Physician
Cardiology
Dr. Christopher P. Appleton, MD
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Christopher Appleton works in the field of Cardiology. He went to University of Washington School of Medicine. He over the years received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACC)" and "Top MD". Christopher Appleton is a published doctor. He has 92 papers published. The most current publication "Comparison of mitral inflow and superior vena cava Doppler velocities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and constrictive pericarditis."
Publications
- Surgical repair of pectus excavatum relieves right Heart chamber compression and improves cardiac output in adult patients-an intraoperative transesophageal echocardio...
- Two cases of apical ballooning Syndrome masking apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Chest pain and diarrhea: a case of campylobacter jejuni-associated myocarditis.
- American society of echocardiography clinical recommendations for multimodality cardiovascular imaging of patients with pericardial Disease: endorsed by the society fo...
- Usefulness of Two-Dimensional and Speckle Tracking Echocardiography In "Gray Zone" Left Ventricular Hypertrophy to Differentiate Professional Football Player's Heart f...
- Coronary Artery Plaque Burden Does Not Affect Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Asymptomatic Adults with Normal Ejection Fraction.
- Carotid ultrasound identifies high risk subclinical atherosclerosis in adults with low framingham risk scores.
- Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography of the left atrium: feasibility and regional contraction and relaxation differences in normal subjects.
- Recommendations for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function by echocardiography.
- The role of left atrial function in diastolic Heart failure.
- Reducing Coronary artery disease events in liver transplant patients: moving toward identifying the vulnerable patient.
- Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular diastolic function and filling pressure in Atrial fibrillation.
- Preoperative dobutamine stress echocardiographic findings and subsequent short-term adverse cardiac events after orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Relation of electrocardiographic criteria for left Atrial enlargement to two-dimensional echocardiographic left Atrial volume measurements.
- Effect of losartan and hydrochlorothiazide on exercise tolerance in exertional Hypertension and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.
- Cardiac Syndrome X and endothelial dysfunction: new concepts in prognosis and treatment.
- Left Atrial size: physiologic determinants and clinical applications.
- Long-term cardiovascular risk in the orthotopic liver transplant population.
- Doppler tissue imaging during supine and upright exercise in healthy adults.
- The Doppler myocardial performance index during low-dose dobutamine echocardiography predicts mortality and left ventricular dilation after a first Acute myocardial in...
- Echocardiographic determination of mean pulmonary Artery pressure.
- A simple method for noninvasive estimation of Pulmonary vascular resistance.
- Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction as a predictor of the first diagnosed nonvalvular Atrial fibrillation in 840 elderly men and women.
- Generalized tetany: an unusual complication during dobutamine stress echocardiography.
- Pulmonary venous pressure: relationship to pulmonary artery, pulmonary wedge, and left Atrial pressure in normal, lightly sedated dogs.
- Noninvasive doppler echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular filling pressures in patients with cardiomyopathies: a simultaneous Doppler echocardiographic and ...
- The echo-Doppler evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function. A current perspective.
- Clinical utility of Doppler echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging in the estimation of left ventricular filling pressures: A comparative simultaneous Doppler-cat...
- Doppler flow velocity patterns of the superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, hepatic vein, Coronary sinus, and atrial septal defect: a guide for the echocardiographer.
- Pulmonary venous flow velocity: relation to hemodynamics, mitral flow velocity and left Atrial volume, and ejection fraction.
- Diastolic Mitral regurgitation with atrioventricular conduction abnormalities: relation of Mitral flow velocity to transMitral pressure gradients in conscious dogs.
- Influence of incremental changes in Heart rate on mitral flow velocity: assessment in lightly sedated, conscious dogs.
- Experimental pericardial effusion: relation of abnormal respiratory variation in mitral flow velocity to hemodynamics and diastolic right Heart collapse.
- Systemic toxic effects associated with high-dose verapamil infusion and chemotherapy administration.
- Visualization of the hepatic veins: new approaches for the echocardiographer.
- Experimental cardiac tamponade: a hemodynamic and Doppler echocardiographic reexamination of the relation of right and left Heart ejection dynamics to the phase of res...
- Variability of Doppler echocardiographic indexes of left ventricular filling in transplant recipients and in normal subjects.
- Flow velocity acceleration in the left ventricle: a useful Doppler echocardiographic sign of hemodynamically significant Mitral regurgitation.
- Doppler studies of vena cava flows in human fetuses. Insights into normal and abnormal cardiac physiology.
- Effects of alpha 2-adrenergic stimulation with UK 14,304-18 on the Heart and peripheral circulation of intact dogs.
- Transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiography and color Doppler flow velocity mapping in the evaluation of cardiac Valve prostheses.
- Demonstration of restrictive ventricular physiology by Doppler echocardiography.
- Cardiac tamponade and Pericardial effusion: respiratory variation in transvalvular flow velocities studied by Doppler echocardiography.
- Diastolic Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation by Doppler echocardiography in patients with atrioventricular block: new insight into the mechanism of atrioventricular va...
- Relation of transMitral flow velocity patterns to left ventricular diastolic function: new insights from a combined hemodynamic and Doppler echocardiographic study.
