Dr. Harrison W Farber M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
725 Albany St Shapiro 9, Suite B Boston MA, 02118Rating
4/5
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Dr. Harrison Farber practices Pulmonology in Boston, MA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Farber 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
Mechanical Engineering 1977
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Successful treatment of chylous ascites secondary to Mycobacterium avium complex in a patient with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- Endothelial cell nitric oxide production in acute chest syndrome.
- Identification of an oxygen responsive enhancer element in the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene.
- Prothrombotic mechanisms in primary pulmonary hypertension.
- Systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary hypertension: short- and long-term effects of epoprostenol (prostacyclin).
- Epoprostenol for pulmonary hypertension in scleroderma.
- Endothelial dysfunction in a murine model of mild hyperhomocyst(e)inemia.
- IV epoprostenol for systemic sclerosis.
- Propylene glycol toxicity in a patient receiving intravenous diazepam.
- VEGF is deposited in the subepithelial matrix at the leading edge of branching airways and stimulates neovascularization in the murine embryonic lung.
- Epoprostenol (prostacyclin) therapy in HIV-associated pulmonary hypertension.
- Induction of endothelial cell cytoplasmic lipid bodies during hypoxia.
- Lipopolysaccharide binding protein potentiates airway reactivity in a murine model of allergic asthma.
- Gas 6 promotes Axl-mediated survival in pulmonary endothelial cells.
- Increased F2 isoprostanes in the acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease as a marker of oxidative stress.
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