Paolo Carlo C Colombo, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Cardiovascular Disease
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Paolo C. Colombo is a cardiologist who specialized in treating patients with heart failure, cardiac assist device and heart transplant. Dr. Colombo is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

Dr. Colombo received his medical degree, magna cum laude from the University of Milan in Italy. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He then specialized in heart failure and transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Colombo has been on ColumbiaDoctors faculty since 2002. He is the Sudhir Choudhrie Professor of Cardiology and serves as the Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support program.

An internationally renowned investigator, Dr. Colombo has been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association as well as other research foundations. Dr. Colombo has published more than 260 manuscripts and presented his research all over the world.

Dr. Colombo sees patients at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights.

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
  • Heart Transplant Management
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)
  • Mechanical Assist Device
  • Pulmonary Hypertension

Academic Appointments

  • Sudhir Choudhrie Associate Professor of Cardiology (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Administrative Titles

  • Assistant Attending Physician, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
  • Assistant Attending Physician, Coronary Care Unit
  • Medical Director Mechanical of the Circulatory Support Program
  • Director, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care

Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Languages

  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Gender

  • Male

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Location(s)

CUIMC/Vivian & Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
173 Fort Washington Avenue
Floor 4, Suite 617
New York, NY 10032
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212-305-7600
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(212) 305-2591
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Insurance Accepted

Aetna

  • Aetna Signature Administrators
  • NYP Employee Plan
  • NY Signature
  • Student Health

Affinity Health Plan

  • Medicaid Managed Care

AgeWell

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Special Needs

Amerigroup of New Jersey

  • New Jersey Services (Medicaid Managed Care)

Amida Care

  • Special Needs

Cigna

  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO

Elderplan

  • Medicare Managed Care

Emblem/GHI

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Emblem/HIP

  • ConnectiCare
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra

Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield

  • HMO

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Fidelis Care

  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Healthfirst

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
  • Medicare Managed Care

Local 1199

  • Local 1199

MagnaCare (National)

  • MagnaCare

Medicare

  • Railroad
  • Traditional Medicare

Multiplan

  • Multiplan

MVP Health Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Quality Health Management

  • Quality Health Management

RiverSpring

  • Special Needs

UnitedHealthcare

  • Columbia University Employee Plan
  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Empire Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Oxford HMO
  • Oxford Liberty
  • POS
  • PPO

VNSNY CHOICE

  • SelectHealth

WellCare

  • Medicare Managed Care

World Trade Center Health Plan

  • World Trade Center Health Plan

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • University of Milan Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Italy)
  • Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
  • Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center

Board Certifications

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

Research

Contributions to Science

1) Characterization of the pathophysiologic role of venous congestion in advanced heart failure. Dr. Colombo's research has contributed to the understanding of the pathophysiology of advanced heart failure. We have provided experimental evidence, from animal and human models, that venous congestion is not simply an epiphenomenon of advanced heart failure, but rather a key contributor to the pathophysiology of acute decompensation through vasoactive, inflammatory, oxidative and metabolic mechanisms.

Colombo PC, Banchs JE, Lachmann J, Malla S, Celaj S, Nicholas B. DuBois NB, Talreja A, Ashton AW, Jorde UP, Ware JA, Le Jemtel TH. Vascular Endothelial Cell Activation in Patients With Decompensated Heart Failure. Response to Short-Term Inotropic Therapy. Circulation 111:58-62, 2005. PMID:15611373.

Colombo PC, Rastogi S, Onat D, Zaca V, Gupta RC, Jorde UP, Sabbah HD. Activation of Endothelial Cells in Conduit Veins of Dogs With Heart Failure and Veins of Normal Dogs Following Vascular Stretch by Acute Volume Loading. J Cardiac Failure 15:457-63, 2009. PMID: 19477407.

Colombo PC, Onat D, Harxhi A, Demmer RT, Hayashi Y, Jelic S, LeJemtel TH, Bucciarelli L, Kebschull M, Papapanou P, Uriel N, Schmidt AM, Sabbah HN, Jorde UP. Peripheral Venous Congestion Causes Inflammation, Neurohormonal and Endothelial Cell Activation. Eur Heart J. 35:448-54, 2014 PMID: 24265434; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3924182.

Ganda A, Onat D, Demmer RT, Wan E, Sabbah HN, Colombo PC. Venous Congestion and Endothelial Cell Activation in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. Curr Heart Fail Rep 7:66-74, 2010. PMID: 20424989; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3874714.

