Dr. John Patrick Vella M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1600b Congress St Portland ME, 04102About
Dr. John Vella is a nephrologist practicing in Portland, ME. Dr. Vella specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Vella 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
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in a renal allograft recipient: review of the clinical spectrum of disease in solid organ transplant patients.
- Nocardia farcinica pericarditis after kidney transplantation despite prophylaxis.
- Tubular expression of KIM-1 does not predict delayed function after transplantation.
- Hypertension after kidney transplant.
- Hypertension, living kidney donors, and transplantation: where are we today?
- Acute Kidney Disease After Liver and Heart Transplantation.
- Association between irisin and major chronic diseases: a review.
- Metachronous transitional cell carcinoma and tubulointerstitial nephritis after chronic ingestion of antacids: a novel disease association.
- Light chain deposition disease complicating familial Mediterranean fever.
- Renal artery stenosis complicating Cogan's syndrome.
- Multiple myeloma and renal failure: one center's experience.
- Sensitization to human leukocyte antigen before and after the introduction of erythropoietin.
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