Mr. David Alan Spector MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
4940 Eastern Ave B2 North Johns Hopkins Bayvie Baltimore MD, 21224About
Dr. David Spector is a nephrologist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Spector specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Spector 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nitric oxide synthase inhibition attenuates the skeletal muscle VEGF mRNA response to exercise.
- Effect of captopril on skeletal muscle angiogenic growth factor responses to exercise.
- Expression, localization, and regulation of urea transporter B in rat urothelia.
- Successful treatment of calciphylaxis with intravenous sodium thiosulfate.
- High urea and creatinine concentrations and urea transporter B in mammalian urinary tract tissues.
- Hydration status affects urea transport across rat urothelia.
- Dietary protein affects urea transport across rat urothelia.
- Hydration status affects sodium, potassium, and chloride transport across rat urothelia.
- The urothelium of a hibernator: the American black bear.
- Acute non-dilating obstructive renal failure in a patient with AIDS.
- Report of the familial occurrence of systemic lupus erythematosus in male siblings.
- Why mutual funds for the dentist?
- Comparison of pituitary-thyroid function in patients with endstage renal disease and in age- and sex-matched controls.
- Characteristics and sequelae of peritonitis in diabetics and nondiabetics receiving chronic intermittent peritoneal dialysis.
- Glomerulonephritis and Staphylococcal aureus infections.
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