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Jan Laws Houghton M.D.
Cardiologist | Interventional Cardiology
47 New Scotland Ave Amc Cardiology Group Albany NY, 12208About
Dr. Jan Houghton is a cardiologist practicing in Albany, NY. Dr. Houghton 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. Houghton also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Univ of Md Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1980
University of Maryland School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Left ventricular free wall rupture during coronary intervention after acute myocardial infarction: report of two cases exhibiting fatal pseudocomplications.
- Spontaneous multivessel coronary artery dissection: repeated presentation in a healthy postmenopausal woman.
- Basal and reserve renal artery blood flow: effect of endothelium-dependent and -independent vasoactive agonists and radiographic contrast medium in two patients.
- Effect of cholesterol-lowering therapy on endothelial function.
- Long-term cardiovascular consequences of diuretics vs calcium channel blockers vs angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.
- Refractory vasomotor angina in subclinical hyperthyroidism demonstrating focal and segmental coronary vasoconstriction.
- Congestive heart failure with normal ejection fraction. A different mechanism requiring different therapy.
- Mortality in patients with microvascular disease.
- A negative thallium (+/- dipyridamole) stress test excludes significant obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease in hypertensive patients.
- Advances in cardiovascular therapy.
- Postpartum myocardial infarction treated by balloon coronary angioplasty.
- Pharmacotherapy of unstable angina.
- Long-term severe pulmonary hypertension associated with right atrial myxoma.
- Continuous enrichment culturing of thermophiles under sulfate and nitrate-reducing conditions and at deep-sea hydrostatic pressures.
- Pericarditis and myocarditis. Which is benign and which isn't?
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