Dr. Laura M Dember M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
3400 Civic Center Blvd 1st Floor Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Laura Dember is a nephrologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Dember specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Dember 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
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1988
Yale School of Medicine 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intermediate-dose intravenous melphalan and blood stem cells mobilized with sequential GM+G-CSF or G-CSF alone to treat AL (amyloid light chain) amyloidosis.
- Venous thromboembolism in end-stage renal disease.
- MRI isolation of infected renal cyst in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
- Value of static venous pressure for predicting arteriovenous graft thrombosis.
- Critical care issues in the patient with chronic renal failure.
- Low-dose continuous oral melphalan for the treatment of primary systemic (AL) amyloidosis.
- High-dose intravenous melphalan with autologous stem cell transplantation in AL amyloidosis-associated end-stage renal disease.
- Incidence and outcome of acute renal failure complicating autologous stem cell transplantation for AL amyloidosis.
- Thrombosis in end-stage renal disease.
- Stress granule assembly is mediated by prion-like aggregation of TIA-1.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 15-2005. An 80-year-old man with shortness of breath, edema, and proteinuria.
- Emerging treatment approaches for the systemic amyloidoses.
- Amyloidosis-associated kidney disease.
- Anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease: defining the optimal hemoglobin target.
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