Edwin Kevin Heist MD PHD
Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
55 Fruit St Grb 109 Cardiac Unit Boston MA, 02114Rating
5/5
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Dr. Edwin Heist is a Cardiac Electrophysicist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Heist performs testing procedures on patients hearts electrical system in order to assess timing and abnormalities associated with electrical activities of the heart. Adult Cardiac Electrophysiologists are trained to treat irregular heartbeats, and carry out electrophysiology studies or ablations.
Education and Training
Stanford University School of Medicine 1998
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhibition of a mammalian large conductance, calcium-sensitive K+ channel by calmodulin-binding peptides.
- Telomerase and the aging heart.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. XI. Serum melatonin measures in patients and matched control subjects.
- Treating atrial fibrillation. What is the consensus now?
- Cell therapy to treat cardiac ischemia: angina-free and arrhythmia-free?
- Compression of the left atrium by the thoracic aorta in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation procedure for atrial fibrillation.
- Images in cardiovascular medicine. Double-chambered right ventricle and situs inversus with dextrocardia.
- Conventional versus biventricular pacing in heart failure and bradyarrhythmia: the COMBAT study.
- Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation the search for substrate-driven end points.
- Initial experience with a multielectrode catheter equipped with the single-axis sensor technology for high-density electroanatomical mapping in a swine model.
- Cardiac arrest with "pseudo-Brugada" ECG pattern in the setting of a coronary artery anomaly.
- Electrocardiographic characteristics in right ventricular vs biventricular pacing in patients with paced right bundle-branch block QRS pattern.
- Is the pulmonary vein isolated?
- Intracardiac thrombosis and acute myocardial infarction as initial presentation of antiphospholipid syndrome.
- A giant saphenous vein graft aneurysm.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
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