Physician

Pediatric Endocrinology

Rachel I. Gafni, MD practices Pediatric Endocrinology. She graduated from Temple University School of Medicine. Rachel Gafni is a published physician as well. She has 26 publications published. The latest was: Transient Increased Calcium and Calcitriol Requirements After Discontinuation of Human Synthetic Parathyroid Hormone 1-34 (hPTH 1-34) Replacement Therapy in Hypoparath...

Publications

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• Transient Increased Calcium and Calcitriol Requirements After Discontinuation of Human Synthetic Parathyroid Hormone 1-34 (hPTH 1-34) Replacement Therapy in Hypoparath...
• Bone densitometry in children and adolescents.
• Rare Bone Diseases and Their Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Manifestations.
• Effects of Denosumab Treatment and Discontinuation on Human Growth Plates.
• Multi-lineage somatic activating mutations in HRAS and NRAS cause mosaic cutaneous and skeletal lesions, elevated FGF23, and hypophosphatemia.
• Mutations in NOTCH2 in patients with Hajdu-Cheney syndrome.
• Ultrasound is Superior to Computed Tomography for Assessment of Medullary Nephrocalcinosis in Hypoparathyroidism.
• Fibroblast growth factor 23: state of the field and future directions.
• Mechanism of FGF23 processing in fibrous dysplasia.
• Approach to the child with fractures.
• Decreased bone mineral density with off-label use of tenofovir in children and adolescents infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
• Childhood bone mass acquisition and peak bone mass may not be important determinants of bone mass in late adulthood.
• Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and an optimized background regimen of antiretroviral agents as salvage therapy: impact on bone mineral density in HIV-infected children.
• Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and an optimized background regimen of antiretroviral agents as salvage therapy for pediatric HIV infection.
• Overdiagnosis of osteoporosis in children due to misinterpretation of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).
• Mechanisms responsible for longitudinal growth of the cortex: coalescence of trabecular bone into cortical bone.
• Recovery from osteoporosis through skeletal growth: early bone mass acquisition has little effect on adult bone density.
• The role of the resting zone in growth plate chondrogenesis.
• Hypoparathyroidism in the adult: Epidemiology, diagnosis, pathophysiology, target-organ involvement, treatment, and challenges for future research.
• Catch-up growth is associated with delayed senescence of the growth plate in rabbits.
• Effects of estrogen on growth plate senescence and epiphyseal fusion.
• Anisomastia associated with interstitial duplication of chromosome 16, mental retardation, obesity, dysmorphic facies, and digital anomalies: molecular mapping of a ne...
• Catch-up growth: possible mechanisms.
• Nighttime salivary cortisol measurement as a simple, noninvasive, outpatient screening test for Cushing's syndrome in children and adolescents.
• Motherhood in medical school.

Schools

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• Temple University

• Chldrns Hospital

• National Institute Health

Conditions Treated

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• Hypoparathyroidism

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Endocrinology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Temple University School of Medicine

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