Dr. Howard Charles Lewin M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Cardiology
8581 Santa Monica Blvd # 471 West Hollywood CA, 90069Rating
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Dr. Howard Lewin practices Nuclear Medicine in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Lewin uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
Education and Training
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1991
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The economic consequences of available diagnostic and prognostic strategies for the evaluation of stable angina patients: an observational assessment of the value of precatheterization ischemia. Economics of Noninvasive Diagnosis (END) Multicenter St
- Incremental prognostic value of post-stress left ventricular ejection fraction and volume by gated myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography.
- Incremental prognostic value of rest-redistribution (201)Tl single-photon emission computed tomography.
- Incremental prognostic value of myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography in patients with diabetes mellitus.
- A new algorithm for the quantitation of myocardial perfusion SPECT. I: technical principles and reproducibility.
- A new algorithm for the quantitation of myocardial perfusion SPECT. II: validation and diagnostic yield.
- Comparative localization of myocardial ischemia by exercise electrocardiography and myocardial perfusion SPECT.
- Noninvasive strategies for the estimation of cardiac risk in stable chest pain patients. The Economics of Noninvasive Diagnosis (END) Study Group.
- Postexercise lung uptake of 99mTc-sestamibi determined by a new automatic technique: validation and application in detection of severe and extensive coronary artery disease and reduced left ventricular function.
- Identification of severe and extensive coronary artery disease by postexercise regional wall motion abnormalities in Tc-99m sestamibi gated single-photon emission computed tomography.
- When to stress patients after coronary artery bypass surgery? Risk stratification in patients early and late post-CABG using stress myocardial perfusion SPECT: implications of appropriate clinical strategies.
- Quantitative assessment of motion artifacts and validation of a new
- Prediction of myocardial infarction versus cardiac death by gated myocardial perfusion SPECT: risk stratification by the amount of stress-induced ischemia and the poststress ejection fraction.
- Nuclear cardiology and electron-beam computed tomography: competitive or complementary?
- Serial changes on quantitative myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients undergoing revascularization or conservative therapy.
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