
Dr. Jonathon D. Truwit M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
Uva Hospital W Hospital Drive Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Jonathon Truwit practices Pulmonology in Charlottesville, VA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Truwit manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lung air spaces: MR imaging evaluation with hyperpolarized 3He gas.
- Comparison of safety and cost of percutaneous versus surgical tracheostomy.
- Report on the development of a procedure to prevent placement of feeding tubes into the lungs using end-tidal CO2 measurements.
- Emphysema: hyperpolarized helium 3 diffusion MR imaging of the lungs compared with spirometric indexes--initial experience.
- Detection of inadvertent airway intubation during gastric tube insertion: Capnography versus a colorimetric carbon dioxide detector.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- A double-blind placebo-controlled study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid in the treatment of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Toxic effects of drugs used in the ICU. Toxic effects of bronchodilators.
- The purpose, composition, and function of an institutional review board: balancing priorities.
- Evaluation of a new weaning index based on ventilatory endurance and the efficiency of gas exchange.
- Outcome of critically ill patients with influenza virus infection.
- Six-minute walk distance in patients with severe end-stage COPD: association with survival after inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation.
- Pulmonary disorders in athletes.
- Bilateral pulmonary sequestration.
- Acute kidney injury in patients with acute lung injury: impact of fluid accumulation on classification of acute kidney injury and associated outcomes.
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