Robert C Bourge MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1530 3rd Avenue South FOT 1105 Birmingham AL, 35294Rating
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About
Dr. Robert Bourge is a cardiologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Bourge specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Bourge also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
La State Univ Sch of Med In New Orleans, New Orleans La 1979
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Continuous infusion of epoprostenol improves the net balance between pulmonary endothelin-1 clearance and release in primary pulmonary hypertension.
- [Selection and evaluation of candidate patients for heart transplant].
- Rationale and design of the OPTIME CHF trial: outcomes of a prospective trial of intravenous milrinone for exacerbations of chronic heart failure.
- Biventricular pacing for congestive heart failure: questions of who, what, where, why, how, and how much.
- Cardiac transplant outcome of patients supported on left ventricular assist device vs. intravenous inotropic therapy.
- Nesiritide: a unique therapeutic cardiac peptide.
- Relative perioperative bradycardia does not lead to adverse outcomes after cardiac transplantation.
- Retransplantation in 7,290 primary transplant patients: a 10-year multi-institutional study.
- Cytomegalovirus colitis presenting as hematochezia and requiring resection.
- Long-term follow-up of brachytherapy for treatment of allograft in-stent restenosis.
- Neurological events during long-term mechanical circulatory support for heart failure: the Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure (REMATCH) experience.
- Palliation of allograft vasculopathy with transluminal angioplasty: a decade of experience.
- The impact of arrhythmias in acute heart failure.
- To induce or not to induce: do patients at greatest risk for fatal rejection benefit from cytolytic induction therapy?
- Ultrafiltration: a new approach toward mechanical diuresis in heart failure.
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UAB Division of Urology
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