Dr. Kenneth R. Rettig MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
1707 Center St Suite 201 Mobile AL, 36604About
Dr. Kenneth Rettig is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Mobile, AL. Dr. Rettig specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Necrobiosis lipodica diabeticorum.
- Hereditary gingival fibromatosis and growth retardation.
- Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in 2 male African American children after Kawasaki disease.
- Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic crisis: an acute life-threatening event in children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Further thoughts on hyperosmolar hyperglycemic crisis.
- Sexual precocity in a 16-month-old boy induced by indirect topical exposure to testosterone.
- Severe hypernatremia and hyperosmolality exacerbated by an herbal preparation in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis.
- The prevalence of elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone in childhood/adolescent obesity and of autoimmune thyroid diseases in a subgroup.
- Rickets caused by vitamin D deficiency in breast-fed infants in the southern United States.
- Diagnosis: pituitary gigantism in a 2 1/2-year old child.
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