Aaron S. Chidekel, MD
PulmonologyInsurance Accepted
- Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna PPO/EPO/POS
- Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
- Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
- Amerihealth Caritas Delaware - Delaware & Chester CTY & TJU Sites ONLY
- Amerihealth Caritas Delaware - Deptford only
- Amerihealth Caritas Delaware VIP Next (DE - All Sites) (PA - Delaware & Chester County Sites & TJU Sites Only)
- Carefirst MD Community Health Plan Mcaid
- Cigna & Great West HMO/POS/EPO
- Cigna & Great West PPO
- Cigna Lifesource Transplant
- Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
- Cigna/Great West PPO
- Delaware First Health
- Delaware First Health - Deptford only
- Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
- Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State - Delaware & Chester CTY & TJU Sites ONLY
- Delaware Medicare
- Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
- First Health/Affordable PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
- Global Medical Managment DE/PA
- Global Medical Mangment NJ
- Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc Contiguous to DE*
- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc NONContiguous to DE*
- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Pennsylvania
- Highmark Health Options Medicaid - Deptford only
- Highmark Medicaid Health Options
- Highmark Medicaid Health Options - Delaware & Chester CTY & TJU Sites ONLY
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
- Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
- Independence Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
- Insurance Administrators of America
- INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
- Interlink Transplant
- Keystone First CHIP
- Keystone First Medicaid HMO
- Lifetrac Transplant
- Maryland Medicaid
- Maryland Medicaid Chester County ONLY
- Multiplan PPO
- New Jersey Medicaid
- Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO DE/PA
- Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO NJ
- Pennsylvania Medicaid
- Preferred Healthcare PPO
- Priority Partners John Hopkins
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Six Degrees Health Transplant
- Six Degrees Health-Lucent
- Star Healthcare Network
- Star Healthcare Network
- Three Rivers Provider Network
- Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
- United Healthcare HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
- UPMC Medicaid/CHIP
- US Family Health Plan
- Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid
- Wellpoint Maryland Medicaid - Chester County Only
- Apnea
- Asthma
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Sleep Disorders
Research Activities
Recent book editorship:
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Medical Interests
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)
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Clinical efficacy of elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor in an adolescent with homozygous G85E cystic fibrosis; Respiratory Medicine Case Reports; (2022).
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Adolescent E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury in the Delaware Valley: A Review of Hospital-Based Presentation, Management, and Outcomes; Cureus; (2022).
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0524 Polysomnographic Characteristics of Adolescent Patients with Class III Obesity and Severe OSA (AHI ≥30); Sleep; (2022).
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0493 Daytime Sleepiness in Children with Asthma: Is it really the lungs?; Sleep; (2022).
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Feeding Outcomes at Age 5 After Tracheostomy in Infancy; C51. TRACHEOSTOMIES AND BPD; (2022).
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Clinical Efficacy of Elexacaftor-Tezacaftor and Ivacaftor (Trikafta®) in an Adolescent with Homozygous G85E Cystic Fibrosis; C52. CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND PCD - CASE REPORTS; (2022).
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Acceptability and feasibility of a brief behavioral sleep intervention for youth with CF; Journal of Cystic Fibrosis; (2022).
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55 Using telemedicine in a cystic fibrosis newborn screening clinic; Journal of Cystic Fibrosis; (2022).
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Adolescent EVALI in the Delaware Valley: A Report of 9 Cases; Section on Tobacco Control Program; (2021).
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A Qualitative Exploration of Sleep Habits and Intervention Needs Among Youth with Cystic Fibrosis.; Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings; (2021).
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Resolution of Cheyne-Stokes Respirations After Left Ventricular Device (LVAD) Placement in a Young Adult with Congenital Heart Disease; TP130. TP130 CURIOUS CASES IN SLEEP AND RESPIRATORY MEDICINE; (2021).
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A Comparative Review of Treatment Modalities Utilized for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Young Children with Achondroplasia and Trisomy 21; TP73. TP073 PEDIATRIC SLEEP; (2021).
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334: Addressing food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic; Journal of Cystic Fibrosis; (2021).
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318: Implementation of home spirometry in the adolescent cystic fibrosis population; Journal of Cystic Fibrosis; (2021).
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601 Comparison of Sleep Parameters in Children with Achondroplasia and Trisomy 21; Sleep; (2021).
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Characterization of Sleep Apnea in Young Children with Trisomy 21 and Achondroplasia; TP73. TP073 PEDIATRIC SLEEP; (2021).
