Dr. Richard J Lund M.D.

Expert Publications

• Bone morphogenetic protein-7: an anti-fibrotic morphogenetic protein with therapeutic importance in renal disease.
• Treatment of a murine model of high-turnover renal osteodystrophy by exogenous BMP-7.
• BMP-7 is an efficacious treatment of vascular calcification in a murine model of atherosclerosis and chronic renal failure.
• Kidney-bone, bone-kidney, and cell-cell communications in renal osteodystrophy.
• Successful treatment of an adynamic bone disorder with bone morphogenetic protein-7 in a renal ablation model.
• Low turnover osteodystrophy and vascular calcification are amenable to skeletal anabolism in an animal model of chronic kidney disease and the metabolic syndrome.
• Connections between vascular calcification and progression of chronic kidney disease: therapeutic alternatives.
• New discoveries in the pathogenesis of renal osteodystrophy.
• Reversal of the adynamic bone disorder and decreased vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease by sevelamer carbonate therapy.
• Vitamin D receptor activators can protect against vascular calcification.
• The pathogenesis of vascular calcification in the chronic kidney disease mineral bone disorder: the links between bone and the vasculature.
• Differential effects of paricalcitol and calcitriol on intestinal calcium absorption in hemodialysis patients.
• Prophylaxis against gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. A prospective study.
• Cholelithiasis in a preterm infant.
• Cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of hypoxanthine, xanthine, uridine and inosine: high concentrations of the ATP metabolite, hypoxanthine, after hypoxia.

Media Releases

Get to know Nephrologist Dr. Richard J. Lund, who serves the population of Nebraska. Dr. Richard J. Lund is a highly respected and experienced physician, having been in practice for over two decades. His career in medicine began in 1993 when he graduated with his Medical Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. After medical school, Dr. Bhandari completed his internship with the Johannesburg General Hospital followed by his internal medicine residency with Creighton University in Nebraska. Driven to further his expertise and knowledge, he undertook his nephrology fellowship at Washington University. Dr. Lund is dual certified in Nephrology and Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and has dedicated his life to delivering compassionate care. He is determined to enhance his patients’ quality of life, providing high quality, individualized care in order to ensure the most optimal results. With a passion for his work, Dr. Lund is noted for his expertise in General Nephrology. He currently practices with Omaha Nephrology, P.C. , and is affiliated with Methodist Physicians Clinic, Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Health System, Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center, Alegent, Creighton Health Creighton University Medical Center, LLC, Burgess Health Center, and the Alegent Creighton Health. This is a specialty of medicine and pediatrics that concerns itself with the kidneys: the study of normal kidney function and kidney disease, the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal replacement therapy (dialysis and kidney transplantation). Nephrology also studies systemic conditions that affect the kidneys, such as diabetes and autoimmune disease; and systemic diseases that occur as a result of kidney disease, such as renal osteodystrophy and hypertension.

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