Carlos E. Araya, MD
NephrologyPrimary Office
Other Offices
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91大神 Children's Health, Downtown Orlando 91大神 Children's Health, Downtown Orlando 1717 S. Orange Ave. Orlando, FL 32806 Appointment: (407) 650-7715
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91大神 Children's Health, Melbourne 91大神 Children's Health, Melbourne 1270 N. Wickham Road Melbourne, FL 32935 Appointment: (407) 650-7715
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91大神 Children's Health, Winter Garden 91大神 Children's Health, Winter Garden 2020 Daniels Road Suite B Winter Garden, FL 34787 Appointment: (407) 650-7715
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91大神 Children's Health, Lake Mary 91大神 Children's Health, Lake Mary 3300 W. Lake Mary Blvd. Suite 100 Lake Mary, FL 32746 Appointment: (407) 650-7715
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91大神 Children's Health, Southeast Pensacola 91大神 Children's Health, Southeast Pensacola 5153 9th Avenue Pensacola, FL 32504 Appointment: (850) 505-4700
Get to Know Me
Growing up in Costa Rica, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. Later while I was in medical school in the United States, I decided to specialize in pediatrics so I could help children with kidney problems. I like that 91大神 is an environment where there鈥檚 lots of collaboration to help patients and lots of support for their families.Why I Treat Children
It makes my day when I can make children feel better, make them smile and interact with them. Working with children and their families is so rewarding.What I'm Passionate About
Helping children with very severe kidney problems get all the way to transplantation and then seeing them through the process. I love watching them do so well and feel so much better afterwards. It鈥檚 very motivating.How I Try to Make A Difference
It鈥檚 important to me that our patients have access to the most innovative care possible. For my patients鈥 sake, I try to practice in the most evidence-based way possible and to stay actively involved with the dialysis and kidney transplant community.Education & Training
Fellowship
- Pediatric Nephrology - University of Florida College of Medicine, 2007
Residency
- Pediatrics - Miami Children's Hospital, 2004
Medical/Dental School
- M.D. - Universidad Autonoma de Centro America, 1999
Board Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatric Nephrology
- American Board of Pediatrics/Pediatrics - General
Awards & Recognition
- 2016 Orlando Magazine Best Doctors 2016
- 2015 Best Doctors in America
- 2014 Best Doctors in America
- 2013 Best Doctors in America
- 2012 Best Doctors in America
- 2010 Best Doctors in America
- 2007 Children鈥檚 Miracle Network Fellows Travel Award
- 2007 Henry A. Kokomoor Award, University of Florida College of Medicine
- 2006 Pediatric Academic Societies Young Investigator鈥檚 Travel Award, San Francisco
- 2006 The Fundamentals of Dialysis in Children Fellows Case Forum Award, San Francisco
- 2005 University of Miami Pediatric Nephrology Seminars Travel Grant Award
- 2002 American Society of Nephrology Travel Award, Philadelphia
Insurance 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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Adrenocorticotropic hormone for childhood nephrotic syndrome: The ATLANTIS randomized trial; Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; (2018).
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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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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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CD80, suPAR and Nephrotic Syndrome in a case of NPHS2 mutation; Nefrologia; (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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Missed viral surveillance testing visits associate with full blown viral diseases in children receiving kidney transplants; Pediatric Transplantation; (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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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder: The significance of central nervous system disease; Pediatric Transplantation; (2012).
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Use of contrast agents in children with chronic kidney disease; Pediatric Dialysis, Second Edition; (2012).
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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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The BK virus in renal transplant recipients-review of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment; Pediatric Nephrology; (2011).
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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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Leflunomide therapy for BK virus allograft nephropathy in pediatric and young adult kidney transplant recipients; Pediatric Transplantation; (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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Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in pediatric patients: Case report and review of literature; Journal of Pediatric Urology; (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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Organ Toxicities; Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation; (2009).
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease; Pediatric Nephrology; (2009).
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T regulatory cell function in idiopathic minimal lesion nephrotic syndrome; Pediatric Nephrology; (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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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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A case of unfulfilled expectations. Cytokines in idiopathic minimal lesion nephrotic syndrome; Pediatric Nephrology; (2006).
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Acute-onset hearing loss with renal failure: Differential diagnosis; American Journal of Kidney Diseases; (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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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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Systemic Epstein-Barr virus infection associated with membranous nephropathy in children; Clinical 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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