Dr. David L Pitrak MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527Rating
5/5
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Dr. David Pitrak is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Willowbrook, IL. Dr. Pitrak 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Filgrastim treatment of HIV-infected patients improves neutrophil function.
- Neutrophil deficiency and dysfunction in HIV-infected patients.
- Lymphoproliferative responses to mitogens and prepared antigens of M. avium complex in patients with HIV infection.
- Auditory working memory in HIV-1 infection.
- Discordant CD4 T lymphocyte responses to antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection are associated with ex-vivo rates of apoptosis.
- Delayed nonmatch-to-sample performance in HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative
- Head-to-head comparison of two first-line regimens and an NRTI-sparing regimen for initial therapy of HIV-1 infection: what should we start?
- Neutrophil function after bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
- Management of cytomegalovirus infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- A targeted, conventional assay, emergency department HIV testing program integrated with existing clinical procedures.
- Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Prior infections are associated with increased mortality from subsequent blood-stream infections among patients with hematological malignancies.
- Cerebral blastomycoma after ketoconazole therapy for respiratory tract blastomycosis.
- Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score Modified for Recent Infection in Patients With Hematologic Malignant Tumors and Severe Sepsis.
- Frequency of cells positive for HIV-1 p24 antigen assessed by flow cytometry.
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