D Pearson
Boston Children's Hospital
24 Papers
725 Citations
D Pearson is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 23 publications. Previous affiliations of D Pearson include Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard University.
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Papers
The effect of varying doses of cerebral irradiation on growth hormone production in childhood
TL;DR: The radiation dose, delivered to the hypothalamic‐pituitary region, has been calculated in thirty‐nine children irradiated for brain tumours and in seventeen children who had received prophylactic cranial irradiation for acute leukaemia.
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Effect of spinal irradiation on growth.
TL;DR: Spinal irradiation has a profound effect on spinal growth and the younger the child is when given irradiation the greater the subsequent skeletal disproportion, according to the most conservative figures.
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Normal growth despite abnormalities of growthhormone secretion in children treated for acute leukemia
TL;DR: It is concluded that only a minority of children, who previously received cranial irradiation for ALL were clinically GH deficient and, therefore, likely to benefit from GH therapy despite the finding that the majority of these children had reduced GH responses to pharmacologic stimuli.
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Usefulness of epoprostenol therapy in the severely ill adolescent/adult with Eisenmenger physiology.
Susan M. Fernandes,Jane W. Newburger,Peter Lang,D Pearson,Jeffrey A. Feinstein,Kimberlee Gauvreau,Michael J. Landzberg +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that in selected severely impaired and symptomatic patients with Eisenmenger physiology, IV-PGI 2 therapy can significantly improve functional capacity, oxygen saturation, and cardiopulmonary hemodynamics.
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Exercise Testing Identifies Patients at Increased Risk for Morbidity and Mortality Following Fontan Surgery
Susan M. Fernandes,Mark E. Alexander,Dionne A. Graham,Paul Khairy,Mathieu Clair,Elizabeth Rodriguez,D Pearson,Michael J. Landzberg,Jonathan Rhodes +8 more
TL;DR: In adults with Fontan surgery, exercise test data can identify patients at increased risk of midterm morbidity and mortality, and these patients could be identified for a combined morbidity/mortality end point.
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