Physician

Cardiology

Dr. Edmund C. Keung works in the field of Cardiology. He researched medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center. Edmund Keung is a published doctor. He has 50 publications published. The most current publication "Ca2+ regulates the kinetics of tension development in intact cardiac muscle."

Publications

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• Depression and Outcome among Veterans with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators with or without Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Capability.
• Year in Review of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.
• The year in review of clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
• Long-term Electrical Survival Analysis of Riata and Riata ST Silicone Leads-National VA Experience.
• Using the initial vector from surface electrocardiogram to distinguish the site of outflow tract tachycardia.
• Reentry within the cavotricuspid isthmus: an isthmus dependent circuit.
• Site specificity of transverse crista terminalis conduction in patients with Atrial flutter.
• Surface electrocardiographic characteristics of right and left Atrial flutter.
• Significance of bundle branch block during atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.
• Optimizing the detection of bidirectional block across the flutter isthmus for patients with typical isthmus-dependent Atrial flutter.
• P2X7 receptor-mediated release of excitatory amino acids from astrocytes.
• Amrinone: a new non-glycosidic, non-adrenergic cardiotonic agent effective in the treatment of intractable myocardial failure in man.
• Treatment of chronic congestive heart failure with captopril, an oral inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme.
• Beneficial effects of amrinone-hydralazine combination on resting hemodynamics and exercise capacity in patients with severe congestive heart failure.
• Electrophysiological effects of ibutilide in patients with accessory pathways.
• Unitary conductance variation in Kir2.1 and in cardiac inward rectifier potassium channels.
• Increased hepatic density and phospholipidosis due to amiodarone.
• Intravenous propafenone for termination of reentrant supraventricular tachycardia. A placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, crossover study.
• Sustained beneficial effects of oral amrinone on cardiac and renal function in patients with severe congestive heart failure.
• Hemodynamic effects of captopril in patients with severe chronic heart failure.
• Long-term efficacy and toxicity of high-dose amiodarone therapy for ventricular tachycardia or ventricular Fibrillation.
• Transmembrane action potentials and the electrocardiogram in rats with renal Hypertension.
• Non-uniform electrophysiological properties and electrotonic interaction in hypertrophied rat myocardium.
• Physiology of calcium current in cardiac muscle.
• Passive electrical properties of normal and hypertrophied rat myocardium.
• Effects of combined dopamine and nitroprusside therapy in patients with severe pump failure and hypotension complicating Acute myocardial infarction.
• Electrophysiologic demonstration of concealed conduction in anomalous atrioventricular bypass tracts.
• Arrhythmias in single-chamber pacemakers.
• Effects of beta-adrenergic stimulation on Atrial latency and Atrial vulnerability in patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
• Electrophysiologic manifestations of the excitable gap of orthodromic atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia demonstrated by single extrastimulation.
• Effects of beta-adrenergic blockade on verapamil-responsive and verapamil-irresponsive sustained ventricular tachycardias.
• Calcium current is increased in isolated adult myocytes from hypertrophied rat myocardium.
• Role of intravenous isoproterenol in the electrophysiologic induction of atrioventricular node reentrant tachycardia in patients with dual atrioventricular node pathways.
• Clinical and electrophysiologic mechanisms of exercise-induced ventricular tachyArrhythmias.
• Antiarrhythmic treatment and myocardial infarction.
• Complex regulation of calcium current in cardiac cells. Dependence on a pertussis toxin-sensitive substrate, adenosine triphosphate, and an alpha 1-adrenoceptor.
• Lactate activates ATP-sensitive potassium channels in guinea pig ventricular myocytes.
• L-type cardiac calcium channels in doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy in rats morphological, biochemical, and functional correlations.
• Hemodynamic effects of intravenous and oral amrinone in patients with severe heart failure: relationship between intravenous and oral administration.
• Radio frequency heating of chronic ovine infarct leads to sustained infarct area and ventricular volume reduction.
• Ca2+ regulates the kinetics of tension development in intact cardiac muscle.
• MK-801 reduces uptake and stimulates efflux of excitatory amino acids via membrane depolarization.
• Effects of myocardial hypertrophy on transient outward current.
• Dobutamine therapy in Acute myocardial infarction.
• The year in clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
• Dual-Chamber Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Selection Is Associated With Increased Complication Rates and Mortality Among Patients Enrolled in the NCDR Implant...
• Electrophysiologic properties of para-Hisian Atrial tachycardia.
• The year in clinical electrophysiology.
• Alpha(1)-adrenoceptor subtypes mediate negative inotropy in myocardium from alpha(1A/C)-knockout and wild type mice.

Schools

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• Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

• Bronx Muni Hospital

• Bronx Municipal Hospital Center

Procedures Preformed

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• Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
• Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair

Conditions Treated

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• Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
• Cardiomegaly
• Cardiomyopathy
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Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiology

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna
• Assurant Health
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• CHAMPVA
• Cigna
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Delta Health System
• Emblem Health
• Golden Rule
• GEHA
• HealthPartners
• Humana
• Locals (any local)
• Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
• MedCost PPO
• Medical Mutual of Ohio
• Medicare MCR
• Meritain Health
• Mutual of Omaha
• Ucare
• UniCare
• United Healthcare
• Wells Fargo Insurance

Education

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• Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Hospital

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• San Francisco VA Medical Center
• UCSF Medical Center

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