KarenK LMestanMD

High Risk Infant Follow-Up, Neonatal Neurodevelopment, Neonatal Respiratory Failure & Lung Development

Division Chief, Neonatology Professor of Pediatrics UC San Diego / Rady Children's Hospital of San Diego

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Dr. Karen Mestan is a neonatologist in San Diego, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego. She received her medical degree from Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine Science and has been in practice 21 years. She specializes in high risk infant follow-up, neonatal neurodevelopment, and neonatal respiratory failure & lung development.

University of ChicagoFellowship, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, 1999 - 2002
University of ChicagoResidency, Pediatrics, 1996 - 1999
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and ScienceClass of 1996

PubMed

93 citations
Maternal preconception body mass index and offspring cord blood DNA methylation: exploration of early life origins of disease.
Xin Liu, Qi Chen, Hui Ju Tsai, Guoying Wang, Xiumei Hong
Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis. 2014-04-01
34 citations
Placental pathology is necessary to understand common pregnancy complications and achieve an improved taxonomy of obstetrical disease.
Raymond W Redline, Drucilla J Roberts, Mana M Parast, Linda M Ernst, Terry K Morgan
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2023-02-01
102 citations
Placental pathologic changes of maternal vascular underperfusion in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and pulmonary hypertension
Karen K. Mestan, Jennifer Check, Lucy Minturn, Sushmita Yallapragada, Kathryn N. Farrow
Placenta. 2014-08-01

Placental Injury Reported in Women with COVID-19May 28th, 2020
Preemies Who Develop Chronic Lung Disease Had More Stem Cells at BirthNovember 7th, 2019
Growth Factors in Cord Blood May Help Identify Preemies at Risk for Fatal Lung DiseaseApril 6th, 2017

Oxidant Stress And Gene Polymorphisms In Bronchopulmonary DysplasiaNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2010–2012