Dr. James K. Kirklin MD
Vascular Surgeon | Vascular Surgery
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. James Kirklin is a vascular surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Kirklin specializes in disorders relating to the arterial, venous and lymphatic systems. As a vascular surgeon, Dr. Kirklin diagnoses and treats vascular diseases and performs vasular surgeries. Common conditions that a vascular surgeon treats are aneurysms, atherosclerosis and varicose veins. Vascular specialists might also treat trauma, venous ulcers, poor leg circulation, peripheral arterial disease and other vascular-related issues.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1973
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of mechanical biventricular assist device.
- Determinants of waiting time for heart transplants in the United States.
- Infection during circulatory support with ventricular assist devices.
- Management of wound and left ventricular assist device pocket infection.
- Pediatric cardiac transplantation.
- The utility of open lung biopsy following lung transplantation.
- Right thoracotomy for mitral reoperation: analysis of technique and outcome.
- The emergence of co-morbid diseases impacting survival after cardiac transplantation, a ten year multi-institutional experience.
- Differential modulation of alloreactive T cell receptor expression induced by allogeneic bone marrow and splenocyte infusions.
- Death after rejection with severe hemodynamic compromise in pediatric heart transplant recipients: a multi-institutional study.
- Transesophageal Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of Normal and Stenosed Coronary Arteries.
- The importance of the mechanical circulatory support database: a plea for commitment.
- Management of congenital abnormalities of the donor lung.
- Two- and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic localization of a right atrial lipoma: importance of orienting echocardiographic images to the surgeon's view.
- Treatment of end-stage heart disease with outpatient ventricular assist devices.
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