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Endocrinology Section Services

Inpatient

The section is committed to provide consultation services to the University Pediatric Hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Transfers are accepted from the entire island of Puerto Rico and from the Virgin Islands.

Outpatient

Services are provided at the University Pediatric Hospital Continuity Clinics twice in a week throughout the year but July.  Pediatric endocrine trained nurse performs stimulation tests to assess for hormonal disorders.

Conditions treated include:

• Adrenal disorders

• Ambiguous genitalia

• Congenital hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism (Graves’ disease), thyroid cancer and other thyroid disorders

• Diabetes Insipidus and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion secretion (SIADH)

  • Diabetes mellitus (type 1 and 2, and neonatal)

  • Endocrine complications of cancer

   

• Glycogen storage disease

• Growth disorders (e.g., growth hormone deficiency, short stature)

• Hypercalcemia and hypocalcemia

• Hypoglycemia (newborn and older children)

• Hypopituitarism

• Metabolic bone diseases (e.g., rickets, low bone mass and osteopenia/osteoporosis)

• Obesity

• Pheochromocytoma

• Pituitary tumors (e.g., craniopharyngiomas)

• Precocious puberty and delayed puberty (e.g., Turner and Klinefelter syndromes)

• Premature adrenarche

• Premature thelarche

Contact:

Appointments: 787-777-3535 ext. 7286/7287

Lilliam González-Pijem, M.D. 787-756-4020

Francisco Nieves-Rivera, M.D. 787-756-4020