Dr. James Joseph Vitek M.D.
Pediatrician
701 East Charles Street La Plata MD, 20646Rating
5/5
About
Dr. James Vitek is a pediatrician practicing in La Plata, MD. Dr. Vitek is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Vitek diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Vitek can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Univ of Toronto, Fac of Med, Toronto, Ont, Canada 1989
Univ Of Toronto Fac Of Med 1989
University Of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Carotid artery stenting in patients with high neurologic risks.
- Early results of percutaneous intervention for severe coexisting carotid and coronary artery disease.
- Influence of age upon complications of carotid artery stenting. UAB Neurovascular Angioplasty Team.
- Carotid artery stenting: rationale, indications, and results.
- Carotid stenting for severe radiation-induced extracranial carotid artery occlusive disease.
- Techniques of carotid artery stenting: the state of the art.
- Outpatient carotid artery stenting: a case report.
- Systematic comparison of the early outcome of angioplasty and endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid artery disease.
- Use of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor eptifibatide in a patient undergoing carotid artery stenting.
- Immediate and late clinical outcomes of carotid artery stenting in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: a 5-year prospective analysis.
- B-Mode sonography as a screening procedure for asymptomatic carotid bruits.
- Procedural safety and short-term outcome of ambulatory carotid stenting.
- Carotid artery stenting: current status and future prospects.
- Chronic occlusive aortoiliac disease. "The Leriche syndrome".
- Microembolization during carotid stenting with the distal-balloon antiemboli system.
Treatments
- Asthma
- Birth Defects
- Pneumonia
- Gastroenteritis
- Cellulitis
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