Dr. Karen E. Mehalek MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
4647 Zion Ave San Diego CA, 92120Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Karen Mehalek is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Mehalek specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Mehalek can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Mehalek can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1982
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ultrasound detection of Down syndrome: is it really possible?
- Selective second-trimester termination of the anomalous fetus in twin pregnancies.
- Umbilical and uterine artery flow velocity waveforms. Effect of the sampling site on Doppler ratios.
- Invasive fetal therapy.
- Prenatal diagnosis of fetal brain tumors.
- Comparison of continuous-wave and pulsed Doppler S/D ratios of umbilical and uterine arteries.
- Efficacy and side effects of magnesium sulfate and ritodrine as tocolytic agents.
- Technical aspects of intravascular intrauterine transfusions: lessons learned from thirty-three procedures.
- Doppler umbilical velocimetry in the prediction of adverse outcome in pregnancies at risk for intrauterine growth retardation.
- Sonographic estimation of fetal weight and Doppler analysis of umbilical artery velocimetry in the prediction of intrauterine growth retardation: a prospective study.
- The nonpredictive value of fetal urinary electrolytes: preliminary report of outcomes and correlations with pathologic diagnosis.
- Selective reduction of multifetal pregnancies in the first trimester.
- Sonographic diagnosis of traumatic and later recurrent uterine rupture.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Pregnancy
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