The Master Clinician Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Director, The UPMC Clinical Center of Medical Decision Making
Cardiology
Dr. William P. Follansbee, MD
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Dr. William P. Follansbee works in the field of Cardiology. He studied medicine at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has 8 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Pittsburgh top doctors", "The Best Doctors in America", "Peter J. Safar Pulse of Pittsburgh Award, American Heart Association 2008", "Establishment of the William P. Follansbee Master Clinician Professorship of Medicine", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Top MD" and "Fellow (FACC)". Doctor William P. Follansbee, MD is also published. He has 44 publications published. The lastest publication: "Electrophysiological effects of a new antiarrhythmic agent, flecainide, on the intact canine heart.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- A prospective evaluation of the repeatability of left ventricular ejection fraction measurement by gated SPECT.
- Relationship between silent myocardial ischemia and Coronary artery disease risk factors.
- On the Importance of Image Gating for the Assay of Left Ventricular Mechanical Dyssynchrony Using SPECT.
- Predictors of an ischemic electrocardiographic response in patients with exercise-induced Myocardial ischemia.
- Is this Heart broken?
- Clinical value of attenuation correction in stress-only Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT imaging.
- What is the mechanism of this wide-complex tachycardia? More questions than answers.
- A prospective pilot study to evaluate the relationship between Acute change in left ventricular synchrony after cardiac resynchronization therapy and patient outcome u...
- Multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of correction for photon attenuation and scatter in SPECT Myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Assessment of biventricular cardiac function in patients with a Novacor left ventricular assist device.
- Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in ambulatory patients: characteristics and association with sudden cardiac death.
- Physiologic abnormalities of cardiac function in progressive systemic sclerosis with diffuse scleroderma.
- Type A and ectopy in patients with Coronary artery disease and controls.
- Myocardial function and perfusion in the CREST Syndrome variant of progressive systemic sclerosis. Exercise radionuclide evaluation and comparison with diffuse sclerod...
- The Acute hemodynamic effects of a new agent, MDL 17,043, in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
- Task-induced ST segment depression, ectopic beats, and autonomic responses in Coronary heart disease patients.
- Left ventricular diastolic filling in patients with Coronary artery disease and normal left ventricular function.
- Noninvasive diagnosis of mirror-image dextrocardia with thoracic-abdominal discordance.
- Role of inflammation in the lung Disease of systemic sclerosis: comparison with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
- Pattern of left ventricular diastolic filling in chronic Aortic regurgitation: a gated blood pool assessment.
- Left ventricular diastolic filling in valvular Aortic stenosis.
- Electrocardiographically discrete right and left ventricular QRS complexes: a case report.
- Amiodarone-associated thyrotoxicosis masquerading as painful thyroiditis.
- CardioPulmonary manifestations of systemic sclerosis.
- The cardiovascular manifestations of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).
- The electrocardiogram in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). Study of 102 consecutive cases with functional correlations and review of the literature.
- Clinical presentation and noninvasive evaluation of the patient with hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Simplified count-based estimates of left ventricular volume.
- Comparison of a supplemented Rose Questionnaire to exercise thallium testing in men and women.
- A controlled clinicopathologic study of Myocardial fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).
- The scalar electrocardiogram of the orthotopic Heart transplant recipient.
- Cardiac manifestations of Churg-Strauss Syndrome: report of a case and review of the literature.
- Noninvasive evaluation of supraventricular tachycardias.
- Acute myocardial dysfunction and recovery: a common occurrence after coronary bypass surgery.
- Continuous on-line monitoring of left ventricular function with a new nonimaging detector:validation and clinical use in the evaluation of patients post angioplasty.
- Changes in left ventricular systolic function that accompany rejection of the transplanted Heart: a serial radionuclide assessment of fifty-three consecutive cases.
- Effects of Acute alterations in left ventricular loading conditions on peak filling rate in the denervated (transplanted) ventricle.
- Electrophysiological effects of a new antiarrhythmic agent, flecainide, on the intact canine Heart.
- Cardiac involvement in scleroderma.
- Mitral annular descent velocity by tissue Doppler echocardiography as an index of global left ventricular function.
- Thallium perfusion Defects predict subsequent cardiac dysfunction in patients with systemic sclerosis.
- Cardiac and skeletal muscle Disease in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma): a high risk association.
- Comparison of left ventricular function by echocardiographic automated border detection and by radionuclide ejection fraction.
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
Hospital Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
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Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortic Ectasia
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Pittsburgh top doctors
- The Best Doctors in America
- Peter J. Safar Pulse of Pittsburgh Award, American Heart Association 2008
- Establishment of the William P. Follansbee Master Clinician Professorship of Medicine
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Top MD
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Health System -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1942273057 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | FOLLANSBEE | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | WILLIAM | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152132546 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 2831.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1942273057 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | FOLLANSBEE |
| First Name Of The Provider | WILLIAM |
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