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Dr. Christina C. Kao M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1100 Bates Ave Fl 7 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Christina Kao practices Pulmonology in Houston, TX. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Kao 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Optically mediated nerve stimulation: Identification of injury thresholds.
- Mechanical ventilation for asthma: a 10-year experience.
- Whole-body CO2 production as an index of the metabolic response to sepsis.
- Arginine, citrulline and nitric oxide metabolism in sepsis.
- Arginine flux, but not nitric oxide synthesis, decreases in adolescent girls compared with adult women during pregnancy.
- Customized, miniature rapid-prototype stereotactic frames for use in deep brain stimulator surgery: initial clinical methodology and experience from 263 patients from 2002 to 2008.
- Resting energy expenditure and protein turnover are increased in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Predictors and patterns of weight gain during treatment for tuberculosis in the United States of America.
- Determinants of pre-transplantation pectoralis muscle area (PMA) and post-transplantation change in PMA in lung transplant recipients.
- Targeting the interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 pathways in severe asthma: current knowledge and future needs.
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