Dr. Roy D Bloom MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
3400 Spruce St 210 White Building Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Roy Bloom is a nephrologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Bloom specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Bloom 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
University of The Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences,Parktown, South Africa MD
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences 1983
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intrathymic kidney cells delay the onset of lupus nephritis in MRL-lpr/lpr mice.
- Blood pressure and the survival of renal allografts from living donors.
- Posttransplantation anemia at 12 months in kidney recipients treated with mycophenolate mofetil: risk factors and implications for mortality.
- Creating a medical, ethical, and legal framework for complex living kidney donors.
- Transplant-associated hyperglycemia: a new look at an old problem.
- Therapeutic drug monitoring of mycophenolic acid.
- Preformed donor-directed anti-HLA-DP antibodies may be an impediment to successful kidney transplantation.
- New-onset diabetes mellitus in the kidney recipient: diagnosis and management strategies.
- Transplant-associated hyperglycemia.
- Viral nephropathies: core curriculum 2008.
- Maribavir: a novel antiviral agent with activity against cytomegalovirus.
- Methotrexate clearance by high-flux hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis: a case report.
- Simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation in the MELD era.
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