Lucas Zier, MD

Education

2022 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California, San Francisco

M.D., 2009 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

M.S., 2007 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Publications

Alexandra B Steverson, Paul J Marano, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel J Stern, Jean Feng, Efstathios D Gennatas, James D Marks, Matthew S Durstenfeld, Jonathan D Davis, Priscilla Y Hsue, Lucas S Zier. Predictors of All-Cause Thirty-Day Readmissions in Patients with Heart Failure at an Urban Safety Net Hospital: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health. American Journal of Medicine Open 2023. PMID:
Durstenfeld MS, Thakkar A, Ma Y, Zier LS, Davis JD, Hsue PY. Coronary Assessment in Heart Failure within a Safety-Net Setting: Disparities and Outcomes. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37461492
DesJardin JT, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Schiller NB, Zier LS, Singer JP, De Marco T. Echocardiographic estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance in advanced lung disease. Pulmonary circulation 2023. PMID: 36618711
Xia VQ, Ong CM, Zier LS, MacGregor JS, Wu AHB, Chorba JS. Heparin Does Not Regulate Circulating Human PCSK9 (Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin-Kexin Type 9) in a General Population. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2022. PMID: 36475702
Matthew S Durstenfeld, Anjali Thakkar, Yifei Ma, Lucas Zier, Jonathan D Davis, Priscilla Hsue. Abstract 11069: Evaluation for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy After Heart Failure Diagnosis is Associated With Reduced Mortality in a Safety-Net Setting. Circulation 2022. PMID:
Marano PJ, Steverson AB, Chen C, Ma Y, Stern RJ, Davis J, Hsue PY, Zier LS. Effect of a Novel, Evidence-Based, Standardized Discharge Checklist on 30-Day All-Cause Readmissions in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure in an Urban Safety Net Hospital. The American journal of cardiology 2022. PMID: 36028389
Ganeshan S, Kelemen B, Dhaliwal G, Zier L. An unexpected turn: A 71-year-old man with myocardial infarction. Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 2022. PMID: 35777842
Mayfield JJ, McKee KY, Zier LS, Kohlwes RJ. Hearts and Minds: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of general internal medicine 2021. PMID: 33765236
Yogeswaran V, Ramakrishna S, MacGregor JS, Zier L, Goldschlager N. Pregnancy-Associated Chest Pain: A Case of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. Case reports in cardiology 2021. PMID: 33510913
Paul J Marano, Alexandra B Steverson, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel J Stern, Jonathan Davis, Priscilla Hsue, Lucas S Zier. Abstract 13880: A Novel, Evidence-based, Standardized Discharge Checklist Reduces Thirty Day Heart Failure Readmissions in an Urban Safety Net Hospital. TO REMOVE 2020. PMID:
Alexandra B Steverson, Paul Marano, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel Stern, Jonathan D Davis, Priscilla Hsue, Lucas S Zier. Abstract 16520: Predictors of Thirty Day Readmission in a Vulnerable and Underserved Urban Heart Failure Population. TO REMOVE 2020. PMID:
DesJardin JT, Manicardi M, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Papolos AI, Selby VN, Zier LS, Klein L, Aras MA, Yao FY, Roberts JP, De Marco T. Non-Invasive Estimation of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Improves Portopulmonary Hypertension Screening in Liver Transplant Candidates. Clinical transplantation 2019. PMID: 31074522
DesJardin JT, Zier LS. Successful Use of Pulmonary Vasodilators in Acute Chest Syndrome Complicated by Persistent Right Ventricular Failure. Case reports in cardiology 2019. PMID: 31149361
Agarwal A, Cunnington C, Sabanayagam A, Zier L, McCulloch CE, Harris IS, Foster E, Atkinson D, Bryan A, Jenkins P, Dua J, Parker MJ, Karunaratne D, Moore JA, Meadows J, Clarke B, Hoschtitzky JA, Mahadevan VS. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the evaluation of liver disease in adults who have had the Fontan operation. Archives of cardiovascular diseases 2017. PMID: 29198937
. PREVALENCE AND PREDICTORS OF ATRIAL TACHYARRHYTHMIAS IN ADULT FONTAN PATIENTS. TO REMOVE 2017. PMID:
. PREVALENCE OF ELEVATED BODY MASS INDEX AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH CLINICAL FEATURES IN ADULT FONTAN PATIENTS. TO REMOVE 2017. PMID:
. TRANSCATHETER CLOSURE OF RESIDUAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE LEAKS FOLLOWING LARIAT DEVICE CLOSURE. TO REMOVE 2017. PMID:
Zier LS, Sievert H, Mahadevan VS. To close or not to close: contemporary indications for patent foramen ovale closure. Expert review of cardiovascular therapy 2016. PMID: 27616622
Lucas S Zier, Christopher Barnett, Elyse Foster. Abstract 17289: A Baffling Heart: a 30 Year-old Man with Biventricular Heart Failure and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension. TO REMOVE 2014. PMID:
Zier LS, Sottile PD, Hong SY, Weissfield LA, White DB. Surrogate decision makers' interpretation of prognostic information: a mixed-methods study. Annals of internal medicine 2012. PMID: 22393131
. Resolving Conflicts With Surrogate Decision Makers: Response. TO REMOVE 2010. PMID:
Zier LS, Burack JH, Micco G, Chipman AK, Frank JA, White DB. Surrogate decision makers' responses to physicians' predictions of medical futility. Volume 136 of Issue 1. Chest 2009. PMID: 19318665
Zier LS, Burack JH, Micco G, Chipman AK, Frank JA, Luce JM, White DB. Doubt and belief in physicians' ability to prognosticate during critical illness: the perspective of surrogate decision makers. Volume 36 of Issue 8. Critical care medicine 2008. PMID: 18596630