Peter C Spittell M.D.
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Peter Spittell is a cardiologist practicing in Rochester, MN. Dr. Spittell specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Spittell also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Creighton University School of Medicine 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Cardiovascular Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Severe digital arterial occlusive disease and acute parvovirus B19 infection.
- Cocaine-related vasculitis causing upper-limb peripheral vascular disease.
- 28-year-old man with recurrent fever.
- Acute aortic dissection: population-based incidence compared with degenerative aortic aneurysm rupture.
- Chronic pernio: another cause of blue toes.
- Venous complications after insertion of a transvenous pacemaker.
- The abdominal aorta and constrictive pericarditis: abdominal aortic respiratory variation as an echocardiographic finding in constrictive pericarditis.
- Residents can be trained to detect abdominal aortic aneurysms using personal ultrasound imagers: a pilot study.
- Facilitation of the subclavian-introducer technique with contrast venography.
- Constrictive pericarditis due to graft-vs-host disease.
- Vasospasm Is a Consistent Finding in Pernio (Chilblains) and a Possible Clue to Pathogenesis.
- 64-year-old woman with chest pain and presyncope.
- 79-year-old woman with blue toes.
- The premortem recognition of systemic senile amyloidosis with cardiac involvement.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Aneurysm
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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