Posts by Michael H. Lev, MD
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Case Report: Longitudinal Imaging in a Patient With Opioid-associated Amnestic Syndrome
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers believe opioid-associated amnestic syndrome deserves study as a reversible metabolic injury, based on initial findings from magnetic resonance spectroscopy and follow-up with MRI and tau positron emission tomography more than four years after antioxidant treatment.
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Leukoencephalopathy Related to Severe COVID-19 Has Clinical, Laboratory Correlates
Otto Rapalino, MD, and Michael H. Lev, MD, of the Department of Radiology; Shibani S. Mukerji, MD, PhD, of the Department of Neurology; and colleagues have linked severe COVID-19 leukoencephalopathy with reduced diffusivity to obesity, renal failure, hypernatremia, anemia and a pattern of white matter lesions.
Biography
I have been an attending neuroradiologist at Mass General since 1995 and am board certified in both Internal Medicine and Radiology, with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Neuroradiology.
I served as Deputy Editor for neuroimaging of the journal Radiology (the flagship journal of the Radiological Society of North America) from August 2007 through March 2009, for which I continue to be a special consultant Deputy Editor, and have been on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) since 2000.
I am an elected Fellow of both the American Heart Association (FAHA) and American College of Radiology (FACR).
I have been Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Bonmassar for both the NBIB funded University of Cincinnati “point-of-care” center grant and the more recent DOD funded CIMIT grant (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology), studying the clinical feasibility of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) for the rapid, portable detection and monitoring of acute brain injury. Most recently, I continue as an imaging co-investigator for the DOD funded “Low-level light therapy (LLLT) for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)” clinical trial, and have been a Co-Investigator for the NIH funded U01 project developing MRI/CT compatible deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes.
Mass General Imaging
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