Dr. Scott E. Wenderfer M.D.
Nephrologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Nephrology
6410 Fannin St 500 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Wenderfer treats children of all ages with any form of kidney disease. This includes acute and chronic kidney diseases, genetic kidney diseases, protein or blood in the urine, nephrotic syndrome, ...
Education and Training
Univ of Cincinnati Coll of Med, Cincinnati Oh 2001
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of 40 genes on a 1-Mb contig around the IL-4 cytokine family gene cluster on mouse chromosome 11.
- Exon trapping for positional cloning and fingerprinting.
- Can inhibition of proteasomes or NF-kappaB help control idiopathic nephrotic syndrome?
- Intravenous immunoglobulin in the management of lupus nephritis.
- Differential expression of functional Fc-receptors and additional immune complex receptors on mouse kidney cells.
- Hypertensive renal disease: susceptibility and resistance in inbred hypertensive rat lines.
- Hypertensive renal injury is associated with gene variation affecting immune signaling.
- Viral-associated glomerulopathies in children.
- High titer anti-basement membrane antibodies in a subset of patients with pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Nocturnal Hypertension and Attenuated Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping is Common in Pediatric Lupus.
- Mycophenolate mofetil prevents cerebrovascular injury in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats.
- Clinical presentation and outcomes of childhood-onset membranous lupus nephritis.
- Approach to Membranous Lupus Nephritis: A Survey of Pediatric Nephrologists and Pediatric Rheumatologists.
- Sequence, linkage to H2-K, and function of mouse tapasin in MHC class I assembly.
Treatments
- Kidney Problems
Professional Memberships
- Member American Association for Immunologists
- Member American Society of Nephrology
- Member American Society of Pediatric Nephrology
- Member National Kidney Foundation
- Member American Association of Pediatrics,
Fellowships
- University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Pediatric Nephrology 2006
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX Pediatric Nephrology
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