Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Nephrology at Rush University Medical Center
Pediatric Nephrology
Dr. Farahnak Assadi, MD
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Doctor Farahnak Assadi, MD practices Pediatric Nephrology. He attended Tehran University of Medical Sciences School of Medicine. He has 22 awards "Dr. Alireza Yalda, the Highest Medal of Honor in Science, Education, and Research", "Professor Alireza Yalda's Highest Award of Honor in Medical Science, Education and Research", "The Highest Medal of Honor in Medical Science, Education, and Research", "The Best Pediatric Nephrology in America", "Best Pediatric Nephrologist", "The Best Pediatric Nephrology Doctors in America", "Attending of the Year Award", "Teaching Award", "Attending of the Year Award Frame", "Whos Who in World", "Distinguished Faculty Award", "Distinguished Faculty Award Plate", "Elected Member", "Golden Apple Award", "Golden Apple Award, Student Teaching Award", "Physician Recognition Award Certificate, for Excellence in Continuing Medical Education", "Physician Recognition Award Certificate", "Outstanding Fellowship Award Certificate", "Pediatric Resident Teaching Award Silver Plate", "Thesis with Distinction", "Doctorate in Medicine with Distinction" and "Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Farahnak Assadi is a published physician. He published 71 publications, including: 'Developmental toxicity of cysteamine in the rat: effects on embryo-fetal development.'
Publications
- Managing new-onset Gout in pediatric renal transplant recipients: when, how, to what extent.
- Strategies to reduce the incidence of Chronic kidney disease in children: time for action.
- The growing epidemic of hypertension among children and adolescents: a challenging road ahead.
- Simplified diagnostic algorithm for evaluation of neonates with prenatally detected hydronephrosis.
- Hyponatremia: a problem-solving approach to clinical cases.
- Efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of candesartan cilexetil in hypertensive children aged 6 to 17 years.
- Infantile cystinosis presenting as Chronic constipation.
- Liddle syndrome in a newborn infant.
- Bilateral pheochromocytomas and congenital anomalies associated with a de novo germline mutation in the von Hippel-Lindau gene.
- Simplified treatment strategies to fluid therapy in diarrhea.
- IgG-associated mesangial glomerulonephritis in a patient with Down syndrome.
- Autonomic dysreflexia manifested by severe hypertension.
- Value of urinary excretion of microalbumin in predicting glomerular lesions in children with isolated microscopic hematuria.
- Leukonychia associated with increased blood strontium level.
- Acetazolamide for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy: a new use for an old drug.
- Hyperkalemic distal renal tubular acidosis associated with Rett syndrome.
- Lack of NPHP2 mutations in a newborn infant with Joubert syndrome-related disorder presenting as end-stage renal disease.
- Effect of microalbuminuria lowering on regression of left ventricular hypertrophy in children and adolescents with essential hypertension.
- C-reactive protein and incident left ventricular hypertrophy in essential hypertension.
- Relation of left ventricular hypertrophy to microalbuminuria and C-reactive protein in children and adolescents with essential hypertension.
- Diagnosis of hypokalemia: a problem-solving approach to clinical cases.
- Vasoconstrictor-induced hypertension following multiple blood transfusions in children with congenital hemolytic anemia.
- Childhood Henoch-Schonlein nephritis: a multivariate analysis of clinical features and renal morphology at disease onset.
- Hypercalcemia: an evidence-based approach to clinical cases.
- Hypomagnesemia: an evidence-based approach to clinical cases.
- Hypophosphatemia: an evidence-based problem-solving approach to clinical cases.
- Neonatal nephrotic syndrome associated with placental transmission of proinflammatory cytokines.
- Quantitation of microalbuminuria using random urine samples.
- Poland syndrome associated with renal agenesis.
- Medication dosing and renal insufficiency in a pediatric cardiac intensive unit.
- Alkaloids of Papaver orientale L.
- Ultrastructural changes in the rat Kidney following fetal exposure to ethanol.
- Effects of prenatal ethanol exposure on postnatal renal function and structure in the rat.
