Dr. Bruce S Chertow MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist
1600 Medical Center Dr Suite G500 Huntington WV, 25701About
Dr. Bruce Chertow practices Nuclear Medicine in Huntington, WV. Dr. Chertow uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
Education and Training
Univ of Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1965
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology and Metabolism
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Subcellular mechanisms of parathyroid hormone secretion: ultrastructural changes in response to calcium, vitamin A, vinblastine, and cytochalasin B.
- Hypoglycemic coma associated with benign pleural mesothelioma.
- The role of subcellular organelles in hormone secretion. The interactions of calcium, vitamin A, vinblastine, and cytochalasin B in PTH secretion.
- Increasing incidence and characteristics of differentiated thyroid cancer in Huntington, West Virginia.
- Effect of vitamin A deficiency on cardiovascular function in the rat.
- Vitamin A deficiency impairs fetal islet development and causes subsequent glucose intolerance in adult rats.
- Accessibility of insulin pumps for blind and visually impaired people.
- Noninsulinoma pancreatogenous hypoglycemia syndrome: quantitative and immunohistochemical analyses of islet cells for insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic and duodenal homeobox protein.
- Benign pleural effusions in long-standing diabetes mellitus.
- Higher recent A1C in diabetic patients with acute non-ST elevation myocardial infarction as compared to other critical illnesses.
- Plasma and cellular retinoid-binding proteins and transthyretin (prealbumin) are all localized in the islets of Langerhans in the rat.
- The effects of vitamin A on insulin release and glucose oxidation in isolated rat islets.
- The effects of vitamin A on insulin release and glucose oxidation in isolated rat islets.
- Cellular mechanisms of insulin release. Effects of retinol on insulin release and islet ultrastructure.
- Cellular mechanisms of insulin release. Effects of retinol on insulin release and islet ultrastructure.
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