Physician
Cardiology
Dr. Kwame O. Akosah, MD
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Kwame Akosah works in the field of Cardiology. He went to Howard University College of Medicine. He has 3 awards "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Fellow (FACP)" and "Fellow (FACC)". Kwame O. Akosah is a published physician as well. He has 33 publications published. The latest was: Echocardiographic evaluation of patients with a left ventricular device. He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Sub-optimal achievement of guideline-derived lipid goals in management of diabetic patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular Disease, despite high use of evidence-b...
- Heart failure due to coronary fistulas from the right and left coronary circulation into the right atrium.
- Closing the Heart failure management gap in the community: managing hypotension and impact on outcomes.
- Pilot Results of the Early Detection by Ultrasound of Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness Evaluation (EDUCATE) study.
- Carotid ultrasound for risk clarification in young to middle-aged adults undergoing elective Coronary angiography.
- Metabolic syndrome and coronary Heart disease equivalent conditions in predicting cardiovascular events in young to middle-aged adults.
- Improving outcomes in Heart failure in the community: long-term survival benefit of a disease-management program.
- Myocardial ischemia and induction of sustained ventricular tachyArrhythmias: evaluation using dobutamine stress echocardiography-electrophysiologic testing.
- Preventing Myocardial infarction in the young adult in the first place: how do the National Cholesterol Education Panel III guidelines perform?
- Using a systemwide care path to enhance compliance with guidelines for Acute myocardial infarction.
- Relationship between dobutamine-induced regional wall motion abnormalities and coronary flow reserve in Heart transplant patients without angiographic coronary artery ...
- Improving care for patients with chronic Heart failure in the community: the importance of a disease management program.
- Myocardial infarction in young adults with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels < or = 100 mg/dL: clinical profile and 1-year outcomes.
- Chronic Heart failure in the community: missed diagnosis and missed opportunities.
- Mild hypercholesterolemia and premature Heart disease: do the national criteria underestimate disease risk?
- Safety profile and hemodynamic responses to beta-adrenergic stimulation by dobutamine in Heart transplant patients.
- Accelerated transplant coronary artery disease and massive silent acute myocardial infarction in a Heart transplant patient--a case report and brief review of literature.
- Acquired Atrial septal defect as a complication of endocarditis--a case report.
- Echocardiographic evaluation of patients with a left ventricular device.
- Dobutamine stress echocardiography early after Heart transplantation predicts development of allograft coronary artery disease and outcome.
- Role of dobutamine stress echocardiography in Heart transplant patients.
- Factors associated with elevated impedance with a nonthoracotomy deFibrillation lead system.
- Dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts cardiac events in Heart transplant patients.
- Cardiac complications in noncardiac surgery: relative value of resting two-dimensional echocardiography and dipyridamole thallium imaging.
- Cardiac complications in noncardiac surgery: value of dobutamine stress echocardiography versus dipyridamole thallium imaging.
- Dobutamine stress echocardiography in orthotopic Heart transplant recipients.
- Dobutamine stress-induced Angina in patients with denervated cardiac transplants. Clinical and angiographic correlates.
- Left atrial appendage contractile function in atrial fibrillation. Influence of Heart rate and cardioversion to sinus rhythm.
- Noninvasive detection of transplant Coronary artery disease by dobutamine stress echocardiography.
- Atrioventricular fistula: an unusual complication of endomyocardial biopsy in a Heart transplant recipient.
- Direct in vivo evaluation of pulmonary arterial pathology in chronic congestive Heart failure with catheter-based intravascular ultrasound imaging.
- Ischemia-induced regional wall motion abnormality is improved after Coronary angioplasty: demonstration by dobutamine stress echocardiography.
Schools
Howard University College Of Medicine
St Vincent39s Hospital and Med Center
St Vincents HospampMed Center
Va Commonwealth University Med College Va
Procedures Preformed
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
- Cardioversion, Elective
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACP)
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Virginia Commonwealth University Health System -
Howard University College of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1710989074 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | AKOSAH | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | KWAME | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152124756 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 225.0 | |
| 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] | 1710989074 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | AKOSAH |
| First Name Of The Provider | KWAME |
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