
Dr. Klemens B Meyer M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
800 Washington St # 391 Tufts Medical Center Boston MA, 02111About
Dr. Klemens Meyer is a nephrologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Meyer specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Meyer 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bias in assessment of health-related quality of life in a hemodialysis population: a comparison of self-administered and interviewer-administered surveys in the HEMO study.
- Racial differences in health-related quality of life among hemodialysis patients.
- Restless legs symptoms among incident dialysis patients: association with lower quality of life and shorter survival.
- Effects of hemodialysis dose and membrane flux on health-related quality of life
- Daily hemofiltration for end-stage renal disease: a feasibility and efficacy trial.
- Developing decision support for dialysis treatment of chronic kidney failure.
- Skipped treatments, markers of nutritional nonadherence, and survival among incident hemodialysis patients.
- Sleep quality and its correlates in the first year of dialysis.
- Hemoglobin levels, quality of life, and survival.
- Reducing versus discontinuing erythropoietin at high hemoglobin levels.
- The influence of age on changes in health-related quality of life over three years in a cohort undergoing hemodialysis.
- Measurement and analysis of patient-reported outcomes.
- Knowledge and participation of front-line dialysis facility staff in end-of-life discussions.
- Computerized decision support for EPO dosing in hemodialysis patients.
- The empirical basis for determinations of medical futility.
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