Nuri Ilker Akkus M.D.
Cardiologist | Interventional Cardiology
1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport LA, 71103About
Dr. Nuri Akkus is a cardiologist practicing in Shreveport, LA. Dr. Akkus 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. Akkus also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of fractional flow reserve versus stress perfusion scintigraphy after unstable angina. Effect on duration of hospitalization, cost, procedural characteristics, and clinical outcome.
- Is it feasible to adjust bisphosphonate dose according to bone mineral density value in postmenopausal breast cancer patients with bone metastases?
- Preoperative Doppler sonography for prevention of perioperative stroke in head and neck cancer patients undergoing neck dissection: is it beneficial?
- Successful use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor, heparin, and IABP during PCI in a post-neurosurgical patient with STEMI and cardiogenic shock due to very late bare-metal stent thrombosis.
- Successful percutaneous revascularization of totally occluded left subclavian artery using orbital atherectomy.
- Percutaneous coronary intervention for stable coronary artery disease: the debate continues.
- Twisting of peripheral balloon appearing as a non-dilating peroneal artery lesion.
- Retrograde orbital atherectomy in an occluded superficial femoral artery.
- Percutaneous treatment of delayed post-atherectomy superficial femoral artery pseudoaneurysm.
- Resolution of nebivolol-induced coronary vasospasm by intracoronary nitroglycerin during a coronary angiogram.
- Right-sided scimitar syndrome in a patient with a single aortic trunk and coronary-cameral venous fistula.
- Aortic valve mass with unusual pathology in a patient presenting with syncope.
- Ischemia from extrinsic compression of the brachial artery by a stent in the venous outflow of a brachio-basilic arterio-venous graft.
- Letter to the editor: severe groin pain associated with loss of flow in internal iliac artery in a female patient.
- Fracture of a guiding catheter in a tortuous iliac artery and its retrieval by a larger sheath.
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