Dr. Constantine L. Athanasuleas M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Constantine Athanasuleas is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Athanasuleas specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Athanasuleas 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
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1975
Board Certification
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alabama coronary artery bypass grafting Cooperative Project: baseline data. Alabama CABG Cooperative Project Study Group.
- Seeing congestive heart failure with the eyes of the mind: a surgical view.
- Inferior wall restoration: anatomic and surgical considerations.
- The STICH trial: misguided conclusions.
- Decision making in ischemic cardiomyopathy: is the Cleveland Clinic model valid?
- Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of bronchopulmonary vein fistula
- Surgical ventricular restoration: where do we go from here?
- Effects of antegrade versus integrated blood cardioplegia on left ventricular function evaluated by echocardiographic real-time 3-dimensional speckle tracking.
- Left ventricular dysfunction after mitral valve repair: predetermined or caused?
- Cardioplegia: solutions or strategies?
- Preoperative right ventricular dysfunction should not preclude surgical ventricular restoration.
- Toward a rational operation for transposition of the great arteries.
- The autologous rectus sheath valve. II. Pulmonary valve and artery replacement in the calf.
- Profound accidental hypothermia in the deep South: clinical experience.
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