Dr. Vivian E Shih MD
Pediatrician
55 Fruit St Yaw 6 Pediatric Medicine Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Vivian Shih is a pediatrician practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Shih is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Shih diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Shih can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cloning and characterization of a putative human d-2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase in chromosome 9q.
- Hereditary pancreatitis. Nonspecificity of aminoaciduria and diagnosis of occult disease.
- Stroke in young patients with hyperhomocysteinemia due to cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency.
- A 15-bp deletion in exon 5 of the ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) locus associated with gyrate atrophy.
- Biochemical investigation of a Brazilian patient with a defect in mitochondrial acetoacetylcoenzyme-A thiolase.
- Mapping of ornithine aminotransferase gene sequences to mouse chromosomes 7, X, and 3.
- Three novel mutations of the ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) gene in gyrate atrophy.
- Neonatal form of the hyperornithinaemia, hyperammonaemia, and homocitrullinuria (HHH) syndrome and prenatal diagnosis.
- Successful long-term treatment of hepatic carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency and a novel mutation.
- Isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency: a case report with a novel mutation and review of the literature.
- Ornithine aminotransferase deficiency: diagnostic difficulties in neonatal presentation.
- Fetal fatty acid oxidation defects and maternal liver disease in pregnancy.
- Fumarase deficiency caused by homozygous P131R mutation and paternal partial isodisomy of chromosome 1.
- Molecular pathology of gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina due to ornithine aminotransferase deficiency.
- Pericardial effusion in primary systemic carnitine deficiency.
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