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Dr. Katia Gom Santos M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
12549 Spring Hill Dr Spring Hill FL, 34609About
Dr. Katia Santos is a physiatrist practicing in Spring Hill, FL. Dr. Santos is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Santos focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Santos can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
Univ of Louisville Sch of Med, Louisville Ky 2002
University of Louisville School of Medicine 2002
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diabetic retinopathy in Euro-Brazilian type 2 diabetic patients: relationship with polymorphisms in the aldose reductase, the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genes.
- Prevalence of retinopathy in Caucasian type 2 diabetic patients from the South of Brazil and relationship with clinical and metabolic factors.
- Relationship between polymorphisms in thrombophilic genes and preeclampsia in a Brazilian population.
- Functional vascular endothelial growth factor -634G>C SNP is associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a case-control study in a Brazilian population of European ancestry.
- Impact of beta-2 Thr164Ile and combined beta-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms on
- Influence of VKORC1 gene polymorphisms on the effect of oral vitamin K supplementation in over-anticoagulated patients.
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