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Dr. Michelle A Josephson MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. Michelle Josephson is a nephrologist practicing in Willowbrook, IL. Dr. Josephson specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Josephson 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 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Successful retransplantation after renal allograft loss to polyoma virus interstitial nephritis.
- Should all living donors be treated equally?
- Platelets and capillary injury in acute humoral rejection of renal allografts.
- Treatment of de novo and recurrent membranous nephropathy in renal transplant patients.
- Bone disease after kidney transplantation.
- Leflunomide for polyomavirus type BK nephropathy.
- Polyoma virus infection of renal allografts: relationships of the distribution of viral infection, tubulointerstitial inflammation, and fibrosis suggesting viral interstitial nephritis in untreated disease.
- Treatment of renal allograft polyoma BK virus infection with leflunomide.
- Pregnancy in recipients of solid organs--effects on mother and child.
- Reproduction and pregnancy in transplant recipients: current practices.
- Rabbit antithymocyte globulin or basiliximab for induction therapy?
- The nephrology quiz and questionnaire: 2006.
- Pregnancy after kidney transplantation.
- Vitamin D deficiency in African American kidney transplant recipients: bringing a common problem to light.
- An empirical investigation of physicians' attitudes toward intrasibling kidney donation by minor twins.
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