Faculty Biography

Dr. Monesha Gupta, MD

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Education:

Degree in Medicine & Surgery (M.B,B.S), Grant Medical College, Bombay University, India

Residency, Pediatrics, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Michigan

Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital,

Joint program of Cornell & Columbia Universities, New York

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Rockefeller University, New York

Clinical and Research Interests:

1. Congenital Heart Disease
2. Pediatric Hypertension
3. Fetal Cardiology
4. Kawasaki Disease
5. Anthracycline cardiotoxicity

Publications (selected):

• Gupta M, Johann-Liang R, Quaegebeur J, Friedman DM. Relation of early pleural effusion after pediatric open heart surgery to cardiopulmonary bypass time and systemic inflammation as measured by serum Interleukin-6. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2001, vol 87: 1220-1223
• Gupta M, Noel GJ, Schafer M, Friedman DM, Bussel JB, Johann-Liang R. Cytokine modulation with immune -globulin in peripheral blood of normal children and its implications in Kawasaki disease treatment. Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2001, vol 21( 3): 208-214
• Gupta M, Lent R, Kaplan ELK, Zabriskie JB. Serum cardiac troponin I in acute rheumatic fever. The American Journal of Cardiology, March, 2002, vol 85: 779-782
• Ermis C, Zadeii G, Gupta M, Benditt DG. Transaortic His bundle ablation with permanent ventricular pacing via the coronary sinus in L-transposition of great arteries with classic Fontan procedure. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2002, 7(3): 257 -260
• Gupta M, Johann-Liang R, Bussel JB, Gersony WM, Lehman TJA. Elevated IgA and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies in acute Kawasaki disease. Cardiology, 2002, vol 97 (4): 180-182
• Gupta M, Thaler HT, Steinherz L. Presence of prolonged dispersion of QT intervals in late survivors of childhood anthracycline therapy. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2002, 19(8), 533-542
• Gupta M, Steinherz PG, Cheung N, Steinherz L. Late cardiotoxicity after bolus versus infusion anthracycline therapy for childhood cancers. Medical and Pediatric Oncology, 2003, 40:343-347
• Gupta-Malhotra M, Cooper R, Levine D, Zabriskie JB. Decreased serum levels of cystatin C, a cysteine protease inhibitor, in Kawasaki disease. Cardiology, 2003, 99:121-125
• Ermis C, Gupta M, Titus J. Obstructive bicuspid aortic valve in Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia. Cardiology in the Young 2004;14:99-101
• Gupta-Malhotra M, Viteri-Jackson A, Thomas W, Zabriskie JB. Antibodies to highly conserved peptide sequence of staphylococcal and streptococcal superantigens in Kawasaki disease. Experimental and Molecular Pathology, 2004, 76(2): 117-121
• Gupta M, Syamasundar Rao P. Editorial: Cardiac function in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. J Postgrad Med 2004;50:266-267
• Gupta-Malhotra M, Steinherz LJ, Ewer MS. Chapter 16: Pediatric Cardiac Neoplasia and Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiovascular Disease. Textbook "Cancer and the Heart". Ed. Ewer and Yeh. Publisher B C Decker Inc; 2006, pages 233-269
• Gupta-Malhotra M, Portman R. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and Adolescents. In: White WB (Ed.): Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, 2 nd edition. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2006 (in press).
• Gupta-Malhotra M, Hamilton R. Atrioventricular Block, Third Degree, Congenital http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2496.htm
• Gupta-Malhotra M, Vaughan DJ, Zimmerman J, Grifka R. Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2522.htm

 

Location & Contact

6431 Fannin Street
MSB 3.020
Houston, Texas 77030
713-500-5757 (Voice)

Faculty Biography

• Dr. Monesha Gupta, MD
  Assistant Professor
• Department of Pediatrics
  Division of Pediatric Cardiology
• University of Texas-Houston Medical School
  6431 Fannin Street, MSB 3.130B
  Houston, Texas 77030
• phone: (713) 500-5743
  fax: (713) 500-5751
  e-mail: monesha.gupta@ uth.tmc.edu