Dr. Steven Donald Colan MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115Rating
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About
Dr. Steven Colan is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Colan 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
Boston Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1977
Boston University School of Medicine 1977
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy.
- Prognostic significance of clinically silent coronary artery fistulas.
- Evolution of risk factors influencing early mortality of the arterial switch operation.
- Cardiac complications in children with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Pediatric Pulmonary and Cardiac Complications of Vertically Transmitted HIV Infection (P2C2 HIV) Study Group, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- Abnormal myocardial mechanics in Kawasaki disease: rapid response to gamma-globulin.
- Reconstruction of 3-dimensional right ventricular shape and volume from 3
- A new quantitative method for the diagnosis of right ventricular hypertensive
- Non-invasive assessment of rejection in pediatric transplant patients: serologic and echocardiographic prediction of biopsy-proven myocardial rejection.
- Absence of cardiac toxicity of zidovudine in infants. Pediatric Pulmonary and Cardiac Complications of Vertically Transmitted HIV Infection Study Group.
- Cardiac structure and function in fetuses of mothers infected with HIV: the prospective PCHIV multicenter study.
- Misrepresentation of left ventricular contractile function by endocardial indexes: clinical implications after coarctation repair.
- Left ventricular mechanics during and after acute rheumatic fever: contractile dysfunction is closely related to valve regurgitation.
- Cardiac dysfunction and mortality in HIV-infected children: The Prospective P2C2 HIV Multicenter Study. Pediatric Pulmonary and Cardiac Complications of Vertically Transmitted HIV Infection (P2C2 HIV) Study Group.
- The risk of having additional obstructive lesions in neonatal coarctation of the aorta.
- Reliability of multicenter pediatric echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular structure and function: the prospective P(2)C(2) HIV study.
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Awards
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology 1986
- Fellow, Society for Pediatric Research 1993
- Fellow, American Society of Echocardiography 2005
- Founder's Award, American Society of Echocardiography 2007
- Boston University School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award 2010
- Donald C. Fyler Professor of Pediatrics 2012
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
Fellowships
- Boston Children's Hospital - Boston, MA 1981
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