Dr. Muhammad Amir Rafiq MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1655 Bernardin Ave Suite 200 Columbia SC, 29204Rating
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Dr. Muhammad Rafiq is a nephrologist practicing in Columbia, SC. Dr. Rafiq specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Rafiq 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Linkage mapping of a nonspecific form of X-linked mental retardation (MRX53) in a
- Relationship of peritoneal transport rate and dialysis adequacy with inflammation in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Genome assembly comparison identifies structural variants in the human genome.
- Milk-alkali syndrome: a reverberation of the past.
- Candida parapsilosis endocarditis 8 months after transient candidemia.
- Aposthia: a birth defect or normal quantitative recessive human genetic trait?
- Pulmonary hypertension in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- A novel missense mutation in RSPO4 gene underlies autosomal recessive congenital anonychia in a consanguineous Pakistani family.
- Intragenic deletions in the dystrophin gene in 211 Pakistani Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.
- Differential outcomes in 3 types of acute antibody-mediated rejection.
- Towards a comprehensive structural variation map of an individual human genome.
- Investigation of change in surface area and grain size of cadmium titanate nanofibers upon annealing and their effect on oxygen sensing.
- Disruption of the methyltransferase-like 23 gene METTL23 causes mild autosomal recessive intellectual disability.
- Phosphoserine phosphatase (PSPH) gene mutation in an intellectual disability family from Pakistan.
- Identification of a homozygous missense mutation in LRP2 and a hemizygous missense mutation in TSPYL2 in a family with mild intellectual disability.
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