Michael August Blazing MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
4101 N Roxboro St Durham NC, 27704About
My role in cardiology at Duke has been in the prevention and management of advanced cardiovascular disease symptoms in my patients. In the area of prevention, I specialized in cholesterol treatment an ...
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease- 2007
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The health care burden of unstable angina.
- Evidence supporting secondary prevention strategies.
- Atherosclerotic disease in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: role of abnormal lipids and the place for lipid-altering therapies.
- Advances in the approach to acute coronary syndromes.
- The benefit of implementing a heart failure disease management program.
- Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP): enough evidence to support this and the next wave?
- Atrial fibrillation: conventional wisdom reappraised.
- Symptomatic cardiac events following radiation therapy for left-sided breast cancer: possible association with radiation therapy-induced changes in regional perfusion.
- Efficacy and safety of ezetimibe co-administered with simvastatin compared with
- Effects of early treatment with statins on short-term clinical outcomes in acute
- Impact of patient-specific factors, irradiated left ventricular volume, and treatment set-up errors on the development of myocardial perfusion defects after radiation therapy for left-sided breast cancer.
- Small cell lung cancer presenting as a paraneoplastic syndrome characterized by recurrent episodic hypotension and bradycardia: case report.
- Premature release of data from clinical trials of ezetimibe.
- Is rhythm-control superior to rate-control in patients with atrial fibrillation and diastolic heart failure?
- Risk of incident diabetes with intensive-dose compared with moderate-dose statin therapy: a meta-analysis.
Treatments
- Angina, Angiography (angiogram), Angioplasty And More
Fellowships
- Duke University Medical Ctr, Cardiology, NC, USA 1995
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