Dr. Nancy T. Ross-ascuitto M.D.
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans LA, 70118About
Dr. Nancy Ross-ascuitto is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Ross-ascuitto specializes in caring for fetuses, infants, children and adolescents with cardiovascular or cardiac abnormalities. Practiced in both inpatient and outpatient settings, the scope of conditions cared for by pediatric cardiologists is large and includes congenital heart defects, heart muscle disorders, rhythm disturbances and hypertension.
Education and Training
Yale School of Medicine 1981
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mechanical function and substrate oxidation in the neonatal pig heart subjected to pacing-induced tachycardia.
- Pressure loss from flow energy dissipation: relevance to Fontan-type modifications.
- Streamlining fluid pathways lessens flow energy dissipation: relevance to atriocavopulmonary connections.
- Intralobar pulmonary sequestration presenting as congestive heart failure in a neonate.
- Systematic-to-pulmonary collaterals: a source of flow energy loss in Fontan physiology.
- Ventricular function and fatty acid metabolism in neonatal piglet heart.
- Late closure of the ductus arteriosus using indomethacin in the preterm infant.
- Contractile and coronary vascular effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide in neonatal pig hearts.
- Analysis of cardiovascular responses to PACAP-27, PACAP-38, and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide.
- Substrate metabolism in the developing heart.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
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