Dr. Alfred J Kobak MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecology
1101 Glendale Blvd Suite 108 Valparaiso IN, 46383About
Dr. Alfred Kobak is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Valparaiso, IN. Dr. Kobak specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Kobak can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Kobak can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ruptured spleen simulating ectopic pregnancy.
- Gunshot wounds of the pregnant uterus: review of the literature and two case reports.
- Ectopic multiple pregnancy; report of a case of intraligamentary twin gestation.
- Practical and safe pain relief during parturition.
- Report on the use of a new agent, phenazocine, in obstetric analgesia.
- Regional analgesia in obstetrics.
- Combined paracervical and pudendal nerve blocks--a simple form of transvaginal regional anesthesia.
- Eclampsia without convulsions. Eclamptic lesions in fatal maternal cases with and without clinical pre-eclampsia.
- Childbirth pain relieved by combined paracervical and pudendal nerve blocks.
- Intraligamentary pregnancy; the extraperitoneal type of abdominal pregnancy.
- Transvaginal regional anesthesia simplified by a new instrument.
- A recipe for childbirth relief.
- Anatomic studies of transvaginal regional anesthesia. Roentgenographic visualization of neural pathways.
- Paracervical block: a transvaginal regional pain relief.
- A combination of new agents for predelivery medication.
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