Dr. Kirstan Kathleen Meldrum M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
702 Barnhill Dr Suite 4230 Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Kirstan Meldrum practices Pediatric Urology in Gainesville, FL. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Meldrum is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Meldrum performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
Univ of Co Sch of Med, Denver Co 1994
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Heat shock prevents simulated ischemia-induced apoptosis in renal tubular cells via a PKC-dependent mechanism.
- Inflammatory mediators and growth factors in obstructive renal injury.
- Unilateral ureteral obstruction induces renal tubular cell production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha independent of inflammatory cell infiltration.
- TNF-alpha mediates obstruction-induced renal tubular cell apoptosis and proapoptotic signaling.
- Mediators of fibrosis and apoptosis in obstructive uropathies.
- Intracellular signaling mechanisms of sex hormones in acute myocardial inflammation and injury.
- Sex differences and the role of sex steroids in renal injury.
- TNF-alpha neutralization ameliorates obstruction-induced renal fibrosis and dysfunction.
- Creation of continence mechanisms (Mitrofanoff) without appendix: the Monti and spiral Monti procedures.
- The role of interleukin-18 in renal injury.
- Testosterone exacerbates obstructive renal injury by stimulating TNF-alpha production and increasing proapoptotic and profibrotic signaling.
- Cytokines in epithelial-mesenchymal transition: a new insight into obstructive nephropathy.
- Tumor necrosis factor-alpha induces intrinsic apoptotic signaling during renal obstruction through truncated bid activation.
- IL-18 neutralization ameliorates obstruction-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition and renal fibrosis.
- Toll-like receptor 4: a novel signaling pathway during renal fibrogenesis.
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