Dr. Elizabeth A Lien M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1624 South I Street Suite 405 Tacoma WA, 98405About
Dr. Elizabeth Lien is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Tacoma, WA. Dr. Lien 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
Creighton University School of Medicine 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Serum homocysteine levels in postmenopausal breast cancer patients treated with tamoxifen.
- Effect of blood tamoxifen concentrations on surrogate biomarkers in a trial of dose reduction in healthy women.
- Plasma total homocysteine levels during short-term iatrogenic hypothyroidism.
- Selective oestrogen receptor modifiers (SERMs) and breast cancer therapy.
- Smoking, folate and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase status as interactive determinants of adenomatous and hyperplastic polyps of colorectum.
- Plasma total homocysteine in hyper- and hypothyroid patients before and during 12 months of treatment.
- Correlation between tamoxifen elimination and biomarker recovery in a primary prevention trial.
- Effect of low dose tamoxifen on the insulin-like growth factor system in healthy women.
- Delayed diagnosis of osseous blastomycosis in two patients following environmental exposure in nonendemic areas.
- Tamoxifen administration and metabolism in nude mice and nude rats.
- High-dose tamoxifen as an enhancer of etoposide cytotoxicity. Clinical effects and in vitro assessment in p-glycoprotein expressing cell lines.
- Influence of tamoxifen on plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor I and insulin-like growth factor binding protein I in breast cancer patients.
- Effect of tamoxifen at low doses on ultrasensitive C-reactive protein in healthy women.
- Homocysteine and its relation to B-vitamins in Graves' disease before and after treatment: effect modification by smoking.
- Clinical pharmacokinetics of endocrine agents used in advanced breast cancer.
Fellowships
- Creighton University
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