Dilachew A. Adebo, MD, FAAP, FACC, FSCMR, FSCCT
- Professor, Pediatric Cardiology and Radiology
- Director, Pediatric Cardiac CT and Pediatric Cardiac MRI
- Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
- Co-Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Heart Institute
Contact
Dilachew A. Adebo, MD, FAAP, FACC, FSCMR, FSCCT713-486-6755
713-500-5751 fax
Pediatric Cardiology Clinic
713-486-6755
Education
- Medical School
- Gondar College of Medical Sciences, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Residency
- Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Residency
- Driscoll Children's Hospital, Texas A&M University, Texas
- Fellowship
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Fellowship
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Areas of Interest
Clinical Interests
Cardiovascular Magnetic resonance imaging, trans-thoracic and trans-esophageal echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, Cardiac CT Angiography, inpatient cardiac care, outpatient cardiac care.
Research Interests
Cardiac Magnetic resonance and cardiac CT evaluation of coronary arteries and ventricular mechanics.
Publications
Books published :
1.Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology. Dilachew A. Adebo, Editor, Springer publisher, Switzerland, 2024
2.Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease. Dilachew A. Adebo, Editor, Springer publisher, Switzerland, 2021
3.Yared Wondimikun, Dilachew Achiko, Liyew Awoke, Biruk Lambisso, Karen Thomas, Wubaye Walelgne, Shimelis Ketema: A Practical Manual for Working with HIV/AIDS, Gondar College of Medical Sciences: (Published October, 2001)
Original Articles in Journals :
1. Alemseged Abdissa, Daniel Asrat, Doran Kronvall, Belay Shittu, Dilachew Achiko, Mohammed Zeidan, Lawrence K. Yamuah, and Abraham Aseffa. Throat carriage rate and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of group A streptococci (GAS) in healthy Ethiopian school children: Ethiopian Medical Journal: 2011, 49 (3): 283
2. Alemseged Abdissa, Daniel Asrat, Doran Kronvall, Belay Shittu, Dilachew Achiko, Mohammed Zeidan, Lawrence K. Yamuah, and Abraham Aseffa. High Diversity of Group A Streptococcal emm Types among Healthy School children in Ethiopia: Clinical Infectious Disease Journal: 2006, 42(10); 1362-1367.
3. D.Adebo; J St.Louis; T.Prosen; S.Sivanandam: Fetal Complete common atrioventricular canal defect: Spontaneous closure of the Ventricular Septal Defect: in utero anatomic evolution and postnatal outcomes: World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: 2013, 4 (2); 177-181
4. Dilachew Adebo, Zev Jacobson, Matthew Harris: Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the posterior, non-coronary sinus of Valsalva diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: Cardiology in the Young: 2014 doi: 10.1017/S1047951114001346
5. Abbas U,Brownlee J, Adebo D. Giant coronary sinus aneurysm and multiple coronary artery aneurysms in a pediatric patient. Images Paediatr Cardiol 2015;17 (1):1-3.
6. Fernando B. Molina, MD; Cesar de Alba Gonzalez, MD; Nazire Ozcelik, MD; Dilachew Adebo, MD: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance feature tracking biventricular two dimensional and three-dimensional strains to evaluate ventricular function in children after repaired tetralogy of Fallot as compared with healthy children: Pediatric Cardiology 38;3 2017
7. Cesar de Alba Gonzalez, MD; Fernando B. Molina, MD; John Brownlee, MD; Muhammad Khan, MD; Dilachew Adebo, MD: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance to Evaluate Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation in Children and Young Adults: Texas Heart Institute Journal 2018; 45(2):63-9
8. Sheba John, MD; Nitin Wadhwa, MD; Dilachew Adebo, MD: Very unusual giant pseudoaneurysm from insertion site of modified Blalock Taussig shunt diagnosed by Cardiac Computed Tomography: A case report: Journal of Cardiology Case Reports: 2020; doi: 10.15761/JCCR.1000150
9. Sheba John, Santosh Uppu, Poyee P Tung, Dilachew Adebo: Bilateral Superior Vena Cava with contralateral atrial drainage with brain abscess and transient ischemic attack in adult patient: Journal of Cardiology Case Reports: 2020; doi: 10.15761/JCCR.100015
10. Siddharth Dubey, Arpit Agarwal, Stephanie Nguyen, Dilachew Adebo: Persistence of Late Gadolinium Enhancement on Follow-Up CMR Imaging in Children with Acute Myocarditis: Pediatric Cardiology, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-020-02445-5
