Mark Sprenkle, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, U of M
Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, HCMC
Director of Pulmonary Research, HCMC

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care

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Clinical Interests

• Critical Care Medicine

• Respiratory Failure

• Pulmonary Medicine Including Asthma

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• Chronic Pulmonary Infections

• Interstitial Lung Disease

Research Interests

• Quality of Life and Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

• Outcomes Research in Critical Care Medicine

Publications

(For a comprehensive listing of Dr. Sprenkle's recent publications refer to PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.)

Sprenkle MD, Niewoehner DE, Nelson DB, Nichol KL.  The Veterans' Short Form 36 questionnaire is predictive of mortality and health-care utilization in a population of veterans with a self-reported diagnosis of asthma or COPD.  Chest 2004; 126(1):81-9 .

Sprenkle MD, Niewoehner DE, MacDonald R, Rutks I, Wilt TJ.  Clinical efficacy of OM-85 BV in COPD and chronic bronchitis: a systematic review.  COPD 2005; 2(1):167-75.

Weinert CR, Sprenkle M. Post-ICU consequences of patient wakefulness and sedative exposure during mechanical ventilation. Intensive Care Med   2008; 34(1):82-90. 

Kesler SM, Sprenkle MD, David WS, Leatherman JW.  Severe weakness complicating status asthmaticus despite minimal duration of neuromuscular paralysis.  Intensive Care Med. 2009; 35(1):157-60.

Melamed R, Sprenkle MD, Ulstad VK, Herzog CA, Leatherman JW. Assessment of left ventricular function by intensivists using hand-held echocardiography.  Chest. 2009; 135:1416-1420.

Abstracts:

Khan MT, Bastianelli A, Shapiro RS, Cen Y, Sprenkle, MS. The utility of open lung biopsy in management of patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure with diffuse pulmonary infiltrates. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009; 179:A4633.