Eric Seeley, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

In addition I have advanced training in the interventional pulmonary techniques utilized to diagnose and treat malignant and benign processes in the trachea and bronchi. These techniques include rigid bronchoscopy, bronchial and tracheal stent placement, as well as cryoablative techniques including cryospray and cryoprobe ablation. I am also a co-investigator on several industry sponsored trials of lung volume reduction of emphysema through endobronchial coil or valve placement.

Procedures Performed:

• endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
• electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (EMN)
• gold fiducial placement
• rigid bronchoscopy
• cryospray ablation
• Argon Plasma Coagulation
• foreign body removal from the airway
• balloon dilation of the airway (balloon bronchoplasty)
• endobronchial stent placement
• Endobronchial valve placement for bronchopleural fistulae

Disease Treated

• lung nodule/mass diagnostics
• hilar and mediastinal lymph node biopsies
• carcinoid tumors
• Lung Cancer
• tracheobronchomalacia
• relapsing polychondritis
• Wegner's Granulomatosis

In order to schedule an appointment to see me in the Interventional Pulmonary clinic at UCSF please call the number above (415-353-7285). During all clinical consultations, it is essential that you bring a disk with a copy of all outside chest CTs or PET scans.

In addition to specializing in pulmonary procedures, I am also an attending in the UCSF medical and surgical intensive care units where I manage critically ill patients with respiratory failure and septic shock. I have done research on sepsis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome and am the course director for the critical care ultrasound course at UCSF.

