Kamran Darabi, MD

Member - American College of Physicians

2005: Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA.
Analyzed outcome of patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation for multiple myeloma with focus on infused cell dose.

2004 : Massachusetts General Hospital Apheresis Service, Boston, MA.
Demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies such as Rituximab can achieve therapeutic efficacy in-vivo despite subsequent plasma exchange. Published in the "American Journal of Clinical Pathology" in 2006.

Performed a systematic review of IVIG usage. Reaearch results were published in 2006 in the journal "Transfusion" and have served as benchmarks for various approval bodies for recommendations regarding IVIG use.

1997-2001: German Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group, Cologne, Germany.
Conducted clinical research within th eframework of the randomized clinical trials of Hodgkin Lymphoma in Germany. The German Hodgkin Lymphoma Group is the largest cooperative treatment group for Hodgkin Lymphoma in the world. Personal research results were presented as an oral lecture as one of the top 5 abstracts on Hodgkin Lymphoma at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA in 2003. Published as full paper in the jourmal "Leukemia and Lymphoma" in 2005.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, USD Medical School

2006 Darabi K, Kantamnei S, Wiernik P. "Lenalidomide-induced warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia". Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006;24(35):59e.

2006 Darabi K, Abdel-Wahab O, Stowell CP, Sepehr A. "Clinical Pearls: An 87-Year-Old Woman With Respiratory Distress and Alveolar Hemorrhage After Transfusion". Chest 2006;130:1612–1616).

2006 Darabi K, Abdel-Wahab O, Dzik S. "IVIG - its current usage and the rationale behind it. The Massachusetts General Hospital data and a review of the literature." Transfusion. 2006 May;46(5):741-53.

2006 Darabi K, Berg A. "Rituximab can be combined with daily plasma exchange to achieve effective B-cell depletion and clinical improvement in acute autoimmune TTP." American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2006 Apr;125(4):592-597.

2005 Darabi K, Sieber M, Chaitowitz M, Braitman LE, Tester W, Diehl V. "Infradiaphragmatic versus supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin lymphoma: a retrospective review of 1114 patients." Leukemia and Lymphoma. 2005 Dec;46(12):1715-20.

2005 Darabi K, Dzik W. "Hyperhemolysis Syndrome in Anemia of Chronic Disease." Transfusion. 2005; 46(12):1930-1933.2005

2005 Darabi K, Dzik W, Stowell CP, Saito Y. "Leucoreduction and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease." Transfusion Medicine. 2005 Aug;15(4):335.

2005 Darabi K, Brown JR, Kao GS. "Paradoxical embolism after peripheral blood stem cell infusion". Bone Marrow Transplant. 2005 Sep;36(6):561-2.

2005 Darabi K. "Elevated Cardiac Troponin Levels in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura." Annals of Internal Medicine. http://www.annals.org/cgi/eletters/142/9/786#1654.

2005 Darabi K, Torres G, Chewaproug D. "Nephrolithiasis as primary presentation in sarcoidosis." Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology 39(2):173-175.

2005 Darabi K. "Proton pump inhibitor-induced hepatitis." Southern Med J. 2005 Aug;98(8):844-5.

2005 Darabi K, Hull MJ. "Work-hour regulations and reality in the European Union and their impact on the physician workforce." Swiss Medical Wkly 2005 Feb;135(5-6):91.

2005 Darabi K, Fischer RA. "Urology quiz." Resident and Staff Physician. 2005 June;51(6):26.

2004 Darabi K, Segal AM, Torres G. "Herpes zoster infection: a rare cause of urinary retention." Canadian Journal of Urology. 2004 Aug;11(4):2314.