Jerry Estep, MD
Jerry Estep, MD, is the Chairman of Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston. He earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. After completing his residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, he returned to Baylor for a fellowship in heart failure and transplantation at Houston Methodist Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute. He also has completed a physician leadership course at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas.
Dr. Estep has special interests in advanced heart failure, left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), heart transplantation, echocardiography, cardiac amyloidosis, minimally invasive short-term devices to treat cardiogenic shock, endomyocardial biopsy, right heart catheterization and hemodynamic monitoring, coronary angiography.
Representative Publications:
Delayed Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation Following Cardiac Transplantation Experience in Patients With Cardiac Amyloidosis
Heart Transplantation and End-Stage Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Review and Approach to Evaluation and Management
Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiogenic Shock
Waitlist and Post-Transplant Outcomes in Patients Listed With Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump for Heart Transplant: United Network for Organ Sharing Registry
Quality of Life and Treatment Preference for Ventricular Assist Device Therapy in Ambulatory Advanced Heart Failure: A Report From the REVIVAL Study