Dr. Peter P. Karpawich M.D.
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
Childrens Hospital Of Michigan 3901 Beaubien Blvd - Detroit MI, 48201Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Peter Karpawich is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Karpawich specializes in caring for fetuses, infants, children and adolescents with cardiovascular or cardiac abnormalities. Practiced in both inpatient and outpatient settings, the scope of conditions cared for by pediatric cardiologists is large and includes congenital heart defects, heart muscle disorders, rhythm disturbances and hypertension.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alternative site pacing: it's time to define terms.
- Altered cardiac histology following apical right ventricular pacing in patients with congenital atrioventricular block.
- Single-dose pharmacokinetics of sotalol in a pediatric population with supraventricular and/or ventricular tachyarrhythmia.
- Biventricular pacing as alternative therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy associated with congenital heart disease.
- Left ventricular dysfunction after long-term right ventricular apical pacing in the young.
- Reversible symptomatic dilated cardiomyopathy in older children and young adolescents due to primary non-sinus supraventricular tachyarrhythmias.
- Single versus dual chamber pacing in the young: noninvasive comparative evaluation of cardiac function.
- Septal His-Purkinje ventricular pacing in canines: a new endocardial electrode approach.
- Chronic performance of steroid-eluting epicardial leads in a growing pediatric population: a 10-year comparison.
- Improved chronic epicardial pacing in children: steroid contribution to porous platinized electrodes.
- Pacemaker syndrome in the young: do children need dual chamber as the initial pacing mode?
- Chronic right ventricular pacing and cardiac performance: the pediatric
- Effectiveness of transvenous pacemaker leads placed through intravascular stents in patients with congenital heart disease.
- Developmental changes in sinus node function in growing children: an updated analysis.
- Superior vena cava and innominate vein dimensions in growing children : an aid for interventional devices and transvenous leads.
Awards
- 2011 Detroit Super Doctors
Treatments
- Cardiac Pacing, Congenital Heart Disease
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