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Last published 2025
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Taufiek Konrad Rajab

Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2024–2025); University of Minnesota (2011); Medical University of South Carolina (2020–2023); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2025); Papworth Hospital (2018); Children's Hospital Colorado (2020); Imperial College London (2007); University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (2020); University of Tübingen (2007); University of Colorado Denver (2020)

Faculty Researcher

COM | Surgery Ped Cardio

7 h-index 23 pubs 255 cited

  • Humans
  • Heart Defects, Congenital
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Animals
  • Heart Transplantation
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Aortic Valve
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis
  • Infant
  • Heart Valves
  • Swine
  • Transplantation, Heterologous
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation

Biography and Research Information

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Taufiek Konrad Rajab's research focuses on congenital heart disease and related surgical outcomes. His work includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses examining interventions for conditions such as truncus arteriosus with truncal valve insufficiency and coarctation of the aorta in neonates and infants. He has also investigated aortic valve replacement in neonates, highlighting the limited quality of evidence for this procedure. Rajab's publications extend to the arterial switch operation with closed coronary transfer and the evaluation of cardiac parameters in animal models, such as piglets, using transthoracic echocardiography. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 7, 23 total publications, and 244 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 23
  • Citations: 255

Selected Publications

  • Partial Heart Transplantation Using Ice-Free Vitrification – Next Generation of Homovitals (2026)
    Heart Lung and Circulation DOI OpenAlex
  • A call to redefine cardiovascular immunobiology around leukocyte plasticity (2026)
    American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology DOI OpenAlex
  • Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes (2026)
    Methods DOI OpenAlex
  • Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets (2025)
    Scientific Reports 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Ethical Oversight of First-in-Human Cardiac Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease in Children (2025)
    Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.

  • Partial Heart Transplantation with Reduced Levels of Immunosuppression Brett Boyer Foundation Principal Investigator
  • Evaluation of growth potential of ice-free vitrified heart valves in a pediatric porcine model. NIH Principal Investigator
  • Pulmonary Valve Partial Heart Transplantation in Piglets Darby Children's Research Institute Principal Investigator
  • Partial Heart Transplant and Homografts Saving tiny Hearts Society Principal Investigator
  • Simulating Partial Heart Transplantation Emerson Rose Heart Foundation Principal Investigator
  • Partial Heart Transplantation: A New Approach to Deliver Growing Heart Valve Implants American Association for Thoracic Surgery Principal Investigator

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