Dr. Lynda A. Frassetto M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
505 Parnassus Ave # M-1202 San Francisco CA, 94143Rating
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Dr. Lynda Frassetto is a nephrologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Frassetto specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Frassetto 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 Ct Sch Of Med- Farmington Ct 1982
University of Connecticut School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Comparative effects of potassium chloride and bicarbonate on thiazide-induced reduction in urinary calcium excretion.
- Worldwide incidence of hip fracture in elderly women: relation to consumption of animal and vegetable foods.
- Pharmacogenomics and transplantation: where are we?
- A practical approach to the balance between acid production and renal acid excretion in humans.
- Relationship and interaction between sodium and potassium.
- Effects of uptake and efflux transporter inhibition on erythromycin breath test results.
- Dietary sodium chloride intake independently predicts the degree of hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis in healthy humans consuming a net acid-producing diet.
- Estimates of daily net endogenous acid production in the elderly UK population: analysis of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) of British adults aged 65 years and over.
- Renal net acid excretion capacity is comparable in prepubescence, adolescence, and young adulthood but falls with aging.
- Elucidating rifampin's inducing and inhibiting effects on glyburide pharmacokinetics and blood glucose in healthy volunteers: unmasking the differential effects of enzyme induction and transporter inhibition for a drug and its primary metabolite.
- Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet.
- Metabolic acidosis and progression of chronic kidney disease.
- Intradialytic hyperalimentation as adjuvant support in pregnant hemodialysis patients: case report and review of the literature.
- Diet-induced acidosis: is it real and clinically relevant?
- Hepatic clearance, but not gut availability, of erythromycin is altered in patients with end-stage renal disease.
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