
Dr. Katia Gom Santos M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
12440 CORTEZ BLVD SPRING HILL FL, 34613About
Dr. Katia Santos is a physiatrist practicing in Spring Hill, FL. Dr. Santos is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Santos focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Santos can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
Univ of Louisville Sch of Med, Louisville Ky 2002
University of Louisville School of Medicine 2002
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diabetic retinopathy in Euro-Brazilian type 2 diabetic patients: relationship with polymorphisms in the aldose reductase, the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genes.
- Prevalence of retinopathy in Caucasian type 2 diabetic patients from the South of Brazil and relationship with clinical and metabolic factors.
- Relationship between polymorphisms in thrombophilic genes and preeclampsia in a Brazilian population.
- Functional vascular endothelial growth factor -634G>C SNP is associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a case-control study in a Brazilian population of European ancestry.
- Impact of beta-2 Thr164Ile and combined beta-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms on
- Influence of VKORC1 gene polymorphisms on the effect of oral vitamin K supplementation in over-anticoagulated patients.
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