Dr. Roy Michael Culpepper MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
2451 Fillingim St Mastin Bldg. Mobile AL, 36617About
Dr. Roy Culpepper is a nephrologist practicing in Mobile, AL. Dr. Culpepper specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Culpepper 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 Alabama School of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Letter: Bleeding diathesis in fresh water drowning.
- Case report: a novel form of free protein S deficiency in an HIV-positive patient on hemodialysis.
- Water homeostasis-facts and uncertainties.
- Measurement of intracellular pH in suspensions of renal tubules from potassium-depleted rats.
- Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransport in the thick ascending limb of Henle.
- The pK'1 of the carbonic acid-bicarbonate buffer system in hemodialyzed patients.
- Proton compartmentation in rat renal cortical tubules.
- Severe hyponatremia in spinal cord injury.
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum in Undiagnosed Gitelman's Syndrome.
- An intra-abdominal abscess or "rind" as a consequence of peritoneal dialysis-associated pseudomonas peritonitis.
- Renal gluconeogenesis.
- PGE2, forskolin, and cholera toxin interactions in modulating NaCl transport in mouse mTALH.
- The pathophysiology of the glomerulonephropathies.
- Urinary acidification in a patient with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. A reevaluation of the role of the hexose monophosphate shunt in renal acid secretion.
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