Dr. Cynthia D Downard M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
234 E Gray St Louisville KY, 40202About
Dr. Cynthia Downard practices Pediatric Surgery in Louisville, KY. Dr. Downard treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Downarddiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1997
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Abdominal wall defects.
- Clostridium botulinum toxin inhibits myometrial activity in vitro: possible application on the prevention of preterm labor after fetal surgery.
- Esophageal atresia, duodenal atresia, and unilateral lung agenesis: a case report.
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: an ongoing clinical challenge.
- Laparoscopic repair of bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia of Morgagni in a newborn.
- Intestinal microcirculatory flow alterations in necrotizing enterocolitis are improved by direct peritoneal resuscitation.
- Intraperitoneal 1.5% Delflex improves intestinal blood flow in necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Increased hepatic blood flow during enteral immune-enhancing diet gavage requires intact enterohepatic bile cycling.
- Application of prostaglandin E2 improves ileal blood flow in NEC.
- Oral relaxin maintains intestinal blood flow in a rat model of NEC.
- Utility of onsite interviews in the pediatric surgery match.
- Alterations in platelet-derived growth factor expression in the pathophysiology of necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Asymptomatic malrotation: Diagnosis and surgical management: An American Pediatric Surgical Association outcomes and evidence based practice committee systematic review.
- Management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: A systematic review from the APSA outcomes and evidence based practice committee.
- Ovarian torsion in pediatric and adolescent patients: A systematic review.
Treatments
- Burns
- Constipation
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Hernia
- Cellulitis
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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