- Influence of recipient atrial contraction on left ventricular filling dynamics of the transplanted Heart assessed by Doppler echocardiography.
- Intraventricular flow during isovolumic relaxation: description and characterization by Doppler echocardiography.
- Superior vena cava and hepatic vein Doppler echocardiography in healthy adults.
- Alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptor stimulation: changes in venous capacitance in intact dogs.
- Usefulness of dobutamine echocardiography in distinguishing severe from nonsevere valvular Aortic stenosis in patients with depressed left ventricular function and low...
- Relationship of left Atrial pressure and pulmonary venous flow velocities: importance of baseline mitral and pulmonary venous flow velocity patterns studied in lightly...
- Successful treatment of early infective endocarditis and mediastinitis in a Heart transplant recipient.
- Estimation of left ventricular filling pressures using two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography in adult patients with cardiac Disease. Additional value of analyzi...
- Doppler assessment of left ventricular diastolic function: the refinements continue.
- "Diastology": beyond E and A.
- Value of dynamic respiratory changes in left and right ventricular pressures for the diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis.
- Doppler evaluation of patients with constrictive pericarditis: use of tricuspid regurgitation velocity curves to determine enhanced ventricular interaction.
- Feasibility of obtaining Pulmonary venous flow velocity in cardiac patients using transthoracic pulsed wave Doppler technique.
- Preload reduction to unmask the characteristic Doppler features of constrictive pericarditis. A new observation.
- The noninvasive assessment of left ventricular diastolic function with two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography.
- Doppler evaluation of left and right ventricular diastolic function: a technical guide for obtaining optimal flow velocity recordings.
- Utility of preload alteration in assessment of left ventricular filling pressure by Doppler echocardiography: a simultaneous catheterization and Doppler echocardiograp...
- Hemodynamic determinants of Doppler Pulmonary venous flow velocity components: new insights from studies in lightly sedated normal dogs.
- Determination of left ventricular filling pressure by Doppler echocardiography in patients with Coronary artery disease: critical role of left ventricular systolic fun...
- Age independence of the difference in duration of pulmonary venous Atrial reversal flow and transmitral A-wave flow in normal subjects.
- Comparison of mitral inflow and superior vena cava Doppler velocities in chronic obstructive pulmonary Disease and constrictive pericarditis.
- Ratio of left ventricular peak E-wave velocity to flow propagation velocity assessed by color M-mode Doppler echocardiography in first Myocardial infarction: prognosti...
- Noninvasive assessment of right Atrial pressure using Doppler tissue imaging.
- Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interAtrial septum: characterization by transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomo...
- Multimodality imaging showing complete cardiovascular involvement by Erdheim-Chester Disease.
- Myocardial contractile reserve by dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts improvement in ejection fraction with beta-blockade in patients with Heart failure: the B...
- Control of cardiac function and venous return in thyrotoxic calves.
- Canadian consensus recommendations for the measurement and reporting of diastolic dysfunction by echocardiography: from the Investigators of Consensus on Diastolic Dys...
- Alpha-1 adrenergic control of the venous circulation in intact dogs.
- Arbutamine vs. exercise stress testing in patients with Coronary artery disease: evaluation by echocardiography and electrocardiography.
- Ethmozine for ventricular premature complexes.
- Concept, development, administration, and analysis of a certifying examination in echocardiography for physicians.
- The prevalence of stress incontinence during pregnancy and following delivery.
- Short-term cardiac and noncardiac mortality following liver transplantation.
- Effect of positional changes on inferior vena cava size.
- Ventricular tachycardia in the absence of structural Heart disease.
- Congenital absence of the pericardium: case presentation and review of literature.
- Echocardiographic predictors of morbidity and mortality in patients with advanced Heart failure: the Beta-blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST).
- Impact of early changes in left ventricular filling pattern on long-term outcome after Acute myocardial infarction.
- Pneumopericardium and pneumothorax contralateral to venous access site after permanent pacemaker implantation.
- Serial Doppler echocardiographic assessment of left and right ventricular performance after a first Myocardial infarction.
- Color M-mode and pulsed wave tissue Doppler echocardiography: powerful predictors of cardiac events after first Myocardial infarction.
- Human fetal tricuspid and Mitral deceleration time: changes with normal pregnancy and intrauterine growth retardation.
- A hemodynamic and Doppler echocardiographic study of ventricular function in long-term cardiac allograft recipients. Etiology and prognosis of restrictive-constrictive...
- Mitral prosthesis malfunction. Comparative Doppler echocardiographic studies of Mitral prostheses before and after replacement.
- Differentiation of constrictive pericarditis and restrictive Cardiomyopathy by Doppler echocardiography.
Schools
University Of Washington School Of Medicine
Stanford University Hospital
University Med Center
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
- Top MD
Education
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Stanford University -
University of Arizona -
University of Washington School of Medicine
Hospital
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Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota -
Mayo Clinic - Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1891778528 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | APPLETON | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | CHRISTOPHER | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 852595404 | |
| NPPES Provider State | AZ | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 1269.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 29.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 2.29 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1891778528 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | APPLETON |
| First Name Of The Provider | CHRISTOPHER |
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