Dr. Walter L Sobczyk MD
Cardiologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Cardiology
601 S Floyd St Suite 602 Louisville KY, 40202About
Dr. Walter Sobczyk is a pediatric cardiologist practicing in Louisville, KY. Dr. Sobczyk 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
Univ of Ne Coll of Med, Omaha Ne 1983
University of Nebraska College of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A novel technique to prevent displacement of inferior vena cava filter during cardiac catheterization with subsequent transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale in a patient with cryptogenic shock.
- Right superior vena cava draining predominantly into the left atrium causing cyanosis in a young child.
- Thrombus formation within the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit (Sano shunt) as a cause of acute cyanosis in a patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
- Rare case of persistent left superior vena cava to left upper pulmonary vein: pathway for paradoxical embolization and development of transient ischemic attack and subsequent occlusion with an amplatzer vascular plug.
- Clinically occult "false-on-true" left ventricular aneurysm: association with late sudden death following mitral valve replacement.
- Use of two-dimensional and contrast echocardiography for venous cannula placement in venovenous extracorporeal life support.
- Use of extracorporeal life support in total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Pain
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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