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Dr. Joseph R Bloomer MD
Hepatologist | Hepatology
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35249About
Dr. Joseph Bloomer is a hepatologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Bloomer specializes in the study of body parts such as the liver, the biliary tree, the gallbladder and the pancreas. Hepatologists manage disorders in these areas and are specifically known for treating viral hepatitis. Patients who have received liver transplants also follow up with hepatologists after their procedure.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Theodore Woodward Award. Pathogenesis of biochemical abnormalities in protoporphyria.
- Phenobarbital effects in cholestatic liver diseases.
- Hepatic disease in erythropoietic protoporphyria.
- Curricular guidelines for training in transplant hepatology.
- Heme synthetase deficiency in human protoporphyria. Demonstration of the defect in liver and cultured skin fibroblasts.
- Erythropoietic protoporphyria: altered phenotype after bone marrow transplantation for myelogenous leukemia in a patient heteroallelic for ferrochelatase gene mutations.
- Serum bile acids in primary biliary cirrhosis.
- Inhibitory effects of scillaren and dinitrophenol on bilirubin excretion by the isolated perfused rat liver.
- Effect of graded bilirubin loads on bilirubin transport by perfused rat liver.
- Serum bile acids in alcoholic liver disease. Comparison with histological features of the disease.
- Genotypic determinants of phenotype in North American patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria.
- Regulation of ferrochelatase gene expression by hypoxia.
- Hepatic porphyrias.
- Liver transplantation for erythropoietic protoporphyria liver disease.
- Biochemical abnormality in erythropoietic protoporphyria: cause and consequences.
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