ד"ר טוביה בן גל

Dr. Tuvia Ben Gal  (Blachinsky)    MD  

Director of the Heart Failure Unit,

Cardiology Department,

Rabin Medical Center

Beilinson 

Education

Academic and other positions

Lecturer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Research areas

Our research focuses on clinical parameters in heart failure patients, candidates for heart transplant and transplanted patients and patients before and after LVAD implantation.

The influence of various interventions on quality of life of heart failure patients is explored.

The significance of the new immune monitoring tool: Cylex is studied.

List of publications (2007-2012)

 Ben Gal T, Cohen-Liel N, Admon D, Freimark D, Lavee J, Elami A, Sahar G, Sagie A, Birk E, Cohen J, Ashkenazi  T and Battler A.                                      

 Criteria for the acceptable heart donor: maximizing the use of hearts recovered from potential donors in Israel

Harefua.146:894-9,2007.  (Hebrew).

Israeli M, Ben Gal T*, Yaari V, Valdman A, Matz I, Medalion B, Battler A,         Sredni B, Kristt D and Klein T.                                                              

Individualized immune monitoring of cardiac transplant recipients by non-invasive longitudinal cellular immunity tests.

Transplantation. 27;89(8):968-76; 2010.

Sela N, Baruch N, Assali A, Vaturi M, Battler A and Ben Gal T.                   

 Medical Art Therapy: Influence on quality of life and compliance of patients with advanced heart failure.

Harefua.150:79-83; 2011.  (Hebrew).

Kapusta,  N. Zucker, G. Frenckel, B. Medalion, T. Ben Gal, E. Birk, H. Mandel, N. Nasser, S. Morgenstern, A. Zuckermann, D. Lefeber, R. Wevers, A. Lorber, E. Morava.
From discrete dilated cardiomyopathy to successful cardiac transplantation in congenital disorders of glycosylation due to Dolichol Kinase deficiency (DK1-CDG).
Heart Fail Rev. 2012 Feb 11.

Stein GY, Kremer A, Shochat T, Bental T, Korenfeld R, Abramson E,  Ben Gal T,   Sagie A, Fuchs S.                                                                                                

 The diversity of heart failure in a hospitalized population: the role of age.

J Card Fail.18 (8);645-53:2012.

Cooper TJ, Guazzi M, Al-Mohammad A, Amir O, Ben Gal T, Cleland JG, Dickstein K.                                                                                                      

Sildenafil in Heart Failure (SilHF). An investigator-initiated multinational randomized controlled clinical trial: rationale and design.

Eur J Heart Fail. 2013;15(1):119-22.

Stein GY, Ben Gal T*, Kremer A, Bental T, Alon D, Korenfeld R, Yedidia I,            Porter A, Abramson E, Sagie A, Fuchs S.                                                        

 Gender-related differences in hospitalized heart failure patients.

Eur J Heart Fail. 2013 Feb 17. [Epub ahead of print]

Jaarsma T, Strömberg A, Ben Gal T, Cameron J, Driscoll A, Duengen HD, Inkrot    S, Huang TY, Huyen NN, Kato N, Köberich S, Lupón J, Moser DK, Pulignano G,  abelo ER, Suwanno J, Thompson DR, Vellone E, Alvaro R, Yu D, Riegel B

Comparison of self-care behaviors of heart failure patients in 15 countries worldwide.

Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Apr 8.