About me
Mrinalini Krishnan, MD is a cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure with the MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, who practices at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. She is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, echocardiography and advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.
Dr. Krishnan cares for patients diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension as well as patients with cardiomyopathies and advanced heart failure who require intravenous infusions, left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), and heart transplantation. She encorporates state-of-the-art medications and technologies along with a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach to provide the optimal care for her patients long-term.
Dr. Krishnan is the Regional Director of Pulmonary Hypertension at MedStar. She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology fellowship program and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University. She is a member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and the Heart Failure Society of America, and is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Additionally, she is a reviewer for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology Journal, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Delivering continuity in care is a key priority for Dr. Krishnan, as she is treating patients whose needs range from routine to emergency, and in some cases, transplant care. She values the opportunities she has to get to know her patients and their families on a personal level, and always strives to help patients fully understand the intricacies of their medical conditions and actively participate in their care plan.
Clinical areas of focus
- Cardiovascular Care
- Dyspnea On Exertion
- Heart Disease
- Heart Disease In Women
- Hypertension
- Syncope
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
- Advanced Heart Failure (AHF)
- Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy
- Amyloidosis
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
- Cardiac Amyloid
- Cardiac Insufficiency
- Cardiac Sarcoidosis
- Cardiomegaly
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiopulmonary Disease
- Cardiorenal Syndrome
- Cardiotoxicity
- Cardiovascular Disease Related To Chemotherapy
- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Cor Pulmonale
- Cyanotic Heart Disease
- Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Dyspnea On Exertion
- Edema
- Eisenmenger Syndrome
- End Stage Heart Disease
- Exercise Intolerance
- Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Genetic Cardiomyopathy
- Giant Cell Myocarditis
- Heart Disease
- Heart Disease In Women
- Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFPEF)
- Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFREF)
- Heart Problems
- Heart Transplant Rejection
- Hereditary Pulmonary Hypertension
- Hypertension
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Infiltrative Disorders Of The Heart
- Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
- Kawasaki Disease
- Left Bundle Branch Block
- Left Heart Failure
- Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
- Mitral Valve Regurgitation Associated Heart Failure
- Myocarditis
- Non Compaction Cardiomyopathy NCM
- Non Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
- Orthopnea
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- Peripheral Edema
- Pulmonary Artery Stenosis
- Pulmonary Edema
- Pulmonary Hypertension Associated Connective Tissue Disease
- Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency
- Pulmonary Valve Stenosis
- Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
- Pulmonary Veno Occlusive Disease
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Rheumatic Heart Failure
- Right Bundle Branch Block
- Right Heart Failure
- Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
- Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
- Scleroderma Heart Disease
- Secondary Hypertension
- Syncope
- Tachycardia
- Tachycardia Induced Cardiomyopathy
- Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
- Toxin Induced Pulmonary Hypertension
- Transplant Related Infection
- Tricuspid Regurgitation
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Viral Cardiomyopathy
Procedures I perform
- Anticoagulation
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardiomems
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
- Cardiovascular Care
- Chronic Inotropic Therapy
- Circulatory Assist Devices
- Electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Heart Biopsy
- Heart Health
- Heart Transplant
- Home Inotropes
- In Office Cardiac Echocardiogram
- In Office Cardiac Stress Test
- Mechanical Circulatory Support
- Optical Coherence Tomography
- Preoperative Evaluation
- Pretransplant Clearance
- Preventative Cardiology
- Pulmonary And Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Repeat Heart Transplant
- Six Minute Walk Test
- Sports Related Cardiovascular Assessment
- Stress Echo Cardiogram
- Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair
- Transthoracic Echocardiogram
- Ventricular Assist Device
- Vo2 Measurement
Practice locations
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110 Irving Street Northwest MHVI-1st Floor North Addition Washington, DC, 20010
202-877-4698Fax 202-877-2799
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Cigna Indemnity
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Innovation Health: POS
- United Navigate
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Kaiser Signature
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Cigna Network Open Access
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- I-SNP
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Beech Street PPO
- Cigna EPO
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- Police and Fire Clinic
- D-SNP)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst Administrators
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Tricare East Prime
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Employee Health Plan (EHP)
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- WellPoint Maryland
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Medicaid - Maryland
- United Choice Plus
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- United Choice
- Kaiser Select
- Tricare East Select
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP)
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- Virginia Premier
- CareFirst NASCO
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- Carefirst EPO
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- United Select Plus (POS)
- United Optimum Choice
- Medicaid - Virginia
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Tricare for Life East
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Innovation Health: PPO
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- United Golden Rule
- Tricare Reserve Select
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- United Student Resources
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
Videos
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Fellowship: Georgetown University Medical Center GME (2020)
Fellowship: Robert Packer Hospital (2019)
Fellowship: University of Alabama (2016)
Residency: Pinnacle Health (2015)
Graduate: Medical University of the Americas-Nevis (2011)
Graduate: Medical University of the Americas (2011)
Awards
- International Travelling Scholarship, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2017.
- Exemplar of Professionalism Award, American College of Physicians, 2014.
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
- Singh M, Krishnan M, Ruiz M, Sheikh FH. Non-tuberculous mycobacterial associated left ventricular assist device infections: a single center experience. Tex Heart Inst J. 2022. DOI 10.14503/THIJ-20-7498.
- Singh M, Krishnan M, Ghazzal A, Halushka M, Tozzi JE, Bunning RD, Rodrigo ME, Najjar SS, Molina EJ, Sheikh FH. From hip to heart: a comprehensive evaluation of an infiltrative cardiomyopathy. CJC Open. 2021 Jun 26;3(11):1392-1395.
- Krishnan M, Cupps TR, Sheikh FH. Tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor use for treatment of refractory cardiac sarcoidosis in a patient with left ventricular assist device: Adalimumab use in refractory sarcoidosis in a patient with left ventricular assist device. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020 Dec; 39(12): 1504-1505. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2020.08.001. Epub 2020 Aug 12. PubMed PMID: 32830024.
- Krishnan M & Barnett CF. Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension. Expert Opinion on Orphan Drugs. 2020 May 13; 8(5):169-177. doi: 10.1080/21678707.2020.1770080. Epub 2020 May 28.
- Abdullah A, Lekkala M, Wolfe Z, Raghu C, Khan SU, Krishnan M, Winnicka L, Lash B. Isolated left ventricular metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Case Rep Oncol 2018 Jun 7; 11(2): 365-371. doi: 10.1159/000489770. eCollection 2018 May-Aug. PubMed PMID: 29983699.
- Krishnan M, Cheriyath P, Wert Y, Moritz T. The untapped potential of tunneled pleural catheters. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2015 Dec; 100(6): 2055-7. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.05.086. Epub 2015 Aug 18. PubMed PMID: 26294344.
- Abdelsalam M, Krishnan M, Banga S, Bachinsky W. High risk percutaneous coronary intervention in a patient with a single coronary artery presenting as STEMI and cardiogenic shock. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Aug 14; 2015: bcr2015210345. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2015-210345. PubMed PMID: 26275407.
- Harskamp RE, Abdelsalam M, Lopes RD, Boga G, Hirji S, Krishnan M, Kiljanek L, Mumtaz M, Tijssen JG, McCarty C, deWinter RJ, Bachinsky WB. Cardiac troponin release following hybrid coronary revascularization versus off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2014 Dec;19(6):1008-12. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivu297. Epub 2014 Sep 12. PubMed PMID: 25217621.