Joseph Kitterman, MD
Professor Emeritus
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Cardiovascular Research Institute University of California San Francisco 1970
• Residency Pediatrics, School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1967
• Doctor of Medicine Faculty of Medicine McGill University 1962
• BA Zoology University of California, Berkeley 06/1958

Grants and Projects

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• Development and Control of Pulmonary alveolar Stability, NIH, 1979-2015
• Graduate Research Training in Perinatal Biology, NIH, 1979-2011
• Pediatric Clinical Research Center, NIH, 1981-2007

Publications (94)

Top publication keywords:
Myositis OssificansMeclofenamic AcidHernias, Diaphragmatic, CongenitalTracheaHernia, DiaphragmaticFetal DiseasesSheepFetusProstaglandins ELungortho-AminobenzoatesFetal Organ MaturityBody FluidsPhenyl EthersRespiration

• Obituary for John Allen Clements, M.D., 1923-2024.
  Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) 2025 Kitterman JA
• General anesthesia treatment of propriospinal myoclonus in a patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  A & A case reports 2014 Char DS, Hutchison HT, Kitterman JA, Gregory GA
• Neurological symptoms in individuals with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  Journal of neurology 2012 Kitterman JA, Strober JB, Kan L, Rocke DM, Cali A, Peeper J, Snow J, Delai PL, Morhart R, Pignolo RJ, Shore EM, Kaplan FS
• CNS demyelination in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  Journal of neurology 2012 Kan L, Kitterman JA, Procissi D, Chakkalakal S, Peng CY, McGuire TL, Goldsby RE, Pignolo RJ, Shore EM, Kaplan FS, Kessler JA
• Early mortality and cardiorespiratory failure in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2010 Kaplan FS, Zasloff MA, Kitterman JA, Shore EM, Hong CC, Rocke DM

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• Early diagnosis of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  Pediatrics 2008 Kaplan FS, Xu M, Glaser DL, Collins F, Connor M, Kitterman J, Sillence D, Zackai E, Ravitsky V, Zasloff M, Ganguly A, Shore EM
• Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology 2008 Kaplan FS, Le Merrer M, Glaser DL, Pignolo RJ, Goldsby RE, Kitterman JA, Groppe J, Shore EM
• Treated hypotension in extremely low birth weight infants.
  Pediatrics 2007 Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH
• Iatrogenic harm caused by diagnostic errors in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
  Pediatrics 2005 Kitterman JA, Kantanie S, Rocke DM, Kaplan FS
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia prevents absorption of distal air space fluid in late-gestation rat fetuses.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2005 Folkesson HG, Chapin CJ, Beard LL, Ertsey R, Matthay MA, Kitterman JA
• Changes in fetal lung distension alter expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its isoforms in developing rat lung.
  Pediatric research 2005 Hara A, Chapin CJ, Ertsey R, Kitterman JA
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, tracheal occlusion, thyroid transcription factor-1, and fetal pulmonary epithelial maturation.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2005 Chapin CJ, Ertsey R, Yoshizawa J, Hara A, Sbragia L, Greer JJ, Kitterman JA
• Infant pulmonary function in a randomized trial of fetal tracheal occlusion for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
  Pediatric research 2004 Keller RL, Hawgood S, Neuhaus JM, Farmer DL, Lee H, Albanese CT, Harrison MR, Kitterman JA
• Treatment of rebound and chronic pulmonary hypertension with oral sildenafil in an infant with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2004 Keller RL, Hamrick SE, Kitterman JA, Fineman JR, Hawgood S
• Ontogeny of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 in lung and developmental implications.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 2004 Ertsey R, Chapin CJ, Kitterman JA, Scavo LM
• A randomized trial of fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion for severe fetal congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
  The New England journal of medicine 2003 Harrison MR, Keller RL, Hawgood SB, Kitterman JA, Sandberg PL, Farmer DL, Lee H, Filly RA, Farrell JA, Albanese CT
• Pseudomonas pneumonia in infants: an autopsy study.
  Human pathology 2003 Bonifacio SL, Kitterman JA, Ursell PC
• Fetoscopic temporary tracheal occlusion for congenital diaphragmatic hernia: prelude to a randomized, controlled trial.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2003 Harrison MR, Sydorak RM, Farrell JA, Kitterman JA, Filly RA, Albanese CT
• Maternally administered dexamethasone transiently increases apoptosis in lungs of fetal rats.
