Dr. John B Casterline MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
2871 Acton Road Suite 100 Birmingham AL, 35243Rating
4/5
About
Dr. John Casterline is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Casterline specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Casterline typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Education and Training
Univ of Ks Sch of Med, Kansas City Ks 1988
University of Wales in Great Britain 1988
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Obstacles to contraceptive use in Pakistan: a study in Punjab.
- The diffusion of fertility control in Taiwan: evidence from pooled cross-section time-series models.
- Living arrangements of the Filipino elderly.
- [Diffusion through social interaction and fertility transition: quantitative and qualitative evidence from Costa Rica].
- Unmet need and unintended fertility: longitudinal evidence from upper Egypt.
- The estimation of unwanted fertility.
- The time dynamics of individual fertility preferences among rural Ghanaian women.
- To have or not to have another child: life cycle, health and cost considerations of Ghanaian women.
- Examining the predictive value of fertility preferences among Ghanaian women.
- Understanding unmet need: history, theory, and measurement.
- Unmet need and fertility decline: a comparative perspective on prospects in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Maternal age, gravidity, and pregnancy spacing effects on spontaneous fetal mortality.
- Collecting data on pregnancy loss: a review of evidence from the World Fertility Survey.
- Migration and Marriage: Modeling the Joint Process.
- Reasons for unmet need for family planning, with attention to the measurement of fertility preferences: protocol for a multi-site cohort study.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Lung Cancer
- Aneurysm
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (aaa)
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
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