Professor, Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Kirk R. Kanter, MD
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Kirk R. Kanter is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He graduated from Albany Medical College. He over the years received 3 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Atlanta Magazine: Top Doctors" and "Super Doctor". Kirk R. Kanter is a published doctor. He published 75 publications, including: 'Factors affecting death and progression towards next stage following modified Blalock-Taussig shunt in neonates.'
Publications
- Factors affecting death and progression towards next stage following modified Blalock-Taussig shunt in neonates†.
- Influence of Morphology and Initial Surgical Strategy on Survival of Infants With Tricuspid Atresia.
- Results of Palliation With an Initial Modified Blalock-Taussig Shunt in Neonates With Single Ventricle Anomalies Associated With Restrictive Pulmonary Blood Flow.
- Outcomes and risk factors for heart transplantation in children with end-stage Cardiomyopathyâ
- Current outcomes of the Norwood operation in patients with single-ventricle malformations other than hypoplastic left Heart syndrome.
- Late outcomes of infants supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation following the Norwood operation.
- Single Ventricle Palliation in Low Weight Patients Is Associated With Worse Early And Midterm Outcomes.
- Outcomes and hospital costs associated with the Norwood operation: beyond morbidity and mortality.
- Surgical Planning of the Total Cavopulmonary Connection: Robustness Analysis.
- Inflammatory response after neonatal cardiac surgery and its relationship to clinical outcomes.
- Early Renal Replacement Therapy During Pediatric Cardiac Extracorporeal Support Increases Mortality.
- In-Hospital Shunt Occlusion in Infants Undergoing a Modified Blalock-Taussig Shunt.
- Haemodynamic comparison of a novel flow-divider Optiflo geometry and a traditional total cavopulmonary connection.
- Simulating hemodynamics of the Fontan Y-graft based on patient-specific in vivo connections.
- Caloric intake during the perioperative period and growth failure in infants with congenital heart Disease.
- Late Development of a Gigantic Aneurysm of the NeoAorta After Norwood Palliation.
- Comparing Pre- and Post-operative Fontan Hemodynamic Simulations: Implications for the Reliability of Surgical Planning.
- Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Pediatric Cardiac Patients.
- Risk Factors Associated With Readmission After Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.
- Cannulation Strategy for Aortic Arch Reconstruction Using Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest.
- Biventricular Repair With the Yasui Operation (Norwood/Rastelli) for Systemic Outflow Tract Obstruction With Two Adequate Ventricles.
- Visualization of flow structures in Fontan patients using 3-dimensional phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging.
- Supra-Annular Mitral Valve Replacement in Children.
- Individualized computer-based surgical planning to address pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in patients with a single ventricle with an interrupted inferior vena ...
- Aortic complications after pediatric cardiac transplantation in patients with a previous Norwood reconstruction.
- Fibrofatty changes in failed pediatric cardiac allografts.
- Using past performance to guide referrals for Heart transplantation.
- Early and delayed atrioventricular conduction block after routine surgery for congenital heart Disease.
- Correction of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation using image-based surgical planning.
- Force frequency relationship of the human ventricle increases during early postnatal development.
- Adult Congenital heart surgery: adult or pediatric facility? Adult or pediatric surgeon?
- Fontan hemodynamics: importance of pulmonary artery diameter.
- Donor-recipient race mismatch and graft survival after pediatric Heart transplantation.
- Hemodynamic performance of stage-2 univentricular reconstruction: Glenn vs. hemi-Fontan templates.
- The total cavopulmonary connection resistance: a significant impact on single ventricle hemodynamics at rest and exercise.
- The bidirectional Glenn operation: a risk factor analysis for morbidity and mortality.
- Costs associated with ventricular assist device use in children.
- Cardiac surgery in adults performed at children's hospitals: trends and outcomes.
- The endothelin-1 G5665T polymorphism impacts transplant-free survival for single ventricle patients.
- Feeding difficulty in newborns following Congenital heart surgery.
- Adult congenital pulmonary Valve replacement: a simple, effective, and reproducible technique.
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: is it a superior technique for the division of vascular rings in children?
- Cerebral near infrared spectroscopy is a reliable marker of systemic perfusion in awake single ventricle children.
- Anatomically realistic patient-specific surgical planning of complex Congenital heart defects using MRI and CFD.
- Management of infants with Coarctation and ventricular septal defect.
- Freedom from neoAortic insufficiency: a comparison of classic Norwood and Norwood-Sano procedures.
- Reduction in initial ventricular systolic and diastolic velocities after Heart transplantation in children: improvement over time identified by tissue Doppler imaging.
- Failure of surface-modified bypass circuits to improve platelet function during pediatric cardiac surgery.
- Risk adjustment for Congenital heart surgery (RACHS): is it useful in a single-center series of newborns as a predictor of outcome in a high-risk population?
- Left ventricular aneurysm in a five-week-old child.
- Cost-effectiveness of pediatric Heart transplantation.
- Mixed constrictive pericarditis and restrictive Cardiomyopathy in a child: treatment guided by tissue Doppler imaging.
- Surgical repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection.
- Disparities in outcome for black patients after pediatric Heart transplantation.
- Total cavopulmonary connection flow with functional left pulmonary artery stenosis: angioplasty and fenestration in vitro.
- OKT3 treatment in refractory pediatric Heart transplant rejection.
- Upregulation of hypoxia inducible factor is associated with attenuation of neuronal injury in neonatal piglets undergoing deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.
- Nesiritide in infants and children with congestive Heart failure.
- Cardiac retransplantation in childhood: analysis of data from the United Network for Organ Sharing.
- Novel management strategy for severe cyanosis after Sano modification of the Norwood procedure.
- Cost-utility analysis of salvage cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in children.
- Pravastatin therapy is associated with reduction in coronary allograft vasculopathy in pediatric Heart transplantation.
- Cardiac retransplantation in children.
- Thrombolytic therapy for prosthetic Valve thrombosis in children: two case reports and review of the literature.
- Cytopathology of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis complicating lung transplantation.
- Nickel allergy to the percutaneous patent foramen ovale occluder and subsequent systemic nickel allergy.
- Ten-year follow-up in patients with combined Heart and kidney transplantation.
- Results with the freestyle porcine Aortic root for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction in children.
- Deletion of chromosome 22q11.2 and outcome in patients with pulmonary atresia and ventricular Septal defect.
- Reduction of tricuspid annular doppler tissue velocities in pediatric Heart transplant patients.
- Konno aortoventriculoplasty in children and adolescents: from prosthetic Valves to the Ross operation.
- One hundred pulmonary Valve replacements in children after relief of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
- Survival and incidence of acute rejection in Heart transplant recipients undergoing successful withdrawal from steroid therapy.
- Management of aortopulmonary collateral arteries in Fontan patients: occlusion improves clinical outcome.
Schools
Albany Medical College
Emory University Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
BromptonHarefield Hosps
Brompton and Harefield Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Shunting Procedures With or Without Aortic Repair or Coronary Anomaly Repair
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
- Maze Procedure
- Tracheal Surgery
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Conditions Treated
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Cardiomegaly
- Cardiomyopathy
- Coarctation of the Aorta
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
- Assurant Health
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- GEHA
- Choice Care PPO
- Preferred PPO
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Simplifi
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- WellCare
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Atlanta Magazine: Top Doctors
- Super Doctor
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Albany Medical College
Hospital
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Emory University Hospital -
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
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