  Experimental lung research 2003 Scavo LM, Newman V, Ertsey R, Chapin CJ, Kitterman JA
• Tracheal occlusion stimulates cell cycle progression and type I cell differentiation in lungs of fetal rats.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2003 Yoshizawa J, Chapin CJ, Sbragia L, Ertsey R, Gutierrez JA, Albanese CT, Kitterman JA
• Successful fetal intervention for congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
  Fetal diagnosis and therapy 2002 Paek BW, Callen PW, Kitterman J, Feldstein VA, Farrell J, Harrison MR, Albanese CT
• Distal air space epithelial fluid clearance in near-term rat fetuses is fast and requires endogenous catecholamines.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2002 Folkesson HG, Matthay MA, Chapin CJ, Porta NF, Kitterman JA
• Effects of oligohydramnios on lung growth and maturation in the fetal rat.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2002 Kitterman JA, Chapin CJ, Vanderbilt JN, Porta NF, Scavo LM, Dobbs LG, Ertsey R, Goerke J
• Successful resuscitation during fetal surgery.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2000 Graf JL, Paek BW, Albanese CT, Farrell JA, Kitterman JA, Jennings RW, Harrison MR
• Apoptosis in the development of rat and human fetal lungs.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 1998 Scavo LM, Ertsey R, Chapin CJ, Allen L, Kitterman JA
• Effects of mechanical factors on growth and maturation of the lung in fetal sheep.
  The American journal of physiology 1997 Joe P, Wallen LD, Chapin CJ, Lee CH, Allen L, Han VK, Dobbs LG, Hawgood S, Kitterman JA
• The effects of mechanical forces on fetal lung growth.
  Clinics in perinatology 1996 Kitterman JA
• Prostaglandin E2 decreases fetal breathing movements, but not pulmonary blood flow, in fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1995 Savich RD, Guerra FA, Lee CC, Kitterman JA
• Effect of inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis on breathing movements and pulmonary blood flow in fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1995 Savich RD, Guerra FA, Lee CC, Kitterman JA
• Mode of delivery in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia with very low birth weight infants.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 1995 Regenstein AC, Laros RK, Wakeley A, Kitterman JA, Tooley WH
• Plug the lung until it grows (PLUG): a new method to treat congenital diaphragmatic hernia in utero.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 1994 Hedrick MH, Estes JM, Sullivan KM, Bealer JF, Kitterman JA, Flake AW, Adzick NS, Harrison MR
• The effect of fetal breathing movements on pulmonary blood flow in fetal sheep.
  Pediatric research 1994 Savich RD, Guerra FA, Lee CC, Kitterman JA
• Transient severe respiratory distress mimicking pulmonary hypoplasia in preterm infants.
  The Journal of pediatrics 1993 Kitterman JA
• Fetal lambs with surgically produced congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) are deficient in pulmonary surfactant.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 1993 Kitterman JA
• Infant with respiratory disease and persistent hypoxemia.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 1993 Kitterman JA, Sola A
• Sympathectomy and beta-adrenergic blockade during lung maturation stimulated by TRH and cortisol in fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1993 Schellenberg JC, Liggins GC, Kitterman JA, Lee CC
• Effects of acute oligohydramnios on respiratory system of fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1992 Savich RD, Guerra FA, Lee CC, Padbury JF, Kitterman JA
• Outcome of very-low-birth-weight infants exposed to beta-sympathomimetics in utero.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 1991 Laros RK, Kitterman JA, Heilbron DC, Cowan RM, Tooley WH
• Umbilical venous catheter vs umbilical artery catheter.
  Pediatrics 1990 Kitterman JA
• Meclofenamate does not affect lung development in fetal sheep.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1989 Wallen LD, Murai DT, Clyman RI, Lee CH, Mauray FE, Ballard PL, Kitterman JA
• Meclofenamate increases ventilation in lambs.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1989 Guerra FA, Savich RD, Clyman RI, Kitterman JA
• Synergism of cortisol and thyrotropin-releasing hormone in lung maturation in fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1988 Liggins GC, Schellenberg JC, Manzai M, Kitterman JA, Lee CC
• Physiological factors in fetal lung growth.
  Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology 1988 Kitterman JA
• Synergistic hormonal effects on lung maturation in fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1988 Schellenberg JC, Liggins GC, Manzai M, Kitterman JA, Lee CC
• Prostaglandin E2 causes hypoventilation and apnea in newborn lambs.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1988 Guerra FA, Savich RD, Wallen LD, Lee CH, Clyman RI, Mauray FE, Kitterman JA
• Effects of meclofenamate on breathing movements in fetal sheep before delivery.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1988 Wallen LD, Murai DT, Clyman RI, Lee CH, Mauray FE, Kitterman JA
• Elastin and collagen in the fetal sheep lung. II. Relationship to mechanical properties of the lung.
