Physician
Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. D W. Benson, MD
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Benson is an expert in the field of Pediatric Cardiology. He went to medical school at Duke University School of Medicine. Duke University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Duke University School of Medicine has a rank of 8 in research and a 29 in primary care Benson is a published doctor as well. He has 80 publications published. The latest was: Congenital heart disease caused by mutations in the transcription factor NKX2-5.
Publications
- A Mouse Model of Human Congenital Heart Disease: Progressive Atrioventricular Block Induced by a Heterozygous Nkx2-5 Homeodomain Missense Mutation.
- Dystrophin genotype-cardiac phenotype correlations in duchenne and becker muscular dystrophies using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
- Regional circumferential strain is a biomarker for disease severity in duchenne muscular dystrophy heart disease: a cross-sectional study.
- Atenolol versus losartan in children and young adults with Marfan's syndrome.
- Mutations in SGOL1 cause a novel cohesinopathy affecting heart and gut rhythm.
- A Mouse Model of Human Congenital Heart Disease: High Incidence of Diverse Cardiac Anomalies and Ventricular Noncompaction Produced by Heterozygous Nkx2-5 Homeodomain ...
- Calmodulin mutations associated with recurrent cardiac arrest in infants.
- Abnormal Circumferential Strain is Present in Young Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients.
- Genetic variants in SCN5A promoter are associated with arrhythmia phenotype severity in patients with heterozygous loss-of-function mutation.
- Pulmonary vascular resistance in repaired congenital diaphragmatic hernia vs. age-matched controls.
- Electrocardiographic abnormalities in very young Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients precede the onset of cardiac dysfunction.
- Risk factors for aortic valve disease in bicuspid aortic valve: A family-based study.
- Spontaneous rupture of atrioventricular valve tensor apparatus as late manifestation of anti-Ro/SSA antibody-mediated cardiac disease.
- Genetics of sick sinus syndrome.
- Elastin haploinsufficiency results in progressive aortic valve malformation and latent valve disease in a mouse model.
- Detection of progressive cardiac dysfunction by serial evaluation of circumferential strain in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
- Genetic origins of pediatric heart disease.
- Complex story of the genetic origins of pediatric heart disease.
- Comparison of magnetic resonance feature tracking for strain calculation with harmonic phase imaging analysis.
- Compound heterozygous SCN5A mutations: does the sum of the parts equal the whole?
- Genetic characterization of familial CPVT after 30 years.
- Circumferential strain analysis identifies strata of cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a cardiac magnetic resonance tagging study.
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome links to chromosomes 10q and 6q and is genetically related to bicuspid aortic valve.
- The presence of bicuspid aortic valve does not predict ventricular septal defect type.
- Thar's tendons in them thar valves!
- Prenatal head growth and white matter injury in hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Mouse heart valve structure and function: echocardiographic and morphometric analyses from the fetus through the aged adult.
- Inherited arrhythmias: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Office of Rare Diseases workshop consensus report about the diagnosis, phenotyping, molecular me...
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is heritable.
- Neonatal long QT syndrome due to a de novo dominant negative hERG mutation.
- BMP and FGF regulatory pathways in semilunar valve precursor cells.
- Sudden infant death syndrome and long QT syndrome: the zealots versus the naysayers.
- Abnormalities of diastolic function precede dilated cardiomyopathy associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
- Extracellular matrix remodeling and organization in developing and diseased aortic valves.
- Trafficking-competent and trafficking-defective KCNJ2 mutations in Andersen syndrome.
- Differentiation of cardiac Purkinje fibers requires precise spatiotemporal regulation of Nkx2-5 expression.
- Transcription factors and congenital heart defects.
- Electrocardiographic features in Andersen-Tawil syndrome patients with KCNJ2 mutations: characteristic T-U-wave patterns predict the KCNJ2 genotype.
- Genetic analyses in two extended families with deletion 22q11 syndrome: importance of extracardiac manifestations.
- Genetics of atrioventricular conduction disease in humans.
- An intronic mutation causes long QT syndrome.
- Bicuspid aortic valve is heritable.
- Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and KCNJ2 mutations.
- Detailed four-way comparative mapping and gene order analysis of the canine ctvm locus reveals evolutionary chromosome rearrangements.
- Nkx2-5 pathways and congenital heart disease; loss of ventricular myocyte lineage specification leads to progressive cardiomyopathy and complete heart block.
- NKX2.5 mutations in patients with congenital heart disease.
- Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia and channelopathy.
- Congenital sick sinus syndrome caused by recessive mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene (SCN5A).
- A candidate locus approach identifies a long QT syndrome gene mutation.
- Clinical, genetic, and biophysical characterization of a homozygous HERG mutation causing severe neonatal long QT syndrome.
- A common SCN5A polymorphism modulates the biophysical effects of an SCN5A mutation.
- Structure-function relationships in myosin binding protein-C: taking off the blinders and collaring hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- KCNJ2 mutation results in Andersen syndrome with sex-specific cardiac and skeletal muscle phenotypes.
- The genetics of congenital heart disease: a point in the revolution.
- Constitutively active AMP kinase mutations cause glycogen storage disease mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Clinical, genetic, and biophysical characterization of SCN5A mutations associated with atrioventricular conduction block.
- NKX2.5 mutations in patients with tetralogy of fallot.
- Evidence for autosomal recessive inheritance of infantile dilated cardiomyopathy: studies from the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
- Advances in cardiovascular genetics and embryology: role of transcription factors in congenital heart disease.
- Loss of function and inhibitory effects of human CSX/NKX2.5 homeoprotein mutations associated with congenital heart disease.
- Mutations in the cardiac transcription factor NKX2.5 affect diverse cardiac developmental pathways.
- Genetic basis of cardiovascular disease in the young: past, present, and future.
- Electrophysiologic characteristics of accessory atrioventricular connections in an inherited form of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Familial dilated cardiomyopathy locus maps to chromosome 2q31.
- Congenital heart disease caused by mutations in the transcription factor NKX2-5.
- Reduced penetrance, variable expressivity, and genetic heterogeneity of familial atrial septal defects.
- Echocardiographic prediction of neonatal ECMO outcome.
- The medical therapy of cardioinhibitory syncope in pediatric patients.
- New understandings in the genetics of congenital heart disease.
- Fetal tachycardia: mechanisms and predictors of hydrops fetalis.
- Missense mutation in the pore region of HERG causes familial long QT syndrome.
- Management of patients with atrial fibrillation. A Statement for Healthcare Professionals. From the Subcommittee on Electrocardiography and Electrophysiology, American...
- Transmission of full-length echocardiographic images over ISDN for diagnosing congenital heart disease.
- Comparison of transesophageal and intracardiac electrophysiologic studies in characterization of supraventricular tachycardia in pediatric patients.
- Reversible cardiomyopathy due to carnitine deficiency from renal tubular wasting.
- Heart rate-dependent characteristics of diastolic ventricular filling in the developing chick embryo.
- Natural history and management strategies of automatic atrial tachycardia in children.
- Myocardial Fibrosis Burden Predicts Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Is Associated With Age and Steroid Treatment Duration in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
- Left ventricular noncompaction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Schools
Duke University School Of Medicine
Duke
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Cardiology
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Education
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Duke University Hospital -
Duke University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
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