Physician

Radiology

Michael Pentecost is an expert in the field of Radiology. He attended Tulane University School of Medicine. He received awards:"Fellow (FSIR)". Doctor Michael J. Pentecost, MD has written publications. He has 99 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Hepatic arterial injury after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement: report of two cases.'

Publications

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• The measures of success.
• McAllen Revisited.
• Autumn's Other Contest.
• High power: the medicare prescription drug benefit under the microscope.
• The Innovator's Solution.
• Health care reform: the first anniversary.
• Unicorn ahead.
• The best job in America.
• Self-referral in medicare: when it reigns, it pours.
• Leadership for the ages.
• In the blink of an eye.
• Hail Massachusetts.
• Dartmouth interrupted.
• Health care reform: what Americans want.
• Errors, chasms, and roadmaps.
• Comparative effectiveness research.
• The prescription: an ample dose of disruption.
• Here comes the new boss.
• Subspecialization in radiology and radiation oncology.
• Health care in a time of peril.
• The five-year review.
• Decisions, decisions, decisions.
• The real kings of the hill.
• Statehouse struggles.
• The new Dutch reformation.
• Last exit: the Clinton health care plan revisited.
• A tiger by the tail.
• The heart of the matter.
• Risky business.
• Consumer-directed health plans: at last, data.
• The new house of blues.
• The future of employer-based health insurance.
• Improving health care quality: current concepts.
• Wilbur Cohen and the origins of medicare.
• Progress in patient safety: real or imagined?
• Value-based competition in health care.
• Quality improvement organizations and specialty hospitals: a progress report.
• The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan.
• Physician performance and congressional hardball.
• Wither primary care?
• Health care reform: the conservative agenda.
• The last prescription drug benefit: the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988.
• Electronic medical records, chapter 2: the obstacles.
• Electronic medical records: chapter one, the promise.
• Financing American health care: the new new idea.
• Health care and public opinion.
• Pay-for-Performance: At Last or Alas?
• The vital signs of quality improvement organizations.
• Specialty hospitals hang in the balance.
• Still human after all these years.
• Pay for performance: at last or alas?
• The quickening debate over Medicaid.
• Veterans Affairs hospitals: prepared for duty?
• Vioxx, radiology, and the Food and Drug Administration.
• The growing physician shortage: fact or folly?
• Four more years: the White House health care agenda for 2005 to 2009.
• Health care in America: sustainable path or collision course?
• A surgeon leads the Senate.
• Health care inflation and high-tech medicine: a new look.
• Mammography and the risks of engagement.
• Clinical practice of interventional and cardiovascular radiology: current status, guidelines for resource allocation, future directions.
• Evidence-based medicine: ready for prime time?
• Money, message, and political advocacy.
• Abdominal aortic aneurysms and the Pulitzer Prize.
• The other shoe: Medicaid.
• Tom Coburn, MD: a doctor in the house.
• Medicare reform legislation: a new chapter in a long story.
• NIH roadmap: course change for the big ship.
• HIPAA and the law of unintended consequences.
• Anesthesia wars: lessons for radiology.
• Medical malpractice reform: federal politics.
• In Memoriam: Ethel Jean Finck, MD: 1932-2003.
• Cardiovascular imaging: who does it and how important is it to the practice of radiology?
• Angioplasty standard of practice.
• Guidelines for peripheral percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the abdominal aorta and lower extremity vessels. A statement for health professionals from a Special...
• Optimal resources for the examination and endovascular treatment of the peripheral and visceral vascular systems. AHA Intercouncil Report on Peripheral and Visceral An...
• American College of Radiology white paper on radiation dose in medicine.
• Contrast injection around mandril wire of an Accustick system using an extension tubing: technical note.
• Examination of the patient with a knee dislocation. The case for selective arteriography.
• Comparison of filters in an oversized vena caval phantom: intracaval placement of a bird's nest filter versus biiliac placement of Greenfield, Vena Tech-LGM, and Simon...
• The use of angioplasty, bypass surgery, and amputation in the management of peripheral vascular disease.
• Chemoembolization in the treatment of hepatic malignancy.
• Incomplete opening of LGM (Vena Tech) filters inserted via the transjugular approach.
• Use of the Bird's Nest filter in oversized inferior venae cavae.
• Safety and efficacy of transcatheter embolization of axillary and shoulder arterial injuries.
• Standards for interventional radiology. Standards of Practice Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.
• Magnetic resonance imaging of a post-traumatic arteriovenous fistula in the lower extremity.
• Clinical applications of carbon dioxide/digital subtraction arteriography.
• Intraarterial administration of lidocaine for analgesia in hepatic chemoembolization.
• Demonstration of aortic lesions via cine magnetic resonance imaging.
• Transcatheter embolization of a ruptured abdominal aortic stump.
• Carbon dioxide digital subtraction arteriography: a pilot study.
• Is arterial proximity a valid indication for arteriography in penetrating extremity trauma? A prospective analysis.
• Spontaneous hepatic hemorrhage in preeclampsia: treatment with hepatic arterial embolization.
• Microcatheter embolization of non-neurologic traumatic vascular lesions.
• Angioplasty, bypass surgery, and amputation for lower extremity peripheral arterial disease in Maryland: a closer look.
• Transcatheter embolization of an aortocaval fistula caused by residual renal artery stump from previous nephrectomy: a case report.
• Hepatic arterial injury after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement: report of two cases.

Schools

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• Tulane University of Louisiana

• University Of Southern California

Doctors Specialties

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• Interventional Radiology
• Radiology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FSIR)

Education

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• University of Southern California - LAC+USC Medical Center
• Tulane University School of Medicine

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