Dr. Mark J Peters M.D.
Family Practitioner
4200 Houma Blvd Metairie LA, 70006About
Dr. Mark Peters is a family practitioner practicing in Metairie, LA. Dr. Peters specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Peters possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Oh State Univ Coll of Med, Columbus Oh 1978
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Early postoperative monocyte deactivation predicts systemic inflammation and prolonged stay in pediatric cardiac intensive care.
- CD40 is constitutively expressed on platelets and provides a novel mechanism for platelet activation.
- Terlipressin bolus induces systemic vasoconstriction in septic shock.
- "African medicine" and Reye's syndrome.
- Increased incidence and severity of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in patients deficient in mannose-binding lectin.
- Could neonatal disseminated herpes simplex virus infections be treated earlier?
- Early care of severe sepsis and multiple organ failure in children.
- Hyperventilation in severe diabetic ketoacidosis.
- P-selectin expression, neutrophil infiltration, and histologic injury in neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Platelet and soluble CD40L in meningococcal sepsis.
- Interleukin-10 and its role in clinical immunoparalysis following pediatric cardiac surgery.
- Oxidation of intravenous lipid in infants and children with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis.
- Transfusion strategies for patients in pediatric intensive care units.
- Fatal acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia in an infant: The histopathologic variability of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Mannose-binding lectin and pulmonary morbidity in premature infants.
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