Dr. Stephen L Hempel MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1234 Napier Ave Saint Joseph MI, 49085Rating
5/5
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Dr. Stephen Hempel is a critical care surgeon practicing in Saint Joseph, MI. Dr. Hempel 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. Hempel has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Univ of Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1982
University of Minnesota Medical School 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
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- Reduced prostacyclin formation after reoxygenation of anoxic endothelium.
- Tannin mediated alveolar macrophage protein phosphorylation.
- Evaluation of the contribution of tannin to the acute pulmonary inflammatory response against inhaled cotton mill dust.
- Protein phosphorylation during tannin-mediated activation of human platelets.
- Prostaglandin E2 synthesis after oxidant stress is dependent on cell glutathione content.
- Effect of glutathione on endothelial prostacyclin synthesis after anoxia.
- Chest pain in an aspirin-sensitive asthmatic patient. Eosinophilic esophagitis causing esophageal dysmotility.
- Ibuprofen protects human endothelial cell prostaglandin H synthase from hydrogen peroxide.
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