Dr. Christian M. Heesch's Credentials

Accepting New Patients

Yes, this doctor is accepting new patients

Biography

Doctor Christian Heesch completed a six-year combined undergrad/graduate program at the Medical Faculty of the Free University Berlin, Germany. His medical sub-internship year was done at the Universite Paris VI ‘Pierre et Marie Curie’ in Paris, France. After obtaining his medical degree and a medical doctorate, he continued with an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in general cardiovascular medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, a fellowship in Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a coronary and peripheral interventional fellowship at the Cardiovascular Institute of the South in Louisiana. Dr. Heesch has held both academic and private practice positions. Aside from practicing in the United States, his work and his study of medicine and related topics have taken him to many foreign countries including Russia, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, Ghana and the Czech Republic. He is fluent in English, Russian, German, French and Spanish and enjoys working with patients from all parts of the world. Dr. Heesch is Board Certified and Recertified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology.

Languages

• English
• French
• Russian
• German
• Spanish

Areas of Expertise

• Heart attack
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Heart disease
• Heart failure
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart transplant

Publications & Research

• Hemodynamic and energetic comparison of bucindolol and metoprolol for the treatment of congestive heart failure
• Predictors of systolic and diastolic improvement in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy treated with metoprolol
• Magnesium therapy in acute myocardial infarction
• Cocaine activates platelets and increases the formation of circulating platelet containing microaggregates in humans.
• Effects of cocaine on human platelet aggregation in vitro
• Acute cardiovascular effects of OPC-18790 in patients with congestive heart failure: Time- and dose-dependence analysis based on pressure-volume relations
• Effect of metoprolol on myocardial function and energetics in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
• Effects of cocaine on cortisol secretion in humans.
• Changes in lymphocyte subpopulations in patients with hepatitis A and hepatitis C
• Platelet activating factor is an important mediator of myocardial reperfusion injury
• Assessment of a gradient of troponin I and CK-MB across the heart as a marker of ischemia
• Effects of in vivo cocaine administration on human platelets
• Effects of cocaine on anterior pituitary and gonadal hormones.