Snigdha Sagar, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Contact Information

Dr. Snigdha Sagar (Snigdhasmritha Pusalavidyasagar) is originally from India where she earned her MBBS (equivalent to MD) degree from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India in 1993. In 1994 she completed an Internship at the Osmania General Hospital before relocating to the US. Dr. Sagar continued her medical training with externship, internship and residency training at Howard University Hospital, Washington DC. She went on to clinical practice at the Southern Metro Medical Clinics, Le Sueur, Minnesota and the Queen of Peace Hospital in New Prague, Minnesota. In 2004 Dr. Sagar began fellowship training in Cardiovascular Physiology, followed by clinical fellowship training in Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She joined the Sleep Medicine Faculty at the University of Minnesota in October 2007.

Research Interests

• Study pertaining to effects of changes in body fat composition on sleep and cardiovascular physiology (Mentor: Somers VK, MD)
• Study involving the relationship between sleep and acute myocardial infarction (Mentor: Somers VK, MD)
• Comparative analysis of cardiac inflammatory markers in Asian Indians vs. Caucasians (Mentor: Somers VK, MD)

Publications

Pusalavidyasagar SS, Olson EJ, Gay PC, Morgenthaler TI. Treatment of complex sleep apnea syndrome: A retrospective comparative review; Sleep Med. 2006; 7(6):474-9.

Kuzniar TJ, Pusalavidyasagar S, Gay PC, Morgenthaler TI.  Natural course of complex sleep apnea--a retrospective study. Sleep Breath 2008; 12(2):135-9.

Kuniyoshi FH, Garcia-Touchard A, Gami AS, Romero-Corral A, van der Walt C, Pusalavidyasagar S, Kara T, Caples SM, Pressman GS, Vasquez EC, Lopez-Jimenez F, Somers VK.  Day-night variation of acute myocardial infarction in obstructive sleep apnea. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008; 52(5):343-6.

Pusalavidyasagar SS, Morgenthaler TI, Olson EJ. Treatment and characteristics of REM predominant obstructive sleep apnea (manuscript in review).

Pusalavidyasagar SS, Kuzniar T, Morgenthaler TI. Periodic limb movements in complex sleep apnea (manuscript in review).

Pusalavidyasagar SS, Shamsuzzaman A, Somers VK. Early morning attenuation of endothelial function in Asian Indians (manuscript in review).

Abstracts

Pusalavidyasagar SS, Morgenthaler TI, Silber MH. Head and neck cancers and obstructive sleep apnea.  APSS 2007

Case Reports

Pusalavidyasagar SS.  A case report on unusual presentation of bronchoalveolar carcinoma. Presented at ACP- Washington DC Chapter Annual Meeting, March 2000.