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Home Spirometry in the Adolescent Cystic Fibrosis Population; TP74. TP074 CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND PRIMARY CILIARY DYSKINESIA; (2021).
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Severe Pediatric OSA Masquerades as Neurologic Disorder Due to Extreme Sleepiness; B51. PEDIATRIC SLEEP II; (2020).
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Effects of xenon gas on human airway epithelial cells during hyperoxia and hypothermia.; Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicine; (2020).
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Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: Infant Factors Affecting Successful Sweat Test Completion; C49. PEDIATRIC CYSTIC FIBROSIS, PCD, AND COUGH; (2020).
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Identification of a Novel CFTR Mutation in an Infant of Eastern European Descent; C49. PEDIATRIC CYSTIC FIBROSIS, PCD, AND COUGH; (2020).
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Examining Quality of Life, Anxiety, and Sleep in Children with Chronic Respiratory Disease; B51. PEDIATRIC SLEEP II; (2020).
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Cerebral Palsy; Cerebral Palsy; (2020).
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Aspiration in the Child with Cerebral Palsy; Cerebral Palsy; (2020).
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Abnormal pulmonary lymphatic flow in patients with paediatric pulmonary lymphatic disorders: Diagnosis and treatment; Paediatric Respiratory Reviews; (2020).
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Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: Infant and Laboratory Factors Affecting Successful Sweat Test Completion. ; International journal of neonatal screening; (2020).
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Costello syndrome: Clinical phenotype, genotype, and management guidelines.; American journal of medical genetics. Part A; (2019).
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Status asthmaticus requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation associated with rhinovirus infection.; The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma; (2019).
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The Effects of Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis on Mental Health and Sleep Quality; B53. SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING AND LONG-TERM VENTILATION IN PEDIATRICS; (2019).
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0763 Pediatric Narcolepsy: Review of Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Outcomes in a Pediatric Sleep Center; Sleep; (2019).
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Cerebral Palsy; Cerebral Palsy; (2019).
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Rare loss of function variants in candidate genes and risk of colorectal cancer.; Human genetics; (2018).
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Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis in Delaware; Delaware Journal of Public Health; (2018).
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Risk factor analysis for mortality among infants requiring tracheostomy; Pediatric Pulmonology; (2018).
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Quantitative Analysis of Thoracoabdominal Asynchrony in Pediatric Polysomnography.; Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine; (2018).
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Aspiration in Child with Cerebral Palsy; Cerebral Palsy; (2018).
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Pseudomonas eradication and clinical effectivness of Ivacaftor in four Hispanic patients with S549N.; Pediatric pulmonology; (2017).
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1210 Excessive daytime sleepiness in a child with trisomy 21; it's not always apnea. AÌýcase of trisomy 21 with comorbid narcolepsy; Sleep; (2017).
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Efficacy and safety of lumacaftor and ivacaftor in patients aged 6-11 years with cystic fibrosis homozygous for F508del-CFTR: a randomised, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial.; The Lancet. Respiratory medicine; (2017).
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Management of Congenital Heart Disease Associated with Ellis-van Creveld Short-rib Thoracic Dysplasia.; The Journal of pediatrics; (2017).
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Strengthening Tobacco-Related Messages Relayed in Pediatric Offices in Delaware: Results of a Pilot Intervention; Clinical Pediatrics; (2016).
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Management of a Displaced Endobronchial Stent Using Simultaneous Endoscopy and Tracheobronchography; Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; (2016).
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Risk factors for lung function decline in a large cohort of young cystic fibrosis patients.; Pediatric pulmonology; (2015).
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Evaluation of Sleep Quality in Morbidly Obese Adolescents Seeking Bariatric Surgery; Chest; (2013).
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Evaluation of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Morbidly Obese Adolescents Seeking Bariatric Surgery; Chest; (2013).
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Standard care versus protocol based therapy for new onset Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis.; Pediatric pulmonology; (2013).
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Long term effects of denufosol tetrasodium in patients with cystic fibrosis.; Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society; (2012).
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The effects of gas humidification with high-flow nasal cannula on cultured human airway epithelial cells.; Pulmonary medicine; (2012).
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Inhaled aztreonam lysine vs. inhaled tobramycin in cystic fibrosis: a comparative efficacy trial.; Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society; (2012).
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Dosage effects of clara cell 10 kd (cc10) protein on the human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3 under normoxic and hyperoxic conditions; Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences; (2012).