2) Myocardial recovery during LVAD support. Mechanical volume and pressure unloading induced by LVADs allows a reversal of stress-related compensatory responses leading to full cardiac recovery and device removal in few selected patients. Dr. Colombo's research team has provided the first evidence that myocardial recovery during LVAD support is a spectrum of improvement rather than a binary clinical endpoint, being partial recovery much more frequent than full recovery. These results raised the possibility that patients who achieved only partial recovery may be further improved to complete recovery if treated aggressively with reverse remodeling therapy.

Pan S, Aksut B, Wever-Pinzon OE, Rao SD, Levin AP, Garan AR, Fried JA, Takeda K, Hiroo T, Yuzefpolskaya M, Uriel N, Jorde UP, Mancini DM, Naka Y, Colombo PC, Topkara VK. Incidence and predictors of myocardial recovery on long-term left ventricular assist device support: Results from the united network for organ sharing database. J Heart Lung Transplant. 34:1624-9, 2015 PMID: 26442678.

Topkara VK, Garan AR, Fine B, Godier-Furnémont AF, Breskin A, Cagliostro B, Yuzefpolskaya M, Takeda K, Takayama H, Mancini DM, Naka Y, Colombo PC. Myocardial Recovery in Patients Receiving Contemporary Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Results From the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS). Circ Heart Fail. 9(7), 2016 PMID: 27402861

3) The hemodynamic and metabolic corrections that occur in the cardiovascular system after LVAD placement. LVAD therapy has revolutionized the treatment of patients with advanced heart failure and my research has focused on defining clinical and pathophysiologic parameters of LVAD function, the hemodynamic and metabolic response to LVAD placement and the specific determinants of clinical outcomes in this patient population.

Uriel N, Gonzalez-Costello J, Mignatti A, Morrison KA1, Nahumi N, Colombo PC, Jorde UP. Adrenergic activation, fuel substrate availability, and insulin resistance in patients with congestive heart failure. JACC Heart Fail.1:331-7, 2013. PMID: 24621937; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4495858.

Zile MR, Colombo PC, Mehra M, Greenberg B, Brown S, Konstam MA. Progressive Improvement in Cardiac Performance With Continuous Aortic Flow Augmentation (Aortic Flow Therapy) in Patients Hospitalized with Severe Heart Failure: Results of the Multi-center Trial of the Orqis Medical Cancion System for the Enhanced Treatment of Heart Failure Unresponsive to Medical Therapy. J Heart Lung Transpl 29:86-92, 2010. PMID: 20123246.

Lanier G, Orlanes K, Hayashi Y, Murphy J, Flannery M, Te-Frey R, Uriel U, Yuzefpolskaya M, Mancini DM, Naka Y, Takayama H, Jorde UP, Demmer RT, Colombo PC. Validity and Reliability of a Novel Slow Cuff-Deflation System for Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Patients with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device. Circ Heart Fail 6:1005-12, 2013. PMID: 23811966.

Mancini DM, Colombo PC. Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Rapidly Evolving Alternative to Transplant. J Am Coll Cardiol. 65:2542-2555, 2015. PMID: 26065994

Selected Publications

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (selected from 96)

