Professor, Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
Dr. Ofelia A. Alvarez, MD
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Ofelia Alvarez works in the field of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology. She went to medical school at University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. She received 2 awards: "Super Doctor" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Ofelia Alvarez is a published doctor. She published 16 publications, including: 'Hydroxycarbamide versus chronic transfusion for maintenance of transcranial doppler flow velocities in children with sickle cell anaemia-TCD With Transfusions Changing...'
Publications
- Effects of hydroxyurea treatment for patients with hemoglobin SC Disease.
- Hydroxycarbamide versus chronic transfusion for maintenance of transcranial doppler flow velocities in children With sickle cell anaemia-TCD With Transfusions Changing...
- Therapeutic phlebotomy is safe in children With sickle cell anaemia and can be effective treatment for transfusional iron overload.
- Abnormalities in renal tubular phosphate handling in children with sickle cell Disease.
- Quantification of Sickle Cells in the Peripheral Smear as a Marker of Disease Severity.
- Albuminuria correlates with hemolysis and NAG and KIM-1 in patients with sickle cell Anemia.
- Pain and other non-neurological adverse events in children with sickle cell Anemia and previous stroke who received hydroxyurea and phlebotomy or chronic transfusions ...
- Sickle Cell Disease Related Mortality in the United States (1999-2009).
- Durable immune response to inactivated H1N1 vaccine is less likely in children with sickle cell Anemia receiving chronic transfusions.
- Ventricular structure and function in children with sickle cell Disease using conventional and tissue Doppler echocardiography.
- Serum ferritin level changes in children with sickle cell Disease on chronic blood transfusion are nonlinear and are associated with iron load and liver injury.
- Wilms' tumor, pancreatic islet Cell carcinoma, and pheochromocytoma in a child.
- Primary renal botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma: diagnosis and outcome.
- Thoracic lymphangiomatosis in a child.
- Renal function in infants with sickle cell Anemia: baseline data from the BABY HUG trial.
Schools
University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
University Ped Hospital
Chldns Hospital Los Angeles
Procedures Preformed
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- HPC Transplantation (Stem Cell Transplant)
- Plasmapheresis
Conditions Treated
- Acute Leukemia
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anemia
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Hematology
- Oncology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Super Doctor
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Children's Hospital of Los Angeles -
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
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