Dr. Ricardo E. Blanco M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1203 S Tyler St Suite 200 Covington LA, 70433About
Dr. Ricardo Blanco practices Pulmonology in Covington, LA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Blanco 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
Univ De Costa Rica- Fac De Med- San Jose- Costa Rica 1983
Universidad de Costa Rica Facultad de Medicina 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ultrastructural studies of dorsal root axons regenerating through adult frog optic and sciatic nerves.
- Basic fibroblast growth factor applied to the optic nerve after injury increases long-term cell survival in the frog retina.
- Measuring the CP violating phase gamma using B+/- --> pi(+/-)pi(+)pi(-) and B+/- --> K+/-pi(+)pi(-) decays.
- Positional information determines the anatomy and synaptic specificity of cockroach filiform hair afferents using independent mechanisms.
- Radiological impact of airborne effluents of coal and nuclear plants.
- Localization of GAD- and GABA-like immunoreactivity in ground squirrel retina: retrograde labeling demonstrates GAD-positive ganglion cells.
- A 57-year-old man with end-stage renal disease and chronic cough.
- Glial cells in peripheral nerves of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana.
- Ultrastructural changes in glial cells during regeneration of cockroach peripheral nerve.
- Localization of the heptapeptide GFSKLYFamide in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima (Echinodermata): a light and electron microscopic study.
- Dopaminergic neurons in the cone-dominated ground squirrel retina: a light and electron microscopy study.
- Morphology and distribution of dopaminergic neurons in the ground squirrel retina.
- Changes in ultrastructure and voltage-dependent currents at the glia limitans of the frog optic nerve following retinal ablation.
- Specificity of identified central synapses in the embryonic cockroach: appropriate connections form before the onset of spontaneous afferent activity.
- Astrocytes and regenerating axons at the proximal stump of the severed frog optic nerve.
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