Professor, Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. John A. Kastor, MD
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John Kastor works in the field of Cardiology. He graduated from NYU School of Medicine. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACC)". John A. Kastor is a published MD. He has 97 publications published. The most current publication "The hemodynamic effects of induced supraventricular tachycardia in man."
Publications
- Chair of a department of medicine: now a different job.
- Point-counterpoint: the traditional departmental model is the right structure for academic health centers in the 21st century.
- Point-counterpoint: the cleveland clinic institute system is the right structure for academic health centers in the 21st century.
- Maryland's hospital cost review commission at 40: a model for the country.
- Accountable care organizations at academic medical centers.
- Failure of the merger of the Mount Sinai and New York University hospitals and medical schools: part 2.
- Failure of the merger of the Mount Sinai and New York University hospitals and medical schools: part 1.
- Will health reform reduce costs?
- Reducing deficits, increasing surpluses in medical schools.
- A 37-year-old man with fever and dizziness.
- Governance of teaching hospitals: turmoil at the University of Pennsylvania and The Johns Hopkins University.
- The lability of rat-liver microsomes and ribonucleoprotein particles.
- The complexity that killed health care reform (again).
- Mergers of teaching hospitals: three case studies.
- Teaching hospital mergers: a cautionary tale.
- The salary responsibility program for full-time faculty members in an academic clinical department.
- Financial management of academic clinical departments.
- The effects of atropine administered with standard syringe and a self-injector device.
- Ventricular resection guided by epicardial and endocardial mapping for treatment of recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
- Surgical therapy of variant Angina associated with nonobstructive coronary disease.
- Preventive pacemaking.
- Surgical treatment of ventricular arrhythmias in Coronary artery disease.
- Clinical electrophysiology of ventricular tachycardia.
- Electrophysiologic management of recurrent ventricular tachycardia in Acute and chronic ischemic heart disease.
- Intracardiac electrophysiologic studies as a method for the optimization of drug therapy in Chronic ventricular arrhythmia.
- The patient speaks.
- Coronary-artery spasm immediately after myocardial revascularization: recognition and management.
- Authorship and the Darsee case.
- Ventricular premature beats.
- Amiodarone for control of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmia: clinical and electrophysiologic effects in 51 patients.
- Computerized M-mode echocardiographic analysis of left ventricular dysfunction in cardiac amyloid.
- Reciprocal beating from artificial ventricular pacemaker. Report of a case.
- Transvenous Atrial pacing in the treatment of refractory ventricular irritability.
- Resolution of functional mitral regurgitation following surgical correction of Aortic valvular disease.
- Long-term pervenous Atrial pacing.
- A comparison of the hemodynamic effects of ventricular and sequential A-V pacing in patients with Heart block.
- Paravalvular leaks and hemolytic anemia following insertion of Starr-Edwards Aortic and mitral valves.
- Rapid intracardiac pacing for treatment of recurrent ventricular tachyArrhythmias in the absence of heart block.
- Multifocal Atrial tachycardia. Clinical and electrocardiographic features in 32 patients.
- Connective tissue abnormalities in spontaneous rupture of chordae tendineae.
- Variations in discharge rate of demand pacemakers not due to malfunction.
- Sequential atrioventricular pacing in heart block complicating Acute myocardial infarction.
- Air leaks as a source of distortion in apexcardiography.
- Sequential atrioventricular pacing in myocardial infarction complicated by Heart block.
- Factors influencing retrograde conduction. Study of 30 patients during cardiac catheterization.
- Inhibition of discharge of an external demand pacemaker by an electric razor.
- Myocardial changes associated with cardiogenic shock.
- Double Atrial and atrioventricular junctional tachycardia.
- Localization of ventricular irritability by epicardial mapping. Origin of digitalis-induced unifocal tachycardia from left ventricular Purkinje tissue.
- Hemodynamic evaluation of intra-Aortic balloon pumping in man.
- Pacemakers and their Arrhythmias.
- Antiarrhythmic prophylaxis with procainamide in Acute myocardial infarction.
- Recognition of digitalis intoxication in the presence of Atrial fibrillation.
- Quantitative grading of cardiac palpation. Comparison in supine and left lateral decubitus positions.
- Ventricular origin of bidirectional tachycardia. Case report of a patient not toxic from digitalis.
- Electrical disorders of the Heart.
- Medical perspectives in Coronary artery surgery--a caveat.
- Digitalis intoxication in patients with Atrial fibrillation.
- Non-invasive assessment of prosthetic Mitral paravalvular and intravalvular regurgitation.
- Clinical problems in cardiopulmonary disease. Prinzmetal''s variant Angina.
- Letter: Type II block in the A-V node.
- The effects of carotid sinus pressure in re-entrant paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
- Myocardial infarction: recent accomplishments, current questions.
- Unusual presentation of intrathoracic malignant schwannoma. Case report and literature review.
- The electrical conversion of Atrial fibrillation.
- Re-entry--an important mechanism of cardiac Arrhythmias.
- Leading a department of medicine in the 1980s.
- Pacemaker mania.
- Michel Mirowski and the automatic implantable defibrillator.
- Medicine at Maryland: 1807-1991.
- Abnormal Atrial rhythms, an early interest of Michel Mirowski.
- Michel Mirowski: a man with a mission.
- Human ventricular refractoriness. Effects of cycle length, pacing site and atropine.
- Lidocaine in Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome with atrial fibrillation.
- Electrophysiologic characteristics of Ebstein''s anomaly of the tricuspid Valve.
- Tricuspid and pulmonary Valve atresia with aortopulmonary fistula: survival of a patient to 21 years of age.
- Intraventricular conduction in man studied with an endocardial electrode catheter mapping technique. Patients with normal QRS and right bundle branch block.
- Atrioventricular block (second of two parts).
- Pacing in Acute myocardial infarction--indications, methods, hazards, and results.
- Atrioventricular block (first of two parts).
- The hemodynamic effects of induced supraventricular tachycardia in man.
- Supraventricular tachycardia in Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome: atrionodal versus intranodal reentry.
- Human ventricular refractoriness. II. Effects of procainamide.
- Fixed coupling: different mechanisms revealed by exercise-induced changes in cycle length.
- Cardiac electrophysiology. Hemiblocks and stopped Hearts.
- Recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. 2. Endocardial mapping.
- Recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. 1. Mechanisms.
- Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in patients with Mitral valve prolapse.
- How should refractory ventricular tachycardia be treated?
- Nifedipine in the treatment of Prinzmetal''s (variant) Angina.
- The effects of Coronary artery disease on the ventricular fibrillation threshold in man.
- The mechanism of apparent right bundle branch block after transAtrial repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
- Tricuspid valvular incompetence and rupture of the ventricular septum caused by nonpenetrating trauma.
- Coronary hemodynamic and myocardial metabolic alterations accompanying Coronary spasm.
- His-Purkinje conduction during retrograde stress.
- Supraventricular tachycardia: mechanisms and management.
Schools
New York University
Bellevue Hospital Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Dissection
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
- Cardiomegaly
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
NYU School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Maryland Medical Center
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