Aloka L. Patel, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. The pediatric cardiology pharmacopeia: 2013 update.
   Severin PN, Awad S, Shields B, Hoffman J, Bonney W, Cortez E, Ganesan R, Patel A, Barnes S, Barnes S, Al-Anani S, Gupta U, Cheddar YB, Gonzalez IE, Mallula K, Ghawi H, Kazmouz S, Gendi S, Abdulla RI.
   Pediatr Cardiol. 2013
   2013 Jan
   34(1):1-29. doi: 10.1007/s00246-012-0553-8. Epub 2012 Nov 29.
   
2. Cost of morbidities in very low birth weight infants.
   Johnson TJ, Patel AL, Jegier BJ, Engstrom JL, Meier PP.
   J Pediatr. 2013
   2013 Feb
   162(2):243-249.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.07.013. Epub 2012 Aug 19.
   
3. A TLR5 (g.1174C > T) variant that encodes a stop codon (R392X) is associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
   Sampath V, Garland JS, Le M, Patel AL, Konduri GG, Cohen JD, Simpson PM, Hines RN.
   Pediatr Pulmonol.
   2011 Nov 4
   doi: 10.1002/ppul.21568
   
4. The NFKB1 (g.-24519delATTG) variant is associated with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants.
   Sampath V, Le M, Lane L, Patel AL, Cohen JD, Simpson PM, Garland JS, Hines RN.
   J Surg Res.
   2011 Jul
   169(1):e51-7
   
5. Improving the use of human milk during and after the NICU stay
   Meier PP, Engstrom JL, Patel AL, Jegier BJ, Bruns NE
   Clin Perinatol
   2010 Mar
   37(1):217-45
   
6. Efficacy of fluconazole prophylaxis for prevention of invasive fungal infection in extremely low birth weight infants
   Aziz M, Patel AL, Losavio J, Iyengar A, Berven M, Schloemer N, Jakubowicz A, Mathai T, McAuley JB
   Pediatr Infect Dis J
   2010 Apr
   29(4):352-6
   
7. An exclusively human milk-based diet is associated with a lower rate of necrotizing enterocolitis than a diet of human milk and bovine milk-based products.
   Sullivan S, Schanler RJ, Kim JH, Patel AL, Trawöger R, Kiechl-Kohlendorfer U, Chan GM, Blanco CL, Abrams S, Cotten CM, Laroia N, Ehrenkranz RA, Dudell G, Cristofalo EA, Meier P, Lee ML, Rechtman DJ, Lucas A.
   J Pediatr.
   2010 Apr
   156(4):562-7.e1
   
8. Calculating postnatal growth velocity in very low birth weight (VLBW) premature infants
   Patel AL, Engstrom JL, Meier PP, Jegier BJ, Kimura RE
   J Perinatol
   2009 Sep
   29(9):618-22
   

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• When I was born I was very sick. I had a condition that I was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — or the NICU — when I was a baby, and my parents really weren’t sure if I was going to survive. Ever since then — obviously I survived — and my father has always told me, just quietly, that, “You should think about medicine. You can give back. This is how you were saved.”

  We are allowed to participate in the care of these babies and these families at a very vulnerable time — a very high stress time — a time that should be very happy. And often if we’re called to the delivery, it may not be as happy as the family had envisioned when they first found out they were pregnant. But over the days, weeks, months, we really get to know the families well. We work together and do our best to help the family get the baby home.