William P Follansbee MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
200 Lothrop St Wing 5b Puh Pittsburgh PA, 15213About
Dr. William Follansbee is a cardiologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Follansbee specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Follansbee also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1974
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1974
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Is this heart broken?
- Continuous on-line monitoring of left ventricular function with a new nonimaging
- Predictors of an ischemic electrocardiographic response in patients with exercise-induced myocardial ischemia.
- Noninvasive evaluation of supraventricular tachycardias.
- On the importance of image gating for the assay of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony using SPECT.
- Relationship between silent myocardial ischemia and coronary artery disease risk
- A prospective evaluation of the repeatability of left ventricular ejection fraction measurement by gated SPECT.
- Simplified count-based estimates of left ventricular volume.
- Clinical presentation and noninvasive evaluation of the patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- The cardiovascular manifestations of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).
- Cardiopulmonary manifestations of systemic sclerosis.
- Amiodarone-associated thyrotoxicosis masquerading as painful thyroiditis.
- Electrocardiographically discrete right and left ventricular QRS complexes: a case report.
- Noninvasive diagnosis of mirror-image dextrocardia with thoracic-abdominal discordance.
- Left ventricular diastolic filling in patients with coronary artery disease and normal left ventricular function.
Treatments
- High Cholesterol
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
Fellowships
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-7 Dulles, Philadelphia, PA
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