Physician
Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Ian C. Balfour, MD
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Balfour practices Pediatric Cardiology. He studied medicine at Medical College of Georgia. He received awards:"Fellow (FACC)". Dr. Ian C. Balfour has written publications. He has 60 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography of normally originating coronary arteries in children.'
Publications
- The fantastic journey of a bullet: out with a snare.
- Early renal benefit of rapamycin combined with reduced calcineurin inhibitor dose in pediatric Heart transplantation patients.
- Use of rituximab to decrease panel-reactive antibodies.
- Assessment of the coronary arteries in children: an integral part of each transthoracic echocardiographic study.
- Aberrant coronary arteries: a reliable echocardiographic screening method.
- Severe Aortic coarctation in infants less than 3 months: successful palliation by balloon angioplasty.
- An unusual complication of the treatment of a hemangioma.
- Late rejection episodes more than 1 year after pediatric Heart transplantation: risk factors and outcomes.
- Infliximab treatment for refractory Kawasaki Syndrome.
- An alternative method to fenestrate the extracardiac fontan conduit in a patient with Atrial situs inversus and levocardia.
- Comparison of angioplasty and surgery for neonatal Aortic coarctation.
- Pulmonary varix secondary to Pulmonary vein obstruction.
- Fludrocortisone in the management of an infant with a single ventricle and an overly tightened Pulmonary artery band.
- A distinct large granular lymphocyte (LGL)/NK-associated (NKa) abnormality characterized by membrane CD4 and CD8 coexpression. The Yorkshire Leukaemia Group.
- Letter: Immunotherapy with intravenous B.C.G.
- Left subclavian-left coronary artery anastomosis for anomalous origin of the left coronary artery. Long-term follow-up.
- Clinical profile of congestive Cardiomyopathy in children.
- Pediatric cardiac rehabilitation: exercise training and prescription.
- Pediatric cardiac rehabilitation: physiologic benefits.
- Concomitant valvotomy and subclavian-main Pulmonary artery shunt in neonates with Pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum.
- Bridge stents in the management of obstructive vascular lesions in children.
- Steroid-induced hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy following stem cell transplantation in a neonate: a case report.
- Arcade mitral Valve and anomalous left coronary artery originating from the pulmonary artery.
- Clinical spectrum of restrictive Cardiomyopathy in children.
- Five-loop coil occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus prevents recurrence of shunt at follow-up.
- Chest pain in children.
- Main coronary artery and coronary ostial stenosis in children: detection by transthoracic color flow and pulsed Doppler echocardiography.
- Balloon angioplasty of long-segment Aortic coarctation in the neonate.
- Coronary artery to pulmonary artery collaterals after Heart transplantation.
- Cyclosphosphamide/prednisone for combination immunosuppression and therapy of lymphoproliferative Disease.
- Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography of normally originating coronary arteries in children.
- Familial syndrome of progressive arterial occlusive Disease consistent with fibromuscular dysplasia, hypertension, congenital cardiac defects, bone fragility, brachysy...
- Transcatheter management of neonates with Pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum.
- Effectiveness of five-loop coils to occlude patent ductus arteriosus.
- Transient and persistent expansions of large granular lymphocytes (LGL) and NK-associated (NKa) cells: the Yorkshire Leukaemia Group Study.
- B12/folate assays and macrocytic anaemia.
- Automated blood pressure measurement during ergometer exercise in children.
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia--a clinical and genetic survey. Are we detecting male salt-losers?
- The red cell osmometer. A useful inaccuracy in measurement of mean corpuscular volume in hyperosmolar states.
- Cardiac size and function in children with sickle cell anemia.
- Exercise-induced cardiac dysfunction in sickle cell anemia. A radionuclide study.
- Problems with vitamin B12 assays.
- Observations on the cytotoxicity of lymphocytes to a target cell system.
- Platelet complement fixation: an in vitro test of the immunosuppressive activity of antilymphocyte globulin.
- Chronic glomerular nephritis in a man with an IgM cold autoantibody of anti-I specificity and a cold lymphocytotoxic antibody.
- Assessment of the mixed leucocyte reaction by target cell death: a study of leukaemic cells.
- Mixed cell cultures of normal and leukaemic cells.
- Observations upon DNA synthesis and the cytotoxic response of leucocytes after mixed culture and their relation to histocompatibility antigens in man.
- Left ventricular filling in sickle cell anemia.
- Catheterizing modified Blalock-Taussig shunts and ascending Aorta to pulmonary artery shunts.
- Pediatric cardiac rehabilitation.
- Arterial approach as the sole route for cardiac catheterization in infants and children with complex congenital heart Disease.
- Venous sheath to facilitate cardiac catheterization via the umbilical vein.
- International collaboration in renal transplantation.
- Multicentre collaboration in 162 tissue-typed renal transplants. The London and Regional Transplant Group, March, 1969, to December, 1970.
- HL-A typing of "leukaemic" cells.
- Sinus venosus Atrial septal defect and pacemaker requirement in a family.
- The in vitro assessment of anti-human lymphocyte globulin.
- The distribution, age effects and Disease associations of HLA antigens and other blood group markers in a random sample of an elderly population.
Schools
University Of The West Indies Jamaica Faculty Of Medical Sciences
Kingston Regl Hosps
Harlem Hospital
Med College Of Georgia
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Imaging
- Tilt Testing or Cardiac Event Monitors
Conditions Treated
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
- Cardiomegaly
- Cardiomyopathy
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Choice HMO
- Blue Choice Option POS
- Blue Open Access POS
- Direct Access w/HSA
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- HealthLink PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- WellCare
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Medical College of Georgia -
Harlem Hospital Center -
University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences
Hospital
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Northeast Georgia Medical Center -
Gwinnett Hospital System -
Northside Hospital
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