Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Alpha A Fowler

Biography

Dr. Fowler's research interests focus on basic mechanisms of vascular inflammation that lead to lung injury. A major interest lies in devising methods to attenuate vascular injury and tissue inflammation in the lung that lead to acute lung injury. Dr. Fowler has just completed a multi-center National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute supported trial using high dosage intravenous vitamin C in critically ill septic patients who developed acute lung injury and the more severe form of injury Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Research Interest

 Molecular basis of lung injury and the role of ascorbic acid in attenuating septic acute lung injury and organ failure.

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