Dr. Michael A. Matthay M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Michael Matthay practices Pulmonology in San Francisco, CA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Matthay 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
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lung fluid transport in aquaporin-1 and aquaporin-4 knockout mice.
- Alveolar epithelial fluid transport capacity in reperfusion lung injury after lung transplantation.
- The alveolar space is the site of intense inflammatory and profibrotic reactions in the early phase of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Elevated pulmonary edema fluid concentrations of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in patients with acute lung injury: biological and clinical significance.
- Alveolar epithelial fluid transport can be upregulated simultaneously in rats by two different mechanisms.
- Conference summary: acute lung injury.
- Oxidant-mediated lung injury in the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- alpha-adrenergic blockade restores normal fluid transport capacity of alveolar epithelium after hemorrhagic shock.
- Alveolar epithelial fluid transport and the resolution of clinically severe hydrostatic pulmonary edema.
- Indomethacin does not influence alveolar liquid clearance in anesthetized sheep or rats.
- The lectin-like domain of tumor necrosis factor-alpha increases membrane conductance in microvascular endothelial cells and peritoneal macrophages.
- Interleukin-8 mediates injury from smoke inhalation to both the lung endothelial and the alveolar epithelial barriers in rabbits.
- Acid-induced lung injury. Protective effect of anti-interleukin-8 pretreatment on alveolar epithelial barrier function in rabbits.
- Interobserver variability in applying a radiographic definition for ARDS.
- Alveolar epithelial fluid transport can be simultaneously upregulated by both KGF and beta-agonist therapy.
Treatments
- Intensive Care, Lung Problems
Fellowships
- UCSF, Pulmonary Disease 1978
- UCSF, Pulmonary Disease 1978
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