Michael G. W. Camitta, MD

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Services

• Pediatric Cardiology

Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Cardiology

Address:
DUMC 3090
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 668-4000

Office Telephone:
(919) 681-2916

Fax Telephone:
(919) 681-7892

• M.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1996

• Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1996-1999

• Pediatric Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1999-2002

Clinical Interests:
Pediatric cardiology; echocardiography including fetal, transthoracic, and transesophageal imaging; pediatric cardiac intensive care; fetal diagnosis and counselling; clinical research studies; telemedicine imaging

Research Interests:
Echocardiographic assesment of diastolic function.

RSV vaccination in patients with congenital heart disease.

Echocardiographic assesment of cardiomyopathies.

Single ventricle palliation approaches and long-term medical therapies.

Cardiopulmonary interactions in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Pericardial effusions after bone marrow transplantation.

Clopidigrel therapy for reduction of neonatal shunt thrombosis.

Evaluation of cardioac output in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Representative Publications:
Camitta MG, Gabel SA, Chulada P, Bradbury JA, Langenbach R, Zeldin DC, Murphy E. Cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 knockout mice demonstrate increased cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury but are protected by acute preconditioning. Circulation. 2001 Nov 13;104(20):2453-8. (2001) Abstract

Djordjevic S, Roberts DL, Wang M, Shea T, Camitta MG, Masters BS, Kim JJ. Crystallization and preliminary x-ray studies of NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Apr 11;92(8):3214-8. (1995) Abstract

Milazzo AS, Golioto A, Camitta MG, O'Laughlin MP. An infant with subvalvar and valvar aortic stenosis, subvalvar and valvar pulmonary stenosis, severe biventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary hemorrhage. Pediatr Cardiol. 2003 Mar-Apr;24(2):169-71. (2003) Abstract

Q & A with Michael Camitta, MD