Dr. Ignacio Alfonso Echenique M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
676 N Saint Clair St Suite 940 Chicago IL, 60611About
Dr. Ignacio Echenique is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Echenique 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Puerto Rico experience with plugs in the treatment of anal fistulas.
- Hermansky Pudlak syndrome: an unusual form of procto-colitis.
- Rituximab in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone in HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a pooled analysis of 15 prospective studies.
- Rectal adenocarcinoma: proposal for a model based on pretreatment prognostic factors.
- Erysipelas and myocarditis.
- Prolonged norovirus infection after pancreas transplantation: a case report and review of chronic norovirus.
- Ganciclovir Dosing Strategies and Development of Cytomegalovirus Resistance in a Kidney Transplant Recipient: A Case Report.
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