Dr. Mira B Irons MD
Pediatrician
300 Longwood Ave Children's Hospital Boston MA, 02115Rating
5/5
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Dr. Mira Irons is a pediatrician practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Irons is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Irons diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Irons can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MRI and 1H MRS findings in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.
- Cholesterol in childhood: friend or foe?: Commentary on the article by Merkens et al. on page 726.
- Identifying Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome in conjunction with prenatal screening for Down syndrome.
- The spectrum of vascular anomalies in patients with PTEN mutations: implications for diagnosis and management.
- Diagnostic utility of array-based comparative genomic hybridization in a clinical setting.
- Pilot study of a novel computerized task to assess spatial learning in children and adolescents with neurofibromatosis type 1.
- Clinicopathologic study of glioblastoma in children with neurofibromatosis type 1.
- Pitt-Hopkins syndrome should be in the differential diagnosis for males presenting with an ATR-X phenotype.
- Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome: phenotype, natural history, and epidemiology.
- Moyamoya syndrome associated with neurofibromatosis Type 1: perioperative and long-term outcome after surgical revascularization.
- Calvarial defects and skeletal dysplasia in patients with neurofibromatosis Type 1.
- Maintenance of certification 2.0--strong start, continued evolution.
- Clinical effects of cholesterol supplementation in six patients with the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS)
- Prenatal diagnosis of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.
- Increased incidence of renal anomalies in patients with chromosome 22q11 microdeletion.
Treatments
- Dysmorphology
Fellowships
- Boston Children's Hospital - Chicago, IL 1983
- Mass General Hospital, Fellow:Genetics 1983
- Children's Hospital, Boston, Fellow:Genetics 1984
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