  Pediatric research 1987 Schellenberg JC, Liggins GC, Kitterman JA, Lee CC
• Arachidonic acid metabolites and control of breathing in the fetus and newborn.
  Seminars in perinatology 1987 Kitterman JA
• Effects of prostaglandins on fetal breathing do not involve peripheral chemoreceptors.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1987 Murai DT, Wallen LD, Lee CC, Clyman RI, Mauray F, Kitterman JA
• Regulation of breathing movements in fetal sheep by prostaglandin E2.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1986 Wallen LD, Murai DT, Clyman RI, Lee CH, Mauray FE, Kitterman JA
• Denervation of peripheral chemoreceptors decreases breathing movements in fetal sheep.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1985 Murai DT, Lee CC, Wallen LD, Kitterman JA
• The effects of ACTH1-24 or cortisol on pulmonary maturation in the adrenalectomized ovine fetus.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1985 Liggins GC, Schellenberg JC, Finberg K, Kitterman JA, Lee CH
• Meclofenamate and prostaglandin E2 affect breathing movements independently of glucose concentrations in fetal sheep.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 1984 Murai DT, Clyman RI, Mauray FE, Lee CC, Kitterman JA
• A double-catheter technique for caudally misdirected umbilical arterial catheters.
  The Journal of pediatrics 1984 Schreiber MD, Perez CA, Kitterman JA
• Fetal lung development.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1984 Kitterman JA
• Effect of tracheostomy on lung development in fetal lambs.
  Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology 1983 Fewell JE, Hislop AA, Kitterman JA, Johnson P
• Changes in phospholipid composition of lung surfactant during development in the fetal lamb.
  Biochimica et biophysica acta 1983 Benson BJ, Kitterman JA, Clements JA, Mescher EJ, Tooley WH
• Inhibition of breathing movements in fetal sheep by prostaglandins.
  Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology 1983 Kitterman JA, Liggins GC, Fewell JE, Tooley WH
• Ontogeny and regulation of corticosteroid binding globulin capacity in plasma of fetal and newborn lambs.
  Endocrinology 1982 Ballard PL, Kitterman JA, Bland RD, Clyman RI, Gluckman PD, Platzker AC, Kaplan SL, Grumbach MM
• Inhibitors of prostaglandin synthesis, tracheal fluid, and surfactant in fetal lambs.
  Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology 1981 Kitterman JA, Liggins GC, Clements JA, Campos G, Lee CH, Ballard PL
• Effects of phrenic nerve section on the respiratory system of fetal lambs.
  Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology 1981 Fewell JE, Lee CC, Kitterman JA
• Prepartum maturation of the lung in fetal sheep: relation to cortisol.
  Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology 1981 Kitterman JA, Liggins GC, Campos GA, Clements JA, Forster CS, Lee CH, Creasy RK
• The effect of bilateral thoracoplasty on lung development in fetal sheep.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1981 Liggins GC, Vilos GA, Campos GA, Kitterman JA, Lee CH
• The effect of spinal cord transection on lung development in fetal sheep.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1981 Liggins GC, Vilos GA, Campos GA, Kitterman JA, Lee CH
• Aortic blood pressure during the first 12 hours of life in infants with birth weight 610 to 4,220 grams.
  Pediatrics 1981 Versmold HT, Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, Gregory GA, Tooley WH
• Pulmonary maturation in the hypophysectomised ovine fetus. Differential responses to adrenocorticotrophin and cortisol.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1981 Liggins GC, Kitterman JA, Campos GA, Clements JA, Forster CS, Lee CH, Creasy RK
• Development of the fetal lung.
  Ciba Foundation symposium 1981 Liggins GC, Kitterman JA
• Fetal breathing movements and inhibitors of prostaglandin synthesis.
  Seminars in perinatology 1980 Kitterman JA, Liggins GC
• Patent ductus arteriosus: current clinical status.
  Archives of disease in childhood 1980 Kitterman JA
• Stimulation of breathing movements in fetal sheep by inhibitors of prostaglandin synthesis.
  Journal of developmental physiology 1979 Kitterman JA, Liggins GC, Clements JA, Tooley WH
• Tracheal fluid in fetal lambs: spontaneous decrease prior to birth.
  Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology 1979 Kitterman JA, Ballard PL, Clements JA, Mescher EJ, Tooley WH
• Postnatal lung growth after repair of diaphragmatic hernia.
  Thorax 1979 Thurlbeck WM, Kida K, Langston C, Cowan MJ, Kitterman JA, Tooley W, Bryan H
• Maturation of the fetal lung.
  Danish medical bulletin 1979 Liggins GC, Kitterman JA
• Fatal air embolism through an umbilical venous catheter.
  European journal of pediatrics 1979 Kitterman JA
• Failure to detect an effect of prolactin on pulmonary surfactant and adrenal steroids in fetal sheep and rabbits.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 1978 Ballard PL, Gluckman PD, Brehier A, Kitterman JA, Kaplan SL, Rudolph AM, Grumbach MM
• The effect of time of cord clamping and maternal blood pressure on placental transfusion with cesarean section.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 1977 Ogata ES, Kitterman JA, Kleinberg F, Dong L, Willis M, Mates J, Phibbs RH
• Radioimmunoassay of pulmonary surface-active material in the tracheal fluid of the fetal lamb.
  The American review of respiratory disease 1977 Gikas EG, King RJ, Mescher EJ, Platzker AC, Kitterman JA, Ballard PL, Benson BJ, Tooley WH, Clements JA
• Fetal hemoglobin in the diagnosis of neonatal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  Pediatrics 1976 Chaplin ER, Schlueter MA, Phibbs RH, Kitterman JA, Tooley WH
• Cardiorespiratory status of erythroblastotic newborn infants: III. Intravascular pressures during the first hours of life.
  Pediatrics 1976 Phibbs RH, Johnson P, Kitterman JA, Gregory GA, Tooley WH, Schlueter M
• Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn infant.
  The Journal of pediatrics 1976 Levin DL, Heymann MA, Kitterman JA, Gregory GA, Phibbs RH, Rudolph AM
• Pneumothorax in the respiratory distress syndrome: incidence and effect on vital signs, blood gases, and pH.
  Pediatrics 1976 Ogata ES, Gregory GA, Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, Tooley WH
• Ontogeny of tracheal fluid, pulmonary surfactant, and plasma corticoids in the fetal lamb.
  Journal of applied physiology 1975 Mescher EJ, Platzker AC, Ballard PL, Kitterman JA, Clements JA, Tooley WH
• Continuous positive airway pressure and pulmonary and circulatory function after cardiac surgery in infants less than three months of age.
  Anesthesiology 1975 Gregory GA, Edmunds LH, Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, Tooley WH
• Surfactant in the lung and tracheal fluid of the fetal lamb and acceleration of its appearance by dexamethasone.
  Pediatrics 1975 Platzker AC, Kitterman JA, Mescher EJ, Clements JA, Tooley WH
• Congenital heart disease in low birth weight infants.
  Circulation 1975 Levin DL, Stanger P, Kitterman JA, Heymann MA
• Letter: Anesthesia in preterm infants.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 1974 Kitterman JA, Gregory GA, Phibbs RH, Tooley WH
• Surgical closure of the ductus arteriosus in premature infants.
  Circulation 1973 Edmunds LH, Gregory GA, Heymann MA, Kitterman JA, Rudolph AM, Tooley WH
• Patent ductus arteriosus in premature infants. Incidence, relation to pulmonary disease and management.
  The New England journal of medicine 1972 Kitterman JA, Edmunds LH, Gregory GA, Heymann MA, Tooley WH, Rudolph AM
• Cardiorespiratory status of erythroblastotic infants. 1. Relationship of gestational age, severity of hemolytic diseases, and birth asphyxia to idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome and survival.
  Pediatrics 1972 Phibbs RH, Johnson P, Kitterman JA, Gregory GA, Tooley WH
• Pneumotachograph for use with infants during spontaneous or assisted ventilation.
  Journal of applied physiology 1971 Gregory GA, Kitterman JA
• Treatment of the idiopathic respiratory-distress syndrome with continuous positive airway pressure.
  The New England journal of medicine 1971 Gregory GA, Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, Tooley WH, Hamilton WK
• Catheterization of umbilical vessels in newborn infants.
  Pediatric clinics of North America 1970 Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, Tooley WH
• Aortic blood pressure in the normal newborn: hazards of the umbilical artery catheter.
  Pediatrics 1970 Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH
• Aortic blood pressure in normal newborn infants during the first 12 hours of life.
  Pediatrics 1969 Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, Tooley WH