Dr. Jeffrey Jenkins Sands MD MMM
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
231 Celebration Blvd Kissimmee FL, 34747About
Dr. Jeffrey Sands is a nephrologist practicing in Kissimmee, FL. Dr. Sands specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Sands 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Frequency of anti-heparin-platelet factor 4 antibodies in hemodialysis patients and correlation with recurrent vascular access thrombosis.
- Increasing AV fistula creation: the Akron experience.
- What is the role of access monitoring in the dialysis clinic?
- A review of vascular access monitoring techniques: what works best?
- Systemic barriers to vascular access care: implications for clinical outcomes.
- Vascular access monitoring improves outcomes.
- Disease management improves end-stage renal disease outcomes.
- Predicting hospitalization and mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients using an Index of Coexisting Disease (ICED)-based risk stratification model.
- Increasing AV fistulae and decreasing dialysis catheters: two aspects of improving patient outcomes.
- Facility hemodialysis vascular access use and mortality in countries participating in DOPPS: an instrumental variable analysis.
- Vascular access: the past, present and future.
- Home hemodialysis: a comparison of in-center and home hemodialysis therapy in a cohort of successful home hemodialysis patients.
- Focused vascular access education to reduce the use of chronic tunneled hemodialysis catheters: results of a network quality improvement initiative.
- Improving the delivery of coordinated and individualized care.
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