Dr. Richard A Helmers M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Richard Helmers practices Pulmonology in Rochester, MN. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Helmers 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
Univ Of Ia Coll Of Med- Iowa City Ia 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Methotrexate pneumonitis: review of the literature and histopathological findings in nine patients.
- Influence of individual characteristics on outcome of glycemic control in intensive care unit patients with or without diabetes mellitus.
- Sarcoidosis and giant splenomegaly.
- Human versus mouse eosinophils: "that which we call an eosinophil, by any other name would stain as red".
- Nitric oxide therapy for post-laparoscopic surgery associated patent foramen ovale: incidence, mechanisms, diagnosis and therapy.
- Nasal and pharyngeal eosinophil peroxidase levels in adults with poorly controlled asthma correlate with sputum eosinophilia.
- Intravenous Alteplase for Acute Stroke and Pulmonary Embolism in a Patient With Recent Abdominoplasty.
- Serial exercise testing in pulmonary embolism.
- Recurrent bronchogenic pseudocyst 24 years after incomplete excision. Report of a case.
- Rigid bronchoscopy. The forgotten art.
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