Dr. Joshua Patrick Fessel MD, PHD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
3601 The Vanderbilt Clinic Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. Joshua Fessel practices Pulmonology in Nashville, TN. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Fessel 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
VANDERBILT UNIV SCH OF MED 2003
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Discovery of lipid peroxidation products formed in vivo with a substituted tetrahydrofuran ring (isofurans) that are favored by increased oxygen tension.
- Isofurans, but not F2-isoprostanes, are increased in the substantia nigra of patients with Parkinson's disease and with dementia with Lewy body disease.
- The biochemistry of the isoprostane, neuroprostane, and isofuran pathways of lipid peroxidation.
- A nomenclature system for isofurans.
- Isofurans: novel products of lipid peroxidation that define the occurrence of oxidant injury in settings of elevated oxygen tension.
- The biochemistry of the isoprostane, neuroprostane, and isofuran Pathways of lipid peroxidation.
- Seizure-induced formation of isofurans: novel products of lipid peroxidation whose formation is positively modulated by oxygen tension.
- Plasma biomarkers of oxidant stress and development of organ failure in severe
- Oxidative injury is a common consequence of BMPR2 mutations.
- The genetics of pulmonary arterial hypertension in the post-BMPR2 era.
- Outcomes in elderly intensive care unit patients, pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease, and total liquid ventilation for therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in rabbits.
- Evidence for right ventricular lipotoxicity in heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Interaction between bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 2 and estrogenic compounds in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Rescuing the BMPR2 signaling axis in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- LKB1 deficiency enhances sensitivity to energetic stress induced by erlotinib
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