11. Christopher Greenleaf, MD, MBA; Raina Sanha, MD, MPH; Zachary Cerra, BS; Peter Chen, MD; Dilachew Adebo, MD; Jorge D. Salazar, MD: Development of a Biventricular Conversion Program: A new Paradigm: Journal of Cardiac Surgery: 2021; 36; 2013-2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.15487
12. Jannika Dodge-Khatami, MD; Dilachew A. Adebo, MD: Evaluation of Complex Congenital Heart Disease in Infants using low dose Cardiac Computed Tomography: 2020: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging: 2021; 37; 1455-1460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-020-02118- 7
13. Li Xiong, Mehul Patel, Gurur Biliciler-Denktas, Ali Dodge-Khatami, Jorge Salazar, Dilachew A. Adebo: Perioperative Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return evaluation with Low-Dose Cardiac Computed Tomography: World J Pediatr Congenital Heart Surgery: 2021; 12 (4); 529-534
14. Dilachew A. Adebo, Laura Schoeneberg: Dual-Source and Prospective Gated Low Dose Neonatal Cardiac Computed Tomography in Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease: Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. September, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppedcard.2021.101447
15. Alexander C. Mills MD, Julia Dobrila MD, Blaz Podgorsek MD, Dilachew Adebo MD, Peter C Chen MD, Antonio F. Corno MD, Jorge D. Salazar, MD, Christopher E. Greenleaf MD, MBA: Surgical approach for anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery: A comparison of two techniques. Journal of Cardiac Surgery: September 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.16033
16. Sheba John MD, Laura Schoeneberg MD, Christopher E Greenleaf MD, MBA, Jorge D Salazar MD, Dilachew A. Adebo MD. Pre-and postoperative Cardiovascular CT in Stage I Single Ventricle Palliation. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2021
17. Antonio F. Corno, MD, Dilachew A. Adebo, MD, Damien J. LaPar, MD, Jorge D. Salazar, MD. Modern Advances regarding Interatrial Communication in Congenital Heart Defects. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2021
18. Dilachew A Adebo MD, Santosh C Uppu MD, Avichal Aggarwal MD, Jorge D Salazar MD, Damien J LaPar MD. Virtual Simulated Implantation of adult sized Left Ventricular Assist Device in a Pediatric Patient. J Am Coll Cardiol Case Rep 2022; 4:239–240
19. Donthula Rakesh; Talley, Lauren; Adebo, Dilachew; Aggarwal, Avichal; Salazar, Jorge; Brown, Matthew; Uppu Santosh C. Successful late 1.5 ventricular conversion in failing Fontan: Journal of American College of Cardiology, 2022, volume 79 (9), P. 3157
20. Rafael Zonana Amkie MD, Amulya Buddhavarapu MD, Mehul Patel MD, Bihong Zhao MD, PhD, Dilachew A. Adebo MD. Computed Tomography Tissue Characterization of Pediatric Cardiac Tumor. J Am Coll Cardiology Case Rep, volume 21, 2023
21. Ana Vasquez Choy MD, Rafael Zonana-Amkie MD, Dilachew A Adebo MD. Role of Cardiac CT to evaluate Branch pulmonary artery stenosis and Ductal insertion pattern in right-sided congenital Heart Defects: Journal of Pediatric Cardiology, 2023
22. L Ruffino, A Santoro, S Sparvieri, F Regazzoni, DA Adebo, AM Quarteroni, C Vergara, AF Corno. Computational Analysis of Cardiovascular Effects of COVID-19 Infection in Children. Journal of Pediatric Advance Research: 2023; 2(2):1-10
23. Rakesh Donthula MBBS, Wen LI PhD, Harmanpreet Kaur MD, Dilachew A Adebo MD, Santosh C Uppu MD. Normative Computed Tomography Angiography Values of the Main and Branch Pulmonary arteries in Children. Eur J Pediatr, 2024; 183 (3): 1183-1193
Book Chapters :
1. Dilachew A. Adebo. Advantages of Cardiac CT over other Diagnostic Techniques. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 1, Page 1-14, 2021
2. Dilachew A. Adebo. Techniques of Cardiac CT scan: Patient preparation, contrast Medium, Scanning and post-processing. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 2, page 15-22, 2021
3. Rami Kharouf, Dilachew A. Adebo. Atrioventricular Connections: Double- inlet Ventricle, atrioventricular discordance, and congenitally corrected Transposition of Great Arteries. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 9, page 75-80, 2021
4. Rami Kharouf, Dilachew A. Adebo. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Evaluation of Ventricular Function. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 29, page 213-218, 2021
5. Dilachew A. Adebo. Right Ventricular outflow Tract: Pulmonary valve Stenosis. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 10, Page 81-84, 2021
6. Dilachew A. Adebo. Right Ventricular outflow Tract: Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 11, Page 85-88, 2021
7. Dilachew A. Adebo. Right Ventricular outflow Tract: Pulmonary valve atresia, Ventricular Septal Defect and Major Aortopulmonary Collateral
