Stephen G Sawada M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1801 N Senate Blvd D4082 Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Stephen Sawada is a critical care surgeon practicing in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Sawada specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Sawada has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dobutamine stress echocardiography.
- A comparison of the interpretation of digitized and videotape recorded echocardiograms.
- Arbutamine stimulation detects viable myocardium 4 weeks after coronary occlusion.
- Usefulness of rest and low-dose dobutamine wall motion scores in predicting survival and benefit from revascularization in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.
- Left anterior descending coronary artery wall thickness measured by high-frequency transthoracic and epicardial echocardiography includes adventitia.
- Comparison of left ventriculography and coronary arteriography with positron emission tomography in assessment of myocardial viability.
- Congenital bicuspid aortic valve enodocarditis with multiple subvalvular complications and an acquired membranous ventricular septal defect.
- Dobutamine stress echocardiography: correlation with coronary lesion severity as determined by quantitative angiography.
- Distinguishing ischemic cardiomyopathy from nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy with coronary echocardiography.
- Comparison of tissue Doppler dynamics to Doppler flow in evaluating left atrial appendage function by transesophageal echocardiography.
- Positron emission tomography for assessment of viability.
- Prognostic importance of wall motion abnormalities in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
- Reduced right ventricular systolic function in constrictive pericarditis indicates myocardial involvement and persistent right ventricular dysfunction and symptoms after pericardiectomy.
- American Society of Echocardiography recommendations for performance, interpretation, and application of stress echocardiography.
- Prediction of ischemic events by anatomic M-mode strain rate stress
Fellowships
- Indiana University Medical Center, St. Mary Medical Center
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