Dr. Susanne Bernadette Nicholas MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
200 Medical Plaza #365,530,420,120 Los Angeles CA, 90095Rating
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Dr. Susanne Nicholas is a nephrologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Nicholas specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Nicholas 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma in the renal mesangium.
- Diabetes mellitus and hypertension: key risk factors for kidney disease.
- Cyclosporin A regulates sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX1) gene expression in vitro and cardiac hypertrophy in NCX1 transgenic mice.
- Effect of angiotensin II on glomerular structure in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.
- Education, motivation and medication for African Americans: bringing hypertension guidelines to practice.
- Calcium antagonists: a more expansive role in treating persons with reduced kidney function?
- Management of early chronic kidney disease in indigenous populations and ethnic minorities.
- Insulin resistance and the endothelium.
- Comparison of methods for counting cells in the mouse glomerulus.
- Osteopontin modulates angiotensin II-induced inflammation, oxidative stress, and fibrosis of the kidney.
- Cardiorenal metabolic syndrome in the African diaspora: rationale for including chronic kidney disease in the metabolic syndrome definition.
- The pros and cons of staging chronic kidney disease.
- Na,K-ATPase subunits as markers for epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer
- Activation of vascular bone morphogenetic protein signaling in diabetes mellitus.
- Hypertriglyceridemia and Recurrent Pancreatitis following Splenectomy.
Treatments
- Kidney Problems
Fellowships
- Nephrology, UCLA School of Medicine 1992
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