Dr. Michael H Gewitz MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
19 Bradhurst Ave Suite 1400 Hawthorne NY, 10532About
Dr. Michael H. Gewitz is Physician-in-Chief / Executive Director and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center. He is also Professor and Vice Chai ...
Education and Training
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific 1974
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology- 1981
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Patterns of orthostatic intolerance: the orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and adolescent chronic fatigue.
- Inhibition of NOS enhances pulmonary vascular changes in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats.
- Monocrotaline induces interleukin-6 mRNA expression in rat lungs.
- Pulmonary hypertension in infancy and childhood.
- Effects of monocrotaline on endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression and
- Summary and abstracts of the Seventh International Kawasaki Disease Symposium: December 4-7, 2001, Hakone, Japan.
- Bilateral atrial appendectomy abolishes increased plasma atrial natriuretic peptide release and blunts sodium and water excretion during volume loading in conscious dogs.
- Pulmonary artery hypertension: caveolin-1 and eNOS interrelationship: a new perspective.
- Kawasaki disease: diagnosis, management, and long-term implications.
- Electrocardiographic findings in children with Lyme disease.
- Pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate restores endothelial cell membrane integrity and attenuates monocrotaline-induced pulmonary artery hypertension.
- Atrial compliance determines the nature of passive atrial stretch and plasma atrial natriuretic factor in the conscious dog.
- Progressive endothelial cell damage in an inflammatory model of pulmonary hypertension.
- Immunosuppressant-induced endothelial damage and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Regulation of plasma ANF after increases in afterload in conscious dogs.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
Professional Memberships
- Fellow NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE (FELLOW)
- Member AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
- Member SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
- Member AMERICAN PEDIATRIC SOCIETY
- Fellow AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, FELLOW SECTION ON CARDIOLOGY
- Member PHILADELPHIA PEDIATRIC SOCIETY
- Member AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, COUNCIL ON CARDIOVASULAR DISEASE IN THE YOUNG
Fellowships
- Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT Pediatric Cardiology
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