Dr. Helena Pires de souza Leite MD
Pediatrician
176 S Coldbrook Ave Chambersburg PA, 17201About
Dr. Helena Leite is a pediatrician practicing in Chambersburg, PA. Dr. Leite is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Leite 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. Leite can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Fund University A.B.C., Faculty Of Medicine 1979
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Metabolic assessment and enteral tube feeding usage in children with acute neurological diseases.
- Nasoduodenal feeding of the critically ill child.
- Effects of a very low birth weight newborn on family: literature review.
- Anthropometric nutritional assessment of critically ill hospitalized children.
- Nutritional assessment and surgical risk markers in children submitted to cardiac surgery.
- [Nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease and left-to-right shunt. The importance of the presence of pulmonary hypertension].
- [Nutritional and metabolic support in the pediatric ICU].
- Nutritional and metabolic assessment of critically ill children.
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