Dr. Nelson Alfred Gelfman MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
24 Hospital Ave Danbury CT, 06810About
Dr. Nelson Gelfman is a nephrologist practicing in Danbury, CT. Dr. Gelfman specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Gelfman 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
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1954
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1954
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bronchogenic carcinoma with Cushing's syndrome. A review with the report of an additional case.
- MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES OF ADRENAL CORTEX IN DISEASE.
- ENCEPHALOPATHY, HEPATITIS AND FAT ACCUMULATION IN VISCERA.
- Pulmonary capillaritis and glomerulonephritis in an antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-positive patient with prior granulomatous aortitis.
- Ectopic ACTH and adrenal myelolipoma.
- A reappraisal of histopathology in lung cancer and correlation of cell types with antecedent cigarette smoking.
- The diverse effects of histopathology on manifestations and outcome of lung cancer.
- Observer variability in the histopathologic diagnosis of lung cancer.
- Acute encephalopathy in children associated with acute hepatocellular dysfunction. Reye's syndrome revisited.
- Bicarbonate, not 'CO2'.
- Morphological correlations with Nichols Institute PTH assay, comparison of biterminal and C-terminal antisera in hemodialysis patients.
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