Jeffrey A Leppo MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Cardiology
777 North St Cardiology Pittsfield MA, 01201About
Dr. Jeffrey Leppo practices Nuclear Medicine in Pittsfield, MA. Dr. Leppo 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
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1973
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen".
- Stable labeled microspheres to measure perfusion: validation of a neutron activation assay technique.
- The influence of attenuation and scatter compensation on the apparent distribution of Tc-99m sestamibi in cardiac slices.
- Planar myocardial perfusion imaging with technetium-99m-teboroxime: comparison by vascular territory with thallium-201 and coronary angiography.
- Prediction of late cardiac events by dipyridamole thallium imaging in patients undergoing elective vascular surgery.
- Human-observer receiver-operating-characteristic evaluation of attenuation, scatter, and resolution compensation strategies for (99m)Tc myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Myocardial perfusion SPECT reconstruction: receiver operating characteristic comparison of CAD detection accuracy of filtered backprojection reconstruction with all of the clinical imaging information available to readers and solely stress slices ite
- Dipyridamole-thallium scintigraphy predicts perioperative and long-term survival after major vascular surgery.
- Comparing cardiac ejection fraction estimation algorithms without a gold standard.
- Simultaneous assessment of cardiac perfusion and function using 5-dimensional imaging with Tc-99m teboroxime.
- A thallium scan goes to court.
- Prognosis following interventional therapy for acute myocardial infarction: utility of dipyridamole thallium scintigraphy.
- Dipyridamole 201Tl scintigraphy in the evaluation of prognosis after myocardial infarction.
- Seventh annual Mario S. Verani, MD Memorial Lecture: "ASNC and integrating cardiac imaging".
- 111In antimyosin antibody uptake is related to the age of myocardial infarction.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
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Practice At 777 North St Cardiology
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