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About Dr. Adler

The registry has been organized and maintained by Stuart P. Adler, M.D. at Virginia Commonwealth University. An Advisory and Oversight committee comprised of investigators, physicians, and lay members will review research proposals that request registry data.

Dr. Stuart P. Adler

Dr. Adler received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, and stayed to complete his residency and subspecialty training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He joined VCU's Department of Pediatrics in 1979 and chaired the Division of infectious Disease until 2006.

Dr. Adler is one of the world’s experts on congenital cytomegalovirus infection having worked in this field since 1979. He has published over 200 abstracts, research articles, reviews and book chapters on cytomegalovirus infections and is a frequent invited speaker on CMV at national and international symposium and conferences. Some of his publications relevant to CMV and pregnancy are listed below. He is available at no cost to provide informal or formal consultations regarding CMV and pregnancy.

Publications

Adler, S.P. , Finney, J.W., Manganello, A.M., and Al M. Best. Prevention of Child-to-Mother Transmission of Cytomegalovirus among pregnant women, J. of Pediatrics, 2004;145:485-91

Adler SP, Congenital cytomegalovirus screening. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2005;24:1105-06.

Nigro G, Adler SP, La Torre R, Best AM Passive immunization during pregnancy for congenital cytomegalovirus infection. New England Journal of Medicine, 2005;353:1350-62.

La Torre R, Nigro G, Mazzocco M, Best AM, Adler SP. Placental enlargement in women with primary maternal cytomegalovirus infection is associated with fetal and neonatal disease. Clin Infect Dis, 2006: 43;994-1000.

Jeon J, Victor M, Adler SP, Arwady A, Demmler G, Fowler K, Goldfarb J, Keyserling K, Massoudi M, Richards K, Staras S, Cannon M. Knowledge and Awareness of Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Among Women. 2006; Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2006;2006:1-7.

Adler SP and Nigro G. Interrupting intrauterine transmission of cytomegalovirus. Rev Med Virol. 2006;16:69-71.

Adler SP and Marshall BC. CMV Infections. Pediatrics in Review, 2007;28:92-100.

Adler SP, Nigo G, and Pereira L. Recent advances in the prevention and treatment of Congenital CMV infections. Seminars in Perinatology. 2007;31:10- 18.

Wilms, IR, Best AM, Adler SP. Cytomegalovirus infections among African- Americans. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2008: 8:107-13.

Nigro G, La Torre R, Pentimalli H, Taverna P, Lituania M, Martinez de Tejada B, Adler SP. Regression of fetal cerebral abnormalities by primary cytomegalovirus infection following hyperimmunoglobulin therapy. Prenatal Diagnosis 2008;28:512-7.

Adler SP and Nigro G, The importance of CMV specific antibodies for the prevention of fetal CMV infection or disease. Herpes Journal, 2008;15:24-27.

Marshall BC, Adler SP. The frequency of pregnancy and exposure to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections among women with a young child in day care. AM J Obs Gyn. 2009;200:161-165.

Adler SP and Nigro G. Findings and conclusions from CMV hyperimmune globulin treatment trials. J Clinical Virology, 2009, Sept. 23rd.

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