Leon I. Kupferwasser M.D.
Cardiologist | Interventional Cardiology
16119 Vanowen St Van Nuys CA, 91406Rating
4/5
About
L. Iri Kupferwasser, MD, is a staff cardiologist with the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His main expertise include clinical and consultative cardiology, cardiac and peripheral ...
Education and Training
Universit‰tsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universit‰t Mainz 1991
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The presence of infection-related antiphospholipid antibodies in infective endocarditis determines a major risk factor for embolic events.
- Expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules on heart valves: up-regulation in degeneration as well as acute endocarditis.
- Echocardiography predicts embolic events in infective endocarditis.
- Diagnosis of culture-negative endocarditis: the role of the Duke criteria and the impact of transesophageal echocardiography.
- Low-level resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein 1 in vitro associated with qacA gene carriage is independent of multidrug efflux pump activity.
- Salicylic acid activates sigma factor B by rsbU-dependent and -independent mechanisms.
Treatments
- Sleep Apnea
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (osa)
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 2006
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