Asif A. Sharfuddin, MD
| Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Interim Medical Director - Kidney Transplantation Transplant Fellowship Program Director |
Affiliations: |
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Medical School: |
The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan |
Research Interests:
My research interests include:
- Acute Kidney Injury Secondary to Ischemia -
- Two-photon Imaging to Develop Methods to Quantify the Inflammatory Response in Ischemic AKI.
- Partial Aortic Clamp Model -
- A Clinically More Relevant Model to Study Ischemic AKI.
- Soluable Thrombomodulin -
- A Protein of the Protein C Cascade and its Role in Ischemic AKI.
- Kidney Transplantation -
- BK Virus Nephropathy
- Steroid Free Immunosuppression
- Anemia in Transplantation
- Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis
- Cardiac and High Risk Evaluation of Transplant Recipients
- Stone Disease in Living Donors
- Delayed Graft Function
Clinical Interests:
My general interest is in adult kidney transplantation. I am primarily involved in the care of adult kidney transplant recipients and the management of transplant-related complications, evaluations of high risk potential kidney transplant recipients, as well as all potential living kidney donors.
