Dr. Kristin B Highland MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
171 Ashley Ave Charleston SC, 29425Rating
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About
Dr. Kristin Highland is a rheumatologist practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Highland specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Highland treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in geriatric critical care.
- Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: a preliminary decision analysis.
- Inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: is there a long-term benefit?
- Interstitial lung disease in the patient who has connective tissue disease.
- Clinical aspects of lung involvement: lessons from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and the scleroderma lung study.
- Critical care challenges in the adult ECMO patient.
- Pulmonary hypertension in interstitial lung disease.
- New developments in scleroderma interstitial lung disease.
- Impairment of the antifibrotic effect of hepatocyte growth factor in lung fibroblasts from African Americans: possible role in systemic sclerosis.
- Down-regulation of collagen and connective tissue growth factor expression with hepatocyte growth factor in lung fibroblasts from white scleroderma patients via two signaling pathways.
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Chronic dyspnea and severe obstruction after pneumonectomy: postpneumonectomy syndrome.
- Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in scleroderma interstitial lung disease: technical aspects and clinical correlations: review of the literature.
- Limitations to the 6-minute walk test in interstitial lung disease and pulmonary hypertension in scleroderma.
- Clinical profile of anti-PL-12 autoantibody. Cohort study and review of the literature.
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