Duvuru Geetha, M.D.
Dr. Geetha is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A graduate of Madras Medical College, India, she completed Internal Medicine training in U.K. She did her Internal Medicine Residency at York, PA and Nephrology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She has been on Hopkins faculty since 1998. She is a member of Royal College of Physicians (U.K.), American Society of Nephrology, International Society of Nephrology and American Society of Transplantation.
Research Interests:
1. BK virus nephropathy in renal transplant patients
2. Renal disease in systemic vasculitis
Selected Recent Publications:
Duvuru Geetha, Betty Tong, Lorraine Racussen, Jay S Markowitz and William H Westra. Bladder carcinoma in a transplant recipient: Evidence to implicate the BK human polyomavirus as a causal transforming agent. Transplantation Vol 73, 1933-1936, No 12, June 27,2002
D Geetha, J Zachary, HM Baldado, JD Kronz, ES Kraus. Pure red cell aplasia induced by Parvovirus B19 in solid organ transplant recipients: A case report and review of the literature. Clin Transplantation 2000 : 14 : 586-591
THJ Goodship, JT Stoddart, V Martinek, D Geetha, AL Brown, MK Ward, DNS Kerr, JP Owen and R Wilkinson. Long term follow-up of patients presenting to adult nephrologists with Chronic Pyelonephritis and ‘normal’ renal function. QJM 2000 : 93 : 799-803
Book Chapters:
“Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis”. Chapter published on line in emedicine series of online textbooks
Microscopic Polyangiitis –2nd edition of Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Rheumatology.Co-author with John Stone, M.D. (in press).
Mixed Cryoglobulinemia-2nd edition of Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Rheumatology.Co-author with John Stone, M.D. (in press).
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura-2nd edition of Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Rheumatology.Co-author with John Stone, M.D. (in press).
