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Thomas A. Ports M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
350 Parnassus Ave. , 3rd Floor San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Thomas Ports is director of Interventional Cardiology and co-director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory for adult patients. Since performing the first coronary angioplasty at UCSF Medical ...
Education and Training
Ohio State University College of Medicine 1973
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cardiogenic shock: thrombolysis or angioplasty?
- Use of a percutaneous arterial suture device (Perclose) in patients undergoing percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty.
- Nonparenteral vasodilator therapy for chronic congestive heart failure.
- Nonparenteral vasodilator therapy for chronic congestive heart failure.
- Left ventricular systolic unloading and augmentation of intracoronary pressure and Doppler flow during enhanced external counterpulsation.
- Is there any indication for aortic valvuloplasty in the elderly?
- Coronary air embolism complicating transseptal radiofrequency ablation of left free-wall accessory pathways.
- Safety of cardiac catheterization in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.
- Differentiation of abnormal blood flow patterns in coronary arteries based on Doppler catheter recordings.
- ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Ad Hoc Task Force on Cardiac Catheterization.
- Dipyridamole perfusion scintigraphy: the experience with its application in one hundred seventy patients with known or suspected unstable angina.
- Sterile radial artery granuloma after transradial procedures: a unique and avoidable complication.
- Multivessel coronary artery disease predicts mortality, length of stay, and pressor requirements after liver transplantation.
- Sterile radial artery granuloma after transradial cardiac catheterization.
- Myocardial oxygen supply and demand.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center, Cardiology 1978
- University California 1978
- UCSF Medical Center, Cardiology 1978
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Nearest Hospitals
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505 PARNASSUS AVE, BOX 0296 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94143ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTERl
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