Igor Iruretagoyena, MD
Campus Address: 6 Center, Meriter Hospital, 202 S. Park Street, Madison, WI 53715
Major Professor: Dr. Dinesh Shah
Email: iruretagoyen@wisc.edu
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Background: MD - Universidad Centra de Venezuela
Residency - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Research Interests:
There is limited infonnation available on the underlying pathophysiology of growth restriction in fetus affected by aneuploidy (abnonnal number of chromosomes). Many of these fetuses survive but continue to suffer morbidities from growth restriction. No therapeutic intervention exists at present to improve the fetal development in these cases. There is a potential for intervention to improve growth if we develop a better understanding of underlying mechanism.
The main purpose of our study is to discover metabolic pathways involved in the abnonnal growth development. More specifically, to identify unique carriers involved in the transport of glucose, protein and other nutrients in the placenta and specific factors in the fetus responsible for the utilization of these nutrients.
Publications:
Panda B, Iruretagoyena I, Stiller R, Panda A. Antibiotic resistance and penicillin tolerance in ano-vaginal group B streptococci. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2009 Feb;22(2):111-4. PubMed PMID: 19253160.
Presentations:
Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Annual meeting. January 28th, San Diego California. Newborn Polymorphisms in the ACADVL gene coding for very long chain Acyl-Coa Dehydrogenase (VLCAD) has been implicated in the pathway of acute fatty liver of pregnancy/preeclampsia/HELLP syndiome.