David Mego is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Arkansas Heart Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 36 publications with 508 citations (h-index 12).
Overview
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Medicare prescribing footprint (2021)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Cardiovascular
75.1%Beta blocker24.9%Metoprolol Succinate39%Carvedilol20%Atenolol20%Metoprolol Tartrate12%Bystolic9%Part D<11 patientsAngiotensin receptor blocker (ARB)17%Losartan Potassium69%Olmesartan Medoxomil17%Olmesartan-Hydrochlorothiazide14%Part D<11 patients+ 7 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
19.3%P2Y12 inhibitor11.8%Clopidogrel100%Part D≥28 patientsFactor Xa inhibitor7.5%Eliquis60%Xarelto40%Part D<11 patientsMetabolism & gastrointestinal
5.6%Potassium supplement5.6%Potassium Chloride100%Part D≥17 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Balloon-Expandable Vascular Covered Stent in the Treatment of Iliac Artery Occlusive Disease: 9-Month Results from the BOLSTER Multicenter Study
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
2019 - Assessment of Vascular Patency and Inflammation with Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Superficial Femoral Artery Disease Treated with Zilver PTX Stents
Cardiovascular revascularization medicine
2019 - MitraClip Deployed via Left Femoral Vein in an 85-Year-Old Woman with Mitral Regurgitation
Texas Heart Institute Journal
2019 - CRT-200.08 Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in the Superficial Femoral Artery at 12-Month Follow-Up Are Associated With Persistent Inflammation
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
2019 - Same versus next day discharge after elective transradial PCI: The RAdial SAme Day DischArge after PCI trial. (The RASADDA-PCI trial)
Cardiovascular revascularization medicine
2018
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