Dr. David T Balzer MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1 Childrens Pl Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. David Balzer practices Pediatric Surgery in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Balzer treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Balzerdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
St Louis Univ Sch of Med, St Louis Mo 1985
Saint Louis University School of Medicine 1985
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Cardiology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transplant coronary artery disease in pediatric heart transplant recipients.
- Increased morbidity and high variability of cyclosporine levels in pediatric heart transplant recipients.
- Selective coronary angiography in pediatric patients.
- Echocardiographic prediction of left-to-right shunt with atrial septal defects.
- Resolution of right heart enlargement after closure of secundum atrial septal defect with transcatheter technique.
- Radiofrequency perforation in the treatment of acquired left pulmonary artery atresia following repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
- Transcatheter occlusion of baffle leaks following atrial switch procedures for transposition of the great vessels (d-TGV).
- Novel use of the Amplatzer duct occluder to close perivalvar leak involving a prosthetic mitral valve.
- Transcatheter occlusion of a large pulmonary arteriovenous malformation using the Amplatzer vascular plug.
- Transcatheter ventricular septal defect (VSD) creation for restrictive VSD in double-outlet right ventricle.
- Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation: fixing the problems and pushing the envelope.
- Contemporary transcatheter interventions in adult congenital heart disease.
- Case Report: Percutaneous Closure of an Ascending Aortic Pseudoaneurysm by 3D Angiography Guidance.
- Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation Alters Electrophysiologic Substrate.
- Transhepatic venous access for diagnostic and interventional cardiovascular procedures.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Peripheral Artery Disease (pad)
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