Dr. Derek Michael Fine M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1800 Orleans St Baltimore MD, 21287Rating
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Dr. Derek Fine is a nephrologist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Fine specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Fine 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1994
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chronic granulocytic leukemia in a dog.
- Aged care, ethics and public policy.
- Independent risk factors and natural history of renal dysfunction in liver transplant recipients.
- Sequential therapies for proliferative lupus nephritis.
- Lack of clinical utility of urine myoglobin detection by microconcentrator ultrafiltration in the diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis.
- Pharmacological therapy of lupus nephritis.
- Editorial comment: tenofovir nephrotoxicity--vigilance required.
- Nephrotic range proteinuria and CD4 count as noninvasive indicators of HIV-associated nephropathy.
- Central nervous system lymphoma associated with mycophenolate mofetil in lupus nephritis.
- Kidney biopsy in lupus nephritis: look before you leap.
- Hydroxychloroquine use predicts complete renal remission within 12 months among patients treated with mycophenolate mofetil therapy for membranous lupus nephritis.
- Antiretroviral therapy in the treatment of HIV-associated nephropathy.
- Renal biopsy in lupus patients with low levels of proteinuria.
- Relapse of HIV-associated nephropathy after discontinuing highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- Renal disease and toxicities: issues for HIV care providers.
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