Profile
Dr. N.Kavitha Bhat is a Senior Consultant in Pediatric Endocrinology with over 17 years of experience in Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes. She did her MBBS from Kasturba Medical College , Mangalore; MD Pediatrics from Bangalore Medical College; Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes from Louisiana State University School of Medicine, USA and was with Manipal Hospital , Bangalore before joining Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Bangalore.
Her areas of expertise includes:
- Adolescent Endocrinology: Delayed puberty, Amenorrhea, Obesity, PCOD, Gynecomastia
- Adrenal Cortex and its disorders: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Cushing’s Syndrome, Virilizing and Feminizing Adrenal tumors
- Diabetes Mellitus : intensive insulin regimen & insulin pump therapy for Type 1 , Type 2 diabetes , Neonatal Diabetes
- Disorders of Growth: treatment of Constitutional Growth Delay, Growth Hormone Deficiency, Idiopathic Short Stature , Small for Gestational Age , Growth failure in children with chronic kidney disease, Excess growth and tall stature
- Disorders of Water balance : Hyponatremia, Hypernatremia
- Disorders of Mineral homeostasis: Hypocalcemia, Hypercalcemia , Rickets, Osteoporosis, Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Endocrine disorders in the neonate: including Neonatal hypoglycemia, Neonatal Hypocalcemia , Ambiguous genitalia, Congenital hypothyroidism
- Endocrine dysfunction in chromosomal disorders : Turner Syndrome, Prader willi syndrome, Down Syndrome , Bardet Beidl Syndrome, Beckwith Weidman syndromes, Klinefelter’s syndrome
- Endocrine complications of cancer therapy
- Hirsiutism
- Obesity, Metabolic syndrome , Lipid abnormalities
- Pheochromocytoma and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasias syndromes
- Puberty and its disorders: Precocious puberty, Delayed puberty, Adolescent Gynecomastia, Polycystic ovarian syndrome, Amenorrhea – primary and secondary
- Thyroid Disorders: Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism, Goiter, Thyroid nodule and Thyroid cancer, Thyroid hormone resistance syndromes