Professor of Pediatrics, University Pittsburgh
Neonat/Perinatology
Dr. Jon F. Watchko, MD
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Doctor Jon F. Watchko, MD works in the field of Neonat/Perinatology. He attended SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has 2 awards "America's Top Doctors" and "Pittsburgh Magazine". Dr. Jon F. Watchko is a published doctor as well. He has 100 publications published. The latest was: Ventilatory failure during resistive loaded breathing in the newborn primate.
Publications
- Extreme Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia: A View from Down Under.
- Are the neuromotor disabilities of bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction disorders related to the cerebellum and its connections?
- Apnea in acute bilirubin encephalopathy.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of bilirubin encephalopathy: Current limitations and future promise.
- 50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: Bilirubin Equilibration during Exchange Transfusion in Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn.
- What Causes Increased Expression of VEGF and VEGF-R in a Case Report? Comment on: "New Autopsy Findings in Different Brain Regions of a Preterm Neonate With Kernicteru...
- Should we screen newborns for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in the United States?
- Genetics and Pediatric Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia.
- Quantitative ADC in bilirubin encephalopathy.
- Lipid peroxidation is not the primary mechanism of bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction in jaundiced Gunn rat pups.
- Screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in newborns-practical considerations.
- Effect of NF-?B inhibition on AAV9 minidystrophin gene transfer to the mdx mouse.
- Systemic delivery of NEMO binding domain/IKKgamma inhibitory peptide to young mdx mice improves dystrophic skeletal muscle histopathology.
- Route of exchange transfusion in neonates with hyperbilirubinemia.
- Hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant > or =35 weeks' gestation: an update with clarifications.
- Identification of neonates at risk for hazardous hyperbilirubinemia: emerging clinical insights.
- Coexpression of gene polymorphisms involved in bilirubin production and metabolism.
- Unconjugated bilirubin efflux by bovine brain microvascular endothelial cells in vitro.
- Ventilatory pump failure and strategies to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
- Hyperbilirubinemia and bilirubin toxicity in the late preterm infant.
- Effect of predischarge bilirubin screening on subsequent hyperbilirubinemia.
- Calculated in vivo free bilirubin levels in the central nervous system of Gunn rat pups.
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia--what are the risks?
- Kernicterus and the molecular mechanisms of bilirubin-induced CNS injury in newborns.
- Vigintiphobia revisited.
- Bilirubin induced apoptosis in vitro: insights for kernicterus: commentary on the article by Hankø et al. on page 179.
- Genetics and the risk of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia: commentary on the article by Huang et al. on page 682.
- Postnatal dexamethasone for lung disease of prematurity.
- Administration of drugs known to inhibit P-glycoprotein increases brain bilirubin and alters the regional distribution of bilirubin in rat brain.
- Regulation of FasL/Fas in human trophoblasts: possible implications for chorioamnionitis.
- IUGR alters postnatal rat skeletal muscle peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1 gene expression in a fiber specific manner.
- Functional characteristics of dystrophic skeletal muscle: insights from animal models.
- Effect of injecting primary myoblasts versus putative muscle-derived stem cells on mass and force generation in mdx mice.
- Ventilatory failure during resistive loaded breathing in the newborn primate.
- Growth hormone restores aged diaphragm myosin composition and performance after chronic undernutrition.
- Growth hormone improves body mass recovery with refeeding after chronic undernutrition-induced muscle atrophy in aging male rats.
- Full functional rescue of a complete muscle (TA) in dystrophic hamsters by adeno-associated virus vector-directed gene therapy.
- Myofibrillar or mitochondrial creatine kinase deficiency alone does not impair mouse diaphragm isotonic function.
- Enhancement of adult muscle regeneration by primary myoblast transplantation.
- Effect of chronic denervation and denervation-reinnervation on cytoplasmic creatine kinase transcript accumulation.
- Ontogeny of P-glycoprotein in mouse intestine, liver, and kidney.
- Recurrence of kernicterus in term and near-term infants in Denmark.
- P-glycoprotein expression in mouse brain increases with maturation.
- P-glycoprotein and bilirubin disposition.
- Understanding neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in the era of genomics.
- Kernicterus in preterm newborns: past, present, and future.
- Postnatal expression of myosin isoforms in an expiratory muscle--external abdominal oblique.
