Often, people who are at risk of having cardiac events, such as heart attack or sudden death, are not aware that they may have cardiac problems. If risk reduction is recommended, information will be given to help you begin a process of targeted change in health habits. Depending on the results of your completed risk summary, additional counseling, testing, or treatment may be recommended. Philip Frost, M.D. will be happy to answer questions and assist in scheduling an appointment. The Osteoporosis Research Group headed by Harry Genant, M.D., uses a multi-disciplinary research approach to osteoporotic disease.
Numerous investigations make up a four-pronged approach to better understanding osteoporosis.
The osteoporosis group at UCSF is one of the best known in the nation, having done much of the pioneering work in the field. Dr. Harry Genant and colleagues continue to refine and improve existing techniques developed at UCSF for the noninvasive determination of bone density. Heart studies using FDG for assessing myocardial viability in combination with myocardial perfusion imaging are also routinely performed. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Biomedical Isotope Facility, which includes a medical cyclotron, will support ongoing research in the use of PET for the assessment and characterization of neurologic, oncologic, and cardiovascular disease processes. The section of Neuroradiology in collaboration with the Magnetic Resonance Science Center has developed new techniques for localizing epileptogenic foci through the use of high resolution MR imaging techniques.