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Kathia Valverde Muñoz
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Kathia Valverde Muñoz

Pediatric Hematology
Pediatrics
Patient Demographics: Babies, Children

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  • Hospital Internacional La Católica., Centro de Atención Especializada en Niños y AdolescentesCalle Blancos, Goicoechea, San José, Costa Rica
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General Inquiry
Breastfeeding advice
Early stimulation therapy
Nebulisation
Vaccinations
Advice on transition to solid foods
Basic vaccination schedule
Bone Marrow Transplant
Care of general pathologies of childhood and adolescence
Child nutrition
Comprehensive Pediatric Check-Up
Evaluation of the newborn
Growth and development control
Neonatal screening
New Born Care
Online Medicine
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Medical conditions (62)

Anemia
Coagulation problems (thrombosis)
Corpuscle cell alteration
Low platelet count (thrombocytopenia)
Low white blood cell count (leukopenia)
Allergies
Asthma
Bed wetting (urinating in sleep)
Blood in stool
Blood iron deficiency (sideropenia)
Breast milk allergy
Bronchitis
Chickenpox
Chronic cough
Cough with phlegm or mucus
Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA)
Diarrhea
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Dry cough
Ear infection
Ear pain
Embolism
Eosinopenia
Evans syndrome
Factor XII coagulation deficiency
Fever
Flu
Glanzmann’s disease
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD)
Hearing loss
Hemoglobinuria
Hemolytic disease of the newborn
Hemophilia
Hereditary spherocytosis
Histiocytosis
Hoarseness
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hyperactive bladder
Hypercoagulable states
Inherited erythroblastopenia
Kostmann syndrome (severe congenital neutropenia)
Leukemia
measles
Methemoglobinemia
mumps
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
Nausea
Neoplasm
Nodes in neck
Pain during urination
Phlegm
Pneumonia
Poison intoxication
Rh incompatibility
Rubella
Sézary syndrome
Stomach pain
Stuffy nose
Thalassemia
Throat infection
Thrombocytopenia-absent radius syndrome (TAR)
Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM)
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General Info

About me

I specialized in pediatrics because children are honest and their smile is the best gift you can get.

Languages

English, Español

Education

Degrees
  • Specialty in Pediatrics. Universidad de Costa Rica. December 1998
  • Doctor and Surgery. Universidad de Costa Rica. 1988 - December 1993
Fellowships
  • Pediatric Hematology - The Hospital for Sick Children. Toronto, Canadá. 1998

