Dr. Katharine D Wenstrom MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Maternal & Fetal Medicine
101 Dudley Street, 3rd Floor Women & Infants Hosp Providence RI, 02905Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Katharine Wenstrom is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Wenstrom specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Wenstrom can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Wenstrom can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A five-year experience with fragile X screening of high-risk gravid women.
- Prospective evaluation of free beta-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin and dimeric inhibin A for aneuploidy detection.
- Hydramnios prediction of adverse perinatal outcome.
- Value of perinatal autopsy.
- Amniotic fluid homocysteine levels, 5,10-methylenetetrahydrafolate reductase genotypes, and neural tube closure sites.
- Role of amniotic fluid homocysteine level and of fetal 5, 10-methylenetetrahydrafolate reductase genotype in the etiology of neural tube defects.
- Ultrasound findings and multiple marker screening in trisomy 18.
- Comorbidity of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthase gene polymorphisms and risk for neural tube defects.
- Association of the C677T methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation and elevated homocysteine levels with congenital cardiac malformations.
- Changes in frequencies of heterozygous thermolabile 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene in fetuses with neural tube defects.
- Fragile X and other trinucleotide repeat diseases.
- Elevated amniotic fluid ferritin levels are associated with inflammation-related pregnancy loss following mid-trimester amniocentesis.
- Aneuploidy screening: the changing scene.
- Prediction of pregnancy outcome with single versus serial maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein tests.
- Fetal surgery for congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Gestational Diabetes
- Pregnancy
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
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