Dr. Kirk R Kanter M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
1405 Clifton Rd Ne 1st Floor Atlanta GA, 30322About
Dr. Kirk Kanter is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Kanter specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Kanter typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Education and Training
Albany Medical College - Union University 1976
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS- Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Experience with a low profile bipolar, active fixation pacing lead in pediatric patients.
- Diagnosis and catheter treatment of innominate artery stenosis following stage I Norwood procedure.
- Late-onset dysphagia lusoria.
- In vivo flow dynamics of the total cavopulmonary connection from three-dimensional multislice magnetic resonance imaging.
- The Konno aortoventriculoplasty for repeat aortic valve replacement.
- Warfarin therapy does not increase bleeding in patients undergoing heart transplantation.
- Survival and incidence of acute rejection in heart transplant recipients undergoing successful withdrawal from steroid therapy.
- Deletion of chromosome 22q11.2 and outcome in patients with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect.
- Ten-year follow-up in patients with combined heart and kidney transplantation.
- Nickel allergy to the percutaneous patent foramen ovale occluder and subsequent systemic nickel allergy.
- Thrombolytic therapy for prosthetic valve thrombosis in children: two case reports and review of the literature.
- Pravastatin therapy is associated with reduction in coronary allograft vasculopathy in pediatric heart transplantation.
- Cost-utility analysis of salvage cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in children.
- Cardiac retransplantation in childhood: analysis of data from the United Network for Organ Sharing.
- Lung transplantation: a current perspective.
Awards
- Atlanta Super Doctors 2012
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Congenital Heart Disease
Fellowships
- Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital
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