Dr. David W Dempster MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
209 Martin Luther King Jr Way Group Health Special Tacoma WA, 98405About
Dr. David Dempster is a nephrologist practicing in Tacoma, WA. Dr. Dempster specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Dempster 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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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Localization of rat cathepsin K in osteoclasts and resorption pits: inhibition of bone resorption and cathepsin K-activity by peptidyl vinyl sulfones.
- The contribution of trabecular architecture to cancellous bone quality.
- Continuous parathyroid hormone and estrogen administration increases vertebral cancellous bone volume and cortical width in the estrogen-deficient rat.
- Anabolic action of parathyroid hormone is skeletal site specific at the tissue
- The impact of bone turnover and bone-active agents on bone quality: focus on the hip.
- Effects of intermittent parathyroid hormone administration on bone mineralization density in iliac crest biopsies from patients with osteoporosis: a paired study before and after treatment.
- Precision, accuracy, and reproducibility of dual X-ray absorptiometry measurements in mice in vivo.
- Constant mineralization density distribution in cancellous human bone.
- Anabolic action of parathyroid hormone on cortical and cancellous bone differs between axial and appendicular skeletal sites in mice.
- The pathophysiology of bone loss.
- Lack of changes in histomorphometric, bone mass, and biochemical parameters in ovariohysterectomized dogs.
- Maintenance of cancellous bone connectivity in primary hyperparathyroidism: trabecular strut analysis.
- Bone microarchitecture and strength.
- Trabecular bone response to mechanical and parathyroid hormone stimulation: the role of mechanical microenvironment.
- Normal human osteoclasts formed from peripheral blood monocytes express PTH type 1 receptors and are stimulated by PTH in the absence of osteoblasts.
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