Hermes A Kontos M.D.
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1250 E Marshall Street Internal Medicine Richmond VA, 23298About
Dr. Hermes Kontos is a cardiologist practicing in Richmond, VA. Dr. Kontos 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. Kontos also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
University of Athens / College of Medicine / School of Health Science 1958
University of Athens / College of Medicine / School of Health Science National & Kapodistrian 1958
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Blockade of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in cerebral arterioles inhibits vasoconstriction from hypocapnic alkalosis in cats.
- Chronic estrogen treatment increases levels of endothelial nitric oxide synthase protein in rat cerebral microvessels.
- Clinical service-line structures can better carry out the missions of traditional clinical departments.
- Fluid percussion injury transiently increases then decreases brain oxygen consumption in the rat.
- Norepinephrine depletion in idiopathic orthostatic hypotension.
- Letter: Cortical surface microvasculature.
- Evidence for a K(ATP) ion channel link in the inhibition of hypercapnic dilation
- Oxygen radicals in cerebral ischemia: the 2001 Willis lecture.
- Dimethylsulfoxide and ethanol, commonly used diluents, prevent dilation of pial arterioles by openers of K(ATP) ion channels.
- Determinants of response of pial arteries to norepinephrine and sympathetic nerve stimulation.
- Dilation of rat brain arterioles by hypercapnia in vivo can occur even after blockade of guanylate cyclase by ODQ.
- Posttraumatic hypothermia followed by slow rewarming protects the cerebral microcirculation.
- Endothelium-dependent responses after experimental brain injury.
- The role of oxygen radicals in the pathobiology of traumatic brain injury.
- Superoxide production in experimental seizures in cats.
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