Professor of Medicine, University Pittsburgh
Nephrology
Dr. Beth H. Piraino, MD
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Dr. Beth H. Piraino practices Nephrology. She has 26 awards "Recipient of Faculty Distinguished Service Award", "America's Top Doctors", "Recipient-225th Anniversary Medallion", "Elected Fellow", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Key Note Speaker", "Zellerman Awardee", "Fellow", "Pittsburgh Magazine", "Award for contribution to diversity", "1st Plenary Speaker", "Received the prestigious William S. McEllroy Award", "Nominated for an Excellence of Education Award", "Who's Who of American Women", "Elected President", "Finalist for the Health Care Hero Awards", "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Field of Peritoneal Dialysis", "Award of tenure", "Elected Affiliate membership", "Award for Commitment and Excellence in Service", "Listed ", "Elected to Secretary", "P. Robert Uldall Visiting Professor", "Invited to give Keynote Address", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Top MD". Beth Piraino is also a published physician. She has 101 publication published. The most recent publication is: Patient survival with renal replacement therapy in heart transplantation patients. Beth Piraino is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- No Difference in Average Interdialytic Weight Gain Observed in a Randomized Trial With a Technology-Supported Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Dietary Sodium Intake i...
- Catheter-related peritonitis.
- Examination of survival after transfer from peritoneal dialysis to hemodialysis.
- Learning from the children.
- Effects of an intervention to improve communication about end-of-life care among African Americans with chronic Kidney disease.
- Subjective and objective sleep quality in patients on conventional thrice-weekly hemodialysis: comparison With matched controls from the sleep heart health study.
- Sleep apnea in patients on conventional thrice-weekly hemodialysis: comparison With matched controls from the Sleep Heart Health Study.
- The effect of coronary angiography on residual Renal function in patients on peritoneal dialysis.
- Comparison of infectious complications between incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Low seroconversion With hepatitis B vaccination in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- The influence of peritoneal catheter exit-site infections on peritonitis, tunnel infections, and catheter loss in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
- A preliminary study of PDA-based dietary self-monitoring in hemodialysis patients.
- The effect of the Y-set on catheter infection rates in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.
- The outcome of peritonitis in patients on automated peritoneal dialysis.
- Incidence of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis at a single U.S. university center.
- Catheter infections in insulin-dependent diabetics on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
- Prevention of infectious complications in peritoneal dialysis: best demonstrated practices.
- Association of Kt/V and creatinine clearance With outcomes in anuric peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Bleeding complications associated With peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion.
- Why is the evidence favoring hemodialysis over peritoneal dialysis misleading?
- Randomized controlled trial of SPIRIT: an effective approach to preparing African-American dialysis patients and families for end of life.
- Elevated bone aluminum and suppressed parathyroid hormone levels in hypercalcemic dialysis patients.
- Increased risk of Staphylococcus epidermidis peritonitis in patients on dialysate containing 1.25 mmol/L Calcium.
- The effect of body weight on CAPD related infections and catheter loss.
- Exit-site location does not influence peritoneal catheter infection rate.
- Serum electrolyte patterns in end-stage renal Disease.
- Hypokalemia in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Iatrogenic hypercalcemia in hemodialysis patients.
- Peritoneal dialysis-related infections recommendations: 2005 update.
- Gender differences in normalized clearances in CAPD: role of body size and normalizing parameters.
- Characteristics of depression in hemodialysis patients: symptoms, quality of life and mortality risk.
- Peritoneal urea and creatinine clearances in continuous peritoneal dialysis patients With different types of peritoneal solute transport.
- Clostridium difficile infections in outpatient dialysis cohort.
- Analysis of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis-related Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
- Measuring compliance With prescribed exchanges in CAPD and CCPD patients.
- Sources of variation in estimates of lean body mass by creatinine kinetics and by methods based on body water or body mass index in patients on continuous peritoneal d...
- ISPD position statement on reducing the risks of peritoneal dialysis-related infections.
- Does experience With PD matter?
- Characteristics and outcome of peritoneal dialysate leaks and associated infections.
- Systematic Barriers to the Effective Delivery of Home Dialysis in the United States: A Report From the Public Policy/Advocacy Committee of the North American Chapter o...
- Peritoneal catheters and exit-site practices toward optimum peritoneal access: 1998 update. (Official report from the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis)
- The risk of hernia With large exchange volumes.
- A review of Staphylococcus aureus exit-site and tunnel infections in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Management of catheter-related infections.
- Exit-site care.
- Consensus guidelines for the treatment of peritonitis in pediatric patients receiving peritoneal dialysis.
- Prevention of peritonitis in children on peritoneal dialysis.
- Peritonitis associated with massive pneumoperitoneum from Failure to flush.
