Mrs. Rebecca Costa PA
Physician Assistant
100 N ACADEMY AVE DANVILLE PA, 17822About
Rebecca Costa is a physician assistant practicing in DANVILLE, PA. Rebecca specializes in preventing and treating human illness and injury by providing a broad range of care under the supervision of a physician. A physician assistant's work can include physical exams, ordering and interpreting tests, performing procedures and prescribing medication. Often times, they can assist in surgery but the scope of practice can vary according to jurisdiction or health care setting.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of acetylcholine on regional pulmonary blood flow in patients with mitral stenosis.
- Human and ecologic effects in Massachusetts of an assumed thermonuclear attack on the United States.
- Decreasing alveolar size from apex to base in the upright lung.
- Effect of interstitial pressure on pulmonary blood-flow.
- Conversion of angiotensin 1 to angiotensin 2 in the isolated perfused dog lung.
- The components of the alveolar-arterial oxygen tension difference in normal subjects and in patients with pneumonia and obstructive lung disease.
- Modified technique for measuring pulmonary shunts using xenon and indocyanine green.
- Vertical gradient of alveolar size in lungs of dogs frozen intact.
- Unilateral pleuritis and regional lung function.
- Effects of changes in respiratory pattern on physiological dead space.
- Sites of pulmonary vasomotor reactivity in the dog during alveolar hypoxia and serotonin and histamine infusion.
- Pharmacological effects of drugs on the pulmonary circulation in man.
- Measurement of function of the transplanted lung in the dog with the use of xenon-133.
- Effects of transpulmonary and vascular pressures on pulmonary blood volume in isolated lung.
- Effect of acceleration on alveolar size in the lungs of dogs.
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