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Name
David J. Leehey
Degree
M.D.
Rank
Professor
Primary Department
Medicine
Education
Medical School
Boston University School of Medicine
Residencies
Michael Reese Hospital Internal Medicine: General
Fellowships
University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics Internal Medicine: Nephrology
Hobbies
Classical Music
Singing
Piano
Publications
Wright, LM; Skinner, AM; Cheknis, A; McBurney, C; Ge, L; Pacheco, SM; Leehey, D; Gerding, DN; Johnson, S Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Rates and Epidemiology of Infection in One VA Hospital. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) ; 12 7
Rasheed, AHA; Vellanki, K; Woo, F; Leehey, DJ Hyponatremia in a Patient With Vasodilatory Shock Due to Overdose of Antihypertensive Medications: A Case Report. Cureus ; 15 9
Kohn, OF; Lew, SQ; Wong, SS; Sam, R; Chen, HC; Raiman, JG; Leehey, DJ; Tzamaloukas, AH; Ing, TS Using herbs medically without knowing their composition: are we playing Russian roulette? CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION ;
Leehey, DJ; Carlson, K; Reda, DJ; Craig, I; Clise, C; Conner, TA; Agarwal, R; Kaufman, JS; Anderson, RJ; Lammie, D; Huminik, J; Polzin, L; McBurney, C; Huang, GD; Emanuele, NV Pentoxifylline in diabetic kidney disease (VA PTXRx): protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMJ open ; 11 8
Leehey, DJ 'Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury: Alarming, or Not?' Kidney medicine ; 3 4
Leehey, DJ; Rahman, MA; Borys, E; Picken, MM; Clise, CE Acute Kidney Injury Associated With Semaglutide. Kidney medicine ; 3 2
Leehey, DJ Targeting Inflammation in Diabetic Kidney Disease: Is There a Role for Pentoxifylline? Kidney360 ; 1 4
Patel, PM; Kandabarow, AM; Aiwerioghene, E; Blanco-Martinez, E; Hart, S; Leehey, DJ; Farooq, A; Baldea, KG; Turk, TMT Proton-pump inhibitors associated with decreased urinary citrate excretion. International Urology and Nephrology ;
Markossian, TW; Kramer, HJ; Burge, NJ; Pacold, IV; Leehey, DJ; Huo, Z; Schneider, J; Ling, B; Stroupe, KT Statin use among Veterans with dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease. Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis ; 23 2
Markossian, TW; Kramer, HJ; Burge, NJ; Pacold, IV; Leehey, DJ; Huo, Z; Schneider, J; Ling, B; Stroupe, KT Low statin use in nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease in the absence of clinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or diabetes. Clinical kidney journal ; 12 4
Kramer, Holly; Boucher, Robert E.; Leehey, David; Fried, Linda; Wei, Guo; Greene, Tom; Rosas, Sylvia E.; Cooper, Richard; Cao, Guichan; Beddhu, Srinivasan Increasing Mortality in Adults With Diabetes and Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Absence of Albuminuria. Diabetes care ; 41 4
Kramer, H; Kuffel, G; Thomas-White, K; Wolfe, AJ; Vellanki, K; Leehey, DJ; Bansal, VK; Brubaker, L; Flanigan, R; Koval, J; Wadhwa, A; Zilliox, MJ Diversity of the midstream urine microbiome in adults with chronic kidney disease. International Urology and Nephrology ; 50 6
Leehey, DJ Magnesium Homeostasis in CKD. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease ; 25 3
Small, Christina; Kramer, Holly J.; Griffin, Karen A.; Vellanki, Kavitha; Leehey, David J.; Bansal, Vinod K.; Markossian, Talar W. Non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease is associated with high total and out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures. BMC Nephrology ; 18 3
Kalantar-Zadeh, K; Crowley, ST; Beddhu, S; Chen, JLT; Daugirdas, JT; Goldfarb, DS; Jin, A; Kovesdy, CP; Leehey, DJ; Moradi, H; Navaneethan, SD; Norris, KC; Obi, Y; O'Hare, A; Shafi, T; Streja, E; Unruh, ML; Vachharajani, TJ; Weisbord, S; Rhee, CM Renal Replacement Therapy and Incremental Hemodialysis for Veterans with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease. Seminars in Dialysis ; 30 3
Bhanot, S; Leehey, DJ Pentoxifylline for Diabetic Nephropathy: an Important Opportunity to Re-purpose an Old Drug? Current hypertension reports ; 18 1
Leehey, DJ In Reply to 'Optimal Plasma and Dialysate Magnesium Concentrations in Hemodialysis Patients: The Unsettled Issues'. American Journal of Kidney Diseases : The Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation ; 67 2
Leehey, DJ; Daugirdas, JT Teaching renal physiology in the 21st century: focus on acid-base physiology. Clinical kidney journal ; 9 2
Leehey, DJ; Collins, E; Kramer, HJ; Cooper, C; Butler, J; McBurney, C; Jelinek, C; Reda, D; Edwards, L; Garabedian, A; O'Connell, S Structured Exercise in Obese Diabetic Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Nephrology ; 44 1