Brigitta C Brott MD
Cardiologist | Interventional Cardiology
1530 3rd Avenue South FOT 1105 Birmingham AL, 35294Rating
5/5
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Dr. Brigitta Brott is a cardiologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Brott 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. Brott also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An interventional strategy was better than a conservative strategy in unstable angina or non-ST-elevation MI.
- Long-term mortality and cardiovascular morbidity increased in some patients with asymptomatic mitral valve prolapse.
- Review: low-molecular-weight heparin is effective and safe in the acute coronary syndromes.
- Treatment of in-stent restenosis in a gastroepiploic artery coronary bypass graft with brachytherapy.
- Magnetic resonance phase velocity mapping through NiTi stents in a flow phantom model.
- Invasive strategy within 24 hours of thrombolysis reduced death, nonfatal reinfarction, and ischemia-induced revascularization in STEMI.
- Evaluation of in-stent stenosis by magnetic resonance phase-velocity mapping in nickel-titanium stents.
- Gd(ABE-DTTA), a novel contrast agent, at the MRI-effective dose shows absence of deleterious physiological effects in dogs.
- Percent infarct mapping: an R1-map-based CE-MRI method for determining myocardial viability distribution.
- Effects of venous needle turbulence during ex vivo hemodialysis on endothelial morphology and nitric oxide formation.
- Urgent revascularization with PCI was more cost-effective than CABG in medically refractory, high-risk myocardial ischemia.
- Equilibrium signal intensity mapping, an MRI method for fast mapping of longitudinal relaxation rates and for image enhancement.
- In vivo myocardial tissue kinetics of Gd(ABE-DTTA), a tissue-persistent contrast agent.
- Assessment of passive cardiovascular implant devices for MRI compatibility.
- Prasugrel reduced ischemic outcomes more than did clopidogrel in patients receiving stents for ACS.
Treatments
- Cardiac Catheterization, Coronary Artery Stenting, Coronary Angiography And More
Fellowships
- Duke University 1991
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UAB Division of Urology
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