Dr. Udeme D Ekong M.D.
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
20 York St Yale New Haven Hospi New Haven CT, 06510About
Dr. Udeme Ekong is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Ekong 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.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Gastroenterology
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- 2006
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neonatal hemochromatosis: fetal liver disease leading to liver failure in the fetus and newborn.
- In vitro assays of allosensitization.
- Once daily calcineurin inhibitor monotherapy in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Lymphocyte activation markers may predict the presence of donor specific alloreactivity in pediatric living related liver transplant recipients.
- The long-term liver graft and protocol biopsy: do we want to look? What will we find?
- Sirolimus as rescue therapy in pediatric autoimmune hepatitis.
- Rituximab as therapy for the recurrence of bile salt export pump deficiency after liver transplantation.
- Successful treatment with rituximab of an Epstein-Barr virus-associated leiomyosarcoma occurring after liver transplantation.
- Posttransplant metabolic syndrome in the withdrawal of immunosuppression in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients (WISP-R) pilot trial.
- Autoimmune Liver Disease Post-Liver Transplantation: A Summary and Proposed Areas for Future Research.
- Production of Proinflammatory Cytokines by Monocytes in Liver-Transplanted Recipients with De Novo Autoimmune Hepatitis Is Enhanced and Induces TH1-like Regulatory T Cells.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Hepatology, Liver Transplant
Professional Memberships
- Member Yale Medical Group (YMG)
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