Nivedita Patni, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (2008)
- Residency
- Miami Childrens Hospital (2013), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2016), Pediatric Endocrinology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Endocrinology
Conditions
- 22q deletion syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome VCFS)
- Acromegaly (Gigantism)
- Addison's disease (hypocortisolism)
- Adrenal carcinomas
- Adrenal disorders
- Adrenal mass
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS)
- Childhood obesity
- Constitutional growth delay
- Cushing's syndrome
- Delayed puberty
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC)
- Graves' disease
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol)
- Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
- Hypogonadism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Klinefelter syndrome (KS)
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS)
- Lipodystrophy
- Mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS)
- Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC)
- Multinodular goiter (MNG)
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
- Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
- Parathyroid Mass
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pituitary lesions
- Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
- Pre-diabetes
- Precocious puberty (early puberty)
- Short stature
- Thyroid carcinoma (cancer)
- Thyroid disorders
- Thyroid nodules
- Thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease)
- Turner syndrome (TS)
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Genetic dyslipidemia
- Lipodystrophy syndromes
- Progeria syndromes
- Type 1 hyperlipoproteinemia
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Publications
Publications
- Bi-allelic POLR3A Loss-of-Function Variants Cause Autosomal-Recessive Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch Syndrome. Wambach JA, Wegner DJ, Patni N, Kircher M, Willing MC, Baldridge D, Xing C, Agarwal AK, Vergano SAS, Patel C, Grange DK, Kenney A, Najaf T, Nickerson DA, Bamshad MJ, Cole FS, Garg A Am. J. Hum. Genet. 2018 Dec 103 6 968-975
- Should children with chronic diarrhea be referred to a lipid clinic? Wilson DP, Patni N Journal of clinical lipidology 2018 Jun
- A Novel Generalized Lipodystrophy-associated Progeroid Syndrome due to recurrent heterozygous LMNA p.T10I Mutation. Hussain I, Patni N, Ueda M, Sorkina E, Valerio CM, Cochran E, Brown RJ, Peeden J, Tikhonovich Y, Tiulpakov A, Stender SRS, Klouda E, Tayeh MK, Innis J, Meyer A, Lal P, Godoy-Matos AF, Teles MG, Adams-Huet B, Rader DJ, Hegele RA, Oral EA, Garg A The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2017 Dec
- Orlistat Therapy for Children with Type 1 Hyperlipoproteinemia: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Patni N, Quittner C, Garg A The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2018 Apr
- The prevalence and etiology of extreme hypertriglyceridemia in children: Data from a tertiary children's hospital. Patni N, Li X, Adams-Huet B, Garg A Journal of clinical lipidology 2018 Jan
Books
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis. In Diagnosis and Treatment of Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents in www.endotext.org. Patni N, Wilson D. (2016). South Dartmouth: MDText.com, Inc.
- Genetics and Dyslipidemia. In Diagnosis and Treatment of Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents in www.endotext.org. Patni N, Ahmad Z, Wilson D. (2016). South Dartmouth: MDText.com, Inc.
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Professional Activities
- Lipid Special Interest Group, Pediatric Endocrine Society (2018)
- National Lipid Association (2017)
- Pediatric Endocrinologists of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas (2013)
- The Endocrine Society (2013)
- The Pediatric Endocrine Society (2014)
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Awards and Honors
- Pediatric Endocrine Society Travel Award for Annual Meeting (2016)
- Endocrine Society Early Career Forum Travel Award for Annual Meeting (2015)
- Travel Award for Lipodystrophy meeting: Leptin and Beyond (2014)
- Pediatric Endocrine Society Travel Award for Lipodystrophy Diagnosis & Treatment Consensus Statement meeting (2015)
Virtual Visit
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