Joseph G Akar MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
333 Cedar Street Division Of Cardiolo New Haven CT, 06520Rating
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Dr. Joseph Akar is a cardiologist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Akar 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. Akar also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Assessment of global atrial fibrillation organization to optimize timing of atrial defibrillation.
- Tachycardia with atrioventricular dissociation after surgery for single ventricle.
- Mapping arrhythmias in the failing heart: from Langendorff to patient.
- Predicting elevated defibrillation energy requirements in heart failure with reasonable probability.
- Presence of asymmetric dimethylarginine gradients across high-grade lesions in patients with coronary artery disease.
- Regulation of ion channels and arrhythmias in the ischemic heart.
- Multicenter randomized study of anticoagulation guided by remote rhythm monitoring in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and CRT-D devices: Rationale, design, and clinical characteristics of the initially enrolled cohort The IMPACT
- Response to cardiac resynchronization in heart failure: just go with the myocardial blood flow?
- Pericardial fat is independently associated with human atrial fibrillation.
- Caveat emptor: implantable devices in end-stage renal disease.
- Use of intracardiac echocardiography during atrial fibrillation ablation.
- 3D real-time intracardiac echocardiographic visualization of atrial structures relevant to atrial fibrillation ablation.
- Randomized trial of atrial arrhythmia monitoring to guide anticoagulation in patients with implanted defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization devices.
- A Fresh Perspective on Atrial Fibrillation.
- Determinants of Time in Therapeutic Range in Patients Receiving Oral Anticoagulants (A Substudy of IMPACT).
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