Peter R. Kowey MD
Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
100 Lancaster Avenue Suite 556 Lankenau M Wynnewood PA, 19096About
Dr. Peter Kowey is a Cardiac Electrophysicist practicing in Wynnewood, PA. Dr. Kowey performs testing procedures on patients hearts electrical system in order to assess timing and abnormalities associated with electrical activities of the heart. Adult Cardiac Electrophysiologists are trained to treat irregular heartbeats, and carry out electrophysiology studies or ablations.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1978
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The properties of the inward rectifier potassium currents in rabbit coronary arterial smooth muscle cells.
- Efficacy and safety of ibutilide fumarate for the conversion of atrial arrhythmias after cardiac surgery.
- Atrial arrhythmias after cardiac surgery: Sisyphus revisited?
- Effects of captopril treatment of renovascular hypertension on beta-adrenergic modulation of L-type Ca(2+) current.
- Electropharmacologic effect of a standard dose of intravenous procainamide in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia.
- Generic antiarrhythmics are not therapeutically equivalent for the treatment of tachyarrhythmias.
- Management and prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiovascular surgery.
- Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: cornering the rat.
- Bioavailability of amiodarone tablets administered with and without food in healthy subjects.
- ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: from the Brugada syndrome to acute myocardial ischemia.
- Restoration of normal ventricular electrophysiology in renovascular hypertensive rabbits after treatment with losartan.
- Left ventricular hypertrophy decreases slowly but not rapidly activating delayed rectifier potassium currents of epicardial and endocardial myocytes in rabbits.
- Phase 2 early afterdepolarization as a trigger of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in acquired long-QT syndrome : direct evidence from intracellular recordings in the intact left ventricular wall.
- Ventricular hypertrophy amplifies transmural repolarization dispersion and induces early afterdepolarization.
- The unnecessary pacemaker controversy revisited.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
- 2013-2014 TOP DOCTOR - Cardiology Main Line Today
- American Heart Association 1998 TOP DOCTOR - Cardiology U.S. News & World Report Heart of the Main Li
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