Dr. Anthony Marcus Hlavacek MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
171 Ashley Ave Charleston SC, 29425About
Dr. Anthony Hlavacek is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Hlavacek 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.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 2001
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transthoracic real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis and description of noncompaction of ventricular myocardium.
- Contrasting effects of convective flow on catheter ablation lesion size: cryo versus radiofrequency energy.
- Universal screening for extracardiac abnormalities in neonates with congenital heart disease.
- Computed tomographic angiography of infants with congenital heart disease receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
- Sternal erosion detected by computed tomographic angiography before repeat sternotomy in an adolescent with congenital heart disease.
- Utility of computed tomographic angiography in the pre-operative planning for initial and repeat congenital cardiovascular surgery.
- Imaging of congenital cardiovascular disease: the case for computed tomography.
- Coronary artery dilation in LEOPARD syndrome: surveillance with low radiation dose cardiac CT.
- Recurrent subaortic membrane causing subvalvular aortic stenosis 13 years after
- Veno-venous bridges: the forerunners of the sinus venosus defect.
- Developmental aortic arch anomalies in infants and children assessed with CT angiography.
- Progressive intra-individual radiation dose reduction during CT surveillance of a patient with ALCAPA syndrome.
- Effective radiation dose in computed tomographic angiography of the chest and
- Predictive modeling of the virtual Hemi-Fontan operation for second stage single ventricle palliation: two patient-specific cases.
- Veno-venous bridge in a neonate with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Kawasaki Disease
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