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Narayanan Venkatasubramani

Narayanan Venkatasubramani

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
narayanan.venkatasubramani@duke.edu
Box 102375, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
2400 Pratt St, 8th Floor Room No 8009, North Pavilion, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

WHAT CAUSES RECURRENT PANCREATITIS IN CHILDREN?

Chapter · January 1, 2024 A 7-year-old boy is brought to your office with abdominal pain and vomiting. You suspect pancreatitis based on abdominal examination, and laboratory results confirm pancreatitis as demonstrated by elevated amylase and lipase. Further history reveals that t ... Full text Cite

Index of suspicion.

Journal Article Pediatr Rev · September 2014 Full text Link to item Cite

Case 2: New onset jaundice in an 11-day-old girl

Journal Article Pediatrics in Review · September 1, 2014 Cite

Pancreatic insufficiency in Toriello-Carey syndrome: report of a second patient.

Journal Article Am J Med Genet A · May 2012 Toriello-Carey syndrome is characterized by multiple congenital anomalies. Pancreatic insufficiency is suspected when patients present with poor weight gain, diarrhea, or maldigestion. The diagnosis is confirmed by low stool elastase and pancreatic stimula ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetic prevalence and characteristics in children with recurrent pancreatitis.

Journal Article J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr · May 2012 AIMS: The causes of chronic (CP) and recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) in children include anatomic abnormalities and hereditary, metabolic, and autoimmune disorders, with a significant proportion of cases being labeled as idiopathic. Genetic pancreatitis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Obesity in pediatric celiac disease.

Journal Article J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr · September 2010 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Celiac disease (CD) is a T cell-mediated chronic autoimmune enteropathy occurring in genetically susceptible individuals, and manifested by a permanent intolerance to gluten-containing products. CD commonly presents in children as failu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Autoimmune hepatitis in a child with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.

Journal Article J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr · November 2009 Full text Link to item Cite

Erythromycin lacks colon prokinetic effect in children with functional gastrointestinal disorders: a retrospective study.

Journal Article BMC Gastroenterol · August 21, 2008 BACKGROUND: Motilin, a peptide hormone has a direct excitatory effect on circular smooth muscle strips derived from the human colon. Reduced plasma motilin concentration has been reported in adults with chronic constipation. Erythromycin, a non-peptide mot ... Full text Link to item Cite

A zebrafish model for the Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS).

Journal Article Pediatr Res · April 2008 The Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, neutrophil defect, and skeletal abnormalities. The molecular basis for this syndrome was recently identified as a defect in a novel nucleolar protein termed the Shw ... Full text Link to item Cite

Extreme emesis: Cyclic vomiting syndrome

Journal Article Practical Gastroenterology · September 1, 2007 Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is an idiopathic disorder that has been primarily identified in children but has recently been increasingly recognized in adults. Acute episodes are typically misdiagnosed as gastroenteritis and food poisoning that leads to a ... Cite

Motility disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.

Journal Article Indian J Pediatr · October 2006 Over the past decades our knowledge of normal and abnormal gastrointestinal motility has increased tremendously. The availability of manometry to study bowel contraction patterns, laparoscopy to perform full thickness bowel biopsies for histological examin ... Full text Link to item Cite