- Can we reduce rates of Staphylococcus aureus and other peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients?
- Insights on peritoneal dialysis-related infections.
- Improvement in Pittsburgh Symptom Score index after initiation of peritoneal dialysis.
- Clinical outcomes in peritoneal dialysis: impact of continuous quality provement initiatives.
- Peritoneal dialysis catheter replacement: "save the patient and not the catheter".
- Cardiovascular complications in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Effect of low-dose calcitriol and Calcium therapy on bone histomorphometry and urinary Calcium excretion in osteopenic women.
- Pain due to peritonitis.
- Effect of increasing exchange volume or frequency on CAPD efficiency.
- Variant of Bartter''s syndrome With a distal tubular rather than loop of Henle defect.
- Estimating the daily dialysate drain volume required in CAPD for a target peritoneal creatinine clearance by body water and peritoneal transport characteristics.
- Peritoneal dialysis-related infections recommendations: 2010 update.
- The use of subcutaneous erythropoietin in CAPD patients.
- Are exit-site infection rates lower With disconnect systems?
- Resolution of cirrhotic glomeruloNephritis following successful liver transplantation.
- Patient survival With renal replacement therapy in heart transplantation patients.
- The United States' perspectives on home dialysis.
- Pulmonary and Renal toxicity of intravenous immunoglobulin.
- Inter-rater reliability and annual rescoring of the Charlson comorbidity index.
- Adult peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis treatment recommendations: 2000 update.
- Prevention of peritonitis.
- Infectious complications of peritoneal dialysis.
- Peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis treatment recommendations: 1996 update.
- Is it possible to decrease the rate of Staphylococcus aureus peritonitis?
- Calcium mass transfer with 10-hour dwell time using 1.25 versus 1.75 mmol/L Calcium dialysate.
- Approach to fluid management in peritoneal dialysis: a practical algorithm.
- When should the peritoneal dialysis catheter be removed for dialysis-related infections?
- Research directions in peritoneal dialysis infections.
- Peritonitis as a complication of peritoneal dialysis.
- The choice study.
- S. aureus nasal carriage: importance and approaches.
- Acute renal failure secondary to hemoglobinuria in a patient with a left ventricular assist device.
- Small-solute clearances in diabetic subjects on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: comparison to nondiabetic subjects.
- Mupirocin for preventing exit-site infection and peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Was it effective?
- Splenic infarct presenting as sterile peritonitis With peripheral embolic phenomena.
- Recombinant human erythropoietin in a patient with multiple myeloma and end-stage renal Disease.
- Peritonitis - does peritoneal dialysis modality make a difference?
- CAPD-associated cough.
- Managing Staphylococcus aureus catheter infection in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Peritonitis following colonoscopy in a peritoneal dialysis patient.
- ADEMEX: how should it change our practice? Adequacy of Peritoneal Dialysis in Mexico.
- Peritoneal infections.
- Dialysis: The importance of peritoneal catheter exit-site care.
- Preventing peritoneal dialysis related infections.
- Peritoneal catheter exit-site and tunnel infections.
- Staphylococcus aureus prophylaxis in dialysis patients.
- Intra-abdominal pressure, peritoneal dialysis exchange volume, and tolerance in APD.
- Quality of life and psychological issues in peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Does the risk of death differ between peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis patients?
- An intraperitoneal insulin regimen for diabetics on continuous cyclic peritoneal dialysis.
- A PDA-based dietary self-monitoring intervention to reduce sodium intake in an in-center hemodialysis patient.
- Erythema: does it indicate infection in a peritoneal catheter exit site?
Schools
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
University Of Pittsburgh Med Center
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
- Nephrology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Recipient of Faculty Distinguished Service Award
- America's Top Doctors
- Recipient-225th Anniversary Medallion
- Elected Fellow
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Key Note Speaker
- Zellerman Awardee
- Fellow
- Pittsburgh Magazine
- Award for contribution to diversity
- 1st Plenary Speaker
- Received the prestigious William S. McEllroy Award
- Nominated for an Excellence of Education Award
- Who's Who of American Women
- Elected President
- Finalist for the Health Care Hero Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award in the Field of Peritoneal Dialysis
- Award of tenure
- Elected Affiliate membership
- Award for Commitment and Excellence in Service
- Listed
- Elected to Secretary
- P. Robert Uldall Visiting Professor
- Invited to give Keynote Address
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Top MD
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
University of Pittsburgh -
University of Michigan
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1629043161 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | PIRAINO | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | BETH | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152133236 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Nephrology | |
| Total Claim Count | 1438.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 3.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 76.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 5.29 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1629043161 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | PIRAINO |
| First Name Of The Provider | BETH |
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