Dr. Kasper Saonun Wang MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
8700 BEVERLY BLVD WEST HOLLYWOOD CA, 90048About
Dr. Wang is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed eight years of general surgery training at Stanford University Hospital and subsequently ...
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1994
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Left-sided gastroschisis associated with situs inversus.
- Fibroblast growth factor 10 is critical for liver growth during embryogenesis and controls hepatoblast survival via beta-catenin activation.
- Induction of fibroblast growth factor 10 (FGF10) in the ileal crypt epithelium after massive small bowel resection suggests a role for FGF10 in gut adaptation.
- Abdominal involvement in pediatric heart and lung transplant recipients with posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease increases the risk of mortality.
- β-catenin regulates mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation during hepatogenesis.
- Expansion of hepatic tumor progenitor cells in Pten-null mice requires liver injury and is reversed by loss of AKT2.
- The anatomic pattern of biliary atresia identified at time of Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy and early postoperative clearance of jaundice are significant predictors of transplant-free survival.
- Assessment and management of inguinal hernia in infants.
- Fibroblast growth factor receptor-mediated activation of AKT-β-catenin-CBP pathway regulates survival and proliferation of murine hepatoblasts and hepatic tumor initiating stem cells.
- Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration in children is associated with decreased cost and length of stay: results of a two-center analysis.
- Persistent hyperbilirubinemia in a newborn.
- Fibroblast growth factor signaling regulates the expansion of A6-expressing hepatocytes in association with AKT-dependent β-catenin activation.
- Mesodermal mesenchymal cells give rise to myofibroblasts, but not epithelial cells, in mouse liver injury.
- Expansion of prominin-1-expressing cells in association with fibrosis of biliary atresia.
- Hypothermia and neonatal encephalopathy.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Acid Reflux
- Birth Defects
- Gallstones
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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Practice At 4650 W Sunset Blvd
4650 W Sunset Blvd -Los Angeles, CA 90027Get Direction
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