Dr. Karen A. Fagan MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
3301 Knollwood Dr Four Medical Park Mobile AL, 36693About
Dr. Karen Fagan practices Pulmonology in Mobile, AL. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Fagan 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pulmonary hypertension in TNF-alpha-overexpressing mice is associated with decreased VEGF gene expression.
- Pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease.
- Hypoxia and Rho/Rho-kinase signaling. Lung development versus hypoxic pulmonary hypertension.
- Cardioprotective and vasomotor effects of HO activity during acute and chronic hypoxia.
- Pulmonary vascular manifestations of mixed connective tissue disease.
- Interleukin-6 causes mild pulmonary hypertension and augments hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in mice.
- Hypoxia-induced pulmonary vascular remodeling: cellular and molecular mechanisms.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone upregulates soluble guanylate cyclase and inhibits hypoxic pulmonary hypertension.
- Involvement of RhoA/Rho kinase signaling in protection against monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension in pneumonectomized rats by dehydroepiandrosterone.
- Vascular dysfunction in a murine model of severe hemolysis.
- Rho kinase-mediated vasoconstriction in pulmonary hypertension.
- Cytoskeletal defects in Bmpr2-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Sleep-disordered breathing, hypoxemia, and cancer mortality.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone restores right ventricular structure and function in rats with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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