Dr. Siri L. Kjos MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Maternal & Fetal Medicine
5320 S. RAINBOW BLVD. LAS VEGAS NV, 89118About
Dr. Siri Kjos is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Torrance, CA. Dr. Kjos specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Kjos can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Kjos 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
Univ Of Ca- Irvine- Ca Coll Of Med- Irvine Ca 1982
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Multiple metabolic defects during late pregnancy in women at high risk for type 2 diabetes.
- Gestational diabetes: risk or myth?
- Gestational diabetes mellitus.
- Patterns of congenital anomalies and relationship to initial maternal fasting glucose levels in pregnancies complicated by type 2 and gestational diabetes.
- Postpartum care of the woman with diabetes.
- Response of pancreatic beta-cells to improved insulin sensitivity in women at high risk for type 2 diabetes.
- Vaginally administered misoprostol for outpatient cervical ripening in pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus.
- Clinical predictors for a high risk for the development of diabetes mellitus in the early puerperium in women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus.
- Preservation of pancreatic beta-cell function and prevention of type 2 diabetes by pharmacological treatment of insulin resistance in high-risk hispanic women.
- Rate and risk factors of hypoglycemia in large-for-gestational-age newborn infants of nondiabetic mothers.
- Determinants of fetal growth at different periods of pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose tolerance.
- Counterpoint: glucose monitoring in gestational diabetes: lots of heat, not much light.
- Prospective delivery of reliably dated term infants of diabetic mothers without determination of fetal lung maturity: comparison to historical control.
- Amniotic fluid insulin levels and fetal abdominal circumference at time of amniocentesis in pregnancies with diabetes.
- Comparison of point-of-care-testing glucose meters with standard laboratory measurement of the 50g-glucose-challenge test (GCT) during pregnancy.
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