Cardiology

Michael G.W. Camitta, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor in Medicine
Campus mail Box 3090 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 684-3574
Email address michael.camitta@duke.edu

Echocardiography

Fetal cardiology

Pediatric congenital and acquired heart disease

Adult congenital heart disease

Single ventricle palliation approaches, long-term medical therapies and outcome improvement.

Pericardial effusions after bone marrow transplantation.

Risk factors for development of pulmonary hypertension in the adult congenital cardiac population

Treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adult congenital cardiac patients

Education and Training

  • Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics, Duke University, 1999 - 2002
  • Resident, Pediatrics, Duke University, 1996 - 1999
  • M.D., University of Texas San Antonio, 1996

Publications

Awerbach, JD, Krasuski, RA, and Camitta, MGW. "Coronary Disease and Modifying Cardiovascular Risk in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Should General Guidelines Apply?." Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases (July 21, 2018). (Review)

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30041020
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Klein, M, and Wang, A. "Infective Endocarditis." 151-163. March 2016.

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Camitta, MGW, Geme, JWS, and Li, JS. "Diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis." In Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care, 2307-2327. January 1, 2014.

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Colan, SD, Shirali, G, Margossian, R, Gallagher, D, Altmann, K, Canter, C, Chen, S, Golding, F, Radojewski, E, Camitta, M, Carboni, M, Rychik, J, Stylianou, M, Tani, LY, Tierney, ESS, Wang, Y, Sleeper, LA, and Investigators, PHN. "The Ventricular Volume Variability Study of the Pediatric Heart Network: Study Design and Impact of Beat Averaging and Variable Type on the Reproducibility of Echocardiographic Measurements in Children with Chronic Dilated Cardiomyopathy." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY 25, no. 8 (August 2012): 842-+.

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22677278
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Andersen, ND, DiBernardo, LR, Linardic, CM, Camitta, MGW, and Lodge, AJ. "Recurrent inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the heart." Circulation 125, no. 19 (May 15, 2012): 2379-2381.

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22586293
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Hwang, EI, Camitta, MGW, Vinesett, R, Mendizabal, A, Wood, S, Semmel, D, Page, K, Driscoll, TA, Parikh, SH, Szabolcs, P, Martin, PL, Kurtzberg, J, and Prasad, VK. "Pericardial Effusion Following Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation: Analysis in a Cohort Of 423 Pediatric Patients Transplanted at a Single Center." February 2009.

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Barker, PCA, Houle, H, Li, JS, Miller, S, Herlong, JR, and Camitta, MGW. "Global longitudinal cardiac strain and strain rate for assessment of fetal cardiac function: novel experience with velocity vector imaging." Echocardiography 26, no. 1 (January 2009): 28-36.

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19017328
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Drinker, LR, Camitta, MGW, Herlong, JR, Miller, S, Lodge, AJ, Jaggers, J, and Barker, PCA. "Use of the monoplane intracardiac imaging probe in high-risk infants during congenital heart surgery." Echocardiography 25, no. 9 (October 2008): 999-1003.

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18771552
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Milazzo, AS, Golioto, A, Camitta, MGW, and O'Laughlin, MP. "An infant with subvalvar and valvar aortic stenosis, subvalvar and valvar pulmonary stenosis, severe biventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary hemorrhage." Pediatr Cardiol 24, no. 2 (March 2003): 169-171.

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12360389
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Camitta, MG, Gabel, SA, Chulada, P, Bradbury, JA, Langenbach, R, Zeldin, DC, and Murphy, E. "Cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 knockout mice demonstrate increased cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury but are protected by acute preconditioning." Circulation 104, no. 20 (November 13, 2001): 2453-2458.

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11705824
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