Dr. Kenneth L. Becker MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
2150 Pennsylvania Ave Nw Washington DC, 20037About
Dr. Kenneth Becker practices Endocrinology in Washington, DC. Dr. Becker specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Becker examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
New York Med Coll- Valhalla Ny 1956
New York Medical College 1956
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Early immunoneutralization of calcitonin precursors attenuates the adverse physiologic response to sepsis in pigs.
- The future diagnostic role of procalcitonin levels: the need for improved sensitivity.
- In vitro and in vivo calcitonin I gene expression in parenchymal cells: a novel product of human adipose tissue.
- Small-intestinal dysfunction accompanies the complex endocrinopathy of human proprotein convertase 1 deficiency.
- The EUROPA trial.
- Limits to the use of the procalcitonin level as a diagnostic marker.
- Interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and a rapid and sensitive assay for calcitonin precursors for the determination of bacterial sepsis in febrile neutropenic children.
- Procalcitonin has bioactivity at calcitonin receptor family complexes: potential mediator implications in sepsis.
- Procalcitonin in young febrile infants for the detection of serious bacterial infections.
- Procalcitonin levels in febrile infants after recent immunization.
- Diagnostic accuracy of chromogranin A and calcitonin precursors measurements for the discrimination of ectopic ACTH secretion from Cushing's disease.
- Immunoneutralization of procalcitonin or its component peptides: a promising treatment of sepsis.
- Gut barrier dysfunction in critically ill surgical patients with abdominal compartment syndrome.
- Exogenous procalcitonin evokes a pro-inflammatory cytokine response.
- Procalcitonin induced cytotoxicity and apoptosis in mesangial cells: implications for septic renal injury.
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