Dr. James Michael Levett MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
830 4th Ave Se Cedar Rapids IA, 52403About
Dr. James Levett is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Cedar Rapids, IA. Dr. Levett specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Levett 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 Ia Coll Of Med- Iowa City Ia 1974
Roy J Lucille A Carver College of Medicine At University of Iowa,Iowa City, Ia, United States 1974
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 1974
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Measuring for improvement: from Toyota to thoracic surgery.
- Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return: a ten-year experience.
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: report of an operation utilizing the ductus arteriosis in outflow reconstruction.
- Implementing an ISO 9001 quality management system in a multispecialty clinic.
- Determination of infundibular innervation and amine receptor content in cyanotic and acyanotic myocardium: relation to clinical events in tetralogy of Fallot.
- The ACO system: a business model for population health.
- Pacemaker system failure and other events in children with surgically induced heart block.
- Safety of the right atrial approach for combined mitral and tricuspid valve procedures.
- A canine model to assess the electrical stability of the transplanted heart.
- Total denervation stabilizes the infarcted canine myocardium.
- Sympathectomy in the treatment of angina and arrhythmias.
- Thermodilution cardiac output: a critical analysis and review of the literature.
- Thermodilution cardiac output: a critical analysis and review of the literature.
- Myocardial rupture. Major left ventricular infarct rupture treated by infarctectomy.
- Myocardial rupture. Major left ventricular infarct rupture treated by infarctectomy.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Varicose Veins
- Lung Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Venous Insufficiency
- Aneurysm
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (aaa)
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
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