Dr. Ross William Shepherd MD
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
1 Childrens Pl Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Ross Shepherd is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Shepherd specializes in digestive system, liver or nutritional problems in children from the newborn period to their teens. Conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, chronic constipation or obesity can all be treated by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of hepatic stellate cells and transforming growth factor-beta(1) in cystic fibrosis liver disease.
- Extrahepatic biliary atresia: a disease or a phenotype?
- Body composition and components of energy expenditure in children with end-stage liver disease.
- Resting energy expenditure and body composition in children with myelomeningocele.
- Hepatic fibrosis and survival in biliary atresia.
- Endogenous ursodeoxycholic acid and cholic acid in liver disease due to cystic
- Optimising nutrition in cystic fibrosis.
- Serum markers of hepatic fibrogenesis in cystic fibrosis liver disease.
- Energy cost of activity and exercise in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis.
- Outcome after portoenterostomy in biliary atresia: pivotal role of degree of liver fibrosis and intensity of stellate cell activation.
- Biliary atresia: a mostly preventable disease?
- Prolonged neonatal jaundice and the diagnosis of biliary atresia: a single-center analysis of trends in age at diagnosis and outcomes.
- Ibuprofen-induced liver injury in an adolescent athlete.
- Towards minimizing immunosuppression in pediatric liver transplant recipients.
- Fibrogenesis in pediatric cholestatic liver disease: role of taurocholate and hepatocyte-derived monocyte chemotaxis protein-1 in hepatic stellate cell recruitment.
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