Dr. Jay R Kostman MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1207 CHESTNUT ST FL 3 PHILADELPHIA PA, 19107About
Dr. Jay Kostman is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Kostman 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1987
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 2008
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The interleukin-12-mediated pathway of immune events is dysfunctional in human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals.
- Hydroxyurea in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Enhancement of human immunodeficiency virus type 1-specific CD4 and CD8 T cell responses in chronically infected persons after temporary treatment interruption.
- The effects of an HIV-1 immunogen (Remune) on viral load, CD4 cell counts and HIV-specific immunity in a double-blind, randomized, adjuvant-controlled subset study in HIV infected subjects regardless of concomitant antiviral drugs.
- Sustained impairment of IFN-gamma secretion in suppressed HIV-infected patients
- Hypereosinophilia associated with cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma.
- Lack of persistent drug-resistant mutations evaluated within and between treatment interruptions in chronically HIV-1-infected patients.
- Treatment of chronic hepatitis C in HIV/HCV-coinfection with interferon alpha-2b+ full-course vs. 16-week delayed ribavirin.
- Predictors of severe liver fibrosis in HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C.
- Natural history of patients with low-level HIV viremia on antiretroviral therapy.
- Recruitment and baseline epidemiologic profile of participants in the first phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy trial.
- Anemia during treatment of hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients.
- Randomized, controlled trial of therapy interruption in chronic HIV-1 infection.
- Seronegative secondary syphilis in 2 patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus.
- Management of chronic hepatitis C.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
- 2005 Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine 's Top Docs issue from t
- 2005-2014 Recognized by Best Doctors in America2003-2004
Treatments
- Aids/hiv, Hepatitis C
Professional Memberships
- Member American Society of Microbiology
- Member Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Member American College of Physicians
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