Dr. Brian Chi tao Pien M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1010 S King St Suite 111 Honolulu HI, 96814About
Dr. Brian Pien is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Honolulu, HI. Dr. Pien specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
University of Hawaii 2000
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Angiostrongylus cantonensis eosinophilic meningitis.
- Mycobacterial infections in patients with chronic renal disease.
- Use of sentinel laboratories by clinicians to evaluate potential bioterrorism and emerging infections.
- Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes.
- Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions,
- First reported United States case of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 pneumonia in a patient receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha therapy.
- Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: experience of a veteran affairs medical center in southeastern USA.
- The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults.
- Rifampin, a useful drug for nonmycobacterial infections.
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