Nephrology & Hypertension

Arnold B. Alper Jr., MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Selected Publications

Paramesh AS, Zhang R, Fonseca V, Killackey MT, Alper B, Slakey D, Florman S. Pancreas transplantation – a controversy in evolution. Journal of the Lousiana State Medical Society 159(6):319- 329, 2007

Zhang R, Alper B, Simon E, Florman S, Slakey D. Management of Metabolic Bone Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Am J Med Sci 335(2):120-125, 2008

Balamuthusamy S, Paramesh A, Zhang R, Florman S, Shenava R, Islam T, Wagner J, Killackey M, Alper B, Simon EE, Slakey D. The Effects of Body Mas s Index on Graft Survival in Adult Recipients Transplanted with Single Pediatric Kidneys. Am J Nephrol 29(2):94-101, 2008

Alper AB, Campbell RC, Anker SD, Bakris G, Wahle C, Love TE, Hamm LL, Mujib M, Ahmed A. A propensity-matched study of low serum potassium and mortality in older adults with chronic heart failure. Int J Cardiol. 2008 Aug 6

Hyre AD, Cohen AJ, Kutner N, Alper AB, Dreisbach AW, Kimmel PL, Muntner P. Pyschosocial status of hemodialysis patients one year after Hurricane Katrina. Am J Med Sci 336(2):94-98, 2008

Muntner P, Jones TM, Hyre AD, Melamed ML, Alper A, Raggi P, Leonard MB. Association of serum intact parathyroid hormone with lower estimated glomerular filtration rate. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 4(1):186-194, 2009

Kobori H, Alper AB, Shenava R, Katsurada A, Saito T, Ohashi N, Urushihara M, Miyata K, Satou R, Hamm LL, Navar LG. Urinary angiotensinogen as a novel biomarker of the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system status in hypertensive adults. Hypertension 53(2):344-50, 2009

Paramesh A, Zhang R, Yau CL, Balamuthusamy S, Shenava R, Killackey M, Alper B, Simon E, Slakey D, Florman S. Long-term outcome of single pediatric donor kidney transplants between African-American and non-African-American adults. Clin Nephrol 72(1):55-61, 2009

Amatya, A., Florman, S., Paramesh, A., Amatya, A., McGee, J., Killackey, M., Ren, Q., Alper, B., Heneghan, J., Simon, E., Sullivan, K., Slakey, D. and Zhang, R., HLA-matched kidney transplantation in the era of modern immunosuppressive therapy. Dialysis & Transplantation, 39: 193–198, 2010

Alper AB, Yi Y, Rahman M, Webber Ls, Magee L, von Dadelszen P, Pridjian G, Aina-Mumuney A, Saade G, Morgan J, Nuwayhid B, Belfort M, Puschett J. Performance of estimated glomerular filtration rate prediction equations in preeclamptic patients. Am J Perinatol (accepted for publication 2010).