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Clara cell protein mediates secretion of proteins, IL-8 and IL-6 in human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3 exposed to hyperoxia; Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research; (2012).
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Respiratory mechanics in an infant with perinatal lethal hypophosphatasia treated with human recombinant enzyme replacement therapy.; Pediatric pulmonology; (2012).
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Risk factors for age at initial Pseudomonas acquisition in the cystic fibrosis epic observational cohort.; Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society; (2012).
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Effects Of Xenon Gas On Human Airway Epithelial Cells During Hyperoxia And Hypothermia; C31. REGULATION OF LUNG INFLAMMATION; (2012).
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Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome Presenting As Bilateral Pneumonia; C72. SLEEP AND SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING IN OTHER MEDICAL DISORDERS; (2012).
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Gastric Banding In Adolescent Obesity Is Associated With Improvement In Lung Function; D66. GENERAL PEDIATRIC PULMONARY; (2012).
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Comparative efficacy and safety of 4 randomized regimens to treat early Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis.; Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine; (2011).
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Altered properties of human airway epithelial cell line calu-3 with reduced CFTR function; International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology; (2011).
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Initial Pseudomonas aeruginosa treatment failure is associated with exacerbations in cystic fibrosis.; Pediatric pulmonology; (2011).
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Effect of budesonide in airway epithelial cell line Calu-3 with reduced CFTR function; Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research; (2011).
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Acute Asthma Exacerbations; Journal of Asthma & Allergy Educators; (2010).
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Skeletal dysplasias: Evaluation with impulse oscillometry and thoracoabdominal motion analysis; Pediatric Pulmonology; (2010).
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Impact Of Short-Term Hyperoxia On Human Airway Epithelial Cell Tight Junction: Structure And Function; A36. INFLAMMATION AND THE AIRWAY EPITHELIUM; (2010).
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Cultured human airway epithelial cells (calu-3): a model of human respiratory function, structure, and inflammatory responses. ; Critical care research and practice; (2010).
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Baseline characteristics and factors associated with nutritional and pulmonary status at enrollment in the cystic fibrosis EPIC observational cohort.; Pediatric pulmonology; (2010).
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Denufosol tetrasodium in patients with cystic fibrosis and normal to mildly impaired lung function.; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine; (2010).
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Dysphagia among Infants with Tracheotomy: A Longterm Follow-Up Study.; D47. NEONATAL AND RARE LUNG DISEASES; (2009).
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Early anti-pseudomonal acquisition in young patients with cystic fibrosis: rationale and design of the EPIC clinical trial and observational study'.; Contemporary clinical trials; (2009).
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Heat shock protein 70 secretion by neonatal tracheal tissue during mechanical ventilation: association with indices of tissue function and modeling.; Pediatric research; (2009).
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Effect of Budesonide on Cultured Human Airway Epithelial (Calu-3) Cells Exposed to Hyperoxia and Short-Term Mechanical Ventilation.; B32. MUCOSAL IMMUNITY AND AIRWAY EPITHELIA; (2009).
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Effects of oxygen concentration and exposure time on cultured human airway epithelial cells.; Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies; (2008).
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KL4-Surfactant (Lucinactant) Protects Human Airway Epithelium from Hyperoxia; Pediatric Research; (2008).
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Knowledge and attitudes about smoking and environmental tobacco smoke: a comparison of parents and children attending upper and lower income pediatric sites.; Delaware medical journal; (2008).
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Dissociation between the effects of oxygen and pressure on matrix metalloproteinase-2, -7, and -9 expression in human airway epithelial cells.; American journal of perinatology; (2008).
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PULMONARY DYSFUNCTIONS AS MEASURED BY IMPULSE OSCILLOMETRY (IOS) AMONG PATIENTS WITH MORQUIO'S SYNDROME (MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE IVA); Chest; (2008).
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Knowledge and attitudes about smoking and environmental tobacco smoke: a comparison of parents and children attending upper and lower income pediatric sites.; Delaware medical journal; (2008).
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Choking and Foreign Body Aspiration; Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine; (2007).
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Apparent Life-Threatening Event, Infant Apnea, and Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome; Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine; (2007).
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Apparent Life-Threatening Event, Infant Apnea, and Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome; Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine; (2007).
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Choking and Foreign Body Aspiration; Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine; (2007).
