Dr. James E. Balow M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Crc Room 5-2551 National Bethesda MD, 20892About
Dr. James Balow is a nephrologist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Balow specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Balow 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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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cytotoxic effector capacity of bone marrow mononuclear cells.
- Treatment of lupus nephritis.
- Increased levothyroxine requirements presenting as "inappropriate" TSH secretion syndrome in a patient with nephrotic syndrome.
- Enzyme replacement therapy in Fabry disease: a randomized controlled trial.
- Combination therapy with pulse cyclophosphamide plus pulse methylprednisolone improves long-term renal outcome without adding toxicity in patients with lupus nephritis.
- Renal flares are common in patients with severe proliferative lupus nephritis treated with pulse immunosuppressive therapy: long-term followup of a cohort of 145 patients participating in randomized controlled studies.
- Hereditary periodic fever.
- Choosing treatment for proliferative lupus nephritis.
- A short course of BG9588 (anti-CD40 ligand antibody) improves serologic activity and decreases hematuria in patients with proliferative lupus glomerulonephritis.
- New insights into the immunopathogenesis and treatment of small vessel vasculitis of the kidney.
- Controlled trial of pulse methylprednisolone versus two regimens of pulse cyclophosphamide in severe lupus nephritis.
- Transfusion-associated GVHD after fludarabine therapy in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Proteinuric nephropathy in acquired and congenital generalized lipodystrophy: baseline characteristics and course during recombinant leptin therapy.
- Cytochrome P450 pharmacogenetics as a predictor of toxicity and clinical response to pulse cyclophosphamide in lupus nephritis.
- NIH conference. Membranous nephropathy.
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