Dr. Diana F Florescu MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
988095 Nebraska Medical Ctr Omaha NE, 68198About
Dr. Diana Florescu is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Omaha, NE. Dr. Florescu 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- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Two cases of Norwalk virus enteritis following small bowel transplantation treated with oral human serum immunoglobulin.
- Prevalence and mortality associated with cytomegalovirus infection in nonimmunosuppressed patients in the intensive care unit.
- Enterococcus pneumonia complicated with empyema and lung abscess in an HIV-positive patient. Case report and review of the literature.
- Recommendations for the assessment and reporting of multivariable logistic regression in transplantation literature.
- The importance of detecting cytomegalovirus infections in studies evaluating new therapies for severe sepsis.
- Effectiveness of valganciclovir 900 mg versus 450 mg for cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in transplantation: direct and indirect treatment comparison meta-analysis.
- IMPACT trial results should not change current standard of care of 100 days for cytomegalovirus prophylaxis.
- Why valganciclovir should not be indicated for liver recipients and high-dose acyclovir should not be removed from international cytomegalovirus guidelines.
- Is cytomegalovirus reactivation increasing the mortality of patients with severe sepsis?
- Pediococcus acidilactici endocarditis successfully treated with daptomycin.
- Long-term effect of chronic intravenous and inhaled nephrotoxic antibiotic treatment on the renal function of patients with cystic fibrosis.
- Invasive Scopulariopsis brevicaulis infection in an immunocompromised patient and review of prior cases caused by Scopulariopsis and Microascus species.
- Respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection in a pediatric liver transplant recipient treated with oral ribavirin.
- Risk of cytomegalovirus disease in high-risk liver transplant recipients on valganciclovir prophylaxis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Adenovirus in solid organ transplantation.
Clinical Trials
- Efficacy and Safety Study of Maribavir in Transplant Recipients With Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infections That Are Refractory or Resistant to Treatment With Ganciclovir, Valganciclovir, Foscarnet, or Cidofovir
- Expanded Access Protocol to Provide Brincidofovir for the Treatment of Serious Adenovirus Infection or Disease
- The Chimerix CMX001 Registry
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