Professor Mohammad Movahed
University of Arizona - College of Medicine, Tucson (United States of America)
Biography
Dr. M Reza Movahed received his med degree and Dr. Med (PhD) from Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany. Interventional Cardiology at Yale University in 2000. In July 2010, he was promoted to Prof. of Med, Tenure at the Univ. of Arizona with over 300 publications and is Clinical Prof. of Med at the U of A, Phoenix. He has been Director of Cardiac Cath Lab and Nuclear Card. at the UCI and Dir. of CCU and Med. Dir. of Cardi. Transplantation at the U of. A. He was The Regional Cardiology Director of CareMore. He is world-renowned for his coronary bifurcation classification known as “The Movahed Classification” and discovery on the flatt interventricular septum as a sign for right ventricular overload called “ Movahed’s sign on Gated SPECT and reverse “Movahed Maneuver” for stent deliverability in tortuous vein grafts. His patents are: A device for removal of contrast from coronary sinus and device that can measure cross sectional lumen of a vessel. He is AHA board president in AZ.
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Independent of comorbidities, patients with diastolic or systolic heart failure, inpatient mortality is lowest in overweight followed by obesity and morbid obesity whereas is highest in cachexia
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High level of discordant between reported wedge pressure with diastolic pulmonary pressure found during right heart catheterization in patients awaiting cardiac transplantation
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) has highest all cause inpatient mortality rate in comparison to intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) or no device in cardiogenic shock
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Despite beta blocker therapy, recurrent Takotsubo (stress induced) cardiomyopathy occurred four years later at the same location
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