Arteries. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 12, Page 89-94, 2021
8. Dilachew A. Adebo. Right Ventricular outflow Tract: Tetralogy of Fallot. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 13, Page 95-102, 2021
9. Dilachew A. Adebo. Right Ventricular outflow Tract: Absent Pulmonary Valve syndrome. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 14, Page 103-106, 2021
10. Laura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo. Double outlet Right Ventricle. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 17, Page 121-128, 2021
11. Laura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo. Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 18, Page 129-136, 2021
12. Laura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo. Truncus Arteriosus. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 19, Page 137-142, 2021
13. Laura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo. Anomalous Aortic Origin of Pulmonary
Arteries. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 20, Page 143-146, 2021
14. Dilachew A. Adebo. Aneurysm of the Sinus of Valsalva, Aortic-Left Ventricular Tunnel. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 22, Page 159-162, 2021
15. Dilachew A. Adebo. Aortopulmonary Window. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 23, Page 163- 166, 2021
16. Elisa Rhee, Dilachew A. Adebo. Aortic Arch Anomalies: Coarctation of the Aorta and Aortic Arch Hypoplasia. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 24, Page 167- 174, 2021
17. Elisa Rhee, Dilachew A. Adebo. Aortic Arch Anomalies: Aortic Arch Interruption. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 25, Page 175-180, 2021
18. Sheba John, Dilachew A. Adebo. Cardiac Computed Tomography after Single Ventricle Palliation. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 28, Page 205-212, 2021
19. Dilachew A. Adebo. Non-Cardiac findings of Cardiac CT. In: “Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease.” Springer publisher, Chapter 31, Page 269-273, 2021
20. Jia Yue Liu, Dilachew A. Adebo. Cardiac Anatomy, Embryology and Function. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 1, page 1-20, 2024
21. Ana Lucia Choy Vasquez, Dilachew A. Adebo. Systemic and Pulmonary Venous Abnormalities. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 2, page 21-38, 2024
22. Megan Childress, Dilachew A. Adebo. Intracardiac Shunts. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 4, page 47-62, 2024
23. Dilachew A. Adebo. Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 8, page 127-162, 2024
24. Jason B. Meschin, Dilachew A. Adebo. Aortic Arch Anomalies, Vascular Rings, and Slings. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 11, page 209-236, 2024
25. Dilachew A. Adebo. Cardiac Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 8, Page 237-254
26. Sheba John, Dilachew A. Adebo. Congenital Heart Disease in Adults. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 15, page 281-328, 2024
27. Dilachew A. Adebo. Cardiovascular Examination and Outpatient Cardiac Problems.
In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 20, Page 411-442
28. Jeffrey M. Mortenson, Dilachew A. Adebo. Statistics and Scholarly Activity. In: “Board Review Atlas of Pediatric Cardiology.” Springer Publisher, Chapter 21, page 443-460, 2024
29. Dilachew A. Adebo. Required Postoperative Diagnostic Information. In: “Functionally Single Ventricle.” Elsevier Publisher (In Press)
Certifications
Pediatric Cardiology, American Board of Pediatrics (2014)
Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2010)
Certification Board of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (Alliance for Physician Certification and Advancement (2019)
Level III competence by Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2013)
Level III competence by Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (2019)
Honors & Awards
Medical graduation with Honor, Gondar College of Medical Sciences (1999)
Best Teaching Resident of the year (By 2003 Medical Graduates) Addis Ababa University Medical Faculty, Ethiopia
Best Fellow Poster: Fetal Complete atrioventricular canal defect: Spontaneous closure of the Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) an anatomic evolution in utero and postnatal outcomes (Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Scientific session 2011)
Dean’s teaching Excellence Award: Pediatric Cardiology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 2017
Dean’s teaching Excellence Award: Pediatric Cardiology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 2018
Marquis Who’s Who in America 2020
Marquis Who’s Who in America 2021