Dr. Luis Fernando Gimenez MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
5601 Loch Raven Blvd Suite 3 Baltimore MD, 21239About
Dr. Luis Gimenez is a nephrologist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Gimenez specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Gimenez 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
Univ De Valparaiso, Fac De Med, Valparaiso, Chile 1976
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1982
Instituto Superior De Ciencias Medicas De Santiago De Cuba 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology- 1988
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- How does rHuEPO effect D/P creatinine ratios?
- Treatment of the anemia of chronic renal failure with subcutaneous recombinant human erythropoietin.
- Serum immunoreactive erythropoietin in patients with end stage renal disease.
- Relation between renal calcium content and renal impairment in 246 human renal biopsies.
- Acute renal failure following percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography. A retrospective study.
- Clinical application of recombinant erythropoietin in predialysis renal failure.
- Heterogeneity of dialysis patient lymphocyte responses to cyclosporine.
- Differential glucocorticoid responsiveness of dialysis patients' lymphocytes.
- Differential suppression of dialysis patients' lymphocyte IFN-gamma production by glucocorticoids and cyclosporine.
- Suppression of dialysis patients' lymphocyte IL-2R expression by glucocorticoids and cyclosporine.
Fellowships
- Johns Hopkins Hospital 1981
- Johns Hopkins Hospital 1985
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Nephrology 1985
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Nephrology 1981
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