Ruth C. Heede Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Radiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. Christopher Kramer, MD
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Dr. Christopher Kramer is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He went to University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is a top medical college. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 3 in primary care medicine He received awards:"CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Member" and "Fellow (FACC)". Christopher Kramer is also published. He has 98 publications published. The lastest publication: "Implementing Multimodality Imaging in the Future.' Christopher Kramer accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Implementing Multimodality Imaging in the Future.
- Role of Perfusion at Rest in the Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Using Vasodilator Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
- Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Performance of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography, Computed Tomography Perfusion, and Computed Tomography-Fractional Flow Reserve in ...
- First-pass myocardial perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage using L1-SPIRiT accelerated variable density spiral trajectories.
- Coronary microvascular dysfunction, microvascular angina, and treatment strategies.
- Increased extracellular volume and altered mechanics are associated with LVH in hypertensive heart disease, not hypertension alone.
- Singular Value Decomposition Applied to Cardiac Strain from MR Imaging for Selection of Optimal Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Candidates.
- Is it T1me for tissue characterization in myocarditis?
- Effect of Microvascular Obstruction and Intramyocardial Hemorrhage by CMR on LV Remodeling and Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analy...
- High-risk plaque in the superficial femoral artery of people with peripheral artery disease: Prevalence and associated clinical characteristics.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Nonischemic Myocardial Disease With Clinical Manifestations (Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Already Excluded).
- Cardiac MRI assessment of myocardial perfusion.
- Reply to Letter to the Editor: The MOGE(S) Classification for a phenotype-genotype nomenclature of cardiomyopathy More questions than answers?
- Adenosine Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance With Variable Density Spiral Pulse Sequences Accurately Detects Coronary Artery Disease: Initial Clinical Evaluation.
- Noncontrast peripheral MRA with spiral echo train imaging.
- MOGE(S) nosology in low-to-middle-income countries.
- CMR of Amyloidosis: Looking Between the Sheets.
- Molecular imaging of the cardiac extracellular matrix.
- Impact of Mechanical Activation, Scar, and Electrical Timing on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Response and Clinical Outcomes.
- Postprocedure Mapping of Cardiac Resynchronization Lead Position Using Standard Fluoroscopy Systems: Implications for the Nonresponder with Scar.
- Avoiding the Imminent Plague of Troponinitis: The Need for Reference Limits for High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria Imaging for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.
- Late Gadolinium Enhancement on CMR Predicts Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
- Assessing Cardiovascular Risk in Women: A Growing Body of Evidence.
- Coronary microvascular dysfunction in women: an overview of diagnostic strategies.
- Refocused turbo spin-echo for noncontrast peripheral MR angiography.
- Advances in stress cardiac MRI and computed tomography.
- Cardiac resynchronization: the flow of activation sequence.
- Advances in Parametric Mapping With CMR Imaging.
- Kalman filter techniques for accelerated Cartesian dynamic cardiac imaging.
- Proximal Superficial Femoral Artery Occlusion, Collateral Vessels, and Walking Performance in Peripheral Artery Disease.
- Response to van koppen et Al.
- T1 Mapping by CMR in Cardiomyopathy: A Noninvasive Myocardial Biopsy?
- Oxygenation and flow in the limbs: Novel methods to characterize peripheral artery disease.
- Markedly increased volume of distribution of gadolinium in cardiac amyloidosis demonstrated by T1 mapping.
- MRI in Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease: Recent Advancements.
- Reproducibility of rest and exercise stress contrast-enhanced calf perfusion magnetic resonance imaging in peripheral arterial disease.
- Improved first-pass spiral myocardial perfusion imaging with variable density trajectories.
- Arterial Spin Labeling MR Imaging Reproducibly Measures Peak-Exercise Calf Muscle Perfusion: A Study in Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease and Healthy Volunteers.
- Comparison of methods for determining the partition coefficient of gadolinium in the myocardium using T(1) mapping.
- Multimodality imaging of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease: current role and future directions.
- Myocardial Perfusion: Near-automated Evaluation from Contrast-enhanced MR Images Obtained at Rest and during Vasodilator Stress.
- MR Cine DENSE Dyssynchrony Parameters for the Evaluation of Heart Failure: Comparison With Myocardial Tissue Tagging.
- The microvasculature after reperfused myocardial infarction: to examine or not to examine?
- Elevated circulating fibrocyte levels in patients with hypertensive heart disease.
- Monocyte and/or Macrophage Infiltration of Heart after Myocardial Infarction: MR Imaging by Using T1-shortening Liposomes.
- Viability is in the eye of the beholder...
- LDL lowering in peripheral arterial disease: are there benefits beyond reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality?
- Prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement in clinical outcomes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Usefulness of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Superficial Femoral Artery for Screening Patients With Diabetes Mellitus for Atherosclerosis.
