Dr. Thomas B Wiegmann MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
4801 E Linwood Blvd Va Medical Center Kansas City MO, 64128About
Dr. Thomas Wiegmann is a nephrologist practicing in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Wiegmann specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Wiegmann 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.
Education and Training
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munchen, Fachbereich Medizin,Munchen, Germany 1970
WESTFALISCHE WILHELMS UNIV 1971
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Both subtype 1 and 2 receptors of angiotensin II participate in regulation of intracellular calcium in glomerular epithelial cells.
- Cerebral, myocardial and cutaneous ischemic necrosis associated with calcific emboli from aortic and mitral valve calcification in a patient with end-stage renal disease.
- Ambulatory blood pressure in type I diabetes mellitus. Comparison to presence of
- Impact of irbesartan, blood pressure control, and proteinuria on renal outcomes in the Irbesartan Diabetic Nephropathy Trial.
- Proteinuria reduction and progression to renal failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and overt nephropathy.
- Chronically increased intrarenal angiotensin II causes nephropathy in an animal model of type 2 diabetes.
- Effects of sulodexide in patients with type 2 diabetes and persistent albuminuria.
- Single-dose subcutaneous iodine-131-iodohippurate for determination of renal plasma flow.
- Prediction of carcinoma in acquired cystic disease as a function of kidney weight.
- Principles, uses, and complications of hemodialysis.
- Controlled changes in chronic dietary protein intake do not change glomerular filtration rate.
- Malabsorption of calcium and phosphate in chronic renal failure: 32P and 45Ca studies in dialysis patients.
- Urate excretion by the isolated perfused rat kidney and modification by drugs.
- Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in transplant renal artery stenosis: experience and review of the literature.
- Excretion of para-aminohippurate in the isolated perfused rat kidney: net secretion and net reabsorption.
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