The One Minute Clinic on FFR: Unexplained chest pain in patient in renal faliure with prior negative physiology in CAD
Dr. Kern is currently the Chief of Cardiology, Veterans Administration Long Beach Heath Care System and staff interventional Cardiologist. His research interests include coronary blood flow,...
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Dr. Kern is currently the Chief of Cardiology, Veterans Administration Long Beach Heath Care System and staff interventional Cardiologist. His research interests include coronary blood flow, intravascular physiology, intravascular ultrasound, vulnerable plaque and evaluation of cardiovascular hemodynamics.
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Dr. Kern is Chief of Medicine, VA Long Beach Health Care System, Professor of Medicine, University California,...
Dr. Kern is Chief of Medicine, VA Long Beach Health Care System, Professor of Medicine, University California, Irvine. He continues to perform and teach cardiac catheterization and PCI. Dr. Kern is ABIM Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology and is a past president and now a Master Fellow of the SCAI. His research interests in coronary blood flow, intravascular physiology, intravascular ultrasound, vulnerable plaque and evaluation of cardiovascular hemodynamics. He has authored several textbooks, notably The Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 6th ed. and its companion The Interventional Cardiac Cath Handbook, 4th ed.
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Nice one Prof Kern. Surgeons usually ask us if their LIMA can work on intermediate kind of LAD lesions crossfilling a large sized RCA CTO? Can physiology help as we all know the FFR/iFR value can be falsely significant due to increase in the LV supplied by the LAD