Dr. Sharon A. Esau M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
Uva Hospital W Hospital Drive Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Sharon Esau is a critical care surgeon practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Esau specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Esau has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The effect of theophylline on hypoxic, hypercapnic hamster diaphragm muscle in vitro.
- Hypoxic, hypercapnic acidosis decreases tension and increases fatigue in hamster diaphragm muscle in vitro.
- Prolonged relaxation rate of inspiratory muscles in patients with sleep apnea.
- Slowing of relaxation in the fatiguing hamster diaphragm is enhanced by theophylline.
- Critical illness, infection, and the respiratory muscles.
- Interaction of theophylline, verapamil, and diltiazem on hamster diaphragm muscle force in vitro.
- Effect of low chloride on relaxation in hamster diaphragm muscle.
- Ventilatory muscle function during exercise in air and oxygen in patients with chronic air-flow limitation.
- Malnutrition and the respiratory system.
- Changes in rate of relaxation of sniffs with diaphragmatic fatigue in humans.
- Ventilatory muscles during exercise in air and oxygen in normal men.
- Relaxation rate of mouth pressure with sniffs at rest and with inspiratory muscle fatigue.
- Changes in relaxation rate with diaphragmatic fatigue in humans.
- Assessment of ventilatory function in patients with neuromuscular disease.
- Role of adenosine in the depolarization of hypoxic hamster diaphragm membrane in vitro.
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