Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. Michael C. Kontos, MD
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Michael C. Kontos, MD works in the field of Cardiology. He researched medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACC)". Doctor Michael C. Kontos, MD is also a published MD. He has 86 paper published. The most recent paper is: Effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation among older patients after acute myocardial infarction. He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation among older patients after Acute myocardial infarction.
- Effectiveness of practices for improving the diagnostic accuracy of Non ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Department: A Laboratory Medicine Best Prac...
- Effects of Prolastin C (Plasma-Derived Alpha-1 Antitrypsin) on the Acute Inflammatory Response in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (from the VC...
- Recommendations for the evaluation and management of observation services: a consensus white paper: the society of cardiovascular patient care.
- Relationship of the Distance Between Non-PCI Hospitals and Primary PCI Centers, Mode of Transport, and Reperfusion Time Among Ground and Air Interhospital Transfers Us...
- Association between prehospital electrocardiogram use and patient home distance from the percutaneous Coronary intervention center on total reperfusion time in ST-segm...
- Microparticles and left ventricular assist device complications: A causal association?
- Frequency of Nonsystem Delays in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Implications for Door-to-Balloon...
- Characteristics and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Following Cardiac Arrest (from the NCDR).
- Lower Hospital Volume Is Associated With Higher In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocar...
- Effects of Interleukin-1 Blockade With Anakinra on Aerobic Exercise Capacity in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction (from the D-HART Pilot Study).
- Acute chest pain evaluation: Is there too much stress on the system?
- Impact of Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care Accreditation on Quality: An Action Registry®-Get With the Guidelines™ Analysis.
- Prevalence of Troponin Elevations in Patients With Cardiac Arrest and Implications for Assessing Quality of Care in Hypothermia Centers.
- ED administration of thienopyridines in non-ST-segment elevation Myocardial infarction: results from the NCDR.
- A crescendo-decrescendo murmur and lightheadedness in a patient with a left ventricular assist device.
- Effects of Interleukin-1 Blockade With Anakinra on Adverse Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Failure After Acute Myocardial Infarction [from the Virginia Commonwealth Unive...
- Right ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with reperfused ST-segment elevation Acute myocardial infarction.
- Comparison of clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes of patients with ST-elevation Acute myocardial infarction with versus without new or presumed new left ...
- Evaluating Heart failure after implantation of mechanical circulatory support devices.
- Impact of Congestive Heart Failure Treatment on Peripheral Microvascular Tissue Oxygenation.
- Differences in equations used to estimate aerobic capacity in patients being assessed for suspected Myocardial ischemia.
- Comparison of Frequencies of Patent Foramen Ovale and Thoracic Aortic Atherosclerosis in Patients With Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke Undergoing Transesophageal Echocardi...
- Left Circumflex Occlusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry).
- Effect of Prior Stroke on the Use of Evidence-Based Therapies and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Myocardial Infarction (from the NCDR ACTION GWTG Registry).
- Treatment and outcomes in patients with myocardial infarction treated with Acute β-blocker therapy: results from the American College of Cardiology's NCDR(®).
- Outcomes in patients with chronicity of left bundle-branch block with possible Acute myocardial infarction.
- Echocardiographic determination of the prevalence of primary myxomatous degeneration of the cardiac Valves.
- Myocardial perfusion imaging in the Acute care setting: does it still have a role?
- Overestimation of Aerobic Capacity With the Bruce Treadmill Protocol in Patients Being Assessed for Suspected Myocardial Ischemia.
- The influence of referral source on characteristics of patients undergoing cardiac stress testing: emergency department versus outpatient office.
- Clinical outcomes in patients with Acute left circumflex/obtuse marginal occlusion presenting with myocardial infarction.
- Relation between the incidence, location, and extent of thoracic aortic atherosclerosis detected by transesophageal echocardiography and the extent of Coronary artery ...
- Peripheral tissue oxygenation improves during ED treatment of Acute heart failure.
- Disparity of care in the Acute care of patients with heart failure.
- Quantifying exertion level during exercise stress testing using percentage of age-predicted maximal Heart rate, rate pressure product, and perceived exertion.
- Usefulness of decrease in oxygen uptake efficiency slope to identify Myocardial perfusion defects in men undergoing Myocardial ischemic evaluation.
- Troponin-positive, MB-negative patients with non-ST-elevation Myocardial infarction: An undertreated but high-risk patient group: Results from the National Cardiovascu...
- Noninvasive prediction of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with clinically suspected Heart failure using acoustic cardiography.
- The impact of prehospital activation of the cardiac catheterization team on time to treatment for patients presenting with ST-segment-elevation Myocardial infarction.
