Dr. Michael Alan Polis M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
10 Center Dr Op8 Clinic, Room 8c4 Bethesda MD, 20892About
Dr. Michael Polis is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Polis 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A multiple drug interaction study of stavudine with agents for opportunistic
- A randomized trial of high- versus low-dose subcutaneous interleukin-2 outpatient therapy for early human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.
- Cytomegalovirus retinitis in persons with AIDS--a shift in the treatment paradigm?
- Discontinuation of anticytomegalovirus therapy in patients with HIV infection and cytomegalovirus retinitis.
- Lymph node architecture preceding and following 6 months of potent antiviral therapy: follicular hyperplasia persists in parallel with p24 antigen restoration after involution and CD4 cell depletion in an AIDS patient.
- Long-term in vivo survival of receptor-modified syngeneic T cells in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Effects of fluconazole and clarithromycin on rifabutin and 25-O-desacetylrifabutin pharmacokinetics.
- Pre-HAART HIV burden approximates post-HAART viral levels following interruption of therapy in patients with sustained viral suppression.
- Effects of intermittent interleukin-2 therapy on plasma and tissue human immunodeficiency virus levels and quasi-species expression.
- Immunotherapy of HIV-infected patients with intermittent interleukin-2: effects of cycle frequency and cycle duration on degree of CD4(+) T-lymphocyte expansion.
- Interleukin-2 induced immune effects in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients receiving intermittent interleukin-2 immunotherapy.
- Extensive retinal neovascularization as a late finding in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with immune recovery uveitis.
- Design of a randomized controlled trial of foscarnet in patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Foscarnet and ganciclovir in the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis.
- Indeterminate western blot patterns in a cohort of individuals at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) exposure.
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