Amit Iyengar, MD

Cardiac Surgery
Accepting new patients
Penn Cardiovascular Surgery Penn Presbyterian
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Iyengar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Lutfi W, Desai ND, Pan Z, Grasty MA, Goel NJ, Iyengar A, Lawrence KM, Ibrahim M, Szeto W, Brown CR. Aortic Valve Prosthesis Choice in Dialysis Patients: A Review of Medicare Data , Ann Thorac Surg: 2026

Rekhtman D, Iyengar A, Song C, Asher M, Shin M, Catalano M, Toubat O, Morganroth E, Brown A, Wald J, Parikh A, Biscotti M, Cevasco M. Impact of Prolonged Impella 5.5 Support on Post-Transplant Outcomes: An Institutional Study , Clin Transplant, 40(3): 2026,e70452

So P, Patel M, Iyengar A, Weingarten N, Dominic J, Ba AB, Ho J, Atluri P. Beta-Blocker therapy improves survival after concomitant septal myectomy and aortic valve replacement , J Cardiothorac Surg, 21: 2026,118

Rekhtman D, Asher M, Song C, Iyengar A, Cevasco M, Maeda K, Mavroudis CD. Prolonged Impella 5.5 Support in a Pediatric Patient With Genetic Cardiomyopathy , World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg, 16(6): 2025,861-863

Iyengar A, Song C, Atluri P. Commentary: Looking to the future: Revisiting the volume-outcome relationship in mitral valve repair , J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 170(4): 2025,1049-1050

Kim SE, Shin M, Iyengar A, Weingarten N, Jin D, Wilson R, Asher M, Toubat O, Atluri P. Bridging to Heart Transplantation With Intraaortic Balloon Pump Versus Impella 5.5 , ASAIO J, 71: 2025,800-806

Asher M, Iyengar A, Rekhtman D, Helmers M, Weingarten N, Song C, DePaolo J, Shin M, Brown A, Wald J, Parikh A, Cevasco M. Acute Hemodynamic and Echocardiographic Consequences of Impella 5.5 Placement in Patients With Advanced Cardiogenic Shock , ASAIO J, 71: 2025,807-813

Catalano MA, Shin M, Toubat O, Rastogi R, Beqaj H, Iyengar A, Smood BF, Toomey N, Edelson JB, Rossano JW, O'Connor MJ, Ahmed H, Gaynor JW, Maeda K, Mavroudis CD. Listing for Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplantation Is Associated With Improved Waitlist Outcomes , J Am Heart Assoc, 14: 2025,e041633

Shin M, Toubat O, Catalano MA, Iyengar A, Helmers MR, Asher M, Rekhtman D, Song C, Biscotti M, Cevasco M. Superior Waitlist Outcomes Among Patients Listed for Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplantation , JACC Heart Fail, 13(8): 2025,102495

Smood B, Vasquez CR, Olia SE, Han JJ, Iyengar A, Patrick WL, Helmers MR, Kelly JJ, Richards T, Usman A, Cantu E 3rd, Takeda K, Langer N, Cevasco M. Early Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Initiation May Improve Outcomes in Select Patients With Primary Pulmonary Hypertension: An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry Analysis , ASAIO J, 71: 2025,611-620