Education

 

 

 

1981-1987 – Tbilisi State Medical University

§ 04.1996-12.1996 Training in adult interventional cardiology Virginia Commonwealth University

§ 05.1999-09.1999 Training in pediatric interventional cardiology, Oakland Children’s Hospital

 

• 04.2001-08.2001 – Training in pediatric interventional cardiology, University of  California San-Francisco

 

§ • 05.2003-07.2003 – Training in pediatric interventional cardiology,  Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Publications

 

- Patent ductus arteriosus endovascular closure by amplatzer duct occluder.

Khelashvili V, Gogorishili I, Metreveli I, Tsintsadze A, Botsvadze T.

Georgian Med News. 2006 May;(134):19-22.PMID: 16783056 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

- Comparison of surgical and by transcatheter methods of closure of atrial septal defect based on the two year experience.

Khelashvili V, Gogorishvili I, Metreveli I, Tsintsadze A.

Georgian Med News. 2006 Mar;(132):17-20.PMID: 16636370 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Single Center Experience of Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus by Amplatzer Duct Occluder in Small Infants Using Only Venous Access"

Khelashvili V., Gogorishvili I., Metereveli I., Cincadze A

CONGENITAL AND SRUCTURAL INTERNVENTIONS, 10th international congress 2007, (p. 93); Frankfurt, Germany

 

"One center experience in pulmonary artery stenting"

V. Khelashvili, L. Kapnadze,  I. Gogorishvili , I. Metereveli, A. Tsintsadze

CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS

Volume 76, Issue 1, 1 July 2010, Pages: S–24,

24 JUN 2010, DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22639

“One center experience in muscular ventricular septal defect closure with the amplatzer VSD occlude”

V. Khelashvili, I. Metereveli, A. Tsintsadze, L. Kapnadze,  I. Gogorishvili

CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS

Volume 79, Issue 1, April 1, 2012, Pages: S–18