Melvin M Scheinman M.D.
Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
500 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Melvin Scheinman, one of the pioneers of cardiac electrophysiology, was the first to perform catheter ablation on humans. Scheinman and his team used high-energy direct current shocks and were the ...
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Electrophysiologic effects of adenosine in patients with supraventricular tachycardia.
- Dynamic changes in electrogram morphology at functional lines of block in reentrant circuits during ventricular tachycardia in the infarcted canine heart: a new method to localize reentrant circuits from electrogram features using adaptive template m
- Advances in evaluating and treating Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Right atrial flutter due to lower loop reentry: mechanism and anatomic substrates.
- Failure of right atrial premature beats to reset atriofascicular tachycardia.
- Mechanisms and clinical implications of atypical atrial flutter.
- Use of electroanatomic mapping to delineate transseptal atrial conduction in humans.
- Long-term follow-up of patients with long-QT syndrome treated with beta-blockers and continuous pacing.
- Amiodarone after acute myocardial infarction.
- Quantitative effects of functional bundle branch block in patients with atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia.
- Body surface mapping of counterclockwise and clockwise typical atrial flutter: a comparative analysis with endocardial activation sequence mapping.
- Mechanisms of atrial fibrillation: is a cure at hand?
- Relationship of specific electrogram characteristics during sinus rhythm and ventricular pacing determined by adaptive template matching to the location of functional reentrant circuits that cause ventricular tachycardia in the infarcted canine heart
- The 1998 NASPE prospective catheter ablation registry.
- Chemical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation or flutter with ibutilide in patients receiving amiodarone therapy.
Treatments
- Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, Catheter Ablation And More
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center, Cardiovascular Diseases 1967
- Ucsf Med Center 1967
- UCSF Medical Center, Cardiovascular Diseases 1967
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