Dr. Charles J Diskin MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
2609 Village Professional Dr Suite 3 Opelika AL, 36801About
Dr. Charles Diskin is a nephrologist practicing in Opelika, AL. Dr. Diskin specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Diskin most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1977
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Analgesic use in hemodialysis patients: Osler at the bedside and computer-generated data.
- Pharmacologic intervention to prevent hemodialysis vascular access thrombosis: the next generation of treatment?
- Vascular access cannulation and the end of religion: is it time or our own human variables that determine success?
- Selenium binding proteins, renal failure, graft rejection and intimal hyperplasia: Which are causes and which are effects?
- Looking backward: a review of the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus in end-stage renal disease after a quarter of century.
- Notes on angiotensin inhibition and vascular access survival: time for randomized controlled trials.
- A change of reason: medicine and the scientific revolution.
- R wave increases after hemodialysis revisited.
- Multiple mechanisms for abnormal selenium levels and vascular disease in renal failure.
- Creatinine and GFR: an imperfect marriage of convenience.
- Peritoneal dialysis in patients with liver cirrhosis and/or ascites.
- More on case 7-2006.
- Is it time to reexamine KDOQI aluminum guidelines?
- Creatinine and glomerular filtration rate: evolution of an accommodation.
- Erythropoietin levels and androgens use: what is their relationship in the correction of anemia?
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