Dr. William F Weitzel MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1500 East Medical Center Dr 3rd Floor Taubman Ct Ann Arbor MI, 48109About
Dr. William Weitzel is a nephrologist practicing in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Weitzel specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Weitzel 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- Replacement of renal function in uremic animals with a tissue-engineered kidney.
- Retrograde hemodialysis access flow during dialysis as a predictor of access pathology.
- Use of ACE inhibitors is associated with prolonged survival of arteriovenous grafts.
- The bioartificial kidney in the treatment of acute renal failure.
- Endocrine abnormalities in chronic renal failure.
- Epidemiology of vascular access for hemodialysis and related practice patterns.
- Monitoring techniques of vascular access.
- Vascular intramural strain imaging using arterial pressure equalization.
- Renal advances in ultrasound elasticity imaging: measuring the compliance of arteries and kidneys in end-stage renal disease.
- Preoperative hemodialysis fistula evaluation: angiography, ultrasonography and other studies, are they useful?
- Hemodialysis graft with blind loop inflow segment treated with stent placement.
- High-resolution ultrasound elasticity imaging to evaluate dialysis fistula stenosis.
- Two-dimensional strain imaging of controlled rabbit hearts.
- Venous elastography: validation of a novel high-resolution ultrasound method for measuring vein compliance using finite element analysis.
- Arterial elasticity imaging: comparison of finite-element analysis models with high-resolution ultrasound speckle tracking.
Fellowships
- Internal Medicine Nephrology, University of Michigan Health System 1993
- (Nephrology), UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER, ANN ARBOR, MI 1991
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