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Jeffrey R Boris, M.D.  
Male
Philadelphia - PA

Specialties: Ambulatory Cardiology, pediatric cardiology

Interests: Electronic medical records, Ambulatory Cardiology

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Cardiology
877-77 HEART (877-774-3278)
34th Street and Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia - PA
sporadic/nocturnal rapid heartbeats
Dec 10, 2009 03:59PM in the Pediatric Heart Expert Forum
Dear Numa, In the absence of being able to further evaluate your son or review the data that I would need myself, I can give you only a limited set of thoughts on this. For starters, I do not believe that this has anything to do with the electronic devices in his life. The most common reason that I see for adolescent patients who have this is relative de...
My daughter's rapid breathing spells
Dec 10, 2009 02:38PM in the Pediatric Heart Expert Forum
Dear Danizyszat, It would actually be better if you called my office and got a message to me that way, so that I can talk with you directly with your daughter's electronic chart information in front of me. That way, I can have all the information that I need, including being able to review her history as well as being able to ask you further questions, as...
PVC
Dec 08, 2009 04:16PM in the Pediatric Heart Expert Forum
Dear CMJN, I cannot tell you if this is fatal without further evaluation of your son. The majority of the time, premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are not fatal as long as he’s not having several in a row and they’re not getting worse with exercise. Therefore, we often evaluate our children with frequent PVCs in several ways. An echocardiogra...
5 year old son, complaining of chest pain
Dec 08, 2009 04:14PM in the Pediatric Heart Expert Forum
Dear ND There is very little information here for me to be able to tell you if this is significant or not. If you had told me that he just had some chest pain that was worse with taking in deep breaths, I may be able to say that it’s likely benign. However, I don’t know the characteristics of the pain or other information that I would need to truly b...
aortic root dilation in 13 year old boy
Dec 08, 2009 04:12PM in the Pediatric Heart Expert Forum
Dear Neener, With a Z score of 4, which means that the aortic root is four standard deviations above the mean (normal is plus or minus 2) plus aortic insufficiency, it sounds like your son has some significantly abnormal cardiac findings, although there is more information that I would want to know. Thus, the things that you want to find out from your ped...
Dilated Left ventricle
Dec 03, 2009 02:53PM in the Pediatric Heart Expert Forum
Dear Shamante, Dilated left ventricle, in which the pumping chamber on the left side of the heart is enlarged, is a finding on an echocardiogram. It is not a disease, but it is abnormal and can be the result of various disease processes. Since I know nothing about your son’s evaluation besides this one finding, I cannot tell you what treatments should ...