Professor, Pediatrics, UCSD School of Medicine
Pediatric Nephrology
Dr. Robert H. Mak, MD
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Robert H. Mak, MD practices Pediatric Nephrology. Dr. Robert H. Mak is also a published MD. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: Metabolic effects of erythropoietin in patients on peritoneal dialysis.
Publications
- Nephrology research-the past, present and future.
- Nephrotic syndrome: Efficacy of rituximab in challenging Nephrotic syndrome.
- Early markers of obesity-related Renal injury in childhood.
- Exploiting the therapeutic potential of leptin signaling in cachexia.
- C/EBPα Regulates Macrophage Activation and Systemic Metabolism.
- Protein energy wasting in children with chronic Kidney disease.
- Growth in children with chronic Kidney disease: role of nutrition, growth hormone, dialysis, and steroids.
- A Pegylated Leptin Antagonist Ameliorates CKD-Associated Cachexia in Mice.
- Nephrotic syndrome: Genetic screening in steroid-resistant Nephrotic syndrome.
- The effect of vitamin D status on risk factors for cardiovascular Disease.
- Ghrelin and leptin pathophysiology in chronic Kidney disease.
- Dialysis: Vascular access in children-arteriovenous fistula or CVC?
- Is obesity a risk factor for chronic Kidney disease in children?
- Nephrotic syndrome in an 18-year-old boy with Congenital myelomeningocele: Questions.
- Nephrotic syndrome in an 18-year-old boy with Congenital myelomeningocele: Answers.
- Melanocortin antagonism ameliorates muscle wasting and inflammation in chronic Kidney disease.
- MicroRNAs: a new therapeutic frontier for muscle wasting in chronic Kidney disease.
- Nutrition and growth in children with chronic Kidney disease.
- Serum Myostatin in patients on maintenance haemodialysis: A useful biomarker of muscle wasting?
- Nutrition in infants and very young children with chronic Kidney disease.
- Metabolic Abnormalities, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, and GFR Decline in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease.
- Erratum to: Wasting in chronic Kidney disease.
- Diets and enteral supplements for improving outcomes in chronic Kidney disease.
- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in children with Kidney diseases.
- Is ghrelin a biomarker for mortality in end-stage renal Disease?
- Wasting in chronic Kidney disease.
- Cachexia and protein-energy wasting in children with chronic Kidney disease.
- The impact of inflammation on bone mass in children.
- Ghrelin and its analogues as therapeutic agents for anorexia and cachexia in end-stage renal Disease.
- New equations to estimate GFR in children with CKD.
- Modulation of melanocortin signaling ameliorates uremic cachexia.
- Peripheral administration of the melanocortin-4 receptor antagonist NBI-12i ameliorates uremia-associated cachexia in mice.
- Obesity and obesity-initiated metabolic syndrome: mechanistic links to chronic Kidney disease.
- Animal models of obesity-associated chronic Kidney disease.
- Pathogenesis of urinary tract infection: an update.
- Role of leptin and melanocortin signaling in uremia-associated cachexia.
- Primary ureteral reflux: emerging insights from molecular and genetic studies.
- Obesity, body fat distribution and incidence of sick leave in the Belgian workforce: the Belstress study.
- Insulin resistance in uremia: effect of dialysis modality.
- Secondary Hyperparathyroidism and glucose intolerance in children with uremia.
- Job conditions and fibrinogen in 14226 Belgian workers: the Belstress study.
- Superior outcomes in pediatric Renal transplantation.
- Use of an augmented urinary bladder can be catastrophic in Renal transplantation.
- Prevalence of hepatitis A, B and C in the Flemish population.
- The influence of hyperparathyroidism on glucose Metabolism in uremia.
- Effect of indomethacin on clinical progress and Renal function in cystinosis.
- Parameters of inflammation and infection in a community based case-control study of coronary heart Disease.
- Effect of metabolic acidosis on hyperlipidemia in uremia.
- Bone turnover and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol during treatment with phosphate binders.
- Hypercalcemia, hypertension and Acute renal insufficiency in an immobilized adolescent.
