Stamatios Lerakis

Emory University Medical School, United States of America

Dr. Lerakis is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University. He received his M.D. degree from the Medical School of Athens (Greece) in 1988. He continued on doing clinical research in Nuclear Cardiology in Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Subsequently, he did his Internal Medicine training in the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia from 1991 to 1994 and completed his Fellowship in Critical Care in Brown University from 1994 to 1995. He went on to complete his Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas from 1995 to 1998 and then did one year of Echocardiography Fellowship at Emory University from 1998 to 1999. After his Echocardiography Fellowship, he has stayed on as Faculty in the Division of Cardiology practicing clinical and non-invasive cardiology.

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Faculty Member: Cardiovascular Disorders > Cardiovascular Imaging (since 12 March 2008)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Detection of significant coronary artery stenosis with 64-slice computed tomography in heart transplant recipients: a comparative study with conventional coronary angiography.
  Recommended by Stamatios Lerakis
  
• 3.0
  Thrombus detection by echocardiography in patients with acute ischemic stroke and chronic or new-onset atrial fibrillation.
  Recommended by Stamatios Lerakis
  
• 4.8
  Baseline Doppler parameters are useful predictors of chronic left ventricular reduction in size by cardiac resynchronization therapy.
  Recommended by Ole-A Breithardt, Stamatios Lerakis
  
• 3.2
  Diagnostic value of 64-slice multi-detector row cardiac CTA in symptomatic patients.
  Recommended by Pim de Feyter, Stamatios Lerakis