Dr. Alfred K. Cheung MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
50 N Medical Dr Salt Lake City UT, 84132About
Dr. Alfred Cheung is a nephrologist practicing in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Cheung specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Cheung 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
Albany Medical College - Union University 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The career of Lee W. Henderson.
- Optimal use of hemodialyzers.
- Association of serum albumin and atherosclerosis in chronic hemodialysis patients.
- Computer simulation of small-solute and middle-molecule removal during short daily and long thrice-weekly hemodialysis.
- Hollow fiber shape alters solute clearances in high flux hemodialyzers.
- Creatinine production, nutrition, and glomerular filtration rate estimation.
- Impact of timing of initiation of dialysis on mortality.
- Dialyzer performance in the HEMO Study: in vivo K0A and true blood flow determined from a model of cross-dialyzer urea extraction.
- In vitro pharmacological inhibition of human vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation for the prevention of hemodialysis vascular access stenosis.
- Arterial and venous smooth-muscle cells differ in their responses to antiproliferative drugs.
- Improving outcomes in CKD and ESRD patients: carrying the torch from training to practice.
- Association of obesity with inflammation in chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study.
- Inhibition of neointimal hyperplasia in vascular grafts by sustained perivascular delivery of paclitaxel.
- Duration of end-stage renal disease and kidney transplant outcome.
- The HEMO Study: applicability and generalizability.
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