Nat Levy, MD

What are some of the specific conditions you treat?

Asthma, COPD, lung cancer, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease/ pulmonary fibrosis, pleural diseases, and pulmonary hypertension.  I am also Board certified in Sleep Medicine and treat patients with all sleep disorders, including Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Narcolepsy.

What techniques or procedures do you use in your practice?

Bronchoscopy including endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), general thoracic ultrasound, which is used in performing thoracenteses.  In the ICU I do numerous procedures, including intubations, central venous catheter placements, emergent pericardiocenteses, cardioversions, arterial lines, pulmonary artery catheter placements, chest tube placements and ventilator management.

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Outstanding Achievement Award, Mayo Clinic, Internal Medicine Residency, 1994-1997
 

Clinical Research Award, Mayo Clinic, Internal Medicine Residency, 1994-1997

Jacobsohn E, DeWet C, Tymkew H, Hill L, Avidan M, Levy NT, Bruemmer-Smith S.  Use of the Patient State Index (PSI) to assist in the diagnosis of perioperative neurological injury and brain death. J Clin Monit Comput. 2005; June19 (3): 219-222.

Levy NT, Liapis H, Botney MD, Eisenberg PR, Trulock EP.  Pathologic regression of primary pulmonary hypertension in left native lung following right single lung transplantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2001; 20 (3):  381-384.

Levy NT, Trulock EP.  Follow up and management of patients post transplantation. Clinical Pulmonary Medicine 1999; 6 (5): 313- 318.

Sabers CJ, Levy NT, Bowen JM.  33- year- old man with chest pain and fever.  Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1999; 74 (2): 181- 184.

Mahomed AG, Murray J, Klempman S, Richards G, Feldman C, Levy NT, Smith C, Kallenbach J.  Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV infected patients from South Africa. East African Medical Journal 1999; 76 (2): 80- 84.

Tosomeen AH, Berbari EF, Levy NT, McClure RF, Krecke KN, Osmon DR.  A 26- year- old Indian woman with seizures and multiple intracranial mass lesions. Lebanese Medical Journal 1998; 46 (6): 349- 352.

Kollef MH, Levy N, Ahrens TS, Schaiff R, Prentice D, Sherman G.  The use of continuous intravenous sedation is associated with prolongation of mechanical ventilation. Chest 1998; 114(2): 541- 548.

Levy NT, Olson LJ, Weyand CM, Brack A, Tazelaar HD, Edwards WE, Hammill SC.  Giant cell myocarditis; evidence of a pathogenetic role for T lymphocytes.

Annals of Internal Medicine 1998; 128(8): 648- 650.

Capizzi SA, Levy NT, Enriquez- Sarano M.  Rheumatic fever revisited. Postgraduate Medicine 1997; 102(6): 65- 71. Levy NT, Young Jr WF, Habermann TM, Strickler JG, Carney JA, Stanson AW.  Adrenal insufficiency as a manifestation of disseminated non hodgkin’s lymphoma. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1997; 72: 818- 822.

Levy NT, Rubin J, DeRemee RA, Aughenbaugh GA, Unni KK, Kahn MJ.  Sarcoidosis and carcinoid tumors:  Does a link exist? Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1997; 72: 112-116.

Levy NT, Meyers AM, Margolius LP, Verhaart S, Wadee WA.  Hereditary interstitial nephritis without basement membrane changes. Nephron 1995; 69(4): 418-423.

Hammond KD, Bex P, Mohamed E, Levy N.  Phosphoamino acid phosphatases in normal and cancerous tissues of the human uterus, cervix and ovary. Archives Internationales de Physiologie, de Biochimie et de Biophysique 1992; 100: 105-107.