Professional

Licenses
  • Physicians and Surgeons College of Costa Rica cod. MED4406Active

    Medic and Surgeon - Costa Rica

Affiliations
  • Costa Rican Association of Pediatricians (ACOPE)
  • Canadience Society of Hematology
  • International Society of Hematology
  • American Society of Hematology
  • American Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
  • Costa Rican Society of Hematology
  • Costa Rican Society of Hematology
  • Bioethics Committee - Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, San José, Costa Rica
  • Organizing Committee of the Pediatric Week "Dr. Rodrigo Cortés Loría "- Department of Pediatrics, Universidad de Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica.
Awards
  • 2014 Award for 20 years of service - Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social, San José, Costa Rica
  • 2001 Elma Pearl Fund Award - Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. 1999 – 2001
  • 1998 Graduation Honor, Pediatrics - Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Positions
  • Ad honorem professor of the Pediatrics Course and Pediatric Internship Course - School of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. January 1997, 2002 - Present
  • Ad Honorem Professor of Graduate Studies of Pediatrics - School of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica. 2001 - Present
  • Professor of Pediatrics internship - School of Medicine, Universidad de Costa Rica. 2001 - Present
  • Professor of Pediatrics - Universidad Iberoamericana. San José, Costa Rica. 2002 - 2013
Publications
  • Valverde et al. Tuberculomas cerebrales y tuberculosis miliar en una niña de 8 meses de edad. Acta Pediátrica Costarricense. 10(9): p.65-68. 1996
  • Valverde K, Soto M, Umaña M, Castro O. Tuberculosis; Revisión de los últimos 10 años en el Hospital Nacional de Niños de Costa Rica. Acta Pediátrica Costarricense. 13(1): p. 17-22. 1999
  • Valverde, K. Leucemia promielocítica aguda: del origen a la remisión. Acta Pediátrica Costarricense. 15: p.12-15. 2001
  • Valverde K, Henderson M, Smith C, Tallet S, Chan H. Typical and Atypical Carney´s Triad Presenting with Malignant Hypertension and Papilledema. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 23(8): p. 519-24. 2001
  • Chan Hellen S.L., Valverde K. Clinical syndromes at higher risk for malignacy. E-medicine, 2001.
  • Valverde K, Senger C, Ngan BY, Chan HS. Eccrine porocarcinoma in a child that evolved rapidly from an eccrine poroma. Med Pediatr Oncol. 37(4): p. 412-4. 2001
  • Ávila- Aguero, ML, Valverde K, Gutiérrez J, París MM,Faingezicht I. Venomous snakebites: a 12 year retrospective review. J.Venom. Anim. Toxins. 7(1): p. 1-11. 2001
  • Valverde K, Pandya J, Heon E, Goh TS, Gallie BL, Chan HS. Retinoblastoma with central retinal artery thrombosis that mimics extraocular disease. Med Pediatr Oncol. 38(4): p. 277-9. 2002
  • Pandya J, Valverde K, Heon E, Blaser S, Gallie BL, Chan HS. Predilection of retinoblastoma metastases for the mandible. Med Pediatr Oncol. 38(4): p. 271-3. 2002
  • Valverde K. Drepanocitosis: Terapia Actual. Rev.méd Hosp Nac. Niños. 39(1): p. 1-4. 2004
  • Cartín W, Mora L, Valverde K, Valverde B, Suárez C, Jiménez R. Hemoglobin Perth in Costa Rica. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 53(2): p. 243. August 2009
  • Cartín W, Valverde K. Primer caso de hemoglobina Köln (codon98 GTG>ATG) en Costa Rica. Acta Méd. Costarric. 52(1):40-41. 2010
  • Cartín W, Valverde K, Suárez C, López J. Enfermedad por Hemoglobina H; primer caso de la variante de hemoglobina H. Acta Médica Costarricense 52(3):177-179. 2010
  • Acosta A, Valverde, K. Lesiones cutáneas asociadas a leucemia Infantil: Presentación de dos casos. Acta Méd. Costarric. 53(1):.30-33. 2011
  • Gómez J, Valverde K. Anemia hemolítica autoinmune en un niño con hepatitis de células gigantes. Acta médica Costarricense. 54(4):269-271. 2012
  • Maitland R, Valverde K. Análisis de pacientes drepanocíticos tratados con hidroxiurea en el Hospital Nacional de Niños. Acta médica Costarricense. 56(2):49-53. 2014
  • Capítulo. Hemoglobinopatía Clínica. - Hematología analítica: teoría, técnicas, interpretaciones. Germán Saénz Renauld editor, 5 ed. San José, CR.: EDNASSS-CCSS. 2008.
  • Capítulo Sobrecarga de hierro en los síndromes de falla medular. - Guías de tratamiento: terapia de quelación en enfermedades con sobrecarga de hierro. 2007.
  • Capítulos de Sección de Hematología: Anemias por deficiencias nutricionales, Anemia Aplásica, Drepanocitosis, Púrpura trombocitopénica idiopática - Guías de Manejo en Pediatría. Departamento Clínico de Pediatría Escuela de Medicina. Abdón Castro Bermúdez editor, 1 ed. San José, CR.: Editorial UCR, 2009.
  • Consenso para le enfermedad de Gaucher. Grupo del Caribe y Centroamérica para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de la Enfermedad de Gaucher. Coordinador general Dr. Guillermo Drelichman, 2da. Edición. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014.