Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University of Washington

Pulmonology

H T. Robertson II, MD practices Pulmonology. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. H T. Robertson II is a published doctor as well. He has 56 publications published. The latest was: Gravity is an important but secondary determinant of regional pulmonary blood flow in upright primates.

Publications

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• Dead space: the physiology of wasted ventilation.
• High-resolution spatial measurements of ventilation-perfusion heterogeneity in rats.
• Does hypoxic vasoconstriction influence the normal distribution of human Pulmonary blood flow?
• Microsphere maps of regional blood flow and regional ventilation.
• An ultracyclist with Pulmonary edema during the Bicycle Race Across America.
• What do dead-space measurements tell us about the Lung with acute respiratory distress syndrome?
• Exercise response after rapid intravenous infusion of saline in healthy humans.
• Carbon dioxide added late in inspiration reduces ventilation-perfusion heterogeneity without causing respiratory Acidosis.
• Spatial distribution of ventilation and perfusion in anesthetized dogs in lateral postures.
• Determination of regional ventilation and perfusion in the Lung using xenon and computed tomography.
• Vasomotor tone does not affect perfusion heterogeneity and gas exchange in normal primate Lungs during normoxia.
• Selected contribution: redistribution of Pulmonary perfusion during weightlessness and increased gravity.
• Pulmonary blood flow remains fractal down to the level of gas exchange.
• Physiological implications of the fractal distribution of ventilation and perfusion in the Lung.
• Gravity is an important but secondary determinant of regional Pulmonary blood flow in upright primates.
• Pulmonary embolization causes hypoxemia by redistributing regional blood flow without changing ventilation.
• Pulmonary gas-exchange analysis by using simultaneous deposition of aerosolized and injected microspheres.
• Spatial pattern of Pulmonary blood flow distribution is stable over days.
• High-resolution maps of regional ventilation utilizing inhaled fluorescent microspheres.
• Temporal heterogeneity of regional Pulmonary perfusion is spatially clustered.
• A computer simulation of Pulmonary perfusion in three dimensions.
• The effects of prophylactic expiratory positive airway pressure on the resolution of oleic acid-induced Lung injury in dogs.
• Multicenter trial of L-carnitine in maintenance hemodialysis patients. II. Clinical and biochemical effects.
• The effects of expiratory positive airway pressure on the resolution of oleic acid-induced Lung injury in dogs.
• Effects of erythropoietin on strength and functional status of patients on hemodialysis.
• Ventilation and perfusion alterations after smoke inhalation injury.
• Evaluation of breathlessness in asbestos workers. Results of exercise testing.
• Red cell oxygen affinity in severe hypertriglyceridemia.
• Recombinant erythropoietin improves exercise capacity in anemic hemodialysis patients.
• Respiratory drives and exercise in menstrual cycles of athletic and nonathletic women.
• Influence of carrier gas density on gas exchange during high frequency ventilation.
• Physiologic and histologic determinants of gas exchange during induction of oleic acid Pulmonary edema.
• Increasing intracranial pressure with air causes air embolism, not neurogenic Pulmonary edema.
• Ventilation-perfusion relationships after hemorrhage and resuscitation: an inert gas analysis.
• Respiratory and inert gas exchange during high-frequency ventilation.
• Role of diffusion-dependent gas inhomogeneity in gas exchange in the dog.
• The prone position improves arterial oxygenation and reduces shunt in oleic-acid-induced acute Lung injury.
• Gas exchange abnormalities produced by venous gas emboli.
• Mechanisms of physiological dead space response to PEEP after acute oleic acid Lung injury.
• Diffusion-related differences in elimination of inert gases from the Lung.
• Interaction of series and parallel dead space in the Lung.
• Pathophysiological patterns of resolution from acute oleic acid Lung injury in the dog.
• Inert gas elimination characteristics of the normal and abnormal Lung.
• Distribution of ventilation and perfusion during positive end-expiratory pressure in the adult Respiratory distress syndrome.
• Applications of fractal analysis to physiology.
• Elevated alveolar PCO2 relative to predicted values during normal gas exchange.
• Effects of carbonic anhydrase inhibition on ventilation-perfusion matching in the dog Lung.
• Pulmonary gas exchange during exercise in athletes. I. Ventilation-perfusion mismatch and diffusion limitation.
• Effects of inspired carbon dioxide on ventilation-perfusion matching in normoxia, hypoxia, and hyperoxia.
• Conducting airway gas exchange: diffusion-related differences in inert gas elimination.
• Pulmonary NO synthase inhibition and inspired CO2: effects on V''/Q'' and Pulmonary blood flow distribution.
• Fractal modeling of Pulmonary blood flow heterogeneity.
• Fractal properties of Pulmonary blood flow: characterization of spatial heterogeneity.
• Gravity is a minor determinant of Pulmonary blood flow distribution.
• Relative contribution of gravity to Pulmonary perfusion heterogeneity.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

Procedures Preformed

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• Bronchoscopy
• Thoracentesis
• Ventilation Management

Conditions Treated

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• Acidosis
• Alkalosis
• Asthma
• Atelectasis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmonology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Harborview Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

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