Dr. Albert John Polito M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
301 Saint Paul Pl Tower - 4th Floor Baltimore MD, 21202About
Dr. Albert Polito practices Pulmonology in Baltimore, MD. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Polito 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
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1989
New York University School of Medicine 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Physician-derived asthma diagnoses made on the basis of questionnaire data are in good agreement with interview-based diagnoses and are not affected by objective tests.
- New-generation RIBA hepatitis C strip immunoblot assays.
- New generation RIBA hepatitis C strip immunoblot assays.
- The questionable efficacy of pirfenidone in IPF.
- Respiratory physiologic changes in pregnancy.
- Reliable confirmation and quantitation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 antibody using a recombinant-antigen immunoblot assay.
- HCV testing in low-risk population.
- Stereochemistry of the hydroxylation in 4-hydroxysphinganine formation and the steric course of hydrogen elimination in sphing-4-enine biosynthesis.
- Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry of sphingolipid bases. Characterization of sphinga-4,14-dienine from plasma sphingomyelin.
- Determination of the structures of sphingolipid bases by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
- Relevance of anti-HCV reactivity in patients with alcoholic hepatitis. VA cooperative Study Group #275.
- Non-A, non-B posttransfusion hepatitis: comparing C and non-C hepatitis.
- Epithelia cells as regulators of airway inflammation.
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