
Dr. Stuart Charles Sweet MD
Pulmonologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Pulmonology
1 Childrens Pl Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Stuart Sweet practices Pediatric Pulmonology in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Sweet treats children who have breathing problems, or a problem with his or her lungs. Pediatric pulmonologists often treat children with chronic cough, difficulty breathing, recurring pneumonia, asthma, cystic fibrosis, apnea, chronic lung disease in premature infants, noisy breathing, and conditions that require special equipment to monitor and/or help with breathing at home.
Education and Training
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1989
Michigan State University College Of Human Medicine 1989
Cagayan State University College of Medicine and Surgery 1990
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
- Bilateral lung transplantation for pulmonary hypoplasia caused by congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- CT of posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in pediatric recipients of lung allograft.
- Pediatric lung transplantation: update 2003.
- Pediatric transplantation, 1994-2003.
- Not so fast--don't deprive children with cystic fibrosis of the option for lung transplantation.
- Role of open lung biopsy in lung transplant recipients in a single children's hospital: a 13-year experience.
- Preferred methods of excess hair removal in pediatric patients with lung transplantation.
- Pediatric living donor lobar lung transplantation.
- Lower incidence of bronchiolitis obliterans in pediatric liver-lung transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis.
- Therapeutic idiosyncrasy.
- A national conference to determine research priorities in pediatric solid organ transplantation.
- Lung transplantation and survival in children with cystic fibrosis.
- Pediatric lung transplantation.
- Lung and heart-lung transplantation.
- Cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin decreases the risk of cytomegalovirus infection but not disease after pediatric lung transplantation.
Clinical Trials
Awards
- 2005-2013 Listed in Best Doctors in America (Best Doctors, Inc.)
Treatments
- Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis (cf), Lung Transplant And More
- Asthma
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (copd)
- Cystic Fibrosis (cf)
Residency
- St Louis Childrens Hosp, Pediatrics
- Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis 1993
- St. Louis Children's Hospital
- Mercy Hospital (St Louis) Program
Fellowships
- Pediatric Pulmonology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 1996
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