The Department of Radiology
Peter Kvamme, MD
Associate Professor
Education
Medical School
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 1992
Internship
Categorical General Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1993
Residency
Nuclear Medicine Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 1995
Diagnostic Radiology, St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburg, PA, 1999
Fellowships
Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 2000
Interventional Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 2005
Certification
American Board of Radiology
Honors and Awards
Tulane University School of Medicine
American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellowship, 1989
Honors Award, American Federation for Clinical Research
UT Medical Center
Guardian Angel Award, 2010 and 2012
Patients' Choice Award, 2008-2013
Patients' Choice 5th Anniversary Award, 2012
Compassionate Doctor Recognition, 2012-2013
Professional Affiliations
Radiological Society of North America
American Roentgen Ray Society
American College of Radiology
Society of Interventional Radiology
American Heart Association
American Stroke Association
Congress of I.R. Society of Europe (C.I.R.S.E.)
Society of Neurointerventional Surgery, senior member (formerly American Society of Interventional and Neuroradiology)
World Federation of Interventional & Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Senior Member
Current Publications
Nogueira RG, Pinheiro A, Brinjikji W, Abbasi M, Al-Bayati AR, Mohammaden MH, Souza Viana L, Ferreira F, Abdelhamid H, Bhatt NR, Kvamme P, Layton KF, Delgado Almandoz JE, Hanel RA, Mendes Pereira V, Almekhlafi MA, Yoo AJ, Jahromi BS, Gounis MJ, Patel B, Arturo Larco JL, Fitzgerald S, Mereuta OM, Doyle K, Savastano LE, Cloft HJ, Thacker IC, Kayan Y, Copelan A, Aghaebrahim A, Sauvageau E, Demchuk AM, Bhuva P, Soomro J, Nazari P, Cantrell DR, Puri AS, Entwistle J, Polley EC, Frankel MR, Kallmes DF, Haussen DC..
Clot composition and recanalization outcomes in mechanical thrombectomy. J Neurointerv Surg. 2024 Apr 23;16(5):466-470. doi: 10.1136/jnis-2023-020117.
Mereuta OM, Abbasi M, Arturo Larco JL, Dai D, Liu Y, Arul S, Kadirvel R, Hanel RA, Yoo AJ, Almekhlafi MA, Layton KF, et.al.
Correlation of von Willebrand factor and platelets with acute ischemic stroke etiology and revascularization outcome: an immunohistochemical study. J Neurointerv Surg. 2023 May;15(5):488-494. doi: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2022-018645. Epub 2022 May 20.
Brinjikji W, Abbasi M, Mereuta OM, Fitzgerald S, Larco JA, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Nogueira RG, Kvamme P, et. Al.
Histological composition of retrieved emboli in acute ischemic stroke is independent of pre-thrombectomy alteplase use. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2022 Apr;31(4):106376. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2022.106376. Epub 2022 Feb 17.
Mereuta OM, Abbasi M, Fitzgerald S, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Hanel RA, Yoo AJ, Almekhlafi MA, Layton KF, Delgado Almandoz JE, Kvamme P, et al.
Histological evaluation of acute ischemic stroke thrombi may indicate the occurrence of vessel wall injury during mechanical thrombectomy. J Neurointerv Surg. 2022 Apr;14(4):356-361. doi: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2021-017310. Epub 2021 May 11.