Mohammad-Reza Movahed, MD
Mohammad-Reza Movahed, MD
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Tucson,
AZ
United States of America
Biographical Sketch: His Interventional Cardiology at Yale University in 2000. In July 2010, Prof. of Med, Tenure at the U of A Tucson and phoenix. He was Director of Cardiac Cath Lab and Nuclear Card at the UCI. Director of CCU and Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation at the U of A. In May 2012, he was The Regional Cardiology Director of CareMore. He is renowned for his coronary bifurcation classification known as “The Movahed Classification” and discovery of the flattening of interventricular septum as a sign of right ventricular overload the
“ Movahed’s sign seen on Gated SPECT and reverse “Movahed Maneuver” that can be used for stent deliverability
Two inventions.One is a device for the removal of contrast from a coronary sinus during coronary angiography. Second patent is a method and device that can measure the cross-sectional lumen of a vessel. He is AHA board president in Arizona.
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