Dany Jacob, MD

Dany Jacob, MD, is a board-certified interventional cardiologist at the Mid America Heart Institute. Dr. Jacob comes from Toronto, Canada where he completed an international baccalaureate program and received a degree in chemistry from York University. He graduated from Saba University School of Medicine in Gardner, Massachusetts. During this time, he received the Dean of Clinical Medicine Award. His post graduate training includes a residency in internal medicine and fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Dr. Jacob has a special interest in the evaluation and treatment of angina due to chronic total occlusions, ANOCA (angina with non-obstructive coronary arteries) and MINOCA (myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries). He is specialized in performing percutaneous coronary interventions, mechanical circulatory supported PCI, complex coronary physiology evaluation, coronary microvascular dysfunction/vasospasm testing, and endovascular solutions for peripheral arterial diseases (PAD).
Dr. Jacob has research interests in coronary physiology, peripheral vascular disease and the integration of health status evaluation in personalizing treatment for patients.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL/ARTICLES/ABSTRACTS
Jacob D, Savage MP, Fischman DL. Novel Approaches to Coronary Perforations: Everything But The Kitchen Sink. JACC Case Rep. 2022, Feb 2;4(3):142-144. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 35201242 
Ali Z, Asif T, Sheehy JP, Jacob D, Baweja P. Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Causing Aorto-Atrial Fistula and Acute Heart Failure: A Rare Encounter. Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2020, Mar 6;7(4):001499. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 32309258 
Willard J, Jacob D, Tang Y, Jones P, McCoy M, Magalski A. Differences in American Athletes Undergoing Preparticipation Examination by Sex, Participation Level, and Age. Clin J Sport Med. 2021, Nov 1;31(6):e432-e441. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 32073474 
Hirai T., Jacob D., Main M.M., Grantham A.J. A Case of Robotic Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of the Left Main Coronary Artery in a Patient With Very Late Baffle Stenosis After Surgical Correction of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery From the Pulmonary Artery. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2020 Apr 1;95(5):920-923. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 31250510. 
O'Keefe JH., Jacob D., Lavie CJ. Omega-3 Fatty Acid Therapy: The Tide Turns for a Fish Story. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017, Jan, 92(1):1-3. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 28062059. 
Grodzinsky A., Arnold SV., Jacob D., Draznin B., Kosiborod M. The Impact of Cardiovascular Drugs on Glycemic Control: A Review. Endocr Pract. 2017, Mar; 23(3):363-371. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 27967225. 
Bhardwaj, B., Jacob, D., Sharma, A., Ghanimeh, M.A., Baweja, P. Pulmonary vein thrombosis in a patient with polycythemia vera. World J Cardiol. 2016, Nov; 8(11):684-688. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 27957255. 
Gupta, B., Jacob, D., Thompson, R. Imaging in patients after cardiac transplantation and in patients with ventricular assist devices. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2015, Aug; 22(4): 617-638. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 5832983. 
Jacob, D., Main, M.L., Gupta, S., Gosch, K., McCoy, M. Magalski, A. Prevalence and significance of isolated T wave inversion in 1755 consecutive American collegiate athletes. Journal of Electrocardiology. 2015, May; 48(3): 407-414. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 25795567. 
Sharma, A., Jacob, D., Courter, S., Grodzinsky, A., Rao, S., Bin Abdulhak, A., Abdel-karim, A., Kennedy, K., Case, J., Bateman, T. Dedicated versus hybrid myocardial perfusion PET: comparative diagnostic accuracy in a propensity-matched population undergoing coronary angiography. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine. 2014, May; 55(Supplement 1): 1764-1764. 
Sayana, H., Faisal, F.M., Jacob, D., Simon, S., Jonnalagadda, S. Utility of Liver Biochemistry Trends in the Evaluation of Intermediate Probability of Choledocholithiasis. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2014, May; 79(5): AB337-AB337. 
Sayana, H.P., Faisal, M.F., Jacob, D., Simon, S., Jonnalagadda, S. Diagnostic Yield of Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) in Patients With Intermediate Probability of Choledocholithiasis. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2014, May; 79(5): AB352-AB352.
PEER REVIEWED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Jacob, D., Main, M.L., Lee, A., Magalski, A. (2016, August 25). Ethnic and Gender Specific Differences Among Athletes Participating in ECG Screening. 
http://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2016/08/25/12/25/ethnic-and-gender-specific-differences-among-athletes-participating-in-ecg-screening, Pub Status: Published.