• A retrospective observational study of benign anthracotic lymphadenitis and its association with PET avid lymph nodes in patients undergoing cancer evaluation.
  Journal of thoracic disease 2021 Ivanick NM, Shrestha P, Podolsky MJ, Walavalkar V, Lucas CH, Gesthalter YB, Seeley EJ
• Nonfibered Packing Coil Embolization of Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Resulting in a Delayed Endobronchial Coil Migration.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2021 Schwertner A, Kohlbrenner RM, Seeley EJ, Lokken RP
• Molecular cytopathology diagnosis of a lung neoplasm: Case report of an unusual non-small cell carcinoma with MET exon 14 skipping mutation.
  Diagnostic cytopathology 2021 Hosseini SM, Khanafshar E, Seeley EJ, Ruiz-Cordero R
• Therapy-Induced Evolution of Human Lung Cancer Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing.
  Cell 2020 Maynard A, McCoach CE, Rotow JK, Harris L, Haderk F, Kerr DL, Yu EA, Schenk EL, Tan W, Zee A, Tan M, Gui P, Lea T, Wu W, Urisman A, Jones K, Sit R, Kolli PK, Seeley E, Gesthalter Y, Le DD, Yamauchi KA…
• Fluid Response Evaluation in Sepsis Hypotension and Shock: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Chest 2020 Douglas IS, Alapat PM, Corl KA, Exline MC, Forni LG, Holder AL, Kaufman DA, Khan A, Levy MM, Martin GS, Sahatjian JA, Seeley E, Self WH, Weingarten JA, Williams M, Hansell DM
• Patient-controlled Anesthesia With Propofol During Bronchoscopy.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2020 Seeley EJ
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome-attributable mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis.
  Intensive care medicine 2020 Auriemma CL, Zhuo H, Delucchi K, Deiss T, Liu T, Jauregui A, Ke S, Vessel K, Lippi M, Seeley E, Kangelaris KN, Gomez A, Hendrickson C, Liu KD, Matthay MA, Ware LB, Calfee CS
• Flexible Bronchoscopic Deployment of a Silicone Bronchial Stent.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2020 Gesthalter YB, Seeley EJ
• Bilateral Endobronchial Masses and Severe Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2019 Ivanick NM, Moh M, Seeley EJ, Benn BS
• Efforts to Limit Publication Bias and Improve Quality in the Journal: Introduction of Double-Blind Peer Review.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2019 Ost DE, Seeley EJ, Shojaee S, Yasufuku K
• The Impact of Bronchial Thermoplasty on Asthma-Related Quality of Life and Controller Medication Use.
  Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases 2019 Seeley EJ, Alshelli I, Canfield J, Lum M, Krishna G
• Using a Dedicated Interventional Pulmonology Practice Decreases Wait Time Before Treatment Initiation for New Lung Cancer Diagnoses.
  Lung 2019 Benn BS, Parikh M, Tsau PH, Seeley E, Krishna G
• Central Airway Obstruction Due to Tracheal Glomus Tumor.
  The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon reports 2018 Haro GJ, Seeley EJ, Jablons DM, Kratz JR
• Pulmonary Sclerosing Pneumocytoma: Did Lightening Just Strike Twice?
  Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2017 Alshelli I, Seeley EJ
• A mass that has no (EBUS) echo.
  Respiratory medicine case reports 2017 Rosenblum MK, Wang SX, Seeley EJ
• Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Injection of Liposomal Amphotericin B for the Treatment of Symptomatic Aspergilloma.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2017 Parikh MS, Seeley E, Nguyen-Tran E, Krishna G
• Electromagnetic Navigational Bronchoscopy Spares a Drunken Crab From the Surgeon's Knife.
  Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2017 Parikh MS, Seeley E, Krishna G
• Immune Repertoire Diversity Correlated with Mortality in Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus Infected Patients.
  Scientific reports 2016 Hou D, Ying T, Wang L, Chen C, Lu S, Wang Q, Seeley E, Xu J, Xi X, Li T, Liu J, Tang X, Zhang Z, Zhou J, Bai C, Wang C, Byrne-Steele M, Qu J, Han J, Song Y
• Sepsis.
  Clinics in chest medicine 2016 Bastarache JA, Seeley EJ
• Multiple gene mutations identified in patients infected with influenza A (H7N9) virus.
  Scientific reports 2016 Chen C, Wang M, Zhu Z, Qu J, Xi X, Tang X, Lao X, Seeley E, Li T, Fan X, Du C, Wang Q, Yang L, Hu Y, Bai C, Zhang Z, Lu S, Song Y, Zhou W
• Effect of Endobronchial Coils vs Usual Care on Exercise Tolerance in Patients With Severe Emphysema: The RENEW Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA 2016 Sciurba FC, Criner GJ, Strange C, Shah PL, Michaud G, Connolly TA, Deslée G, Tillis WP, Delage A, Marquette CH, Krishna G, Kalhan R, Ferguson JS, Jantz M, Maldonado F, McKenna R, Majid A, Rai N, Gay S…
• Therapeutic Targets in Sepsis: Past, Present, and Future.
  Clinics in chest medicine 2016 Seeley EJ, Bernard GR
• Fibroblast Growth Factor-10 (FGF-10) Mobilizes Lung-resident Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Protects Against Acute Lung Injury.
  Scientific reports 2016 Tong L, Zhou J, Rong L, Seeley EJ, Pan J, Zhu X, Liu J, Wang Q, Tang X, Qu J, Bai C, Song Y
• Development and Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Patients Receiving 14 Days of Mechanical Ventilation.
  Critical care medicine 2015 Hough CL, Caldwell ES, Cox CE, Douglas IS, Kahn JM, White DB, Seeley EJ, Bangdiwala SI, Rubenfeld GD, Angus DC, Carson SS, ProVent Investigators and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s Acute…
• One-Way Valves to the Rescue for Bronchopleural Fistulae.
  Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2015 Seeley EJ
• Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Attenuate Pulmonary Infection Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa via Inhibiting Overproduction of Prostaglandin E2.
  Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) 2015 Mao YX, Xu JF, Seeley EJ, Tang XD, Xu LL, Zhu YG, Song YL, Qu JM
• Increased expression of neutrophil-related genes in patients with early sepsis-induced ARDS.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2015 Kangelaris KN, Prakash A, Liu KD, Aouizerat B, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Rogers A, Seeley EJ, Chu J, Liu T, Osterberg-Deiss T, Zhuo H, Matthay MA, Calfee CS
• Fluid therapy during acute respiratory distress syndrome: less is more, simplified*.
  Critical care medicine 2015 Seeley EJ
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome: emerging research in China.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2014 Song Y, Xu F, Seeley EJ, Ou J, Zhu X, Sun R, Bai C
• A dry lung is a happy lung: more supporting evidence.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2014 Seeley EJ
• From storm to suppression in sepsis: are bands the link?*.
  Critical care medicine 2014 Kangelaris KN, Seeley EJ
• Increased susceptibility to Klebsiella pneumonia and mortality in GSNOR-deficient mice.
  Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2013 Tang CH, Seeley EJ, Huang X, Wolters PJ, Liu L
• Noradrenergic neurons regulate monocyte trafficking and mortality during gram-negative peritonitis in mice.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2013 Seeley EJ, Barry SS, Narala S, Matthay MA, Wolters PJ
• Calcium flux and endothelial dysfunction during acute lung injury: a STIMulating target for therapy.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2013 Seeley EJ, Rosenberg P, Matthay MA
• Updates in the management of acute lung injury: a focus on the overlap between AKI and ARDS.
  Advances in chronic kidney disease 2013 Seeley EJ
• Inflection points in sepsis biology: from local defense to systemic organ injury.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2012 Seeley EJ, Matthay MA, Wolters PJ
• A multicenter mortality prediction model for patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation.
  Critical care medicine 2012 Carson SS, Kahn JM, Hough CL, Seeley EJ, White DB, Douglas IS, Cox CE, Caldwell E, Bangdiwala SI, Garrett JM, Rubenfeld GD, ProVent Investigators
• Parasitic infection improves survival from septic peritonitis by enhancing mast cell responses to bacteria in mice.
  PloS one 2011 Sutherland RE, Xu X, Kim SS, Seeley EJ, Caughey GH, Wolters PJ
• Systemic mast cell degranulation increases mortality during polymicrobial septic peritonitis in mice.
  Journal of leukocyte biology 2011 Seeley EJ, Sutherland RE, Kim SS, Wolters PJ
• Decreased respiratory system compliance on the sixth day of mechanical ventilation is a predictor of death in patients with established acute lung injury.
  Respiratory research 2011 Seeley EJ, McAuley DF, Eisner M, Miletin M, Zhuo H, Matthay MA, Kallet RH
• Predictors of mortality in acute lung injury during the era of lung protective ventilation.
  Thorax 2008 Seeley E, McAuley DF, Eisner M, Miletin M, Matthay MA, Kallet RH
• Diabetic ketoacidosis precipitated by Staphylococcus aureus abscess and bacteremia due to acupuncture: case report and review of the literature.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2006 Seeley EJ, Chambers HF