Dr. Steven M Opal MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
111 Brewster St Department Of Infect Pawtucket RI, 02860About
Dr. Steven Opal is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Pawtucket, RI. Dr. Opal 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
Albany Medical College - Union University 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 1984
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tumor necrosis factor receptor expression on inflammatory cells in sepsis.
- Clinical trials for severe sepsis. Past failures, and future hopes.
- Clinical gram-positive sepsis: does it fundamentally differ from gram-negative bacterial sepsis?
- Selenium replacement in severe systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
- Consensus conference definitions for sepsis, septic shock, acute lung injury, and acute respiratory distress syndrome: time for a reevaluation.
- Recombinant human interleukin-11 has anti-inflammatory actions yet does not exacerbate systemic Listeria infection.
- Differential antibiotic-induced endotoxin release in severe melioidosis.
- Hemofiltration-absorption systems for the treatment of experimental sepsis: is it possible to remove the "evil humors" responsible for septic shock?
- Therapeutic rationale for antithrombin III in sepsis.
- Phylogenetic and functional relationships between coagulation and the innate immune response.
- What are the microbial components implicated in the pathogenesis of sepsis? Report on a symposium.
- Chemotactic activity of CXC chemokines interleukin-8, growth-related oncogene-alpha, and epithelial cell-derived neutrophil-activating protein-78 in urine of patients with urosepsis.
- The activity of tissue factor pathway inhibitor in experimental models of superantigen-induced shock and polymicrobial intra-abdominal sepsis.
- Evaluation of the safety of recombinant P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-immunoglobulin G fusion protein in experimental models of localized and systemic infection.
- Release of urokinase plasminogen activator receptor during urosepsis and endotoxemia.
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