Dr. John Kevin Tucker MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
75 Francis Street Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115Rating
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About
Dr. John Tucker is a nephrologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Tucker specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Tucker 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
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1990
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in African Americans.
- Experimental manipulation of steroid concentrations in circulation and in egg yolks of turtles.
- Race and kidney disease: role of social and environmental factors.
- Metal accumulation in eggs of the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in the Lower Illinois River.
- Quantitative genetics of plastron shape in slider turtles (Trachemys scripta).
- Factors in career choice among US nephrologists.
- Interactive medical case. A complex cause of pleuritic chest pain.
- Kidney disease in disadvantaged populations.
- Substrate color-induced melanization in eight turtle species from four chelonian groups.
- Management of Dabigatran-Associated Bleeding with Two Doses of Idarucizumab Plus Hemodialysis.
- Thermal and substrate color-induced melanization in laboratory reared red-eared
- Hemodialysis failure secondary to hydroxocobalamin exposure.
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