Physician

Cardiology

Myrvin H. Ellestad practices Cardiology. He went to medical school at University of Louisville School of Medicine. University of Louisville School of Medicine is ranked 83/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACC)". Dr. Myrvin H. Ellestad is a published MD. He published 100 publications, including: 'Hyperbaric oxygen and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction: the ''HOT MI'' randomized multicenter study.'

Publications

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• Enhanced recognition of ischemia by three variable analysis of the exercise stress test.
• Lead aVR: dead or simply forgotten?
• Usefulness of p-wave duration to identify myocardial ischemia during exercise testing.
• Exercise Hypertension: an adverse prognosis?
• Hyperbaric oxygen: its application in cardiology: a historical perspective and personal journey.
• Serendipity.
• Point: a prescription to decrease left ventricular function.
• Unconventional electrocardiographic signs of ischemia during exercise testing.
• Significance of lead strength during exercise testing.
• The value of upsloping ST depression in diagnosing myocardial ischemia.
• Utility of P waves in exercise testing.
• Isaac Newton by James Gleick.
• Stress testing: Problems and appropriate use in Acute coronary syndromes.
• Use of term "non-Q infarction" is questioned.
• Reliability of blood pressure recordings.
• Experiences with Atrial pacing.
• Interference with pacemaker function by cardiokymographic testing.
• Guidelines for exercise testing. A report of the Joint American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Assessment of Cardiovascular Procedures ...
• The cardiointegram: detection of Coronary artery disease in males with chest pain and a normal resting electrocardiogram.
• Autonomic responses in chest pain Syndromes as compared to normal subjects.
• Does exercise alter anaerobic threshold in Coronary artery disease during beta blockade?
• Functional studies of splenic and internal mammary artery implants in canine Hearts.
• The use of metaraminol in the evaluation of mitral insufficiency.
• Elevated ST segments with exercise in ventricular aneurysm.
• Inability of the submaximal treadmill stress test to predict the location of Coronary disease.
• Left Atrial "kick" its prognostic value in left ventricular aneurysmectomy. A preliminary report.
• Anatomic and functional correlates of interCoronary collateral vessels.
• Double-contrast angiography in human internal mammary implants.
• LVET-EICT index in mitral Valve disease.
• The clinical applications of beta blockade.
• Evaluation of myocardial revascularization with arterial implants. An objective study using electrocardiography and maximal stress testing.
• Perforation of the pulmonary Artery by a Swan-Ganz catheter.
• Telemetry in monitoring stress electrocardiograms.
• The significance of hyperventilative and orthostatic T-wave changes on the electrocardiogram.
• Treadmill stress testing as a means of objectively evaluating Coronary revascularization.
• Emphysema: modern concepts of pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.
• Lung perfusion and inhalation scanning in pulmonary emphysema.
• The incidence of "silent" Coronary heart disease.
• Maximal treadmill stress testing for cardiovascular evaluation.
• The maximal treadmill stress test for the evaluation of medical and surgical treatment of Coronary insufficiency.
• The current application of maximal treadmill stress testing.
• Permanent pacemaker implantation using the femoral vein: a preliminary report.
• Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of aortoCoronary saphenous vein graft. Morphologic observations.
• Use of multivariate analysis to improve the accuracy of radionuclide angiography with stress in detecting Coronary artery disease in men.
• Comparison of the multivariate analysis and CADENZA systems for determination of the probability of Coronary artery disease.
• Status of exercise stress testing after myocardial infarction.
• The exercise test as a guide to management and prognosis.
• Naloxone and asymptomatic ischemia: failure to induce Angina during exercise testing.
• Transient central diabetes insipidus after aortoCoronary bypass operations.
• Coronary artery bypass surgery morbidity.
• The severity of myocardial ischemia can be predicted by the exercise electrocardiogram.
• New York Heart Association functional class predicts exercise parameters in the current era.
• Xanthine oxidase inhibitors the unappreciated treatment for Heart failure.
• DISTENSIBILITY OF THE POSTMORTEM HUMAN LEFT ATRIUM IN NONRHEUMATIC AND RHEUMATIC HEART Disease.