- Iodofiltic acid I 123 (BMIPP) fatty acid imaging improves initial diagnosis in emergency department patients with suspected Acute coronary syndromes: a multicenter trial.
- Acoustic cardiography S3 detection use in problematic subgroups and B-type natriuretic peptide "gray zone": secondary results from the Heart failure and Audi...
- Gender differences in time to presentation for Myocardial infarction before and after a national women's cardiovascular awareness campaign: a temporal analysis from th...
- Emergency physician-initiated cath lab activation reduces door to balloon times in ST-segment elevation Myocardial infarction patients.
- Emergency department assessment of Acute-onset chest pain: contemporary approaches and their consequences.
- Emergency department and office-based evaluation of patients with chest pain.
- Isolated double-orifice mitral Valve anomaly on 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography.
- Body surface mapping vs 12-lead electrocardiography to detect ST-elevation Myocardial infarction.
- S3 detection as a diagnostic and prognostic aid in emergency department patients with Acute dyspnea.
- Bedside prediction of increased filling pressure using acoustic electrocardiography.
- Pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-Aortic intervalvular fibrosa in a patient after radio frequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.
- Mortality based on the presenting electrocardiogram in patients with Myocardial infarction in the troponin era.
- Utilization and impact of pre-hospital electrocardiograms for patients with Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: data from the NCDR (National Cardiovascul...
- Initial emergency department systolic blood pressure predicts left ventricular systolic function in Acute decompensated heart failure.
- Value of simultaneous functional assessment in association with Acute rest perfusion imaging for predicting short- and long-term outcomes in emergency department patie...
- Diagnosis and characterization of left ventricular hypertrophy by computerized acoustic cardiography, brain natriuretic peptide, and electrocardiography.
- Right ventricular cardiomyocyte apoptosis in patients with Acute myocardial infarction of the left ventricular wall.
- Predictive power of systolic function and congestive Heart failure in patients with patients admitted for chest pain without ST elevation in the troponin era.
- Comparison of the modification of diet in renal Disease and the Cockcroft-Gault equations for predicting mortality in patients admitted for exclusion of myocardial isc...
- Management of ST-segment elevation Myocardial infarction in EDs.
- Ability of myoglobin to predict mortality in patients admitted for exclusion of Myocardial infarction.
- Myocardial perfusion imaging in the Acute care setting.
- Implication of the new low-density lipoprotein goals in dyslipidemia management of patients with Acute coronary syndrome.
- Anti-cardiolipin and increased serum adhesion molecule levels in patients with aggressive periodontitis.
- Left ventricular diastolic filling pattern at Doppler echocardiography and apoptotic rate in fatal Acute myocardial infarction.
- Meta-analysis of ischemia-modified albumin to rule out Acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department.
- Imaging in the evaluation of the patient with suspected Acute coronary syndrome.
- Outcomes in patients admitted for chest pain with renal Failure and troponin I elevations.
- Predictive power of ejection fraction and renal Failure in patients admitted for chest pain without ST elevation in the troponin era.
- Myocardial salvage in patients with non-ST-elevation Myocardial infarction determined by Myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Incremental value of cardiac imaging in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain and without ST-segment elevation: a multicenter study.
- Acute rest myocardial perfusion imaging for chest pain.
- The impact of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy and bundle branch block on the triage and outcome of ED patients with a suspected Acute coronary syndro...
- Implication of different cardiac troponin I levels for clinical outcomes and prognosis of Acute chest pain patients.
- Diagnostic strategies for the evaluation of the patient presenting with chest pain.
- Sensitivity of Acute rest myocardial perfusion imaging for identifying patients with myocardial infarction based on a troponin definition.
- Impact of the troponin standard on the prevalence of Acute myocardial infarction.
- A comprehensive strategy for the evaluation and triage of the chest pain patient: a cost comparison study.
- Comparison of contrast echocardiography with single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging in the evaluation of patients with possible Acute...
- Coronary angiographic findings in patients with cocaine-associated chest pain.
- Utility of troponin I in patients with cocaine-associated chest pain.
- Comparison of 2-dimensional echocardiography and Myocardial perfusion imaging for diagnosing Myocardial infarction in emergency department patients.
- American Society of Nuclear Cardiology position statement on radionuclide imaging in patients with suspected Acute ischemic syndromes in the emergency department or ch...
- Incidence of high-risk Acute coronary syndromes and eligibility for glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors among patients admitted for possible myocardial ischemia.
- Role of Echocardiography in the Emergency Department for Identifying Patients with Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia.
Schools
Virginia Commonwealth University School Of Medicine
Med College Va
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Virginia Commonwealth University Health System -
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1144306184 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KONTOS |
| First Name Of The Provider | MICHAEL |
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