  1. Colombo PC, Ashton AW, Celaj S, Talreja A, Banchs JE, DuBois NB, Marinaccio M, Malla S, Lachmann J, Ware JA, Le Jemtel TH. Biopsy Coupled to Quantitative Immunofluorescence: a New Method to Study the Human Vascular Endothelium. J Appl Physiol 92:1331-8, 2002
  2. Colombo PC, Banchs JE, Lachmann J, Malla S, Celaj S, Nicholas B. DuBois NB, Talreja A, Ashton AW, Jorde UP, Ware JA, Le Jemtel TH. Vascular Endothelial Cell Activation in Patients With Decompensated Heart Failure. Response to Short-Term Inotropic Therapy. Circulation 111:58-62, 2005
  3. Onat D, Jelic J, Schmidt AM , Pile-Spellman J, Homma S, Padeletti M, Jin Z, Le Jemtel TH, Colombo PC* & Feng L* (*Senior Authors). Vascular Endothelial Sampling and Analysis of Gene Transcripts: a New Quantitative Approach to Monitor Vascular Inflammation. J Applied Physiol 103:1873-8, 2007
  4. Vittorio T, Zolty R, Parveen K, Garg PK, Sarswat N, Tseng CH, , Jorde UP, Colombo PC. Interdependence of Cardiac and Endothelial Function in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure on Optimal Medical Therapy. Echocardiography 26:916-21,2009
  5. Dini FL, Demmer RT, Simionuc A , Donati F, Dell'Anna R, Orsini E, Caravelli P, Marzilli M, Colombo PC. Right Ventricular Function Predicts Chronic Kidney Disease and Survival in Patients With Chronic Systolic Heart Failure. Eur J Heart Fail 14:287-94, 2012
  6. Uriel N, Morrison KA, Garan AR, Kato TS, Yuzefpolskaya M, Latif F, Restaino SW, Mancini DM, Flannery M, Takayama H, John R, Colombo PC, Naka Y, Jorde UP. Development of a Novel Echocardiography Ramp Test for Speed Optimization and Diagnosis of Device Thrombosis in Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: The Columbia Ramp Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 60:1764-75, 2012
  7. Garan AR, Yuzefpolskaya M, Colombo PC, Morrow JP, Te-Frey R, Dano D, Takayama H, Naka Y, Garan H, Jorde UP, Uriel N. Ventricular Arrhythmias and ICD therapy in Patients with Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Need for Primary Prevention? J Am Coll Cardiol. 61:2542-50, 2013.
  8. Lanier G, Orlanes K, Hayashi Y, Murphy J, Flannery M, Te-Frey R, Uriel U, Yuzefpolskaya M, Mancini DM, Naka Y, Takayama H, Jorde UP, Demmer RT, Colombo PC. Validity and Reliability of a Novel Slow Cuff-Deflation System for Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Patients with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device. Circ Heart Fail 6:1005-12, 2013.
  9. Ota T, Yerebakan H, Akashi H, Takayama H, Uriel N, Colombo PC, Jorde UP, Naka Y. Continuous-flow left ventricular assist device exchange: Clinical outcomes. J Heart Lung Transplant. S1053-2498:01343-0, 2013.
  10. Uriel N, Han J, Morrison KA, Nahumi N, Yuzefpolskaya M, Garan AR, Duong J, Colombo PC, Takayama H, Thomas S, Naka Y, Jorde UP. Device thrombosis in HeartMate II continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices: A multifactorial phenomenon.. J Heart Lung Transplant. 33:51-9, 2014.
  11. Colombo PC, Onat D, Harxhi A, Demmer RT, Hayashi Y, Jelic S, LeJemtel TH, Bucciarelli L, Kebschull M, Papapanou P, Uriel N, Schmidt AM, Sabbah HN, Jorde UP. Peripheral Venous Congestion Causes Inflammation, Neurohormonal and Endothelial Cell Activation. Eur Heart J. 35:448-54, 2014.

  12. Colombo PC, Doran AC, Onat D, Wong KY, Ahmad M, Sabbah HN, Demmer RT. Venous Congestion, Endothelial and Neurohormonal Activation in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Cause or Effect? Curr Heart Fail Rep. 12(3):215-22, 201

  13. Yuzefpolskaya M, Uriel N, Flannery M, Yip N, Mody K, Cagliostro B, Takayama H, Naka Y, Jorde UP, Goswami S, Colombo PC. Advanced cardiovascular life support algorithm for the management of the hospitalized unresponsive patient on continuous flow left ventricular assist device support outside the intensive care unit. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care. [Epub ahead of print] 2015.

  14. Mancini DM, Colombo PC. Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Rapidly Evolving Alternative to Transplant. J Am Coll Cardiol. 65:2542-2555, 2015.

  15. Colombo PC, Lanier GM, Orlanes K, Yuzefpolskaya M, Demmer RT. Usefulness of a standard automated blood pressure monitor in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. J Heart Lung Transplant. S1053-2498, 2015.

  16. Willey JZ, Boehme AK, Castagna F, Yuzefpolskaya M, Garan AR, Topkara V, Colombo PC. Hypertension and Stroke in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs). Curr Hypertens Rep. 18:12, 2016.

  17. Willey JZ, Gavalas MV, Yuzefpolskaya M, Garan AR, Levin AP, Takeda K, MD, PhD3; Takayama H, Fried J, Naka Y, Topkara VK, Colombo PC. Outcomes after stroke complicating left ventricular assist device. J Heart Lung Transplant. 35: 1003-9, 2016.

  18. Myocardial Recovery in Patients Receiving Contemporary Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Results From the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS). Topkara VK, Garan AR, Fine B, Godier-Furnémont AF, Breskin A, Cagliostro B, Yuzefpolskaya M, Takeda K, Takayama H, Mancini DM, Naka Y, Colombo PC. Circ Heart Fail. 9(7), 2016.

  19. Gavalas MV, Breskin A, Yuzefpolskaya M, Eisenberger A, Castagna F, Demmer RT, Flannery M, Garan AR, Takeda K, Takayama H, Naka Y, Topkara VK, Colombo PC. Discriminatory performance of positive urine hemoglobin for detection of significant hemolysis in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016 [Epub ahead of print]

For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov