Dr. Keith Diaz
Internal Medicine
New York, NY
19 years experience male
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Internal Medicine
Languages spoken
English
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Incidence: This anomaly occurs in about 8 of every 10,000 people (live births).
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Smoking : Smoking adversely effects many parts of the body. The organs that are mostly effected are obviously the lungs. Damaging the lungs with smoking can ca... Read More
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PFT: This test can be highly variable. The quality of the test can depend on several things. The patient performing the test has to really give it a good... Read More
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Breathing exercises: The maneuvers that are used during a pulmonary function test are designed to test certain parameters of how well parts of the lung work. They are not... Read More
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Pulmonary hemorrhage: This is a condition when the small blood vessels in the lungs leak blood into the air sacs called alveoli. This usually makes it difficult to breathe... Read More
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Aspiration: Usually aspiration results in severe persistent coughing, shortness of breath and can develop wheezing. This usually results in inflammation within t... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Pulmonary embolism: There are tests that can test the amount of oxygen in the blood. Unfortunately you can't tell if your about to get a pulmonary embolism (PE) and die,... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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ILD: I believe you mean interstitial lung disease. This means that there is some sort of inflammatory process occurring within the tissue if the lung.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Fatigue: This could potentially cause fatigue, but more commonly it causes shortness of breath not necessarily fatigue. Of course it would depend on how sever... Read More
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Blood pressure: Yes and no. It is good to be concerned because high blood pressure can cause a lot of problems with your heart and blood vessels, but usually this ta... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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COPD: Unfortunately this is not true. Chronic obstructive disease is a chronic progressive disease. However, the god news it is treatable and there are ma... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Nodule: A 6mm nodule is a relatively common finding. Many times these are benign resulting from old infections or exposures. It becomes more worrisome in a ... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Infiltrate : A pulmonary infiltrate is usually used to describe a chest x-ray. A focal infiltrate means that it is localized to only one area of the lungs, as opp... Read More
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Diaz is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful!
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Thanks for your quick reply!
Awards
Top General Internist, First Place, East Long Island Region - Summer
2014
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