Dr. Christina S Hirsch MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
11100 Euclid Ave Cleveland OH, 44106Rating
5/5
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Dr. Christina Hirsch is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Hirsch 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
Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wurzburg, Medizinische Fakultat 1987
Julius-Maximilians-Universit‰t W¸rzburg Medizinische Fakult‰t 1987
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Influence of polymorphism in the genes for the interleukin (IL)-1 receptor antagonist and IL-1beta on tuberculosis.
- Correlates of protective immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans.
- Asphyxial deaths and petechiae: a review.
- Contrecoup skull fractures.
- Increased replication of HIV-1 at sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: potential mechanisms of viral activation.
- Anatomically compartmentalized human immunodeficiency virus replication in HLA-DR+ cells and CD14+ macrophages at the site of pleural tuberculosis coinfection.
- Arterial dysplasia with ruptured basilar artery aneurysm: report of a case.
- Sputum cytokine levels in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis as early markers of mycobacterial clearance.
- Aspiration pneumonia. Recognizing and managing a potentially growing disorder.
- Role of cellular activation and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the early expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 85B mRNA in human alveolar macrophages.
- The epidemiology of murder-suicide.
- Bioactivation of latent transforming growth factor beta1 by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human mononuclear phagocytes.
- A role for CD4+CD25+ T cells in regulation of the immune response during human tuberculosis.
- Intestinal helminth co-infection has a negative impact on both anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunity and clinical response to tuberculosis therapy.
- Dynamic variation in the cellular origin of HIV type 1 during treatment of tuberculosis in dually infected subjects.
Treatments
- Lung Problems
Fellowships
- Pulmonary Disease - University Hospitals of Cleveland 1994
- Infectious Disease - University Hospitals of Cleveland 1995
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