Professor, Medicine, University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. Morton J. Kern, MD
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Morton Kern works in the field of Cardiology. He attended Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked 20 in research and 62 in primary care medicine He received 5 awards: "Top Doctors:LA Area", "Top Doctors:San Diego Area", "Top Doctors:Southern California", "Fellow (FACC)" and "Super Doctor". Morton J. Kern is a published doctor as well. He has 102 publications published. The latest was: Simulator training: The bridge between "primum non nocere" and "learning by doing". He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Invasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease: FFR, IVUS, OCT, NIRS.
- AVERTing contrast nephropathy-delivering less to get more?
- Real-Time Ultrasound Guidance Facilitates Transradial Access: RAUST (Radial Artery Access With Ultrasound Trial).
- 38 mm Stents: go big and go long.
- Sleep apnea and stroke: Lifting the veil of cardiac hemodynamics during sleep.
- Comparing imaging lipid plaque with NIRS and OCT: "All that's yellow is not gold (a vulnerable plaque)".
- Direct stenting for STEMI: Does it really make a difference?
- Are veterans and the VA any more "crusty" than others?
- Seeing and not believing: Understanding the visual-functional mismatch between angiography and FFR.
- Robotic-assist PCI: Precision guided PCI or a rube goldberg solution?
- Expert consensus statement on the use of fractional flow reserve, intravascular ultrasound, and optical coherence tomography: A consensus statement of the society of c...
- Can any anatomic parameters equate to FFR? Searching for the Holy Grail of IVUS.
- Balloon-assisted tracking for transradial catheterization: beating the curve.
- A return to a commonsense MI definition.
- Conversations in Cardiology: Bridging antiplatelet therapy before surgery.
- Alcohol ablation in the younger HCM Heart: Is there an age limit?
- Variations of Coronary hemodynamic responses to intravenous adenosine infusion: Implications for fractional flow reserve measurements.
- Perioperative MI: Is there a clot or not?
- Realigning Venus and Mars: The sexual equality of STEMI patients.
- Glycoprotein inhibitors: Not dead yet.
- AortoCoronary saphenous vein graft rupture during diagnostic angiography.
- Letter to Editor: Unusual radial Artery calcification.
- When does a left anterior descending stenosis alter flow across a left main segment?: interpreting left main fractional flow reserve with downstream obstruction.
- Interpreting Drug Effects on Coronary Flow Reserve After PTCA: Clarity or Confusion?
- Intravascular Imaging: When Two Images are Better Than One.
- Retrograde CTO recanalization of RCA SVG from the contralateral LAD SVG: "Coast to coast" revascularization with FFR in between.
- Bifurcation angiographic lesion assessment.
- "Wanted: dead or alive?" A novel use of FFR theory to assess Myocardial viability after STEMI.
- The guideliner: Keeping your procedure on track or derailing it?
- Unusual radial Artery calcification as contraindication to radial Artery access?
- Revision of letter to editor, "bifurcation angiographic lesion assessment"
- Basal stenosis resistance: another adenosine-free contender for the lesion assessment crown?
- Transradial Cardiac Catheterization: The "Unfreeze-Change" theory.
- Mastering transradial techniques: Essential skills for complex endovascular peripheral Artery intervention.
- Coronary and bypass graft angiography via the right radial approach using a single catheter.
- Upstream Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors for STEMI: Use on-time or not at all?
- Disparity between angiographic Coronary lesion complexity and lipid core plaques assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy.
- Conversations in cardiology: Using new media to transmit timely medical knowledge. How do you assess the left main stenosis with FFR and IVUS in a patient with multive...
- An Adenosine-Independent Index of Stenosis Severity From Coronary Wave-Intensity Analysis A New Paradigm in Coronary Physiology for the Cath Lab?
- When should you question your wedge and use a long iron (transSeptal needle) instead?
- Changing reflections of the Coronary microcirculation after percutaneous aortic valve replacement: novel observations with arterial pulsed wave dynamics.
- Detection of Lipid-Core Plaques by IntraCoronary Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Identifies High Risk of Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction.
- The changing paradigm of hemodynamic support device selection for high-risk percutaneous Coronary interventions.
- Bibliographic Metrics at JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging An Opportunity for Audit and Reflection.
- Measuring the lumen with conductance: Are we looking at a breakthrough technology?
- Optimizing femoral access outcomes: how far can we go?
- Predicting patients prone to radial Artery spasm: use of flow-mediated dilation testing.
- The rising tide of transradial cardiac catheterization: riding the wave.
- To catch a thief: opening a CTO and its effect on the contralateral donor Artery FFR.
- Quantification of fractional flow reserve based on angiographic image data.
- William Tell's arrow and the entrapment of catheters by a vascular closure device.
