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Mark Anthony Powers

Mark Anthony Powers

Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
mark.powers@duke.edu
14 Sweetbriar Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Selected Publications

Breath and Mercy

Book · May 18, 2022 Life was supposed to get better for Dr. Phineas Mann after residency and fellowship, but the AIDS pandemic, a crushing workload, and a crippling hurricane upend his life. Then difficult decisions he is forced to make in a crisis threaten all he holds dear. ... Link to item Cite

A Swarm in May A Novel

Book · May 6, 2021 A Swarm in May is the debut novel of a doctor and beekeeper and weaves systemic racism, Little League baseball, and the art and science of beekeeping into a riveting medical mystery. ... Cite

The obesity hypoventilation syndrome.

Journal Article Respir Care · December 2008 We only need to look around us to see that we are in an epidemic of obesity and obesity-related medical problems. The obesity hypoventilation syndrome is a disorder in which an obese person with normal lungs chronically hypoventilates. Obesity impairs vent ... Link to item Cite

Endobronchial interstitial Au-198 implantation in the treatment of recurrent bronchogenic carcinoma.

Journal Article J Surg Oncol · April 1992 Nineteen patients with non-small-cell bronchogenic carcinoma, recurrent following initial conventional external beam radiotherapy, were treated with endobronchial implantation of Au-198 seeds. Seventeen patients were symptomatic with primary symptoms of pe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rhodococcus equi causing human pulmonary infection: review of 29 cases.

Journal Article South Med J · October 1991 Rhodococcus equi is a gram-positive pleomorphic bacillus that has been identified as a life-threatening pulmonary pathogen in the immunocompromised host. Infection with R equi may go unrecognized by physicians unacquainted with its presentation and unaware ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pulmonary eosinophilic granuloma. 25-year follow-up.

Journal Article Am Rev Respir Dis · March 1984 Pulmonary eosinophilic granuloma is an uncommon disease of unknown origin with characteristic pathologic features. Reports of long-term follow-up in this disorder are rare in the literature. We report the course of a patient followed at our institution fro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of allergic bronchoconstriction on airways epithelial permeability to large polar solutes in the guinea pig.

Journal Article Am Rev Respir Dis · December 1983 The effect of allergic bronchoconstriction on the permeability of the airway mucosa to large hydrophilic polar solutes was investigated in the guinea pig. After specific antigen (ovalbumin) challenge, there was a significant increase in the plasma levels o ... Full text Link to item Cite