Dr. Vivek N Ahya MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Vivek Ahya practices Pulmonology in Philadelphia, PA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Ahya 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
Boston University School of Medicine 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Medical complications of lung transplantation.
- Pulmonary complications of solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Report of the ISHLT Working Group on Primary Lung Graft Dysfunction part VI: treatment.
- Surgical therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- EBV PCR in the diagnosis and monitoring of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder: results of a two-arm prospective trial.
- Lung transplant outcomes in white and African American recipients: special focus on acute and chronic rejection.
- Donor transmission of malignant melanoma in a lung transplant recipient 32 years after curative resection.
- Lung transplantation in autoimmune diseases.
- Conventional and novel approaches to immunosuppression.
- Mechanical ventilation after lung transplantation. It's time for a trial.
- Rebuttal From Dr Ahya.
- COUNTERPOINT: Should US Centers Transplant Solid Organs Into International Recipients? No.
- Noninfectious Acute Lung Injury Syndromes Early After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.
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