Brett W. Sperry, MD

Dr. Brett W. Sperry is a cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute with a subspecialty in advanced heart failure, transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Dr. Sperry was born in Connecticut and completed an undergraduate degree in Economics followed by medical school and internal medicine residency at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He completed fellowship training in both cardiovascular medicine and advanced heart failure and transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, advanced heart failure and transplantation, nuclear cardiology, and echocardiography.

Dr. Sperry’s clinical and research interests include heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, restrictive cardiomyopathies (such as cardiac amyloidosis and sarcoidosis), and nuclear imaging.

Research Publications:

Non-Cardiac Uptake of Technetium-99m Pyrophosphate in Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis
Regional Variation in Technetium Pyrophosphate Uptake in Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis and Impact on Mortality
Diflunisal Tolerability in Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Single Center’s Experience
Tenosynovial and Cardiac Amyloidosis in Patients Undergoing Carpal Tunnel Release
Complex p.T88n/W130r Mutation in the Lysozyme Gene Leading to Hereditary Lysozyme Amyloidosis With Biopsy-Proven Cardiac Involvement