Professor, Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine
Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Thomas S. Klitzner, MD
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Thomas Klitzner is an expert in the field of Pediatric Cardiology. He went to medical school at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He over the years received 4 awards: "Super Doctor", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare", "Fellow (FAAP)" and "Fellow (FACC)". Dr. Thomas S. Klitzner is also published. He has 92 publications published. The lastest publication: "Infection of human fetal cardiac myocytes by a human immunodeficiency virus-1-derived vector.'
Publications
- Impact of prenatal diagnosis in survivors of initial palliation of single ventricle Heart disease: analysis of the national pediatric cardiology quality improvement co...
- Preventing Hospitalizations in Children With Medical Complexity: A Systematic Review.
- Use of a Learning Network to Improve Variation in Interstage Weight Gain after the Norwood Operation.
- Predictors of Prolonged Length of Intensive Care Unit Stay After Stage I Palliation: A Report from the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative.
- Predictors of 30-Day Readmission and Association with Primary Care Follow-Up Plans.
- Effects of a medical home program for children with special health care needs on parental perceptions of care in an ethnically diverse patient population.
- Atrioventricular conduction and Arrhythmias at the initiation of beating in embryonic mouse hearts.
- Benefits of care coordination for children with complex Disease: a pilot medical home project in a resident teaching clinic.
- Development of a pediatric cardiology quality improvement collaborative: from inception to implementation. From the Joint Council on Congenital Heart Disease Quality I...
- Screening newborns for Congenital heart disease with pulse oximetry: survey of pediatric cardiologists.
- A pediatric case report on arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
- Effects of metabolic inhibition on conduction, Ca transients, and arrhythmia vulnerability in embryonic mouse Hearts.
- Atrioventricular ring reentry in embryonic mouse Hearts.
- Risk factors for deaths occurring within 30 days and 1 year after hospital discharge for cardiac surgery among pediatric patients.
- Sex-related disparity in surgical mortality among pediatric patients.
- Changes in the newborn delivery practice and neonatal outcomes as financing changed in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.
- Variations in adult Congenital heart disease training in adult and pediatric cardiology fellowship programs.
- Evaluation of safety and efficacy of pacemaker and defibrillator implantation by axillary incision in pediatric patients.
- Resources, use, and regionalization of pediatric cardiac services.
- Azimilide inhibits multiple cardiac potassium currents in human Atrial myocytes.
- Female sex as a risk factor for in-hospital mortality among children undergoing cardiac surgery.
- Clinical management of infants with hypoplastic left Heart syndrome in the United States, 1988-1997.
- HIV type 1 glycoprotein 120 inhibits cardiac myocyte contraction.
- Can regionalization decrease the number of deaths for children who undergo cardiac surgery? A theoretical analysis.
- Databases for assessing the outcomes of the treatment of patients with Congenital and paediatric cardiac disease--the perspective of cardiology.
- Medical transport of children with complex chronic conditions.
- Variation in postoperative care following stage I palliation for single-ventricle patients: a report from the Joint Council on Congenital Heart Disease National Qualit...
- Variation in preoperative and intraoperative care for first-stage palliation of single-ventricle heart disease: a report from the Joint Council on Congenital Heart Dis...
- Variation in interstage outpatient care after the Norwood procedure: a report from the Joint Council on Congenital Heart Disease National Quality Improvement Collabora...
- Parental preference regarding hospitals for children undergoing surgery: a trade-off between travel distance and potential outcome improvement.
- Current practice of exercise stress testing among pediatric cardiology and pulmonology centers in the United States.
- Autonomic regulation of calcium cycling in developing embryonic mouse Hearts.
- Inhibition of L-type Ca2+ channel current in Xenopus oocytes by amiodarone.
- Echocardiographic findings of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in children after orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Factors associated with age at operation for children with Congenital heart disease.
- Sudden cardiac death in children.
- Arrhythmias in the general pediatric population: an overview.
- Excitation-contraction coupling in neonatal myocardium: effects of halothane and isoflurane.
- Activation of cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ current during hypoxia: correlation with tissue ATP levels.
- Calcium current measurements in acutely isolated neonatal cardiac myocytes.
- Single-channel recording of inwardly rectifying potassium currents in developing myocardium.
- Maturational changes in excitation-contraction coupling in mammalian myocardium.
- Linking: a mechanism of intermittent preexcitation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Effects of filtering on right ventricular electrograms recorded from endocardial catheters in humans.
- Calcium current and tension generation in immature mammalian myocardium: effects of diltiazem.
