James H. O\'Keefe, MD, FACC
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Cardiology
4330 Wornall Rd Suite 2000 Kansas City MO, 64111About
Dr. James O\'Keefe practices Nuclear Medicine in Kansas City, MO. Dr. O\'Keefe uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Improving the adverse cardiovascular prognosis of type 2 diabetes.
- Pharmacological (stress) perfusion scintigraphy: methods, advantages, and applications.
- Sulfonylurea drugs and cardiovascular mortality.
- A randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients admitted to the coronary care unit.
- Exercise echocardiography vs exercise SPECT testing.
- Omega-3 fatty acids: time for clinical implementation?
- From Inuit to implementation: omega-3 fatty acids come of age.
- Left circumflex occlusion--underrecognized and undertreated.
- Combination drug therapy for dyslipidemia.
- Autonomic tone as a cardiovascular risk factor: the dangers of chronic fight or flight.
- Lipid risk factor correlates of ischemic heart disease as diagnosed by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.
- Understanding the Mediterranean diet. Could this be the new "gold standard" for heart disease prevention?
- Preventive use of N-3 fatty acids.
- Cardiovascular disease resulting from a diet and lifestyle at odds with our Paleolithic genome: how to become a 21st-century hunter-gatherer.
- Safety and diagnostic accuracy of adenosine thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients unable to exercise and those with left bundle branch block.
Treatments
- High Cholesterol
- Obesity
- Sleep Apnea
- Angina
- Heart Disease
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (osa)
- Vascular Disease
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