Sumeet Vaikunth, MD

5.0 with 85 ratings

Sees patients age 18 and up

Sumeet Vaikunth, MD

5.0 with 85 ratings

Sees patients age 18 and up

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Dr. Vaikunth is a Penn Medicine physician.

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Programs and Centers

Penn Medicine's programs and centers combine doctors from many disciplines to coordinate care from start to finish. Dr. Vaikunth is part of these programs:

Board Certification

Pediatrics, 2016
Pediatrics/Cardiology (AMA)

Education and Training

Medical School: University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Residency: University of Southern California
Fellowship: Stanford University Medical Center

Primary Location

Penn Heart and Vascular Center

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
East Pavilion, 2nd Floor
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Penn Medicine Hospital Privileges

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Overall Ratings

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Aetna US Healthcare
Amerihealth Caritas
Amerihealth Caritas Medicare
Centivo Health Plan
Cigna
Cigna HealthSpring
Clover Health Plan
Devon Health Services (Americare)
Gateway Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan
Geisinger Medicaid
Global Medical Management
HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan
HealthPartners
HealthPartners Medicare
HealthSmart
Highmark Blue Shield
Homestead Smart Health Plans/Claim Watcher
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Humana / Choicecare

Humana / Medicare
Imagine Health 360
Independence Blue Cross (Keystone East)
Keystone First
Keystone First Medicare
Multiplan
NJ Medicaid
NJ Qualcare
Oscar Health Plan of PA
Oxford Health Plan
PA Health and Wellness (Centene) Medicare
PA Medicaid
PA Medicare
Provider Partners Health Plan
Rail Road Medicare / Palmetto GBA
Tricare
United Healthcare
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
US Family Health Plan
Veterans Choice Program

Selected Publications

Vaikunth S, Sundaravel S, Saef J, Ortega-Legaspi J: Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Heart Failure in Adult Congenital Heart Disease: of Medicines and Devices Curr Heart Fail Rep : 2023.

Saef J, Sundaravel S, Ortega-Legaspi J, Vaikunth S: Safety and Treatment Experience With Sodium/glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors in Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease J Card Fail 29 (6): 974-975,2023.

Vaikunth SS, Murphy DJ, Tremmel JA, Schnittger I, Mitchell RS, Maeda K, Rogers IS: Symptomatic Myocardial Bridging in D-Transposition of the Great Arteries Post-Arterial Switch JACC Case Rep 19 (8): 101730,2023.

Haeffele CL, Bykhovsky M, Vaikunth SS, Lui GK: Long Term Follow Up of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Pediatric Cardiology: Fetal, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology : 2023.

Tedla BA, Kim YY, Vaikunth SS: Novel Approaches to the Failing Congenital Heart Current Cardiology Reports : 2023.

Saef J, Montgomery R, Cedars A, Tang WHW, Rossano JW, Maeda K, Kim YY, Vaikunth SS: Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support in Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Reviewing Clincal Considerations and Experience J Clin Med 11 (11): 3200,2022.

Vaikunth SS, Chan JL, Woo JP, Bykhovsky MR, Lui GK, Ma M, Romfh AW, Lamberti J, Mastrodicasa D, Fleischmann D, Fischbein MP: Tetralogy of Fallot and Aortic Dissection: Implications in Management JACC Case Rep 4 (10): 581-586,2022.

Kim JL, Vaikunth SS, Haeffele C, MacArthur JW: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator as a bridge to heart-liver en bloc transplant in a patient with Fontan circulation JTCVS Tech 12 : 171-174,2022.

Vaikunth SS, Lui GK, Kim YY: Fingers in a dike: Systemic approach to coiling of aortopulmonary and venovenous collaterals in the Fontan referred for transplantation International Journal of Cardiology CHD 6 : 100291,2021.

Vaikunth SS, Leonard MB, Whitehead KK, Goldberg DJ, Rychik J, Zemel BS, Avitabile CM: Deficits in the Functional Muscle-Bone Unit in Youths with Fontan Physiology J Pediatr (238): 202-207,2021.

Academic Contact Information

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
East Pavilion, 2nd Floor
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia , PA 19104
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366

Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology, International
American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on International Child Health and Section on Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, National
American College of Cardiology, National
American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, National