The Mission of the Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine Program is to be a leader in the provision of comprehensive medical care to patients with pulmonary disease, critical illness, allergic diseases and sleep disorders, to be an engine for innovative research aimed at elucidating basic mechanisms of disease, to translate our research activities into new clinical initiatives, and to provide a rich training environment for the next generation of international leaders in basic, translational and clinical research.
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Lung Transplant Candidates: Shining a Light on UCSF’s Evaluation Process
In this short presentation, pulmonologist Jeffrey A. Golden, MD, describes how the specialists of the UCSF Lung Transplant Program work together to ensure their patients are likely to succeed, with a focus on factors that can make or break survival prospects.
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The COPD Blues: A Guide to Optimizing Outpatient Management
For the 30 million adults in the U.S. with COPD, effective care requires providers to have an up-to-date understanding of treatment options as well as the ability to respond to changes in a patient’s status.
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Breathing Easier: An Update on Diagnosis and Management of Asthma
Allergist and immunologist Monica Tang, MD, discusses keys to distinguishing asthma from other disorders.
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Long COVID: A New Way to Look at a Growing Problem
Synthesizing multiple studies, pulmonologist Brian Block, MD, reveals which patients are at risk for lasting symptoms from infection with the coronavirus (it’s not who you might think).
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Can Reducing Insulin Resistance Minimize Severe Asthma Symptoms?
UCSF researchers led a study that found insulin resistance (IR) is common in patients with severe asthma and is associated with lung function impairment and suboptimal responses to asthma medications.
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Thoracic surgeon Johannes Kratz, MD, has been selected as UCSF’s first medical director of robotic surgery.
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An American Thoracic Society (ATS) workshop committee, which included many UCSF researchers, recently released an official statement recommending the use of race-neutral average reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation.
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Susceptibility to Pathogenic T Cells in Chronic Lung Disease May have a Genetic Basis
Respiratory viral infections pose significant morbidity and mortality to patients with chronic lung diseases like emphysema and COPD, causing exacerbations that drive destruction of normal lung tissue, and leading to one of the most common ...
The Mission of the Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine Program is to be a leader in the provision of comprehensive medical care to patients with pulmonary disease, critical illness, allergic diseases and sleep disorders, to be an engine for innovative research aimed at elucidating basic mechanisms of disease, to translate our research activities into new clinical initiatives, and to provide a rich training environment for the next generation of international leaders in basic, translational and clinical research.
