Alan L Gass MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1900 Hempstead Tpke 500 East Meadow NY, 11554Rating
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Dr. Alan Gass is a cardiologist practicing in East Meadow, NY. Dr. Gass 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. Gass also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Univ Di Sassari- Fac Di Med E Chirurgia- Sassari- Italy 1984
Universita Degli Studi Di Sassari, Facolta Di Medicina E Chirurgia 1984
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tacrolimus monotherapy in adult cardiac transplant recipients: intermediate-term results.
- Suggested guidelines for the use of tacrolimus in cardiac transplant recipients.
- Current practices: immunosuppression induction, maintenance, and rejection regimens in contemporary post-heart transplant patient treatment.
- Tacrolimus and new onset diabetes mellitus: the effect of steroid weaning.
- A novel tacrolimus dosing strategy in cardiac transplantation: drug levels, renal function, and biopsy results.
- Tacrolimus and cardiac transplantation: a comparison of monotherapy and steroid-dependent patients.
- Predictors of early renal insufficiency in cardiac transplant recipients initiated on tacrolimus.
- Tacrolimus in cardiac transplantation: efficacy and safety of a novel dosing protocol.
- Recent improvements in outcome with the Novacor left ventricular assist device.
- Cardiac transplantation in the older recipient: excellent long-term survival based on pretransplant screening.
- Calcineurin inhibitor-associated early renal insufficiency in cardiac transplant recipients: risk factors and strategies for prevention and treatment.
- Can initial tacrolimus trough levels be predicted from clinical variables?
- Refractory humoral cardiac allograft rejection successfully treated with a single dose of rituximab.
- Long-term results of tacrolimus monotherapy in cardiac transplant recipients.
- Improved survival with statins, angiotensin receptor blockers, and steroid weaning after heart transplantation.
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