Professor of Medicine Cardiovascular Medicine Division University of Wisconsin Medical School
Cardiology
Dr. Peter S. Rahko, MD
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Peter Rahko works in the field of Cardiology. He went to medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine. Indiana University School of Medicine has a rank of 45 in research and a 47 in primary care He over the years received 3 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACC)". Peter S. Rahko is a published doctor. He published 85 publications, including: 'Safety, tolerance, and efficacy of adenosine as an additive to blood cardioplegia in humans during coronary artery bypass surgery.' Peter S. Rahko is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Rapid Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department.
- Satisfaction and Emergency Department Revisits in Patients With Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome.
- Classification of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Using American Society of Echocardiography Guidelines: Agreement among Echocardiographers.
- Effects of the HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device as Observed by Serial Echocardiography.
- Ventricular Fibrillation risk estimation for conducted electrical weapons: Critical convolutions.
- Three-dimensional echocardiography and mitral Valve disease.
- Quality of Heart failure management: a comparison of care between a comprehensive Heart failure program and a general cardiology practice.
- 2009 focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults: a report of the American College of Card...
- 2009 focused update: ACCF/AHA Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/America...
- Review of complications in a series of patients with known gastro-esophageal varices undergoing transesophageal echocardiography.
- To explant or not to explant: an invasive and noninvasive monitoring protocol to determine the need of continued ventricular assist device support.
- Taser blunt probe dart-to-Heart distance causing ventricular fibrillation in pigs.
- The 5-minute screening echocardiogram for athletes.
- Lamin A/C mutation analysis in a cohort of 324 unrelated patients with idiopathic or familial dilated Cardiomyopathy.
- Evaluation of the skin-to-Heart distance in the standing adult by two-dimensional echocardiography.
- Do emergency department patients with possible Acute coronary syndrome have better outcomes when admitted to cardiology versus other services?
- Does concordance with guideline triage recommendations affect clinical care of patients with possible Acute coronary syndrome?
- Taser dart-to-Heart distance that causes ventricular fibrillation in pigs.
- Patchy Myocardial fibrosis 20 years after radiation therapy.
- Emergency physicians' fear of malpractice in evaluating patients with possible Acute cardiac ischemia.
- An echocardiographic analysis of the long-term effects of carvedilol on left ventricular remodeling, systolic performance, and ventricular filling patterns in dilated ...
- ACE inhibitors vs. angiotensin II receptor blockers in acute myocardial infarction and Heart failure.
- Relation of "inotropic reserve" to functional capacity in Heart failure secondary to ischemic or nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
- Apnea-hypopnea threshold for CO2 in patients with congestive Heart failure.
- Heart failure: new data and guidelines.
- Development of Aortic Valve Disease in Familial Hypercholesterolemic Swine: Implications for Elucidating Disease Etiology.
- Ultrasonic imaging of Myocardial strain using cardiac elastography.
- Echocardiographic predictors of morbidity and mortality in patients with advanced Heart failure: the Beta-blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST).
- Beneficial effects of pimobendan on exercise tolerance and quality of life in patients with Heart failure. Results of a multicenter trial. The Pimobendan Multicenter R...
- Transthoracic 2D echocardiographic guidance for percutaneous removal of a nonopaque intracardiac catheter fragment.
- Leaking left ventricular pseudoAneurysm.
- Transesophageal echocardiography for the evaluation and management of patients with cerebral ischemia.
- Adenosine Myocardial protection: preliminary results of a phase II clinical trial.
- Evaluation of left ventricular filling in dilated Cardiomyopathy using digitized M-mode echocardiograms.
- Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of ventricular septal defects in adults.
- High-voltage injury resulting in permanent right Heart dysfunction.
- Safety, tolerance, and efficacy of adenosine as an additive to blood cardioplegia in humans during Coronary artery bypass surgery.
- Venous air embolism. Echocardiographic diagnosis of air bubbles in the left side of the Heart in a patient with a previously diagnosed intrapulmonary shunt.
- Adenosine reduces postbypass transfusion requirements in humans after Heart surgery.
- Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of the Aortic root and subvalvular structures in ankylosing spondylitis.
- The clinical utility of automatic boundary detection for the determination of left ventricular volume: a comparison with conventional off-line echocardiographic quanti...
