Louis M. Prisant MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1120 15th St Augusta GA, 30912About
Dr. Louis Prisant is a cardiologist practicing in Augusta, GA. Dr. Prisant 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. Prisant also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1977
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hypertension in the elderly: can we improve results of therapy?
- Management of patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus: advances in the
- Causes of transient dilatation of the left ventricle during myocardial perfusion imaging.
- New guidelines for potassium replacement in clinical practice: a contemporary review by the National Council on Potassium in Clinical Practice.
- Treating hyperlipidemia in African Americans.
- Effect of sildenafil citrate on blood pressure and heart rate in men with erectile dysfunction taking concomitant antihypertensive medication. Sildenafil Study Group.
- Effect of sildenafil in patients with erectile dysfunction taking antihypertensive therapy. Sildenafil Study Group.
- A steady-state evaluation of the bioavailability of chronotherapeutic oral drug absorption system verapamil PM after nighttime dosing versus immediate-acting verapamil dosed every eight hours.
- Pulsed inotropic therapy in chronic congestive heart failure: a review of the literature.
- Ambulatory blood pressure profiles in patients treated with once-daily diltiazem
- Oral nutritional supplements and heart disease: a review.
- Angioneurotic edema.
- Hypertension and chronotherapy: shifting the treatment paradigm.
- Hypertension images: electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy.
- Verapamil revisited: a transition in novel drug delivery systems and outcomes.
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