Clarence William Balke MD
Cardiac Electrophysiologist | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
800 Rose St Lexington KY, 40536About
Dr. Clarence Balke is a Cardiac Electrophysicist practicing in Lexington, KY. Dr. Balke 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
Temple University School of Medicine 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cellular mechanisms of altered contractility in the hypertrophied heart: big hearts, big sparks.
- Ca(2+) release mechanisms, Ca(2+) sparks, and local control of excitation-contraction coupling in normal heart muscle.
- Distinguishing mechanisms from markers of cardiac contractile dysfunction: more than 1 way to skin the cat of heart failure.
- A custom confocal and two-photon digital laser scanning microscope.
- Triglycerides.
- Large currents generate cardiac Ca2+ sparks.
- Evolution of cardiac calcium waves from stochastic calcium sparks.
- Calcium currents and arrhythmias: insights from molecular biology.
- Graded alpha1-adrenoceptor activation of arteries involves recruitment of smooth muscle cells to produce 'all or none' Ca(2+) signals.
- Adrenergic stimulation of rat resistance arteries affects Ca(2+) sparks, Ca(2+) waves, and Ca(2+) oscillations.
- I(Ca(TTX)) channels are distinct from those generating the classical cardiac Na(+) current.
- Do defects in the late sodium current in human ventricular cells cause heart failure?
- An antisense oligonucleotide against H1 inhibits the classical sodium current but not ICa(TTX) in rat ventricular cells.
- Excitation contraction coupling in cardiac muscle: is there a purely voltage-dependent component?
- Therapeutic options in advanced heart failure.
Treatments
- Anxiety
- Heart Disease
- Atrial Flutter
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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