Dr. J Walden Retan M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
177 Oak Ridge Ln Talladega AL, 35160About
Dr. J Retan practices Geriatric Medicine in Talladega, AL. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Retan works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Syracuse, Coll of Med, Syracuse Ny 1957
Upstate Medical University/ College of Health Professions 1957
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Accelerated skin graft rejection in humans preimmunized with homologous peripheral leukocytes.
- A comparative evaluation of two antihypertensive preparations.
- Clinical problem-solving: trapped by an incidental finding.
- Prescription drug abuse.
- Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain.
- Letter: The rational diet for the obese.
- The status of clinical kidney homotransplantation-spring, 1965.
- Microembolic complications of atherosclerosis. Literature review and report of a patient.
- Vasodilation in treatment of hypertension.
- Reporting laboratory tests.
- Furosemide in the treatment of acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis.
- Anesthesia and oliguria.
- Repeated dialysis of indigent patients for chronic renal failure.
- Clinical studies with cephalothin.
- Therapy for mild systemic hypertension.
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