Dr. William J. Amend M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143Rating
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Dr. William Amend is a nephrologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Amend specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Amend 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- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in renal transplantation: occurrence of clinical events in 96 consecutive patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Kidney transplant revisited (1990)
- Inability of cyclosporine to completely prevent the recurrence of focal glomerulosclerosis after kidney transplantation.
- Successful management of the highly sensitized renal allograft recipient.
- Pulmonary infections in renal transplantation patients treated with cyclosporine.
- Has cyclosporine really relegated pretransplant blood transfusions to therapeutic obsolescence?
- Urological complications of renal transplantation can be prevented or controlled.
- Urological complications of renal transplantation can be prevented or controlled.
- The importance of eosinophil cells in kidney allograft rejection.
- How to improve results for second renal allografts.
- Is a "low" dose of prednisone better than a "high" dose at the time of renal transplantation?
- Renal and cardiac failure. Complications of an arteriovenous fistula in a renal transplant recipient.
- Renal and cardiac failure. Complications of an arteriovenous fistula in a renal transplant recipient.
- Pulmonary complications of renal transplantation: a survey of patients treated by low-dose immunosuppression.
- Pulmonary complications of renal transplantation: a survey of patients treated by low-dose immunosuppression.
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