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Preventing and treating nicotine addiction: a review with emphasis on adolescent health.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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Preventing and treating nicotine addiction: a review with emphasis on adolescent health.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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Expression of matrix metalloproteinases 2, 7 and 9, and their tissue inhibitors 1 and 2, in developing rabbit tracheae; Biology of the Neonate; (2006).
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Adult smoking and environmental tobacco smoke: a persistent health threat to children.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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What physicians can do about the tobacco problem: best practice interventions for your practice and office.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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Adult smoking and environmental tobacco smoke: a persistent health threat to children.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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Science, politics, and society: a brief history of environmental tobacco smoke.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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Science, politics, and society: a brief history of environmental tobacco smoke.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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What physicians can do about the tobacco problem: best practice interventions for your practice and office.; Delaware medical journal; (2006).
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Hyperoxia-induced changes in human airway epithelial cells: the protective effect of perflubron.; Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies; (2005).
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Effect of Inhaled Corticosteroids on Markers of Pulmonary Inflammation and Lung Maturation in Preterm Infants with Evolving Chronic Lung Disease; Journal of the American Osteopathic Association; (2004).
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Effect of inhaled corticosteroids on markers of pulmonary inflammation and lung maturation in preterm infants with evolving chronic lung disease.; The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association; (2004).
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Regulation of apical surface fluid and protein secretion in human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3.; Biochemical and biophysical research communications; (2004).
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Protein composition of apical surface fluid from the human airway cell line Calu-3: effect of ion transport mediators.; Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry; (2004).
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Pediatric choking.; Delaware medical journal; (2004).
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Association of interleukin-8 with inflammatory and innate immune components in bronchoalveolar lavage of children with chronic respiratory diseases.; Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry; (2004).
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Knowledge and attitudes about smoking among children with lung and allergic disorders and their parents; Pediatric Asthma, Allergy and Immunology; (2004).
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Pediatric choking.; Delaware medical journal; (2004).
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Exercise-induced Vocal Cord Dysfunction Presenting as Asthma in Pediatric Patients: Toxicity of Inappropriate Inhaled Corticosteroids and the Role of Exercise Laryngoscopy; Pediatric Asthma, Allergy and Immunology; (2003).
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A snapshot of tobacco-related messages relayed in pediatric offices in Delaware.; Delaware medical journal; (2003).
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Suction-Type Suffocation Incidents in Infants and Toddlers; Pediatrics; (2003).
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Arnold-Chiari malformation type I and sleep-disordered breathing: an uncommon manifestation of an important pediatric problem.; Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners; (2003).
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A snapshot of tobacco-related messages relayed in pediatric offices in Delaware.; Delaware medical journal; (2003).
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Acute pulmonary hemorrhage in a Delaware infant after exposure to Stachybotrys atra.; Delaware medical journal; (2002).
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Acute pulmonary hemorrhage in a Delaware infant after exposure to Stachybotrys atra.; Delaware medical journal; (2002).
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Effects of an inadvertent dose of cytarabine in a child with Fanconi's anemia: reducing medication errors.; Paediatric drugs; (2002).
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Home delivery of palivizumab: outcomes and compliance in regional preterm infants.; Delaware medical journal; (2002).
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Home delivery of palivizumab: outcomes and compliance in regional preterm infants.; Delaware medical journal; (2002).
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Antibacterial activity of apical surface fluid from the human airway cell line Calu-3: pharmacologic alteration by corticosteroids and beta(2)-agonists.; American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology; (2001).
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The respiratory health effects of passive smoking on children.; Delaware medical journal; (2000).
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Nasopharyngeal colonization in children with cystic fibrosis: Antibiotic resistance and intrafamilial spread; Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice; (2000).
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The respiratory health effects of passive smoking on children.; Delaware medical journal; (2000).
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Flexible Bronchoscopy in Pediatric Patients with Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency and Artificial Airways; Journal of Bronchology; (2000).
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Postoperative bilevel positive airway pressure ventilation after tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children--a preliminary report.; International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology; (1999).
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Cystic fibrosis and calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis; Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine; (1997).
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Rhinovirus infection associated with serious lower respiratory illness in patients with bronchopulmonary dysplasia; The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal; (1997).
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Anoxia-Induced Neuronal Injury: Role of Na+Entry and Na+-Dependent Transport; Experimental Neurology; (1997).
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Cystic fibrosis and calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis.; The Yale journal of biology and medicine; (1996).
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Rhinovirus infection associated with severe lower respiratory tract illness and worsening lung disease in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.; Pediatric pulmonology; (1994).
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