Dr. Bruce Jason Leavitt MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
111 Colchester Ave Fletcher 4 Burlington VT, 05401About
Dr. Bruce Leavitt is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Burlington, VT. Dr. Leavitt specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Leavitt typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Education and Training
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1981
University of Vermont College of Medicine 1981
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Predicting the risk of death from heart failure after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Metastatic serous borderline ovarian tumor in an internal mammary lymph node: a case report and review of the literature.
- Long-term survival of dialysis patients after coronary bypass grafting.
- The reorganization of the human and rabbit heart in response to haemodynamic overload.
- Effect of mitral valve repair for mitral valve prolapse on regression of left ventricular mass.
- Images in clinical medicine. Giant Lambl's excrescences.
- Contractile protein function in failing and nonfailing human myocardium.
- Contraction frequency dependence of twitch and diastolic tension in human dilated cardiomyopathy (tension-frequency relation in cardiomyopathy).
- Dynamic calcium requirements for activation of human ventricular muscle calculated from tension-independent heat.
- The effect of not using an internal mammary artery as a conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Dexmedetomidine does not improve patient satisfaction when compared with propofol during mechanical ventilation.
- Perioperative increases in serum creatinine are predictive of increased 90-day mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- The effects of diabetes mellitus on coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Energetics of isometric force development in control and volume-overload human myocardium. Comparison with animal species.
- CT features of peripheral pulmonary carcinoid tumors.
Treatments
- Congenital Heart Disease, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Lung Cancer And More
- Heart Disease
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
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