Cardiology

Clinical Instructor, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics joint appointment, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine


Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
3705 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-7366
412-692-5169 Fax
chryca@chp.edu
Critical care inpatients only.

Medical School:

1996 University Medical School of Debrecen, Hungary

Residency:

2001 University of Minnesota

Fellowship:

2003 Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami, FL
2004 Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

• Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Sockety
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• American College of Cardiology

• Sedation and anesthesia of children in a) critical care units, b) after cardiopulmonary bypass, c) during invasive and diagnostic procedures such as cardiac catheterization
• Lactic acidosis during and after cardiopulmonary bypass
• Use of thromboelastograms (TEG) in pediatric cardiac intensive care unit

Constantinos Chrysostomou, MD, joins the faculty in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit after completing fellowships in pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiac intensive care at Children's. A native of Cyprus, Dr. Chrysostomou co-founded the first dobutamine stress echocardiography lab in that country, at Paphos General Hospital. His current research interests include the use of novel sedative agents after cardiac surgery and the use of EPR spectroscopy in measuring nitric oxide bound hemoglobin in patients with pulmonary hypertension after cardiopulmonary bypass.