Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Lynne L. Levitsky, MD
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Doctor Lynne L. Levitsky, MD works in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. She went to medical school at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a top medical university. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7 in research and 57 in primary care medicine She received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "Boston Herald" and "Super Doctor". Lynne Levitsky is also published. She has 89 publications published. The lastest publication: "Stimulation of DNA synthesis in isolated chondrocytes by somatomedin. II. Validation of the assay for clinical use and comparison with stimulation of protein synthesis.'
Publications
- HbA1c After a Short Period of Monotherapy With Metformin Identifies Durable Glycemic Control Among Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes.
- Turner syndrome: update on biology and management across the life span.
- Diagnosis of Pediatric HyperThyroidism: Technetium 99 (99mTc) Uptake vs. Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulins (TSI).
- Role of growth factors in control of pancreatic beta cell mass: focus on betatrophin.
- Endocrinology, epigenetics, and environment.
- Clinical presentation of children With premature adrenarche.
- When Genetic Load Does Not Correlate With Phenotypic Spectrum: Lessons from the GnRH Receptor (GNRHR).
- Recombinant Human IGF-1 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor) Therapy: Where Do We Stand Today?
- Clinical monitoring guidelines for congenital hypoThyroidism: laboratory outcome data in the first year of life.
- Effect of body mass index on peak growth hormone response to provocative testing in children With short stature.
- Novel P2 promoter-derived HNF4alpha isoforms With different N-terminus generated by alternate exon insertion.
- Defining the role of IGF-I therapy for short children.
- Differential role of vagus nerve in maintaining diurnal gene expression rhythms in the proximal small intestine.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 3-2005. A 14-year-old boy With recent slowing of growth and delayed pube...
- Symptomatic cerebral edema in diabetic ketoacidosis: the mechanism is clarified but still far from clear.
- Selective deletion of the Hnf1beta (MODY5) gene in beta-cells leads to altered gene expression and defective insulin release.
- Developmental regulation of galactokinase in suckling mouse liver by the Egr-1 transcription factor.
- Childhood immunizations and chronic illness.
- Type 2 Diabetes: an epidemic disease in childhood.
- Screening for celiac disease in children with type 1 Diabetes: two views of the controversy.
- Regional body composition in adolescents With anorexia nervosa and changes With weight recovery.
- Transient hyperThyroidism in an adolescent with hydatidiform mole.
- Intermittent growth attenuation: is this a sign of craniopharyngioma?
- Cognitive dysfunction following treatment of Cushing''s Syndrome.
- Neonatal hypoglycemia.
- Review: Pituitary adenomas in children and adolescents.
- Predictors and growth consequences of central hypoThyroidism in pediatric patients receiving recombinant human growth hormone.
- Boosting native promoter activities With non-adjacent response-element multimers.
- Oral agents in managing Diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents.
- Treatment of episodic hyperammonemia in children With inborn errors of urea synthesis.
- Plasma aldosterone concentration at delivery and during the newborn period.
- Growth hormone dependent human serum stimulation of thymidine and sulphate incorporation into embryonic chicken cartilage.
- Oxandrolone and human growth hormone. Comparison of growth-stimulating effects in short children.
- Polycystic ovary syndrome: clinical presentation in normal-weight compared With overweight adolescents.
- ESPE/LWPES consensus statement on diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents.
- Response to intravenous glucose in juvenile macaque monkeys. Effect of central nervous system lesions and species difference.
- ParaThyroidectomy in children with chronic renal failure.
- Increased frequency of HLA--Dw3 in North-American black patients with juvenile onset Diabetes.
- Fasting plasma levels of glucose, acetoacetate, D-beta-hydroxybutyrate, glycerol, and lactate in the baboon infant: correlation With cerebral uptake of substrates and ...
- Effect of androgen on growth hormone secretion and growth in boys With short stature.
- Glucagon response to arginine in growth hormone deficient children before and after treatment With growth hormone and in children With non-endocrine short stature.
- Metabolic response to fasting in experimental intrauterine growth retardation induced by surgical and nonsurgical maternal stress.
