Dr. Mark T Dransfield MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Mark Dransfield is a critical care surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Dransfield 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. Dransfield 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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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A mycotic pulmonary artery aneurysm presenting as an endobronchial mass.
- Fluticasone propionate/salmeterol for the treatment of chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Maintenance pharmacotherapy of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an evidence-based approach.
- Racial and gender differences in susceptibility to tobacco smoke among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- COPD: racial disparities in susceptibility, treatment, and outcomes.
- Pneumococcal vaccination for patients with COPD: current practice and future directions.
- Use of beta blockers and the risk of death in hospitalised patients with acute exacerbations of COPD.
- Studying COPD in African-Americans: better late than never.
- Racial and sex differences in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease susceptibility, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Lung function in young adults predicts airflow obstruction 20 years later.
- Determining the optimal pneumococcal vaccination strategy for adults: is there a role for the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine?
- The true false negative rates of esophageal and endobronchial ultrasound in the staging of mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
- Disease severity and symptoms among patients receiving monotherapy for COPD.
- Elevated levels of NO are localized to distal airways in asthma.
- Lung volume reduction for advanced emphysema: surgical and bronchoscopic approaches.
Clinical Trials
- Diastolic Dysfunction and Pauci-inflammatory Acute Exacerbations of COPD
- The Topic Trial - Study to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Ivacaftor
- INtervention Study In overweiGHT Patients With COPD
- Examining the Genetic Factors That May Cause Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Beta-Blockers for the Prevention of Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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