Dr. Alfin G Vicencio MD
Pulmonologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Pulmonology
5 E 98th St 10th Floor New York NY, 10029About
Dr. Alfin Vicencio practices Pediatric Pulmonology in New York, NY. Dr. Vicencio 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
Med Coll of Ohio, Toledo Oh 1996
University of Toledo College of Medicine,Toledo, Oh, United States 1996
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Congenital HIV and tracheal diverticulosis.
- Laryngomalacia and tracheomalacia: common dynamic airway lesions.
- Pulmonary atelectasis in children anesthetized for cardiothoracic MR: evaluation of risk factors.
- Pulmonary cryptococcosis induces chitinase in the rat.
- Flexible bronchoscopy and interdisciplinary collaboration in pediatric large airway disease.
- Effects of chronic hypercapnia in the neonatal mouse lung and brain.
- A neurologic etiology for tracheomalacia?
- Susceptibility to bronchiolitis in infants.
- Severe asthma with fungal sensitization in a child: response to itraconazole therapy.
- Foreign body aspiration in a child with unilateral lung aplasia.
- Methylxanthine inhibit fungal chitinases and exhibit antifungal activity.
- Increased chitinase expression and fungal-specific antibodies in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of asthmatic children.
- The chitin connection.
- Management of severe tracheal stenosis using flexible bronchoscopy and impulse oscillometry.
- Heterogeneity of lower airway inflammation in children with severe-persistent asthma.
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