Samuel Heyman

Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel

Samuel N Heyman

Academic positions:
- Senior Physician in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Hadassah Hospital, Mt. Scopus;
- Assoc. Professor of Medicine, The Hebrew University Medical School; Jersualem
- Chair, the Academic Division of Medicine, the Hebrew University Medical School
- Medical Director, Bayer Institute for the Aged

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
The pathophysiology of acute renal failure: acute tubular necrosis (ATN), renal hypoxic stress response, renal microcirculation, radiocontrast-induced renal failure, diabetic tubulopathy, acute-on-chronic renal failure. Methodologies: in-vivo animal models, isolated perfused rat kidneys, laser-Doppler and ultrasonic flow probes, renal morphology (collaborator-S Rosen), and immunohistochemistry (collaborators- C Rosenberger, Z Abassi)

Any other information:

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Nephrology > Acute Renal Failure (since 14 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.2
  Asialoerythropoietin prevents contrast-induced nephropathy.
  Recommended by Raghu Kalluri with Keizo Kanasaki, Samuel Heyman
  
• 3.0
  Ultra-low contrast volumes reduce rates of contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing coronary angiography.
  Recommended by Samuel Heyman
  
• 3.0
  NGAL is an early predictive biomarker of contrast-induced nephropathy in children.
  Recommended by Samuel Heyman
  
• 4.9
  N-acetylcysteine and contrast-induced nephropathy in primary angioplasty.
  Recommended by Greg McAnulty, Andrew Davenport, Samuel Heyman
  
• 3.0
  Nephrotoxic effects in high-risk patients undergoing angiography.
  Recommended by Andreas Kribben
  Dissent by Samuel Heyman
• 3.0
  Urinary excretion of liver-type fatty acid-binding protein in contrast medium-induced nephropathy.
  Recommended by Samuel Heyman
  
• 6.0
  Dendrimer-enhanced MRI as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of sepsis-induced acute renal failure in aged mice
  Recommended by Samuel Heyman