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Dr. Kevin W Finkel M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
6410 Fannin St 606 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Kevin Finkel is a nephrologist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Finkel specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Finkel 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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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Water intoxication presenting as a suspected contaminated urine sample for drug testing.
- Use of continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration in a case of severe phenobarbital poisoning.
- Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and progression of disease over time among patients enrolled in the Houston West Nile virus cohort.
- Liver support systems--a review.
- Myoglobin removal using high-volume high-flux hemofiltration in patients with oliguric acute kidney injury.
- Incidence and outcome of early acute kidney injury in critically-ill trauma patients.
- Summary of clinical practice guidelines for acute kidney injury.
- Is high cut-off hemodialysis effective in myeloma kidney?
- Treatment of acute kidney injury with cast nephropathy.
- Prevention of acute kidney injury using vasoactive or antiplatelet treatment: three strikes and out?
- Paraprotein-Related Kidney Disease: Evaluation and Treatment of Myeloma Cast Nephropathy.
- Paraprotein-Related Kidney Disease: Attack of the Killer M Proteins.
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