- T(2) -weighted MRI of post-infarct myocardial edema in mice.
- Assessment of the Accuracy and Reproducibility of RV Volume Measurements by CMR in Congenital Heart Disease.
- A Non-peptide Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor Agonist Does Not Attenuate Post-Myocardial Infarction Left Ventricular Remodeling in Mice.
- CMR Imaging: Creating Contrast Without Cosmetics...
- Displacement-encoded and manganese-enhanced cardiac MRI reveal that nNOS, not eNOS, plays a dominant role in modulating calcium cycling in the mammalian heart.
- MR Imaging-Verified Plaque Delipidation With Lipid-Lowering Therapy Important Questions Remain.
- Bibliographic Metrics at JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging An Opportunity for Audit and Reflection.
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance: applications in daily practice.
- Low-density lipoprotein lowering does not improve calf muscle perfusion, energetics, or exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease.
- Superficial Femoral Artery Plaque and Functional Performance in Peripheral Arterial Disease Walking and Leg Circulation Study (WALCS III).
- Optimization of spiral-based pulse sequences for first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Cost and yield of adding electrocardiography to history and physical in screening Division I intercollegiate athletes: a 5-year experience.
- The effect of ezetimibe on peripheral arterial atherosclerosis depends upon statin use at baseline.
- Superficial Femoral Artery Plaque, the Ankle Brachial Index, and Leg Symptoms in Peripheral Arterial Disease: The Walking and Leg Circulation Study (WALCS) III.
- Myocardial salvage determined by cardiac magnetic resonance is the most important prognostic imaging indicator in acute myocardial infarction.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of carotid atherosclerotic plaque in clinically suspected acute transient ischemic attack and acute ischemic stroke.
- Whither catheter-based intravascular magnetic resonance imaging of atherosclerosis?
- Imaging three-dimensional myocardial mechanics using navigator-gated volumetric spiral cine DENSE MRI.
- The year in coronary artery disease.
- Prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance: the future looks bright.
- Fusion images: more informative than the sum of individual images?
- Assessment of advanced coronary artery disease: advantages of quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance perfusion analysis.
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging identification of myocardial fibrosis: the need for standardization and therapies.
- Molecular imaging of atherosclerotic plaques targeted to oxidized LDL receptor LOX-1 by SPECT/CT and magnetic resonance.
- Why all the focus on cardiac imaging?
- Imaging modalities and radiation: benefit has its risks...
- Multimodality imaging of myocardial injury and remodeling.
- Steadily straining toward clinical utility: real-time quantitative CMR of myocardial deformation during stress.
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial infarction, viability, and cardiomyopathies.
- Improved arterial spin labeling after myocardial infarction in mice using cardiac and respiratory gated look-locker imaging with fuzzy C-means clustering.
- Dynamic registration of preablation imaging with a catheter geometry to guide ablation in a Swine model: validation of image integration and assessment of catheter nav...
- Detecting unrecognized myocardial infarction: the importance of imaging.
- Advances in Cardiovascular MRI for Diagnostics: Applications in Coronary Artery Disease and Cardiomyopathies.
- Interventional CMR: great promise, but a long road ahead.
- Multifactorial determinants of functional capacity in peripheral arterial disease: uncoupling of calf muscle perfusion and metabolism.
- Reduction in myocardial infarct size at 48 hours after brief intravenous infusion of ATL-146e, a highly selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist.
- Noninvasive imaging of the heart and coronary arteries.
- Comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
- Atherosclerotic plaque imaging: the last frontier for cardiac magnetic resonance.
- Newer methods for noninvasive assessment of myocardial perfusion: cardiac magnetic resonance or cardiac computed tomography?
- ACC/AHA/ACR/ASE/ASNC/HRS/NASCI/RSNA/SAIP/SCAI/ SCCT/SCMR/SIR 2008 Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiac Imaging: A Report of the American College of Cardiology...
- The prognostic importance of unrecognized myocardial scar in diabetic patients as identified by cardiac magnetic resonance.
- Three-dimensional echocardiography: is it ready for everyday clinical use?
- Insights into myocardial microstructure during infarct healing and remodeling: pathologists need not apply.
- Evaluation of the microcirculation: advances in cardiac magnetic resonance perfusion imaging.
- Patterns of late gadolinium enhancement in chronic hemodialysis patients.
- Measurement of left ventricular mass by contrast ventriculography.
Schools
University Of California San Francisco School Of Medicine
Hospital Of University Of Pennsylvania
Hospital Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Member
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Health System -
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Virginia Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1528137148 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KRAMER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | CHRISTOPHER | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 229080001 | |
| NPPES Provider State | VA | |
| Specialty Description | Diagnostic Radiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 236.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1528137148 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KRAMER |
| First Name Of The Provider | CHRISTOPHER |
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