Dr. Thomas Gerald Disessa MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
740 S Limestone Lexington KY, 40536About
Dr. Thomas Disessa is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Lexington, KY. Dr. Disessa specializes in caring for fetuses, infants, children and adolescents with cardiovascular or cardiac abnormalities. Practiced in both inpatient and outpatient settings, the scope of conditions cared for by pediatric cardiologists is large and includes congenital heart defects, heart muscle disorders, rhythm disturbances and hypertension.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radiographic and echocardiographic evaluation of newborns treated with indomethacin for patent ductus arteriosus.
- Radiographic and echocardiographic evaluation of newborns treated with indomethacin for patent ductus arteriosus.
- Frequent ventricular premature beats in children with a structurally normal
- Anomalous systemic and pulmonary venous pathways diagnosed in utero by ultrasound.
- The hyperdense choroid plexus: a CT finding associated with aortic arch obstruction in the newborn.
- Significance of the Doppler-derived gradient across a residual aortic coarctation.
- Echocardiography and coronary CT angiography imaging of variations in coronary anatomy and coronary abnormalities in athletic children: detection of coronary abnormalities that create a risk for sudden death.
- Congenital cardiac anomalies: prenatal sonographic diagnosis.
- Closure of the patent ductus arteriosus with ligation and indomethacin: a consecutive experience.
- Closure of the patent ductus arteriosus with ligation and indomethacin: a consecutive experience.
- Doppler estimation of pressure gradient in pulmonary stenosis: maximal instantaneous vs peak-to-peak, vs mean catheter gradient.
- Balloon valvuloplasty in children with dysplastic pulmonary valves.
- Chloramphenicol-induced cardiovascular collapse in an anephric patient.
- Diagnosis and treatment of intrapericardial teratoma.
- Coarctation repair without cardiac catheterization in infants.
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