- Renal tubular dysfunction in fetal alcohol syndrome.
- Acute hypertensive encephalopathy in minimal change nephrotic syndrome.
- Recurrent hypertonic dehydration due to selective defect in the osmoregulation of thirst.
- Acute effect of ethanol on renal electrolyte excretion in rats.
- Therapy of acute bronchospasm. Complicated by lactic acidosis and hypokalemia.
- Validity of whole blood osmolality measurement in sick neonates.
- Treatment of acute renal failure in an infant by continuous arteriovenous hemodialysis.
- Renal handling of beta-2-microglobulin in neonates treated with gentamicin.
- Estimation of urine specific gravity in neonates with a reagent strip.
- Zinc status of infants with fetal alcohol syndrome.
- Fever due to Clostridium difficile during hemodialytic treatment.
- Effect of tolazoline on renal function in newborn puppies.
- Beta 2-microglobulin clearance in neonates: index of tubular maturation.
- Falsely elevated serum creatinine concentration in ketoacidosis.
- Hyponatremia secondary to reset osmostat.
- Treatment of refractory ascites by ultrafiltration-reinfusion of ascitic fluid peritoneally.
- Hypouricemia in neonates with syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone.
- Impaired renal acidification in infants with fetal alcohol syndrome.
- Tuberculosis of the liver in end stage renal disease under treatment with hemodialysis.
- Effect of ultrafiltration on peritoneal dialysis drug clearances.
- [Preparation of Mannich bases of alpha-tetralone and indanone by addition to diarylimines].
- [Aminoalkylation of beta-tetralone].
- [Photoreaction of tetralone and indanone Mannich bases. 3. Photochemreactions of anilinobenzyl ketones].
- [Synthesis of phenylsubstituted pyrroles].
- Unusual manifestations of Henoch-Schonlein purpura.
- Ureteroceles in children: clinical study and report of 58 cases.
- Fibrinogen degradation products in acute renal failure of the newborn.
- Clinical quiz. Hyponatremia.
- Clinical quizzes on acid-base problems.
- Clinical quiz. Evaluation and management of a dark and purple-colored urine.
- Urinary beta 2-microglobulin as a marker for vesicoureteral reflux.
- Coadministration of theophylline enhances diuretic response to furosemide in infants during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a randomized controlled pilot study.
- Evaluation of the reproductive and developmental safety of cysteamine in the rat: effects on female reproduction and early embryonic development.
- Developmental toxicity of cysteamine in the rat: effects on embryo-fetal development.
- Hypercalciuria and urolithiasis in a case of Costello syndrome.
- Effects of pre- and postnatal cysteamine exposure on renal function in the rat.
- Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor-induced angioedema: a report of two cases.
Schools
Tehran University Of Medical Sciences Faculty Of Medicine
Children39s Hospital Philadelphia
Hahnemann University Hospital
Mercer Med Center
Thos Jefferson University Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Chronic Kidney Diseases
- Gout
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Nephrology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Dr. Alireza Yalda, the Highest Medal of Honor in Science, Education, and Research
- Professor Alireza Yalda's Highest Award of Honor in Medical Science, Education and Research
- The Highest Medal of Honor in Medical Science, Education, and Research
- The Best Pediatric Nephrology in America
- Best Pediatric Nephrologist
- The Best Pediatric Nephrology Doctors in America
- Attending of the Year Award
- Teaching Award
- Attending of the Year Award Frame
- Who’s Who in World
- Distinguished Faculty Award
- Distinguished Faculty Award Plate
- Elected Member
- Golden Apple Award
- Golden Apple Award, Student Teaching Award
- Physician Recognition Award Certificate, for Excellence in Continuing Medical Education
- Physician Recognition Award Certificate
- Outstanding Fellowship Award Certificate
- Pediatric Resident Teaching Award Silver Plate
- Thesis with Distinction
- Doctorate in Medicine with Distinction
- Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania -
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -
Thomas Jefferson University -
Drexel University - Hahnemann University Hospital -
Tehran University of Medical Sciences School of Medicine
Hospital
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Rush University Medical Center
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