Dr. Jeffrey S. Rakoff M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Reproductive Endocrinology
10666 N Torrey Pines Rd La Jolla CA, 92037Rating
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Dr. Jeffrey Rakoff is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Rakoff specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Rakoff can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Rakoff 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
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1971
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhibition of gonadotropin and prolactin release by dopamine: effect of endogenous estradiol levels.
- Inhibition of gonadotropin and prolactin release by dopamine: effect of endogenous estradiol levels.
- Progesterone induced acute release of prolactin in estrogen primed ovariectomized women.
- Progesterone induced acute release of prolactin in estrogen primed ovariectomized women.
- Correlation of the effects of dexamethasone administration on urinary 17-ketosteroid and serum androgen levels in patients with hirsutism.
- Correlation of the effects of dexamethasone administration on urinary 17-ketosteroid and serum androgen levels in patients with hirsutism.
- In vitro fertilization. The Scripps Clinic experience.
- Intrauterine insemination with husband's washed sperm.
- The In Vitro Fertilization Program at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California.
- Elucidation of mechanism(s) of the nocturnal rise of testosterone in men.
- XO-XY mosaicism and nonfluorescent Y chromosome.
- Correlations between seminal radioimmunoreactive prolactin, sperm count, and sperm motility in prevasectomy and infertility clinic patients.
- Correlations between seminal radioimmunoreactive prolactin, sperm count, and sperm motility in prevasectomy and infertility clinic patients.
- Changes in pituitary hormones during and following transsphenoidal removal of prolactinomas.
- Prevalence of hyperprolactinemia in anovulatory women.
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