Carlos E. Araya, MD
NephrologyInsurance Accepted
- Aetna Better Health FL Medicaid and Healthy Kids
 - Aetna HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
 - Alabama Medicaid/Patient First
 - AvMed
 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO
 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Non HMO
 - Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida Blue Select
 - Cigna PPO/EPO/HMO/POS/OPEN ACCESS
 - Community Care Plan Medicaid
 - Employers Health Network PPO
 - Evolutions Healthcare
 - First Health Aetna PPO/EPO
 - Florida Community Care
 - Florida Medicaid
 - Florida Medicare
 - Health First Health Plans
 - HealthSmart Health Plans PPO
 - HUMANA HEALTHY HORIZONS (FKA HUMANA MEDICAID)
 - Molina Healthcare Medicaid
 - Multiplan PPO
 - Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO ORL
 - Prime Health Services PPO Specialty Florida
 - Seminole Tribe of Florida
 - Simply Healthcare Healthy Kids
 - Simply Healthcare Medicaid HMO
 - Star Healthcare Network
 - Sunshine SMI/CMS 19 & 21
 - Sunshine State Health Plan Medicaid
 - Three Rivers Provider Network
 - Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
 - United Healthcare Commercial Products
 - United Healthcare Community Plan Medicaid
 - Volusia Health Network PPO/EPO
 
Research Activities
- Dialysis
 - Kidney transplant
 
Medical Interests
- Dialysis
 - Glomerulonephrititis (inflammation of the kidney filters)
 - Hematuria (red blood cells in urine)
 - Hypertension
 - Kidney failure
 - Nephrotic syndrome (a disorder that affects the filtering ability of the kidneys)
 - Proteinuria (protein in urine)
 - Urinary tract infections
 
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From Intermittent Knee Pain to End鈥怱tage Kidney Disease: An Atypical Presentation of Bilateral Kidney Dysplasia in an 11鈥怸ear鈥怬ld Girl; Case Reports in Pediatrics; (2025).
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Ambulatory hypertension in a pediatric cohort of sickle cell disease; Journal of the American Society of Hypertension; (2018).
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Adrenocorticotropic hormone for childhood nephrotic syndrome: The ATLANTIS randomized trial; Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; (2018).
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Management of Anemia in Children Undergoing Dialysis; Handbook of Dialysis Therapy: Fifth Edition; (2017).
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Complications of pediatric renal transplantation; Pediatric Nephrology, Seventh Edition; (2015).
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Missed viral surveillance testing visits associate with full blown viral diseases in children receiving kidney transplants; Pediatric Transplantation; (2013).
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Minimal change disease in graft versus host disease: A podocyte response to the graft?; Clinical Nephrology; (2013).
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CD80, suPAR and Nephrotic Syndrome in a case of NPHS2 mutation; Nefrologia; (2013).
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Serum from minimal change patients in relapse increases CD80 expression in cultured podocytes; Pediatric Nephrology; (2013).
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Use of contrast agents in children with chronic kidney disease; Pediatric Dialysis, Second Edition; (2012).
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder: The significance of central nervous system disease; Pediatric Transplantation; (2012).
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The BK virus in renal transplant recipients-review of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment; Pediatric Nephrology; (2011).
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Minimal change disease: A "two-hit" podocyte immune disorder?; Pediatric Nephrology; (2011).
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Minimal Change Disease: A CD80 podocytopathy?; Seminars in Nephrology; (2011).
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Leflunomide therapy for BK virus allograft nephropathy in pediatric and young adult kidney transplant recipients; Pediatric Transplantation; (2010).
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Comparison of generic tacrolimus and Prograf drug levels in a pediatric kidney transplant program: Brief communication; Pediatric Transplantation; (2010).
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Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in pediatric patients: Case report and review of literature; Journal of Pediatric Urology; (2010).
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Urinary CD80 is elevated in minimal change disease but not in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Kidney International; (2010).
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Acute interstitial nephritis; Pediatric Nephrology in the ICU; (2009).
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Native kidney post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder in a non-renal transplant patient; Pediatric Transplantation; (2009).
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease; Pediatric Nephrology; (2009).
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Organ Toxicities; Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation; (2009).
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Treatment of systemic hypertension in children and adolescents; Current Opinion in Pediatrics; (2009).
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Urinary CD80 excretion increases in idiopathic minimal-change disease; Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; (2009).
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T regulatory cell function in idiopathic minimal lesion nephrotic syndrome; Pediatric Nephrology; (2009).
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Assessing the value of ureteral stent placement in pediatric kidney transplant recipients; Transplantation; (2008).
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Intermediate dose cidofovir does not cause additive nephrotoxicity in BK virus allograft nephropathy; Pediatric Transplantation; (2008).
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Diagnostic significance of clinical and laboratory findings to localize site of urinary infection; Pediatric Nephrology; (2007).
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Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Bacteremia in Children: Increasing Antibiotic Resistance and Changing Bacteriological Profile; American Journal of Kidney Diseases; (2007).
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Acute-onset hearing loss with renal failure: Differential diagnosis; American Journal of Kidney Diseases; (2006).
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Systemic Epstein-Barr virus infection associated with membranous nephropathy in children; Clinical Nephrology; (2006).
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Sodium thiosulfate treatment for calcific uremic arteriolopathy in children and young adults.; Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN; (2006).
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Intermediate-dose cidofovir without probenecid in the treatment of BK virus allograft nephropathy; Pediatric Transplantation; (2006).
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A case of unfulfilled expectations. Cytokines in idiopathic minimal lesion nephrotic syndrome; Pediatric Nephrology; (2006).
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Encephalitis and Acute Renal Failure Associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae: A Case Presentation; International Pediatrics; (2003).
 
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