Dr. Douglas Scott Keith M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Hospital Drive 3rd Floor Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Douglas Keith is a nephrologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Keith specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Keith 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- 1988
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology- 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Successful long-term stenting of an atypical descending aortic coarctation.
- Effect of donor recipient age match on survival after first deceased donor renal transplantation.
- Cost of medical care for chronic kidney disease and comorbidity among enrollees in a large HMO population.
- Recipient age and risk of chronic allograft nephropathy in primary deceased donor kidney transplant.
- Duration of dialysis pretransplantation is an important risk factor for delayed recovery of renal function following deceased donor kidney transplantation.
- Preemptive deceased donor kidney transplant not associated with patient survival benefit in minority kidney transplant recipients.
- H-Y Antigen Incompatibility Not Associated with Adverse Immunologic Graft Outcomes: Deceased Donor Pair Analysis of the OPTN Database.
- Therapeutic apheresis rescue mission: recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in renal allografts.
- Transplantation in the elderly patient.
- Therapeutic apheresis in renal transplantation; current practices.
- Longitudinal analysis of living donor kidney transplant rates in pediatric candidates in the United States.
- Graft Function and Intermediate-Term Outcomes of Kidney Transplants Improved in the Last Decade: Analysis of the United States Kidney Transplant Database.
Fellowships
- MAYO GRAD SCH/MED PROG, ROCHESTER, MN,, Nephrology 1990
- Nephrology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota USA 1993
- Transplant Nephrology, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon USA 2003
- Nephrology, Mayo Clinic: Renal Transplant, Oregon Health Sciences University
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