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Nelson Leung

Nelson Leung

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Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
41614
World Ranking
7911
National Ranking
4117

Overview

Nelson Leung is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has published extensively in the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research prominently spans subfields such as molecular biology, hematology, nephrology, genetics, and oncology. The focus of their work includes multiple myeloma, amyloidosis, and renal diseases among other medical conditions.

Leung's main topics of research include:

  • Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis

The scientist has contributed to notable recent publications in the medical and hematology community, including:

  • "Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "The 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours: Lymphoid Neoplasms," 2022, Leukemia
  • "Systemic amyloidosis from A (AA) to T (ATTR): a review," 2020, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • "Consensus guidelines and recommendations for infection prevention in multiple myeloma: a report from the International Myeloma Working Group," 2022, The Lancet Haematology
  • "Glomerulonephritis: immunopathogenesis and immunotherapy," 2023, Nature Reviews. Immunology

They have collaborated frequently with researchers such as Angela Dispenzieri, Morie A. Gertz, Shaji Kumar, David Dingli, and Prashant Kapoor.

Leung's work is published often in high-impact venues, demonstrating a sustained focus across relevant hematological and nephrological journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Blood
  • Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia
  • Blood Cancer Journal
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Kidney International

Overall, Nelson Leung's research portfolio covers a broad spectrum of hematology and nephrology topics, supporting advances in understanding and treatment of complex diseases such as multiple myeloma, amyloidosis, and renal glomerulopathies through molecular biology and clinical investigation.

Best Publications

  • Continued improvement in survival in multiple myeloma: changes in early mortality and outcomes in older patients

    S K Kumar;A Dispenzieri;M Q Lacy;M A Gertz

  • Revised Prognostic Staging System for Light Chain Amyloidosis Incorporating Cardiac Biomarkers and Serum Free Light Chain Measurements

    Shaji Kumar;Angela Dispenzieri;Martha Q. Lacy;Suzanne R. Hayman

  • Chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Asian countries

    I Merican;R Guan;D Amarapuka;Mj Alexander

  • Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance: When MGUS Is No Longer Undetermined or Insignificant

    Nelson Leung;Frank Bridoux;Colin A. Hutchison;Samih H. Nasr

  • Cisplatin nephrotoxicity: a review of the literature.

    Sandhya Manohar;Nelson Leung

  • Renal Impairment in Patients With Multiple Myeloma: A Consensus Statement on Behalf of the International Myeloma Working Group

    Meletios A. Dimopoulos;Evangelos Terpos;Asher Chanan-Khan;Nelson Leung

  • The evaluation of monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance: a consensus report of the International Kidney and Monoclonal Gammopathy Research Group.

    Nelson Leung;Frank Bridoux;Vecihi Batuman;Aristeidis Chaidos

  • Diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance

    Frank Bridoux;Nelson Leung;Colin A. Hutchison;Guy Touchard

  • Rituximab or Cyclosporine in the Treatment of Membranous Nephropathy

    Fernando C. Fervenza;Gerald B. Appel;Sean J. Barbour;Brad H. Rovin

  • International Myeloma Working Group Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Myeloma-Related Renal Impairment

    Meletios A. Dimopoulos;Pieter Sonneveld;Nelson Leung;Giampaolo Merlini

  • Biopsy-Proven Acute Interstitial Nephritis, 1993-2011: A Case Series

    Angela K. Muriithi;Nelson Leung;Anthony M. Valeri;Lynn D. Cornell

  • How I treat monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS)

    Jean Paul Fermand;Frank Bridoux;Robert A. Kyle;Efstathios Kastritis

  • Improved outcomes for newly diagnosed AL amyloidosis between 2000 and 2014: cracking the glass ceiling of early death.

    Eli Muchtar;Morie A. Gertz;Shaji K. Kumar;Martha Q. Lacy

  • Rituximab treatment of idiopathic membranous nephropathy.

    F.C. Fervenza;F.G. Cosio;S.B. Erickson;U. Specks

  • Rituximab Therapy in Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy: A 2-Year Study

    Fernando C. Fervenza;Roshini S. Abraham;Stephen B. Erickson;Maria Valentina Irazabal

  • Renal Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease: A Report of 64 Patients from a Single Institution

    Samih H. Nasr;Anthony M. Valeri;Lynn D. Cornell;Mary E. Fidler

  • Changing Incidence of Glomerular Disease in Olmsted County, Minnesota: A 30-Year Renal Biopsy Study

    Sundararaman Swaminathan;Nelson Leung;Donna J. Lager;L. Joseph Melton

  • Remission of Disseminated Cancer After Systemic Oncolytic Virotherapy

    Stephen J. Russell;Mark J. Federspiel;Kah Whye Peng;Caili Tong

  • Renal Amyloidosis: Origin and Clinicopathologic Correlations of 474 Recent Cases

    Samar M. Said;Sanjeev Sethi;Anthony M. Valeri;Nelson Leung

  • Mayo Clinic/Renal Pathology Society Consensus Report on Pathologic Classification, Diagnosis, and Reporting of GN

    Sanjeev Sethi;Mark Haas;Glen S. Markowitz;Vivette D. D’Agati

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