- Stimulation of DNA synthesis in isolated chondrocytes by somatomedin. II. Validation of the assay for clinical use and comparison With stimulation of protein synthesis.
- Glycogenesis in the cultured fetal and adult rat hepatocyte is differently regulated by medium glucose.
- Lipoprotein(a) levels in black and white children and adolescents With IDDM.
- Preserving adult height potential in girls With idiopathic true precocious puberty.
- Effect of growth hormone therapy in growth hormone-deficient children on cytochrome P-450-dependent 3-N-demethylation of caffeine as measured by the caffeine 13CO2 bre...
- Hypersecretion of growth hormone and prolactin in McCune-Albright Syndrome.
- A new test of combined pituitary-testicular function using the gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist nafarelin in the differentiation of gonadotropin deficiency from ...
- Use of nafarelin for testing pituitary-ovarian function.
- Placental transfer and fetal effects of maternal sodium beta-hydroxybutyrate infusion in the baboon.
- Energy requirements of obese children and young adults.
- Precursors to glycogen in ovine fetuses.
- Growth and pubertal pattern in insulin dependent Diabetes mellitus.
- Energy expenditure and body composition in Prader-Willi Syndrome.
- Abnormal cardiac function after exercise in insulin-dependent diabetic children and adolescents.
- Partial androgen resistance due to a distinctive qualitative defect of the androgen receptor.
- Gluconeogenesis from lactate in the chronically catheterized baboon fetus.
- The effect of dexamethasone and surgically induced intrauterine growth retardation on Renal and hepatic levels of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in the rat.
- Spontaneous thyrotoxicosis in infancy: report of a case.
- HLA Types in American black juvenile diabetics strong associations with Dw3 and Dw4.
- Picture of the month. Vulvovaginitis: a cause of clitorimegaly.
- Splanchnic uptake and release of energy substrates in the fasting baboon infant.
- Uptake and release of energy substrates, oxygen, and carbon dioxide by the hindlimb of the fasting infant baboon.
- Arterial blood levels of energy substrates and evidence for Renal glucose production in the baboon infant.
- Prepubertal gynecomastia associated With estrogen-containing hair cream.
- Echocardiographic evidence for impaired myocardial performance in children with type I Diabetes mellitus.
- Resurgence of nutritional rickets associated With breast-feeding and special dietary practices.
- Choanal atresia and associated anomalies.
- Growth Disorders in children.
- Ovarian hyperandrogynism as a result of congenital adrenal virilizing Disorders: evidence for perinatal masculinization of neuroendocrine function in women.
- GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 mRNA, protein, and glucose transporter activity in cultured fetal and adult hepatocytes.
- Glutamine carbon disposal and net glutamine uptake in fetuses of fed and fasted ewes.
- Diabetes mellitus during adolescence.
- Maturation of gonadotropin and sex steroid responses to gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in males.
- Glucose regulation of glucose transporters in cultured adult and fetal hepatocytes.
- Circadian periodicity of intestinal Na+/glucose cotransporter 1 mRNA levels is transcriptionally regulated.
- The effects of anorexia nervosa on bone Metabolism in female adolescents.
- Diurnal rhythmicity in intestinal SGLT-1 function, V(max), and mRNA expression topography.
- European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology/Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society consensus statement on diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents.
- Preventing childhood obesity: can we do it?
- Expression of HNF4alpha variants in pancreatic islets and Ins-1 beta cells.
- Management of diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents.
- Adolescent obesity and bariatric surgery.
- Radioactive iodine for hyperThyroidism in children and adolescents: referral rate and response to treatment.
- Growth and development potpourri.
- Auxology and obesity.
- Rathke''s cleft cysts in children and adolescents: association With female puberty.
Schools
Yale University School Of Medicine
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
Philadelphia Chldns Hospital
University MD
Conditions Treated
- Abnormal Thyroid
- Adrenogenital Disorders
- Calcium Metabolism Disorders
- Diabetes Mellitus, Secondary
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston Magazine
- Boston Herald
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Maryland -
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -
Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center -
Yale University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital -
Massachusetts General Hospital
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