- Traumatic occlusion of the right Coronary artery resulting in cardiogenic shock successfully treated with primary angioplasty.
- Reversed closure sequence of the mitral and tricuspid valves in congestive Heart failure.
- Relative contributions of cardiopulmonary and sinoAortic baroreflexes in causing sympathetic activation in the human skeletal muscle circulation during orthostatic str...
- Improved echocardiographic detection and characterization of left ventricular apical thrombi with a 5.0 MHz short-focus transducer.
- Comparative efficacy of three indexes of left ventricular performance derived from pressure-volume loops in Heart failure induced by tachypacing.
- Hemodynamic and volumetric response of the normal left ventricle to upright tilt testing.
- Doppler echocardiographic characteristics of sinus of valsalva Aneurysms.
- Infiltration of a cerebral artery Aneurysm by malignant lymphoma cells with acute rupture: Report of a case.
- Treatment of Torulopsis glabrata peritonitis with intraperitoneal amphotericin B.
- Pseudoatrioventricular block.
- Echophonocardiographic estimates of pulmonary Artery wedge pressure in mitral stenosis.
- Successful reversal by chelation therapy of congestive Cardiomyopathy due to iron overload.
- Extent of mitral calcific deposits determined by cineangiography in mitral stenosis and their effect on Valve motion, hemodynamics and clinical signs.
- Noninvasive evaluation of systolic and diastolic function in severe congestive Heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Comparison of five methods for the measurement of left ventricular ejection time.
- Effects of left bundle branch block on the events of the cardiac cycle.
- Evaluation of mechanical events and systolic function in dilated Cardiomyopathy: comparison between patients with and without left bundle branch block.
- The electrocardiogram in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). Study of 102 consecutive cases with functional correlations and review of the literature.
- Reliability of M-mode, two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography in diagnosing a flail mitral Valve leaflet.
- The clinical presentation and laboratory evaluation of Congestive and ischemic cardiomyopathies.
- Changes in indices of ventricular filling, size and function during graded levels of lower body negative pressure: comparison between normal and transplanted Hearts.
- Prevalence of regurgitant murmurs in patients with valvular regurgitation detected by Doppler echocardiography.
- Doppler characteristics of late-diastolic flow in the left ventricular outflow tract.
- A review of echocardiographic signs of a flail mitral Valve.
- Isolated right Atrial infarction with rupture.
- Comparison of echocardiographic quantitation of left ventricular ejection fraction to radionuclide angiography in patients with regional wall motion abnormalities.
- Cardiac involvement in metastatic breast cancer.
- Surgical resection of cor triatriatum in a 74-year-old man. Review of echocardiographic findings with emphasis on Doppler and transesophageal echocardiography.
- Echocardiographic comparison of cardiac size and function before and after surgery for isolated mitral regurgitation: superiority of mitral Valve repair vs mitral valv...
- Increased prevalence of atrial septal Aneurysm in mitral valve prolapse.
- Doppler and echocardiographic characteristics of patients having an Austin Flint murmur.
- Pericardial cyst with partial erosion of the right ventricular wall.
- Continuous measurement of left ventricular performance during and after maximal isometric deadlift exercise.
- Improved detection of infective Endocarditis with transesophageal echocardiography.
- Assessing prosthetic mitral Valve regurgitation by transoesophageal echo/Doppler.
- Estimating the probability that the Taser directly causes human ventricular Fibrillation.
- Ischemic stroke associated with activated protein C resistance and Aortic valvular papillary fibroelastoma.
- Comparison of combinations of drugs for treatment of obesity: body weight and echocardiographic status.
- Low-dose enoximone improves exercise capacity in chronic Heart failure. Enoximone Study Group.
- Metastatic intracardiac tumour from liposarcoma.
- ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Ass...
- Ultrasound frame rate requirements for cardiac elastography: experimental and in vivo results.
- 2009 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults A Report of the American College of Cardi...
Schools
University Of Minnesota Medical School
In University Mc
University Pittsburgh
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
- America's Top Doctors
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Indiana University School of Medicine -
University of Minnesota Medical School
Hospital
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University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics -
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital -
Meriter UnityPoint Health
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1063473981 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | RAHKO | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | PETER | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 53792 | |
| NPPES Provider State | WI | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 1427.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1063473981 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | RAHKO |
| First Name Of The Provider | PETER |
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