Professor, Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Pulmonology
Dr. Stephen S. Lefrak, MD
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Stephen S. Lefrak, MD practices Pulmonology. He went to State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine. He received awards:"Top MD". Stephen Lefrak has written publications. He has 55 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Outcome of Medicare patients with emphysema selected for, but denied, a lung volume reduction operation.'
Publications
- In Vivo Detection of Acinar Microstructural Changes in Early Emphysema with 3He Lung Morphometry.
- Accuracy of Emphysema quantification performed with reduced numbers of CT sections.
- Hyperpolarized 3He MR imaging: physiologic monitoring observations and safety considerations in 100 consecutive subjects.
- Freidrich Wegener: the past and present.
- 3He diffusion MRI of the Lung.
- reader's response to the webcast video editorial entitled "the international code of medical ethics of the World Medical Association".
- Integrating social and ethics-based aspects of medicine into physician education.
- Results of Lung volume reduction surgery in patients meeting a national emphysema treatment trial high-risk criterion.
- A prospective evaluation of Lung volume reduction surgery in 200 consecutive patients.
- Long-term outcome of bilateral Lung volume reduction in 250 consecutive patients with emphysema.
- Surgery for Emphysema.
- Quantitative in vivo assessment of Lung microstructure at the alveolar level with hyperpolarized 3He diffusion MRI.
- Tainted eponyms in medicine: the "Clara" cell joins the list.
- Lung carcinoma associated with bullous Lung disease in young men.
- Performance on the internal medicine second-year residency in-training examination predicts the outcome of the ABIM certifying examination.
- Tuberculosis screening in a nursing home: indications for preventive therapy.
- Tracheoesophageal fistula caused by cuffed tracheal tube. Successful treatment by tracheal resection and primary repair with four-year follow-up.
- Systematic sarcoidosis with severe involvement of the upper Respiratory tract.
- Treatment of status asthmaticus. A report of 70 episodes.
- Repeatability of quantitative CT indexes of emphysema in patients evaluated for Lung volume reduction surgery.
- Outcome of bilateral Lung volume reduction in patients with emphysema potentially eligible for Lung transplantation.
- Improved long-term survival seen after Lung volume reduction surgery compared to continued medical therapy for emphysema.
- MR imaging of diffusion of (3)He gas in healthy and diseased Lungs.
- Dynamic echo planar MR imaging of Lung ventilation with hyperpolarized (3)He in normal subjects and patients with severe emphysema.
- Patient selection for Lung volume reduction surgery: An objective model based on prior clinical decisions and quantitative CT analysis.
- Lung-reduction surgery: 5 years on.
- Outcome of Medicare patients with emphysema selected for, but denied, a Lung volume reduction operation.
- Perfusion scintigraphy in the evaluation for Lung volume reduction surgery: correlation with clinical outcome.
- Pulmonary emphysema: comparison of preoperative quantitative CT and physiologic index values with clinical outcome after Lung-volume reduction surgery.
- Evaluation and preoperative management of Lung volume reduction surgery candidates.
- Recent advances in surgery for Emphysema.
- Results of 150 consecutive bilateral Lung volume reduction procedures in patients with severe emphysema.
- Lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema.
- Evaluation of patients with emphysema for Lung volume reduction surgery. Washington University Emphysema Surgery Group.
- Is volume reduction surgery appropriate in the treatment of Emphysema? Yes.
- Assisted death and physician-assisted suicide.
- The oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve in health and Disease. Role of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate.
- Determination of resting energy expenditure utilizing the thermodilution Pulmonary artery catheter.
- Alternate modes of mechanical ventilation.
- Alveolar-capillary oxygen disequilibrium in hepatic cirrhosis.
- Disturbances of rhythm in chronic Lung disease.
- Retrocardiac mass.
- The heart in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Arrhythmias.
- The left ventricle in emphysema and chronic Bronchitis.
- The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis therapeutic grand rounds number 10. Chemoprophylaxis of tuberculosis.
- Unilateral Lung function. Comparison of the lateral position test with radionuclide ventilation-perfusion studies.
- How to detect and treat arrhythmias in chronic Lung disease.
- How to loosen the grip of status asthmaticus.
- Preoperative evaluation for pulmonary resection. The role of radionuclide Lung screening.
- How aging affects the structure and function of the Respiratory system.
- Posterior packs and the nasoPulmonary reflex.
- Prolonged mechanically assisted ventilation. An analysis of outcome and charges.
- Transpleural ventilation of explanted human Lungs.
- Outcomes after unilateral Lung volume reduction.
Schools
Suny Downstate Medical Center
Boston City Hospital
Kings County Hospital Center
University Hospital
Colum Presby Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Bronchoscopy
- Thoracentesis
- Ventilation Management
Conditions Treated
- Acidosis
- Atelectasis
- Bronchitis
- Collapsed Lung (Pneumothorax)
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Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Medicine
- Pulmonology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- HealthLink PPO
- Homestate Health Plan
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Top MD
Education
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New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus -
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn -
Boston University Medical Center -
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
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