Dr. Yvonne Ruoh-lei Chan MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
200 Delafield Rd Suite 2040 Pittsburgh PA, 15215About
Dr. Yvonne Chan is a critical care surgeon practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Chan specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Chan has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular diagnostic methods in pneumonia.
- Cytokine-mediated regulation of antimicrobial proteins.
- Lipocalin 2 regulation and its complex role in inflammation and cancer.
- Lipocalin 2 regulates inflammation during pulmonary mycobacterial infections.
- Interleukin-17-induced protein lipocalin 2 is dispensable for immunity to oral candidiasis.
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