Physician

Pediatric Rheumatology

Lawrence Zemel practices Pediatric Rheumatology. He researched medicine at University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He received 3 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "Fellow (FACR)" and "Fellow". Doctor Lawrence Zemel, MD is also a published doctor. He has 31 publication published. The most recent publication is: Lyme arthritis in children: clinical epidemiology and long-term outcomes.

Publications

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• Improvement of calcinosis using pamidronate in a patient with juvenile Dermatomyositis.
• Shrinking Lung Syndrome as a Manifestation of Pleuritis: A New Model Based on Pulmonary Physiological Studies.
• Transient synovitis of the hip.
• Chronic Arthritis of the knee in Lyme disease. Review of the literature and report of two cases treated by synovectomy.
• Unilateral Raynaud''s symptoms evoked during dream report.
• The spectrum of apoptotic defects and clinical manifestations, including systemic Lupus erythematosus, in humans with CD95 (Fas/APO-1) mutations.
• Babesiosis: an underdiagnosed Disease of children.
• Lyme disease and pseudotumor.
• CACP, encoding a secreted proteoglycan, is mutated in camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis Syndrome.
• A critical appraisal of "Chronic Lyme disease".
• Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI) in the North: STARI following a tick bite in Long Island, New York.
• Health status of patients with juvenile rheumatoid Arthritis at 1 and 5 years after diagnosis.
• History of infection before the onset of juvenile dermatomyositis: results from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research Regi...
• Lyme Arthritis in children: clinical epidemiology and long-term outcomes.
• Development of validated disease activity and damage indices for the Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: I. Physician, parent, and patient global assessments....
• Interpretation of immunoblot in pediatric Lyme Arthritis.
• Intravenous immunoglobulin in the treatment of systemic juvenile rheumatoid Arthritis: a randomized placebo controlled trial. Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Stud...
• Auranofin therapy for juvenile rheumatoid Arthritis: results of the five-year open label extension trial.
• Development of validated disease activity and damage indices for the Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. II. The Childhood Myositis Assessment Scale (CMAS): a...
• Methotrexate in resistant juvenile rheumatoid Arthritis. Results of the U.S.A.-U.S.S.R. double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborativ...
• Lyme disease--a pediatric perspective.
• Validation of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire in the juvenile idiopathic myopathies. Juvenile Dermatomyositis Disease Activity Collaborative Study Group.
• The Cutaneous Assessment Tool: development and reliability in Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.
• Muscle metabolites, detected in urine by proton spectroscopy, correlate with disease damage in Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
• A prospective study comparing celecoxib with naproxen in children with juvenile rheumatoid Arthritis.
• Preliminary validation and clinical meaning of the Cutaneous Assessment Tool in juvenile Dermatomyositis.
• Normal scores for nine maneuvers of the Childhood Myositis Assessment Scale.
• Validation and clinical significance of the Childhood Myositis Assessment Scale for assessment of muscle function in the Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
• Neopterin and quinolinic acid are surrogate measures of disease activity in the Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
• Streptococcus pyogenes pyomyositis.

Schools

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• State University of New York At Buffalo

• Buffalo Chldns Hospital

• Boston Chldrn39s Hospital

• Tufts New Eng Med Center

Procedures Preformed

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• Joint Drainage
• Steroid Injection
• Trigger Point Injection

Conditions Treated

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• Amyloidosis
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS)
• Arthritis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Rheumatology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Regional Top Doctor
• Fellow (FACR)
• Fellow

Education

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• Tufts Medical Center
• University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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