- Effect of recombinant human erythropoietin on insulin, amino acid, and lipid Metabolism in uremia.
- Insulin secretion and growth Failure in uremia.
- Glucose intolerance in children with chronic renal Failure.
- Suppression of secondary hyperparathyroidism in children with chronic renal Failure by high dose phosphate binders: calcium carbonate versus aluminium hydroxide.
- Correction of anemia by erythropoietin reverses insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia in uremia.
- Glucose and insulin Metabolism in uremia.
- Long-term suppression of Hyperparathyroidism by phosphate binders in uremic children.
- Impact of end-stage renal Disease and dialysis on glycemic control.
- Serum osteocalcin concentrations in children with chronic renal insufficiency who are not undergoing dialysis. Growth Failure in Children with Renal Diseases Study.
- Effect of metabolic acidosis on branched-chain amino acids in uremia.
- Insulin secretion in uremia: effect of parathyroid hormone and vitamin D metabolites.
- Bladder augmentation can be problematic with renal Failure and transplantation.
- Insulin resistance but IGF-I sensitivity in chronic renal Failure.
- Insulin-like growth factor-I action on glucose transport in Acute renal failure.
- Intravenous 1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol corrects glucose intolerance in hemodialysis patients.
- Carbohydrate Metabolism in uremia.
- Amelioration of Hypertension and insulin resistance by 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol in hemodialysis patients.
- Insulin and growth in chronic renal Failure.
- Effect of metabolic acidosis on insulin action and secretion in uremia.
- 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 corrects insulin and lipid abnormalities in uremia.
- Metabolic effects of erythropoietin in patients on peritoneal dialysis.
- Insulin, branched-chain amino acids, and growth Failure in uremia.
- Measurement of glomerular filtration rate in children after Renal transplantation.
- The vitamin D/parathyroid hormone axis in the pathogenesis of Hypertension and insulin resistance in uremia.
- Design and methods of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) prospective cohort study.
- Myostatin and insulin-like growth factors in uremic sarcopenia: the yin and yang in muscle mass regulation.
- Leptin and inflammation-associated cachexia in chronic Kidney disease.
- End-organ resistance to growth hormone and IGF-I in epiphyseal chondrocytes of rats with chronic renal Failure.
- Orexigenic and anorexigenic mechanisms in the control of nutrition in chronic Kidney disease.
- Gene expression in uremic left ventricular hypertrophy: effects of Hypertension and anemia.
- Growth impairment of primary chondrocyte cells by serum of rats with chronic renal Failure.
- Mechanisms of Disease: Cytokine and adipokine signaling in uremic cachexia.
- Energy homeostasis and cachexia in chronic Kidney disease.
- Adipokines and gut hormones in end-stage renal Disease.
- Ghrelin in chronic Kidney disease: too much or too little?
- Cachexia in chronic Kidney disease: role of inflammation and neuropeptide signaling.
- Teaching articles: a new goal of the journal.
- Chronic Kidney disease in children: state of the art.
- Can plasma iohexol disappearance be used to measure GFR in children with chronic Kidney disease?
- Therapeutic strategy for cachexia in chronic Kidney disease.
- Are oral antibiotics alone efficacious for the treatment of a first episode of Acute pyelonephritis in children?
- Insulin and its role in chronic Kidney disease.
- The growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor-I axis in chronic Kidney disease.
- Recent advances in Chronic dialysis and renal transplantation in children.
- Acute kidney injury in children: the dawn of a new era.
- Ghrelin in chronic Kidney disease.
- Vitamin D deficiency and toxicity in chronic Kidney disease: in search of the therapeutic window.
- Pediatrics: Masked Hypertension: a risk factor in children with CKD.
- Inflammation and cachexia in chronic Kidney disease.
- Pediatrics: blood pressure target for renoprotection in children.
Schools
University Of Hong Kong
Procedures Preformed
- Hemodialysis
- Peritoneal Dialysis
Conditions Treated
- Acute Kidney Failure
- Calcium Metabolism Disorders
- Chronic Kidney Diseases
- Congenital Cystic Kidney Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Nephrology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
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