Dr. J. Harold Helderman MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1161 21st Ave. , South S-3223 Mcn Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. J. Helderman is a nephrologist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Helderman specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Helderman 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
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1971
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Colonic screening prior to renal transplantation and its impact on post-transplant colonic complications.
- A middle-aged woman with refractory graft dysfunction in the early posttransplant period.
- Lessons from the Neoral Global Database for renal transplantation.
- The allocation of cadaveric kidneys.
- Is it time for ACE inhibitors in chronic allograft nephropathy?
- Transplantation for the millennium: attaining tolerance in our time--the Holy Grail.
- Is there hope to improve chronic renal allograft outcome?
- Cyclosporine avoidance.
- Renal transplantation.
- General considerations of immunosuppressive therapies--efficacy versus toxicity.
- The effect of pancreas transplantation on cardiovascular mortality.
- Gastrointestinal complications of transplant immunosuppression.
- Prophylaxis and treatment of gastrointestinal complications following transplantation.
- Isolated pleural involvement by Cryptococcus in a kidney-pancreas transplant recipient.
- A systematic examination of estimates of cyclosporine area under the curve in renal transplant recipients.
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