Dr. Kathy E Sietsema M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
21840 Normandie Ave Torrance CA, 90502About
Dr. Kathy Sietsema practices Pulmonology in Torrance, CA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Sietsema 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
Northwestern Uniiversity 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Peripheral arterial disease is not associated with an increased prevalence of intradialytic cramps in patients on maintenance hemodialysis.
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: insights about, and from, a rare disease.
- Abnormal oxygen uptake responses to exercise in patients with mild pulmonary sarcoidosis.
- Evidence that circulatory oscillations accompany ventilatory oscillations during exercise in patients with heart failure.
- Oxygen uptake kinetics in response to exercise in patients with pulmonary vascular disease.
- Quantifying functional impairment of dialysis patients.
- In reference to Continuous laryngoscopy exercise test: a method for visualizing laryngeal dysfunction during exercise.
- Clinical cardiopulmonary exercise testing: patient and referral characteristics.
- Cyanotic congenital heart disease: dynamics of oxygen uptake and ventilation during exercise.
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the clinical evaluation of patients with heart and lung disease.
- Effects of pulmonary vasodilator therapy on ventilatory efficiency during exercise in adults with Eisenmenger syndrome.
- Ventilatory regulation of arterial H(+) (pH) during exercise.
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