Dr. Evan R. Kokoska M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
2001 W. 86th Street Pediatric Hospital Indianapolis IN, 46260Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Evan Kokoska practices Pediatric Surgery in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Kokoska treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Kokoskadiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Washington Univ Sch Of Med- St Louis Mo 1994
Washington University In St Louis School of Medicine,St Louis, Mo, United States 1994
Washington University of Health and Sciences 1994
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prostaglandins protect human intestinal cells against ethanol injury by stabilizing microtubules: role of protein kinase C and enhanced calcium efflux.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs attenuate epidermal growth factor-induced proliferation independent of prostaglandin synthesis inhibition.
- Calcium accentuates injury induced by ethanol in human gastric cells.
- Treatment of refractory chylothorax with externalized pleuroperitoneal shunts in children.
- Epidermal growth factor-induced cytoprotection in human intestinal cells involves intracellular calcium signaling.
- Role of actin cytoskeleton in prostaglandin-induced protection against ethanol in an intestinal epithelial cell line.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs attenuate proliferation of colonic carcinoma cells by blocking epidermal growth factor-induced Ca++ mobilization.
- Cytoskeleton as a target for injury in damaged intestinal epithelium.
- Characteristics of pediatric cervical spine injuries.
- Acute ovarian torsion in children.
- Role of calcium homeostasis in gastric mucosal injury and protection.
- Outcome of the antegrade colonic enema procedure in children with chronic constipation.
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, interrupted inferior vena cava, biliary atresia.
- Hajdu-Cheney syndrome: report of a case.
- Ghosts in the machine: a multi-institutional comparison of laparoscopic and open pyloromyotomy.
Treatments
- Acid Reflux
- Constipation
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Hernia
- Cellulitis
- Umbilical Hernia
- Ventral Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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