Karthik Thangappan, MD
Vascular Surgery
Make an appointmentCall 215-615-4949

Karthik Thangappan, MD

Vascular Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Heart and Vascular Center
Make an appointmentCall 215-615-4949
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

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

My education and training

  • Thomas Jefferson UniversityMedical School
  • University of Cincinnati College of MedicineResidency
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital - Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

PRIMARY LOCATION
215-615-4949
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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Gaspich J, Majumdar M, Thangappan K, Menard M. Team-based approach to limb salvage , Semin Vasc Surg, 38(4): 2025,368-375

Thangappan, K., Ashfaq, A., Villa, C., Morales, D.L.S. Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support. , Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease.: 2024,763-783

Thangappan K, Zafar F, Ahmed HF, Greenberg JW, Ashfaq A, Hirsch R, Chin C, Lehenbauer D, O'Donnell A, Morales DLS. Is the practice of using oversized organs for recipients with elevated pulmonary vascular resistance justified? , J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 166(6): 2023,1766-1779

Greenberg JW, Hogue S, Raees MA, Ahmed HF, Abplanalp WA, Guzman-Gomez A, Abdelhamed Z, Thangappan K, Reagor JA, Rose JE, Collins M, Kasten JL, Goldstein SL, Zafar F, Morales DLS, Cooper DS. Exogenous nitric oxide delivery protects against cardiopulmonary bypass-associated acute kidney injury: Histologic and serologic evidence from an ovine model , J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 166(5): 2023,e164-e173

Dani A, Price N, Thangappan K, Ryan TD, Hooper DK, Cooper DS, Lehenbauer DG, Chin C, Zafar F, Morales DLS. Heart-kidney listing is better than isolated heart listing for pediatric heart transplant candidates with significant renal insufficiency , J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 164(6): 2022,2019-2031

Kim Y, Thangappan K, DeCarlo CS, Jessula S, Majumdar M, Patel SS, Zacharias N, Mohapatra A, Dua A. Outcomes of Femoropopliteal Bypass for Lifestyle-Limiting Claudication in the Endovascular Era , J Surg Res, 279: 2022,323-329

Thangappan K, Morales DLS. The Best Paracorporeal Ventricular Assist Device Strategy in Children? Remains Unanswered , Ann Thorac Surg, 114(4): 2022,1451-1452

Thangappan K, Fatuzzo S, Zafar F, Winlaw D, Lehenbauer D, Batlivala S, Cnota JF, Redington A, Tweddell JS, Morales DLS. Management of Neonates Admitted With Tetralogy of Fallot: Changing Patterns Across the United States , Ann Thorac Surg, 114(4): 2022,1419-1426

Haney LC, Ahmed HF, Dani A, Chin P, Thangappan K, Madsen N, Zafar F, Tweddell JS, Morales DLS. More Than 400 Uses of an Intestinal Submucosal Extracellular Matrix Patch in a Congenital Heart Program , Ann Thorac Surg, 114(4): 2022,1475-1483

Kim Y, Decarlo CS, Thangappan K, Zacharias N, Mohapatra A, Dua A. Distal Bypass Versus Infrageniculate Endovascular Intervention for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia , Vasc Endovascular Surg, 56(5): 2022,539-544