Dr. Robert C Kalayjian MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2500 Metrohealth Dr Mhmc-medicine/Infect Cleveland OH, 44109Rating
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Dr. Robert Kalayjian is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Kalayjian specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1982
Tufts University School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The utility of clinical and radiographic features in the diagnosis of cytomegalovirus central nervous system disease in AIDS patients.
- The effect of aging on T-regulatory cell frequency in HIV infection.
- The effects of HIV type-1 viral suppression and non-viral factors on quantitative proteinuria in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era.
- Proteinuria, creatinine clearance, and immune activation in antiretroviral-naive HIV-infected subjects.
- HIV and the Kidney.
- The treatment of HIV-associated nephropathy.
- The virologic and immunologic effects of cyclosporine as an adjunct to antiretroviral therapy in patients treated during acute and early HIV-1 infection.
- Renal issues in HIV infection.
- Immunologic failure despite suppressive antiretroviral therapy is related to activation and turnover of memory CD4 cells.
- Kidney Disease in HIV-Infected Persons.
- Plasma apolipoprotein L1 levels do not correlate with CKD.
- Editorial commentary: Cystatin C and statins in HIV disease.
- Clinical practice guideline for the management of chronic kidney disease in patients infected with HIV: 2014 update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Association Between Frailty and Components of the Frailty Phenotype With Modifiable Risk Factors and Antiretroviral Therapy.
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Aging in the Era of Effective Antiretroviral Therapy.
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