• Prevalence of patent foramen ovale in patients with Acute myocardial infarction and angiographically normal coronary arteries.
• Heart rate increase and maximal Heart rate during exercise as predictors of cardiovascular mortality: a 16-year follow-up study of 1960 healthy men.
• The role of Q waves in exercise testing.
• Cardiac resynchronization in chronic Heart failure.
• Effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy on left ventricular size and function in chronic Heart failure.
• CITRATE TOXICITY AND THE USE OF ANTICOAGULANT ACID CITRATE DEXTROSE BLOOD FOR EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION.
• Circulating eosinophils in cardiovascular stress.
• Use of intravenously given ganglionic blocking agents for Acute pulmonary edema; preliminary report.
• Cardiokymography during exercise testing.
• Identification of septal ischemia during exercise by Q-wave analysis: correlation with Coronary angiography.
• Cardiac rupture following intraCoronary streptokinase.
• The value and limitation of radionuclide angiocardiography with stress in women.
• Exercise testing in the evaluation of Coronary artery disease.
• Prospective application of the multivariate approach to enhance the accuracy of the treadmill stress test.
• The enigma of the false-positive stress test.
• The mechanism of exercise-induced R-wave amplitude changes in Coronary heart disease. Still controversial.
• Use of end-systolic volume changes with exercise to detect left ventricular dysfunction in patients with Coronary artery disease.
• Septal Q wave in exercise testing: angiographic correlation.
• Radionuclide angiographic correlation of the R wave, ejection fraction, and volume responses to upright bicycle exercise.
• Multivariate approach to the treadmill stress test: prospective study.
• National survey of exercise stress testing facilities.
• Ability of the R-wave change during stress testing to accurately detect Coronary disease in the presence of left bundle branch block at rest.
• Use of the multivariate approach to enhance the diagnostic accuracy of the treadmill stress test.
• Significance of precordial T-wave increase during treadmill stress testing.
• Diagnostic accuracy of predicting Coronary artery disease related to patients'' characteristics.
• Exercise testing in special situations.
• Chronotropic incompetence. The implications of Heart rate response to exercise (compensatory parasympathetic hyperactivity?)
• Electrocardiographic evidence of ischemia during ventricular paced rhythms.
• Time course of changes in P-wave duration during exercise.
• A basic approach to the interpretation of the exercise test.
• Hyperbaric oxygen and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction: the "HOT MI" pilot study.
• The inverse Nehb J lead.
• Detecting exercise-induced ischemia in left bundle branch block using the electrocardiogram.
• Hyperbaric oxygen and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction: the ''HOT MI'' randomized multicenter study.
• Significance of ST-segment depression with R-wave amplitude decrease on exercise testing.
• Ventricular tachycardia during spaceflight.
• Underuse and overuse of diagnostic testing for Coronary artery disease in patients presenting with new-onset chest pain.
• Evolution of the diagnosis of Acute myocardial infarction.
• Kligfield-Okin index: revisiting the correction of ST depression for delta Heart rate.
• The utility of four biochemical markers in the triage of chest pain patients.
• True-positive exercise electrocardiogram/false-negative thallium-201 scintigram: a proposal of a mechanism for the paradox.
• Myrvin Harold Ellestad, MD: a conversation with the editor.
• The time has come to reexamine the gold standard when evaluating noninvasive testing.
• Exercise-induced premature ventricular depolarizations.
• Usefulness of ST depression in ventricular premature complexes to predict myocardial ischemia.

Schools

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• University Of Louisville

• Jersey City Med Center

• San Francisco Co Hospital

Procedures Preformed

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• Cardiac Imaging
• Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Conditions Treated

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• Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Aortic Valve Disease
• Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
• Congestive Heart Failure
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Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACC)

Education

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• University of Louisville School of Medicine

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