Armen Kocharian

Armen Masihi Kocharian (Armenian: Արմեն Մասիհի Քոչարյան; Persian: آرمن مسیحی کوچاریان‎‎), is an Iranian Armenian physician and cardiologist who is the first children's Heart Specialist in Iran.^[1]

Early life

Kocharian was born in Gholhak, a neighbourhood in Northern Tehran, in 1948. He attended the Kooshesh Armenian High School. Later, he enrolled at Medical field of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, in 1969. He graduated in 1976. He receipted to Pediatrician in 1981. Finally, he receipted the specialty in the discipline of cardiology with an emphasis on children from the Iran University of Medical Sciences. Now, he is a faculty member and professor in the Children's Medical Center.^[2]

Some Important Papers

• Active Ellipse Model and Automatic Chamber Detection in Apical Views of Echocardiography Images^[3]
• A novel method for pediatric heart sound segmentation without using the ECG^[4]
• Evaluation of the relationship of echocardiographic left vantricular mass to amounts of transfusions of packed cell and Deferoxamine in Thalassemia major^[5]
• MUMPS MYOCARDITIS AS A CAUSE OF NEONATAL CARDIOGENIC SHOCK^[6]
• PROLONGED DISPERSION OF QT AND QTC IN THALASSEMIA MAJOR PATIENTS^[7]
• A Newborn Infant with a Pulsatile Substernal Structure in a Midline Defect; Cantrell's Syndrome^[8]

Footnotes

See also

• Iranian Armenians
• Science in Iran