- L- and T-type calcium channels in acutely isolated neonatal and adult cardiac myocytes.
- Developmental changes in membrane Ca2+ and K+ currents in fetal, neonatal, and adult rabbit ventricular myocytes.
- ATP-sensitive potassium channels in neonatal and adult rabbit ventricular myocytes.
- Oxygen-mediated regulation of neonatal and adult rabbit aortic tension.
- Acute effects of amiodarone on sodium currents in isolated neonatal ventricular myocytes: comparison with procainamide.
- Developmental changes in cardiac myocyte calcium regulation.
- The biphasic effect of amrinone on tension development in newborn mammalian myocardium.
- A diminished role for the sarcoplasmic reticulum in newborn myocardial contraction: effects of ryanodine.
- Cardiac Arrhythmias: the role of pharmacologic intervention.
- Results of the Senning procedure in infants with simple and complex transposition of the great arteries.
- Repairing tetralogy of Fallot--does age matter?
- Infection of human fetal cardiac myocytes by a human immunodeficiency virus-1-derived vector.
- The relationship between temperature and calcium in acute cell damage after exposure to radiofrequency or thermal energy in isolated neonatal and adult rabbit cardiac ...
- Anatomic and electrophysiologic relation between the coronary sinus and mitral annulus: implications for ablation of left-sided accessory pathways.
- MR imaging of surgical complications of systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts.
- Mechanisms of amiodarone-induced inhibition of Ca2+ current in isolated neonatal rabbit ventricular myocytes.
- Developmental changes in the effects of pH on contraction and Ca2+ current in rabbit Heart.
- Steady-state mRNA levels of G protein subunits in developing rabbit myocardium.
- Effects of isoflurane on electrophysiological measurements in children with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Developmental cardiac electrophysiology recent advances in cellular physiology.
- Familial long QT syndrome: electrical storm and implantable cardioverter device therapy.
- Biplanar transesophageal echocardiographic direction of radiofrequency catheter ablation in children and adolescents with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Ca2+ channel kinetics in acutely isolated fetal, neonatal, and adult rabbit cardiac myocytes.
- Endothelium-dependent relaxation and the acute pulmonary vascular response to alveolar hyperoxia in neonatal pigs.
- Radiofrequency ablation. A new era in the treatment of pediatric Arrhythmias.
- Effects of triiodothyronine on retention of beta-adrenergic responsiveness of voltage-gated transmembrane calcium current during culture of ventricular myocytes from n...
- Distribution of the Na+/Ca2+ exchange protein in developing rabbit myocytes.
- Na+/Ca2+ exchange and cell contraction in isolated neonatal and adult rabbit cardiac myocytes.
- Effect of calcium channel agonist (BAY K8644) on volatile anesthetic-mediated depression in neonatal rabbit papillary muscle.
- Effects of halothane and ketamine on activation and inactivation of myocardial calcium current.
- Guidance of radiofrequency catheter ablation by transesophageal echocardiography in children with palliated single ventricle.
- Adenylyl cyclase integrates multiple G protein signals to modulate calcium currents in neonatal rabbit Heart.
- Age- and anesthesia-related changes in accessory pathway conduction in children with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Auscultatory blood pressure measurement--effect of pressure on the head of the stethoscope.
- Excitation-contraction coupling in frog ventricle. Possible Ca2+ transport mechanisms.
- The effects of Ni2+ on ionic currents and tension generation in frog ventricular muscle.
- Enhancement of conduction in an accessory pathway by local noncaptured stimuli.
- Limitations of bipolar and unipolar conditioning stimuli for inhibition in the human Heart.
- Excitation-contraction coupling in developing mammalian myocardium: evidence from voltage clamp studies.
- Clinical and electrophysiologic effects of amiodarone in patients with Atrial fibrillation complicating the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Fractionated endocardial electrograms are associated with slow conduction in humans: evidence from pace-mapping.
- Resetting of ventricular tachycardia: implications for localizing the area of slow conduction.
- Hereditary long QT syndrome in the postoperative cardiac patient.
- Roundtable discussion ... are MCOs implementing programs to meet the challenges of baby-boomer women entering menopause?
- Roundtable discussion ... cardiovascular Disease management programs.
- Congenital cardiac surgical complications of the integument, vascular system, vascular-line(s), and wounds: consensus definitions from the Multi-Societal Database Comm...
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
University Of California Los Angeles
Conditions Treated
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Ebstein's Anomaly
- Septal Defect
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Super Doctor
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Fellow (FAAP)
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA -
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center -
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital
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