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Roberta M. Kato, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

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Publications

  • Polysomnogram Findings and Psychosocial and Academic Concerns in Children With Cleft Palate With or Without Cleft Lip. J Craniofac Surg. 2025 May 01; 36(3):820-825.. View in PubMed
  • Retrospective study of serial polysomnograms of bronchopulmonary dysplasia patients with oxygen dependence. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2024 May; 59(5):1418-1427.. View in PubMed
  • The prevalence of abnormal spirometry in children with CHD. Cardiol Young. 2023 Dec; 33(12):2548-2552.. View in PubMed
  • Functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based prefrontal cortex oxygenation during working memory tasks in sickle cell disease. Neurophotonics. 2023 Oct; 10(4):045004.. View in PubMed
  • Reduced Forced Vital Capacity and the Number of Chest Wall Surgeries are Associated with Decreased Exercise Capacity in Children with Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol. 2022 Jan; 43(1):54-61.. View in PubMed
  • Loss of alpha-globin genes in human subjects is associated with improved nitric oxide-mediated vascular perfusion. Am J Hematol. 2021 03 01; 96(3):277-281.. View in PubMed
  • Vasoconstriction Response to Mental Stress in Sickle Cell Disease: The Role of the Cardiac and Vascular Baroreflexes. Front Physiol. 2021; 12:698209.. View in PubMed
  • Tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity and myocardial tissue Doppler parameters predict mortality in a cohort of patients with sickle cell disease spanning from pediatric to adult age groups – revisiting this controversial concept after 16 years of additional evidence. Am J Hematol. 2021 01; 96(1):31-39.. View in PubMed
  • Comparison of SIMV+PS and AC modes in chronically ventilated children and effects on speechg. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2020 Oct 02.. View in PubMed
  • Comparison of SIMV + PS and AC modes in chronically ventilated children and effects on speech. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2020 Oct 02.. View in PubMed
  • Progressive vasoconstriction with sequential thermal stimulation indicates vascular dysautonomia in sickle cell disease. Blood. 2020 09 03; 136(10):1191-1200.. View in PubMed
  • Can Text Messaging Teach Residents? A Randomized Controlled Trial. ATS Sch. 2020 Jul 24; 1(3):278-287.. View in PubMed
  • Mental stress causes vasoconstriction in subjects with sickle cell disease and in normal controls. Haematologica. 2020 01; 105(1):83-90.. View in PubMed
  • Erythrocyte and plasma oxidative stress appears to be compensated in patients with sickle cell disease during a period of relative health, despite the presence of known oxidative agents. Free Radic Biol Med. 2019 09; 141:408-415.. View in PubMed
  • Sickle cell microvascular paradox-oxygen supply-demand mismatch. Am J Hematol. 2019 06; 94(6):678-688.. View in PubMed
  • Early Use of Anti-influenza Medications in Hospitalized Children With Tracheostomy. Pediatrics. 2019 03; 143(3).. View in PubMed
  • Sickle Cell Disease Subjects Have a Distinct Abnormal Autonomic Phenotype Characterized by Peripheral Vasoconstriction With Blunted Cardiac Response to Head-Up Tilt. Front Physiol. 2019; 10:381.. View in PubMed
  • Refining the Application of Microbial Lipids as Tracers of Staphylococcus aureus Growth Rates in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum. J Bacteriol. 2018 12 15; 200(24).. View in PubMed
  • Upper Airway Narrowing during Central Apnea in Obese Adolescents. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 12; 15(12):1465-1471.. View in PubMed
  • Case Report of Pediatric Channelopathies With UNC80 and KCNJ11 Mutations Having Abnormal Respiratory Control Treated With Positive Airway Pressure Therapy. J Clin Sleep Med. 2018 08 15; 14(8):1419-1425.. View in PubMed
  • A Retrospective Review of Infants Receiving Sildenafil. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2018 Mar-Apr; 23(2):100-105.. View in PubMed
  • A novel cross-correlation methodology for assessing biophysical responses associated with pain. J Pain Res. 2018; 11:2207-2219.. View in PubMed
  • Individuals with sickle cell disease have a significantly greater vasoconstriction response to thermal pain than controls and have significant vasoconstriction in response to anticipation of pain. Am J Hematol. 2017 Nov; 92(11):1137-1145.. View in PubMed
  • Empirical model of human blood transverse relaxation at 3 T improves MRI T2 oximetry. Magn Reson Med. 2017 06; 77(6):2364-2371.. View in PubMed
  • Biophysical markers of the peripheral vasoconstriction response to pain in sickle cell disease. PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0178353.. View in PubMed
  • Trace incorporation of heavy water reveals slow and heterogeneous pathogen growth rates in cystic fibrosis sputum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 12; 113(2):E110-6.. View in PubMed
  • A physician survey reveals differences in management of idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2015 Aug 20; 10:98.. View in PubMed
  • Chronic transfusion therapy improves but does not normalize systemic and pulmonary vasculopathy in sickle cell disease. Blood. 2015 Aug 06; 126(6):703-10.. View in PubMed
  • Autonomic responses to cold face stimulation in sickle cell disease: a time-varying model analysis. Physiol Rep. 2015 Jul 14; 3(7).. View in PubMed
  • Sputum glucose and glycemic control in cystic fibrosis-related diabetes: a cross-sectional study. PLoS One. 2015; 10(3):e0119938.. View in PubMed
  • Pulmonary function abnormalities in childhood cancer survivors treated with bleomycin. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Sep; 61(9):1679-84.. View in PubMed
  • A diagnosis of exclusion: a 3-year-old boy with respiratory distress and anemia. Hosp Pediatr. 2013 Oct; 3(4):377-80.. View in PubMed
  • Patients with sickle cell anemia on simple chronic transfusion protocol show sex differences for hemodynamic and hematologic responses to transfusion. Transfusion. 2013 May; 53(5):1059-68.. View in PubMed
  • Exercise performance in thalassemia major: correlation with cardiac iron burden. Am J Hematol. 2013 Mar; 88(3):193-7.. View in PubMed
  • Pulmonary function in thalassaemia major and its correlation with body iron stores. Br J Haematol. 2011 Oct; 155(1):102-5.. View in PubMed
  • Peripheral vasoconstriction and abnormal parasympathetic response to sighs and transient hypoxia in sickle cell disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Aug 15; 184(4):474-81.. View in PubMed
  • Time-varying analysis of autonomic control in response to spontaneous sighs in sickle cell anemia. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010; 2010:1626-9.. View in PubMed
  • Protein kinase C betaII regulates Akt phosphorylation on Ser-473 in a cell type- and stimulus-specific fashion. J Biol Chem. 2004 Nov 12; 279(46):47720-5.. View in PubMed
  • Tec kinases mediate sustained calcium influx via site-specific tyrosine phosphorylation of the phospholipase Cgamma Src homology 2-Src homology 3 linker. J Biol Chem. 2004 Sep 03; 279(36):37651-61.. View in PubMed
  • Sustained correction of B-cell development and function in a murine model of X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) using retroviral-mediated gene transfer. Blood. 2004 Sep 01; 104(5):1281-90.. View in PubMed
  • A Ras activation pathway dependent on Syk phosphorylation of protein kinase C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Aug 05; 100(16):9470-5.. View in PubMed
  • PKC-beta controls I kappa B kinase lipid raft recruitment and activation in response to BCR signaling. Nat Immunol. 2002 Aug; 3(8):780-6.. View in PubMed

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