- Control of genioglossal muscle activity in the anesthetized piglet: the role of vagal afferents.
- Myosin heavy chain expression in respiratory muscles of the rat.
- Contractile properties of the rat external abdominal oblique and diaphragm muscles during development.
- Respiratory mechanics of the piglet during the first month of life.
- Diaphragmatic electromyogram power-spectral analysis as a function of reduced end-expiratory lung volume.
- Effects of perinatal undernutrition on elimination of immature myosin isoforms in the rat diaphragm.
- The ventilatory pump: neonatal and developmental issues.
- Neonatal sensorineural hearing loss associated with furosemide: a case-control study.
- External intercostal muscle activity during acute hypoxia in the kitten.
- Expiratory abdominal muscle activity during ventilatory chemostimulation in piglets.
- Effect of aminophylline on diaphragmatic contractility in the piglet.
- Measurements of pulmonary mechanics prior to the elective extubation of neonates.
- Estimation of intrapleural pressure in the newborn.
- The effect of aminophylline on diaphragm blood flow in the piglet.
- Genioglossal recruitment during acute hypoxia and hypercapnia in kittens.
- Costal and crural diaphragm, and intercostal and genioglossal electromyogram activities during spontaneous augmented breaths (sighs) in kittens.
- Diaphragmatic muscle fiber type development in swine.
- Ventilatory failure during loaded breathing: the role of central neural drive.
- Diaphragmatic pressures in piglets: transvenous versus direct phrenic nerve stimulation.
- Diaphragmatic function during hypercapnia: neonatal and developmental aspects.
- Recruitment of intercostal muscle activity during hypercapnia in kittens.
- Effect of hypercapnia and hypoxia on costal and crural diaphragm electromyograms in piglets.
- Neurodevelopmental outcome following persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neonate.
- Severe nonimmune fetal hydrops with fetal survival. A case report.
- Spectral analysis of diaphragmatic EMG during the neonatal biphasic hypoxic ventilatory response.
- Neurologic uncertainty in newborn intensive care.
- Diaphragmatic function during hypoxemia: neonatal and developmental aspects.
- Postnatal changes in transdiaphragmatic pressure in piglets.
- A new agenda needed concerning "tragic choices".
- Efficacy of thromboresistant umbilical artery catheters in reducing aortic thrombosis and related complications.
- Effect of inspiratory resistive loading on costal and crural diaphragm electromyograms in piglets.
- Response to resistive loading in the newborn piglet.
- Changes in lung volume and deflation stability in hyaline membrane disease.
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension in a very low birthweight preterm infant.
- Pulmonary edema associated with upper airway obstruction.
- Serum bilirubin measurements in hemolyzed samples.
- ABC transporter (P-gp/ABCB1, MRP1/ABCC1, BCRP/ABCG2) expression in the developing human CNS.
- Calculated free bilirubin levels and neurotoxicity.
- Complex multifactorial nature of significant hyperbilirubinemia in neonates.
- Hyperbilirubinemia in African American neonates: clinical issues and current challenges.
- Seminars in fetal and neonatal medicine "continuing controversies in perinatal jaundice".
- Exploring the genetic architecture of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
- Enduring controversies in the management of hyperbilirubinemia in preterm neonates.
- Improvement of the mdx mouse dystrophic phenotype by systemic in utero AAV8 delivery of a minidystrophin gene.
- Full-length dystrophin gene transfer to the mdx mouse in utero.
- Sex-specific regional brain bilirubin content in hyperbilirubinemic Gunn rat pups.
- Jaundice in low birthweight infants: pathobiology and outcome.
- Treatment of jaundice in low birthweight infants.
- Skeletal muscle glucose transporter protein responses to antenatal glucocorticoids in the ovine fetus.
- Adeno-associated virus vector-mediated minidystrophin gene therapy improves dystrophic muscle contractile function in mdx mice.
- Developmental myosin heavy chains in the adult human diaphragm: coexpression patterns and effect of COPD.
- Alteration in myosatellite cell commitment with muscle maturation.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Upstate Med Center
University Wa
Doctors Specialties
- Neonatal Medicine
- Neonat/Perinatology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Pittsburgh Magazine
Education
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University of Washington -
SUNY Upstate Medical University -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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