Physician

Neonat/Perinatology

Doctor Feizal Waffarn, MD is an expert in the field of Neonat/Perinatology. He attended Madras Medical College. Feizal Waffarn is also a published doctor. He has 44 paper published. The most recent paper is: Delayed repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia with early high-frequency oscillatory ventilation during preoperative stabilization.

Publications

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• Effects of antenatal corticosteroids on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis of the fetus and newborn: experimental findings and clinical considerations.
• Fetal programming of body composition, obesity, and metabolic function: the role of intrauterine stress and stress biology.
• Prenatal treatment with glucocorticoids sensitizes the hpa axis response to stress among full-term infants.
• Prenatal maternal stress programs infant stress regulation.
• Growth factors, inflammatory cytokines and postnatal bone strength in preterm infants.
• The maternal cortisol awakening response in human pregnancy is associated with the length of gestation.
• Effect of prenatal glucocorticoid treatment on size at birth among infants born at term gestation.
• Body composition and its components in preterm and term newborns: A cross-sectional, multimodal investigation.
• Inflammatory and growth mediators in growing preterm infants.
• Sensitization of cardiac responses to pain in preterm infants.
• Noninvasive monitoring of red blood cell transfusion in very low birthweight infants using diffuse optical spectroscopy.
• Human cord blood leukocyte innate immune responses to defense collagens.
• Focal neurological manifestations following aberrant central venous catheter placement.
• Delayed repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia with early high-frequency oscillatory ventilation during preoperative stabilization.
• Pulmonary toxicity associated with nitric oxide in term infants with severe respiratory failure.
• Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) treated with inhaled nitric oxide: preliminary hearing outcomes.
• Echocardiographic evidence of improved hemodynamics during inhaled nitric oxide therapy for persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.
• Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in amniotic fluid and in airway specimens of newborn infants.
• Silicone-rubber catheter fracture and embolization in a very low birth weight infant.
• Surfactant dysfunction after inhalation of nitric oxide.
• Variable oxygenation response to inhaled nitric oxide in severe persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.
• Pulmonary mechanics generated by positive end-expiratory and continuous negative pressure.
• Influence of fetal gender on the concentration of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in amniotic fluid and in newborn urine.
• Focal intestinal perforation in the extremely-low-birth-weight infant.
• Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in the fetomaternal compartment.
• Vesico-umbilical fistula: a complication of umbilical artery cutdown.
• Fetal exposure to maternal hyperbilirubinemia. Neonatal course and outcome.
• Effect of antenatal glucocorticoids on clinical closure of the ductus arteriosus.
• Effect of body weight on gentamicin pharmacokinetics in neonates.
• Intracranial ultrasound diagnosis of neonatal periventricular leukomalacia.
• The cutaneous R-pulse interval: its application as a clinical measure of neonatal cardiovascular function.
• Effects of polycythemia and hyperviscosity on cutaneous blood flow and transcutaneous PO2 and PCO2 in the neonate.
• Obstetric characteristics and fetal heart rate patterns of infants who convulse during the newborn period.
• A noninvasive method for monitoring intestinal ischemia: changes in the pulmonary clearance of helium instilled into the colon as an index of colonic blood flow.
• A pulsed Doppler echocardiographic study of the postnatal changes in pulmonary artery and ascending aortic flow in normal term newborn infants.
• Effect of left ventricular size on early diastolic left ventricular filling in neonates and in adults.
• Acute hemorrhagic hypotension and its effect on the pulmonary clearance of helium instilled into the rabbit colon.
• Questionable value of saline prepared granulocytes in the treatment of neonatal septicemia.
• [Acute changes in hematocrit: their effect on flows in the great arteries of newborns].
• Continuous negative pressure and intermittent mandatory ventilation in the management of pulmonary interstitial emphysema: a preliminary study.
• Interesting case presentation: neonatal hemochromatosis as a cause of ascites.
• New endotracheal tube adaptor reducing cardiopulmonary effects of suctioning.
• Mercury vapor contamination of infant incubators: a potential hazard.

Schools

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• Dr MGR Medical University Madras Medical College

• Evang Deaconess Hospital

• Henry Ford Hospital

• Los Angeles County University Of California Med Center

Doctors Specialties

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• Neonatal Medicine
• Neonat/Perinatology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Henry Ford Hospital - Wayne State University
• Madras Medical College

Hospital

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• UC Irvine Medical Center
• Children's Hospital of Orange County

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