Dr. Richard Merrill Schieken MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
422 September Dr Henrico VA, 23229About
Dr. Richard Schieken is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Henrico, VA. Dr. Schieken 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
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1965
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Preventive cardiology: smoking, lipids and atherosclerosis, and blood pressure.
- Childhood passive smoking, race, and coronary artery disease risk: the MCV Twin Study. Medical College of Virginia.
- Balloon dilation of discrete subaortic stenosis associated with other cardiac defects in children.
- Complete heart block in viral myocarditis.
- Echocardiography in pulmonary venous obstruction.
- Mediastinal teratoma: A rare cause of severe respiratory distress in the newborn.
- Echocardiographic abnormalities in acute rheumatic fever.
- Echocardiographic abnormalities in acute rheumatic fever.
- Effects of childhood hypertension on the heart. The heart and hypertension.
- Sex differences in the determinants of left ventricular mass in childhood. The Medical College of Virginia Twin Study.
- Why screen children for blood cholesterol levels?
- Aphidicolin-inducible common fragile-site expression: results from a population survey of twins.
- Blood pressure response to exercise. A marker for future hypertension?
- Case of steel versus steal: coil embolization of congenital coronary arteriovenous fistula.
- Effect of exercise on lipids.
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