Luis Afonso is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Wayne State University. OpenAlex indexes 409 publications with 5,512 citations (h-index 37).
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
4201 Saint Antoine St Ste 5a
Detroit, MI 482012153
Telephone
313-966-2492Provider last certified this registry record 17 Feb 2022.
Industry payments
27 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Medtronic, Inc.Program year20256 payments
- Boston Scientific CorporationProgram year20253 payments
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.Program year202513 payments
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
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 blocker16.9%Metoprolol Succinate67%Carvedilol23%Metoprolol Tartrate10%Part D<11 patientsStatin13.3%Atorvastatin Calcium79%Rosuvastatin Calcium11%Simvastatin10%Part D<11 patients+ 12 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
11.7%SGLT2 inhibitor11.7%Jardiance64%Farxiga36%Part D≥39 patientsBlood & clotting
11.4%Factor Xa inhibitor8.6%Eliquis79%Xarelto21%Part D<11 patientsP2Y12 inhibitor2.7%Clopidogrel100%Part D≥16 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.
- Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Cardiogenic Shock Utilizing Hemodialysis for Acute Kidney Injury
The American Journal of Cardiology
2019 - A Doppler Echocardiographic Pulmonary Flow Marker of Massive or Submassive Acute Pulmonary Embolus
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
2019
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