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Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Deborah P. Merke, MD
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Deborah P. Merke, MD is an expert in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. She graduated from University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Deborah Merke is a published doctor. She has 81 papers published. The most current publication "Therapeutic controversy: The role of laparoscopic surgery in adrenal disease."
Publications
- Use of Micro-Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectometry Method to Assess Diurnal Effects on Steroid Hormones.
- A Phase 2 Study of Chronocort®, a Modified-release Formulation of Hydrocortisone, in the Treatment of Adults with Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.
- Cortical Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency.
- Tenascin-X gene defects and cardiovascular disease.
- Management of adolescents with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) pathway abnormalities in tenascin-X deficiency associated with CAH-X syndrome.
- Comprehensive Mutation Analysis of the CYP21A2 Gene: An Efficient Multistep Approach to the Molecular Diagnosis of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.
- Tenascin-X haploinsufficiency associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Clinical characteristics of a cohort of 244 patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Incentive processing in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH): a reward-based antisaccade study.
- Junction Site Analysis of Chimeric CYP21A1P/CYP21A2 Genes in 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency.
- Phenotypic profiling of parents with cryptic nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia: findings in 145 unrelated families.
- Comprehensive genetic analysis of 182 unrelated families with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Hypoglycemia during acute illness in children with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- The phenotypic spectrum of contiguous deletion of CYP21A2 and tenascin XB: quadricuspid aortic valve and other midline defects.
- Cardiovascular disease risk in adult women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Modified-release hydrocortisone to provide circadian cortisol profiles.
- Early hyperandrogenism affects the development of hippocampal function: preliminary evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of boys with familial m...
- Approach to the adult with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Altered amygdala and hippocampus function in adolescents with hypercortisolemia: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of Cushing syndrome.
- Oxygen-uptake efficiency slope as a determinant of fitness in overweight adolescents.
- Patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia have decreased epinephrine reserve and defective glycemic control during prolonged moderate-intensity exercise.
- Maternal 21-hydroxylase deficiency and uniparental isodisomy of chromosome 6 and X results in a child with 21-hydroxylase deficiency and Klinefelter syndrome.
- Children experience cognitive decline despite reversal of brain atrophy one year after resolution of Cushing syndrome.
- Effects of hormones and sex chromosomes on stress-influenced regions of the developing pediatric brain.
- Stress dose of hydrocortisone is not beneficial in patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia undergoing short-term, high-intensity exercise.
- Endocrinologic and psychologic evaluation of 21-hydroxylase deficiency carriers and matched normal subjects: evidence for physical and/or psychologic vulnerability to ...
- Patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia have decreased epinephrine reserve and defective glucose elevation in response to high-intensity exercise.
- In boys with abnormal developmental tempo, maturation of the skeleton and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis remains synchronous.
- Children with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia have decreased amygdala volume: potential prenatal and postnatal hormonal effects.
- Pubertal and gender-related changes in the sympathoadrenal system in healthy children.
- Adrenomedullary function may predict phenotype and genotype in classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Flutamide decreases cortisol clearance in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Utility of plasma free metanephrines for detecting childhood pheochromocytoma.
- Children with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia have elevated serum leptin concentrations and insulin resistance: potential clinical implications.
- NIH conference. Future directions in the study and management of congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- New approaches to the treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Novel CYP11B1 mutations in congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to steroid 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Therapeutic controversy: The role of laparoscopic surgery in adrenal disease.
- Adrenal lymphocytic infiltration and adrenocortical tumors in a patient with 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a female caused by an X-linked recessive mutation in the DAX1 gene.
- Testicular adrenal rest tissue in congenital adrenal hyperplasia: serial sonographic and clinical findings.
- Testicular adrenal rest tissue in congenital adrenal hyperplasia: comparison of MR imaging and sonographic findings.
- Flutamide, testolactone, and reduced hydrocortisone dose maintain normal growth velocity and bone maturation despite elevated androgen levels in children with congenit...
- Picture of the month. Autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1.
- Adrenomedullary dysplasia and hypofunction in patients with classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Hydrocortisone suspension and hydrocortisone tablets are not bioequivalent in the treatment of children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- New ideas for medical treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Novel basic and clinical aspects of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Early androgen exposure modulates spatial cognition in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).
- Prognostic factors among 185 adults with newly diagnosed advanced Hodgkin's disease treated with alternating potentially noncross-resistant chemotherapy and intermedia...
- Adrenomedullary function in patients with nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Grey matter volume correlates with virtual water maze task performance in boys with androgen excess.
- Emotional memory in early steroid abnormalities: an FMRI study of adolescents with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- A Summary of the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency.
- Guidelines for the Development of Comprehensive Care Centers for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Guidance from the CARES Foundation Initiative.
- Psychiatric characterization of children with genetic causes of hyperandrogenism.
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline.
- Increased medial temporal lobe and striatal grey-matter volume in a rare disorder of androgen excess: a voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study.
- Consensus statement on the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs in children.
- A pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of delayed- and extended-release hydrocortisone (Chronocort) vs. conventional hydrocortisone (Cortef) in the treatment of c...
- Quality of life in children and adolescents 1-year after cure of Cushing syndrome: a prospective study.
- Body image in adolescents with disorders of steroidogenesis.
- Steroid abnormalities and the developing brain: declarative memory for emotionally arousing and neutral material in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Aplasia cutis congenita following in utero methimazole exposure.
- The adrenal life cycle: the fetal and adult cortex and the remaining questions.
- Amygdala function in adolescents with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: a model for the study of early steroid abnormalities.
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Puberty-related influences on brain development.
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia: epidemiology, management and practical drug treatment.
- Use of aromatase inhibitors in precocious puberty.
- Adrenocorticotropin hypersecretion and pituitary microadenoma following bilateral adrenalectomy in a patient with classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Risk factors for major neurodevelopmental impairments and need for special education resources in extremely premature infants.
- Results and prognostic factors following optimal treatment of advanced Hodgkin''s disease.
- The risk factors for arrhythmic death in a sample of men followed for 20 years.
- Multivariate risks among extremely premature infants.
- Pyoderma gangrenosum of the skin and trachea in a 9-month-old boy.
- A preliminary study of flutamide, testolactone, and reduced hydrocortisone dose in the treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- Evaluation and management of precocious puberty.
- Adrenal-derived 11-Oxygenated 19-Carbon Steroids are the Dominant Androgens in Classic 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency.
Schools
State University of New York At Buffalo
Chldns Hospital Of Philadelphia
National Institute Of Health
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Education
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center -
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -
University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
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