Sara L. Partington, MD

Cardiology

4.9 with 198 ratings

Sees patients age 15 and up

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Dr. Partington is a Penn Medicine physician.

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Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Pregnancy
Anomalies of Pulmonary Circulation
Anomalies of the Aorta
Anomalous Coronary Artery
Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage
Aortic Coarctation
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
Atrioventricular Canal Defect
Common Aortopulmonary Trunk
Congenital Anomaly of Great Veins
Congenital Aortic Valve Disease
Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital Infundibular Stenosis
Congenital Insufficiency of the Aortic Valve
Congenital Mitral Valve Disease
Congenital Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Congenital Pulmonary Valve Atresia
Congenital Stenosis of the Aortic Valve
Congenital Stenosis of the Mitral Valve
Congenital Stenosis of the Pulmonary Valve
Congenital Subaortic Stenosis
Congenital Tricuspid Stenosis
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Cor Biloculare
Cor Triatriatum
Coronary Artery Anomaly
Cyanotic Heart Disease
Dextrocardia
Double Aortic Arch
Double Outlet Right Ventricle
Double Outlet Ventricle
Ebstein Anomaly
Eisenmenger Syndrome
Endocardial Cushion Defect
Fontan Procedure Survivor
Heart Block
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Infundibular Right Ventricular Outflow Obstruction
Mitral Atresia
Obstructive Anomalies of the Heart
Ostium Primum Atrial Septal Defect
Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Persistent Ostium Primum
Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (PAVMs)
Pulmonary Artery Coarctation and Atresia
Pulmonary Artery Stenosis
Pulmonary Valve Stenosis (PVS)
Pulmonic Valve Stenosis
Shone's Complex
Single Ventricle Defects
Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect
Subaortic Stenosis
Subvalvar Aortic Stenosis
Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of the Great Arteries
Transposition of the Great Vessels
Tricuspid Atresia
Tricuspid Atresia and Truncus Arteriosus
Tricuspid Stenosis
Trucus Arteriosus
Vascular Ring
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)

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Programs and Centers

Penn Medicine's programs and centers combine doctors from many disciplines to coordinate care from start to finish. Dr. Partington is part of these programs:

Education and Training

Medical School: McMaster University Medical Center
Residency: McMaster University Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Calgary; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Children's Hospital of Boston

Primary Location

Penn Heart and Vascular Center

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
East Pavilion, 2nd Floor
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Map Call 215-615-4949

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Penn Medicine Hospital Privileges

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

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Aetna
Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
Centivo Health Plan
Cigna
Cigna Medicare
Claim Watcher (Homestead/Index)
Clover Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan
Geisinger Medicaid
Global Medical Management
HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan
HealthPartners
HealthSmart
Highmark Blue Shield
Highmark Blue Shield Medicare
Highmark Wholecare
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Humana / Medicare
Imagine Health 360

Independence Blue Cross (Keystone East)
Jefferson Health Plans (fka Health Partners Plans)
Keystone First
Keystone First Medicare
NJ Medicaid
NJ Qualcare
Oscar Health Plan of PA
Oxford Health Plan
PA Health and Wellness (Centene) Medicare
PA Medicaid
PA Medicare
Provider Partners Health Plan
Rail Road Medicare / Palmetto GBA
Tricare
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan PA
UPMC Health Plan
US Family Health Plan
Veterans Choice Program

Selected Publications

Partington SL, Dorbala S: Nuclear Cardiac Imaging Companion Atlas Radionucleotide Imaging in Patients with Congenital Heart Diseases : 179,2024.

Fogel MA, Donnelly E, Crandell I, Hanlon A, Whitehead KK, Harris M, Partington SL, Biko D, Flynn T, Nicolson S, Gaynor JW, Licht D, Vossough A: Cerebral Blood Flow, Brain Injury and Aortic-Pulmonary Collateral Flow After the Fontan Operation The American Journal of Cardiology 208 : 164-170,2023.

Whitehead KK, Harris MA, Vaiyani D, Biko DM, Partington SL, Sellers RT, Kunze KP, Botnar R, Prieto C, Fogel MA: Non-Contrast Cardiac Magnetic Resonance BOOST Whole Heart Acquistion to Evaluate Coronaries in Children and Young Adults Circulation 148 (Supplement 1): A17723,2023.

Vaiyani A, Jones AL, Harris MA, Whitehead KK, Biko D, Partington SL, Restaino K, Lin KY, Fogel MA: Children with Increased Native T1, Extracellular Volume and T2 Values on Initial Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Acute Myocarditis Have Less Improvement in Late Gadolinium Enhancement on follow-up Imaging Circulation 148 (Supplement 1): A16260,2023.

Fogel MA, Reddy K, Mahmood A, Zhang X, Ampah S, Faeber J, Goldmuntz E, Harris M, Bike D, Partington SL, Paridon S, Mcbride M, Ferrari V, Whitehead KK, Mercer-Rosa LM.: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Ventricular Function and Hemodynamic Multivariable Model Predictors of Exercise Performance in Tetralogy of Fallot Using Machine Learning and Multivariable Modelling Circulation 148 (Supplement 1): A15275,2023.

Sulentic A, Gupta M, Amin S, Wang Y, Vaiyani D, Sabin P, Partington SL, Gillespie MJ, Jolley MA: 3-Dimensional Modeling Guided Transcatheter Repair of Dehisced Pulmonary Venous Baffle with Gore ASD Device Case Reports 21 : 101968,2023.

Moore RL, Nyman A, Kim YY, Brothers J, Mavroudis CD, Fuller S, Nuri M, Finely V, Partington SL: Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA) Presenting in Adulthood: A Single Center Case Series 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery : 2023.

Jones AL, White BR, Ghosh RM, Mondal A, Smpah S, Ho DY, Whitehead KK, Harris MA, Biko DM, Partington SL, Fuller S, Cohen MS, Fogel MA: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Predictors for Successful Primary Biventricular Repair of Unbalanced Complete Common Atrioventricular Canal Cardiology in the Young : 1-8,2023.

Ghosh RM, Whitehead KK, Harris MA, KalbE, Chen JM, Partington SL, Biko DM, Faerber J, Fogel MA: Longitudinal Trends of Vascular Flow and Growth in Patients Undergoing Fontan Operation The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 115 (6): 1486-92,2023.

Vaiyani D, Elias MD, Biko DM, Whitehead KK, Harris MA, Partington SL, Fogel MA: Patients with Post-COVID-19 Vaccination Myocarditis Have More Favorable Strain in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Than Those With Viral Myocarditis Pediatric Cardiology 44 (5): 1108-1117,2023.

Academic Contact Information

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366

American College of Cardiology, National
American Society of Echocardiography, National
Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, National