Dr. Dennis E Niewoehner MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1 Veterans Drive Veterans Affairs Med Minneapolis MN, 55417About
Dr. Dennis Niewoehner practices Pulmonology in Minneapolis, MN. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Niewoehner manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1965
Harvard Medical School 1965
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Steroid-induced osteoporosis. Are your asthmatic patients at risk?
- Systemic corticosteroids for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: benefits and risks.
- Withdrawal of chronic systemic corticosteroids in patients with COPD: a randomized trial.
- Corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clinical benefits and risks.
- Role of corticosteroids in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Biopsy-confirmed sarcoid interstitial fibrosis after a 15-year remission.
- Montelukast improved pulmonary function and asthma-specific quality of life in aspirin-intolerant asthma.
- Elastic behavior of postmortem human lungs: effects of aging and mild emphysema.
- Abnormal lung elasticity in juvenile diabetes mellitus.
- Screening for lung cancer: the guidelines.
- Review: ipratropium is not more effective than beta 2-agonists for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- H2O2 injury causes Ca(2+)-dependent and -independent hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine in alveolar epithelial cells.
- Amiodarone-induced endothelial injury is associated with phospholipase C-mediated hydrolysis of membrane phospholipids.
- The role of systemic corticosteroids in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Time course of functional repair of the alveolar epithelium after hyperoxic injury.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Asthma
- Sleep Apnea
- Sleep Disorders
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (copd)
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
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