Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine

Pediatric Endocrinology

Lefkothea Karaviti, MD is an expert in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. She has 2 awards "Top Doctors:SE Texas" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Dr. Lefkothea Karaviti is a published MD as well. She has 28 publications published. The latest was: Hypothyroidism presenting as a pituitary adenoma: an old problem underrecognized.

Publications

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• Nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia: targets of treatment and transition.
• Ectopic ACTH and CRH co-secreting tumors in children and adolescents causing Cushing Syndrome: a diagnostic enigma and how to solve it.
• Intrauterine growth restriction and hypospadias: is there a connection?
• Congenital hyperreninemic hypoaldosteronism unlinked to the aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene.
• HypoThyroidism presenting as a pituitary adenoma: an old problem underrecognized.
• Papillary Thyroid cancer: a pediatric perspective.
• Adrenoleukodystrophy: a link between adrenal insufficiency and school performance.
• Prenatal diagnosis/treatment in families at risk for infants with steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency (congenital adrenal hyperplasia).
• Diagnosis and management of precocious puberty in atypical presentations of McCune-Albright Syndrome: a case series review.
• Early onset obesity and adrenal insufficiency associated with a homozygous POMC mutation.
• Consensus in Guidelines for Evaluation of DSD by the Texas Children's Hospital Multidisciplinary Gender Medicine Team.
• Effects of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol on recovery and resolution of late transient neonatal hypocalcemia.
• FSH Injections and Ultrasonography Determine Presence of Ovarian Components in the Evaluation of Ovotesticular Disorders of Sex Development.
• The gender medicine team: "it takes a village".
• Clinical spectrum associated with recurrent genomic rearrangements in chromosome 17q12.
• Pituitary and systemic autoimmunity in a case of intrasellar germinoma.
• X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets associated with respiratory failure.
• Rapid resolution of consumptive hypoThyroidism in a child with hepatic hemangioendothelioma following liver transplantation.
• Ethical and legal implications of genetic testing in androgen insensitivity Syndrome.
• Osteopenic effects of MgSO4 in multiple pregnancies.
• Variable presentation of precocious puberty associated with the D564G mutation of the LHCGR gene in children with testotoxicosis.
• Autosomal dominant pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1: mechanisms, evidence for neonatal lethality, and phenotypic expression in adults.
• Neonatal diabetes mellitus: patient reports and review of current knowledge and clinical practice.
• Insulin pump therapy in preschool children with type 1 diabetes mellitus improves glycemic control and decreases glucose excursions and the risk of hypoglycemia.
• Continuous glucose monitoring and the reality of metabolic control in preschool children with type 1 diabetes.
• von Voss-Cherstvoy Syndrome with transient thrombocytopenia and normal psychomotor development.
• Concordance of phenotypic expression and gender identity in a large kindred with a mutation in the androgen receptor.

Schools

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• University Of Athens School Of Health Sciences

• Ny Hospital Cornell University Med College

• Ny Hospital Cornell University Med Center

• UCLA School Med

Conditions Treated

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• Abnormal Thyroid
• Adrenogenital Disorders
• Craniopharyngioma
• Hyperlipidemia
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Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Endocrinology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Top Doctors:SE Texas
• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
• University of Athens

Hospital

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• Texas Children's Hospital
• Harris Health System

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