Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of California-Irvine,School of Medicine

Pulmonology

Behrouz Jafari is an expert in the field of Pulmonology. Doctor Behrouz Jafari, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 10 publications published. The latest was: Increased Plasma YKL-40/Chitinase-3-Like-Protein-1 Is Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Publications

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• Endothelial dysfunction and hypertension in Obstructive sleep apnea - Is it due to intermittent hypoxia?
• Activation of heme oxygenase and suppression of cGMP are associated with impaired endothelial function in Obstructive sleep apnea with hypertension.
• Increased Plasma YKL-40/Chitinase-3-Like-Protein-1 Is Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
• Overnight rostral fluid shift in Obstructive sleep apnea: does it affect the severity of sleep-disordered breathing?
• Polysomnography.
• Oxidant stress mediates inflammation and apoptosis in ventilator-induced Lung injury.
• Intracellular glutathione in stretch-induced cytokine release from alveolar type-2 like cells.
• Stretch-induced IL-8 depends on c-Jun NH2-terminal and nuclear factor-kappaB-inducing kinases.
• Systemic microvascular leak in an in vivo rat model of ventilator-induced Lung injury.

Schools

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• University At Buffalo

• Yale New Haven Hospital

Procedures Preformed

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• Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)

Conditions Treated

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• Asthma
• COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
• Lung Nodule
• Pneumonia
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Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmonology
• Sleep Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Yale-New Haven Hospital
• University at Buffalo
• Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

Hospital

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• UC Irvine Medical Center

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