Dr. Aaron B Waxman M.D., PH.D
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
Pulmonary Critical Care Mgh 55 Fruit Street, Cox Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Aaron Waxman practices Pulmonology in Boston, MA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Waxman 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
Yale School of Medicine 1992
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Targeted lung expression of interleukin-11 enhances murine tolerance of 100% oxygen and diminishes hyperoxia-induced DNA fragmentation.
- Interleukin-6 protection in hyperoxic lung injury.
- IL-13 stimulates vascular endothelial cell growth factor and protects against hyperoxic acute lung injury.
- Pulmonary function test abnormalities in pulmonary vascular disease and chronic heart failure.
- Pulmonary hypertension: work in progress.
- DNA damage induced by hyperoxia: quantitation and correlation with lung injury.
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension: evaluation and management.
- A review of sitaxsentan sodium in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- IL-6 cytoprotection in hyperoxic acute lung injury occurs via suppressor of cytokine signaling-1-induced apoptosis signal-regulating kinase-1 degradation.
- Cicletanine for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Plasma gelsolin depletion and circulating actin in sepsis: a pilot study.
- Interleukin-6 overexpression induces pulmonary hypertension.
- IL-6 protects against hyperoxia-induced mitochondrial damage via Bcl-2-induced Bak interactions with mitofusins.
- IL-6 cytoprotection in hyperoxic acute lung injury occurs via PI3K/Akt-mediated Bax phosphorylation.
- The inflammasome mediates hyperoxia-induced alveolar cell permeability.
Clinical Trials
- Assess Efficacy of of Oral Treprostinil in Patients With Symptomatic Primary or Secondary Raynaud's Phenomenon
- An Open-Label, Long-Term Study of Oral Treprostinil in Subjects With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Extended Access Program to Assess Long-term Safety of Bardoxolone Methyl in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension RANGER
- Study of Oral Treprostinil in Subjects With Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Associated With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
- Oral Treprostinil in Subjects With Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Associated With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
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