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Frederick Koster
Researcher at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
Publications - 76
Citations - 4465
Frederick Koster is an academic researcher from Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome & Hantavirus. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 76 publications receiving 4278 citations. Previous affiliations of Frederick Koster include University of New Mexico.
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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: A Clinical Description of 17 Patients with a Newly Recognized Disease
Jeffrey S. Duchin,Frederick Koster,Clarence J. Peters,Gary L. Simpson,Gary L. Simpson,Bruce Tempest,Sherif R. Zaki,Thomas G. Ksiazek,Pierre E. Rollin,Stuart T. Nichol,Edith T. Umland,Ronald L. Moolenaar,Susan E. Reef,Kurt B. Nolte,Margaret M. Gallaher,Jay C. Butler,Robert F. Breiman +16 more
TL;DR: Clinical, laboratory, and autopsy data on the first 17 persons with confirmed infection from this newly recognized strain of hantavirus identified as the cause of an outbreak of severe respiratory illness in the southwestern United States are analyzed.
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Hemolytic-uremic syndrome after shigellosis. Relation to endotoxemia and circulating immune complexes.
Frederick Koster,Jack Levin,Lesley C. Walker,Kenneth S. K. Tung,Robert H. Gilman,M. M. Rahaman,M. Abdul Majid,Sirajul Islam,Ralph C. Williams +8 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that severe colitis in shigellosis is associated with circulating endotoxin from the colon producing coagulopathy, renal microangiopathy and hemolytic anemia is supported.
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the United States: A pathological description of a disease caused by a new agent
Kurt B. Nolte,Richard M. Feddersen,Kathy Foucar,Sherif R. Zaki,Frederick Koster,Dean A. Madar,Toby L. Merlin,Patricia J. McFeeley,Edith T. Umland,Ross E. Zumwalt +9 more
TL;DR: A unique spectrum of antemortem and postmortem pathological findings seen in a case series of nine surviving patients and 13 who died is described, characterized by a unique constellation of pulmonary, hematological, and reticuloendothelial pathological findings.
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High levels of cytokine-producing cells in the lung tissues of patients with fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Masuko Mori,Alan L. Rothman,Ichiro Kurane,James M. Montoya,Kurt B. Nolte,Joyce E. Norman,Douglas C. Waite,Frederick Koster,Francis A. Ennis +8 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that local cytokine production may play an important role in the pathogenesis of HPS.
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Cardiopulmonary manifestations of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Gustav W. Hallin,Steven Q. Simpson,Richard E. Crowell,David S. James,Frederick Koster,Gregory J. Mertz,Howard Levy +6 more
TL;DR: The two major life-threatening pathophysiologic changes in Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome are increased permeability pulmonary edema, and an atypical form of septic shock caused by myocardial depression and hypovolemia.