- Three branch bifurcation QCA: moving forward but still short of the goal.
- Can we apply Coronary physiologic methods to renal artery stenosis assessment?
- Early recognition of catheter-induced left main Coronary artery vasospasm: implications for revascularization.
- Fick simple-shunt hard: simple shunts commentary.
- Real-time ultrasound guidance facilitates femoral arterial access and reduces vascular complications: FAUST (Femoral Arterial Access With Ultrasound Trial).
- Why all the focus on cardiac imaging?
- Vasomotion in motion: commentary on adrenaline-induced "wandering" Coronary artery spasm.
- Imaging modalities and radiation: benefit has its risks...
- Approach-avoidance of side-branch wire entrapment.
- Influence of obstructive sleep apnea and treatment with continuous positive airway pressure on fractional flow reserve measurements for Coronary lesion assessment.
- Current concepts of integrated Coronary physiology in the catheterization laboratory.
- Transcatheter closure of a traumatic VSD in an adult requiring an ASD occluder device.
- Diastolic transmitral valve pressure gradients in patients with severe calcific Aortic stenosis: more on the hemodynamics of the aging heart.
- Exact deployment of stents in ostial renal Artery stenosis using the stent tail wire or Szabo technique.
- Use and abuse of IVUS and FFR by Magni V et al. or why you shouldn't believe the saying, "if you want to treat, use IVUS. If you don't, use FFR".
- Letter by Kern regarding article "Primary stenting of an anomalous left main Coronary artery with an interarterial course during cardiac arrest: imaging with CT a...
- Cardiac catheterization on the road less traveled: navigating the radial versus femoral debate.
- Effects of caffeine and theophylline on Coronary hyperemia induced by adenosine or dipyridamole.
- Automated contrast injectors for angiography: devices, methodology, and safety.
- Vascular closure devices and Murphy's law: a comment on case report by Varghese et al.
- Devices, biology, imaging, and the regulatory processes...
- Compression of the left main Coronary from right pulmonary artery stent: precaution in pediatrics, possibility in adults?
- Anchoring the stent: comment on treatment of ostial lesions using the Szabo technique. A case series by Applegate R et al.
- Is the Coronary physiology of bypass grafts different from that of the native Coronary artery? Comment on the "Hemodynamic evaluation of Coronary artery bypass gr...
- Limitations of angiographic predictors of bypass graft patency.
- Acute heart failure syndromes and coronary perfusion.
- Looking into the vessel: the more you see, the more you want to see.
- Addressing the hemodynamic dilemma of combined mitral and Aortic stenosis.
- A novel use of a split sheath to maintain vessel access when guidewire exchange is not possible.
- In search of perfect closure.
- Persistent endothelial dysfunction after drug-eluting stents: another continuing cost of reducing restenosis.
- Is a rose just a rose?: comment on the classification of Coronary artery bifurcation lesions and treatments: time for a consensus!-article by Louvard et al.
- Bend it like...Kawasaki.
- Which lesions cause Myocardial infarctions? Lambs versus lions.
- The simplified mitral Valve gradient calculation by Cui et al.
- Pressure and flow across severe stenoses: does the intra-Aortic balloon pump do its job?
- Is PFO sizing necessary?
- What Coronary stenosis needs PCI/stent?
- Utility of cardiac MRI in guiding revascularization therapy in unprotected left main stenosis: a case report.
- Technical pearl: streamlining the Swan.
- Coronary circulation responses to binodenoson, a selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist.
- Attenuated Coronary collateral function after drug-eluting stent implantation: a new downside of drug-eluting stents?
- Drug-eluting stents: the continuing controversy -- a perspective on the downside of drug-eluting stents.
- A new technique to anchor stents for exact placement in ostial stenoses: the stent tail wire or Szabo technique.
- Coronary pathophysiology in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
- LIMA thoracic branch Coronary steal syndrome.
- Walking with Sir William. Reflections on collateral steal, recruitment, and ischemic protection.
- Use of a branch wire to anchor stents for exact placement proximal to bifurcation stents: the reverse Szabo technique.
- On the search for an "easy" FFR: Submaximal hyperemia and NTG-induced translesional pressure drop (Pd/Pa-NTG).
- Simulator training: The bridge between "primum non nocere" and "learning by doing".
Schools
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mt Sinai Hospital
Brigham Womens Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Arrhythmias (incl. Atrial Fibrillation)
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
- Interventional Cardiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors:LA Area
- Top Doctors:San Diego Area
- Top Doctors:Southern California
- Fellow (FACC)
- Super Doctor
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Mount Sinai School of Medicine -
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hospital
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UC Irvine Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1770587131 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KERN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | MORTON | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 928684080 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 384.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1770587131 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KERN |
| First Name Of The Provider | MORTON |
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