Richard G. Bach, MD, FACC

Research Interests

Clinical investigation in acute coronary syndromes: In the cardiac intensive care unit, my group has focused on the clinical investigation of outcomes and promising therapies for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Coronary intervention and coronary physiology: Another of my primary research interests involves interventional cardiology, with pre-clinical and clinical studies in the use of magnetic navigation via the Stereotaxis Niobe system to facilitate coronary intervention; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: For symptomatic patients with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, a catheter-based method of non-surgical septal reduction by alcohol septal ablation can provide significant symptomatic improvement. To better understand the short and long-term benefits of transcatheter alcohol septal ablation, we are studying its effects on cardiac remodeling and coronary and myocardial physiology. In addition, via collaborative translational echocardiographic and genetic studies, we are interested in exploring the gene polymorphisms that contribute to the wide phenotypic anatomic and physiologic variability among patients and family members with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy