Dr. William Franklin Pendergraft M.D., PH.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Unc Kidney Ctr 7024 Burnett Womack Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. William Pendergraft is a nephrologist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Pendergraft specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Pendergraft 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Meta-analysis of human papillomavirus infection concordance.
- Human systems immunology: hypothesis-based modeling and unbiased data-driven approaches.
- AGS, SLE, and RNASEH2 mutations: translating insights into therapeutic advances.
- Autoantigen complementarity and its contributions to hallmarks of autoimmune disease.
- Dialogue: A blissful future for lupus nephritis: harnessing repeat kidney biopsies to identify meaningful biomarkers of disease.
- Comparison and evaluation of lupus nephritis response criteria in lupus activity indices and clinical trials.
- Clinical Features of Reported Ethylene Glycol Exposures in the United States.
- Defining Glomerular Disease in Mechanistic Terms: Implementing an Integrative Biology Approach in Nephrology.
- The Evolving Role of Rituximab in Adult Minimal Change Glomerulopathy.
- Pregnancy Outcomes in Patients with Glomerular Disease Attending a Single Academic Center in North Carolina.
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