Mariana del Pino, MD

Pediatrician of Growth and Development, Department at Garrahan Hospital

  1. Argentina

Biography

Mariana del Pino is a pediatrician. She studied medicine at the National University of Tucuman and her fellowship as a pediatrician at Garrahan Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently works at the growth and development Department at Garrahan Hospital as a clinical head and in the Argentine Paediatric Society. She assists children with rare skeletal diseases. Her interest lies in the study of growth in populations and in children with skeletal dysplasia and diseases of calcium phosphorous metabolism. She worked on the construction of national standards in Argentina and specific disease references. More recently she is working on a free application for Paediatric growth assessment. She has published many peer review papers and educational material on growth.

Recent Publications

  1. del Pino, M., Viterbo, G. L., Arenas, M. A., Perez Garrido, N., Ramirez, P., Marino, R., Belgorosky, A., & Fano, V. Growth in height and body proportion from birth to adulthood in hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of endocrinological investigation, 2022; 45(7), 1349–1358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-022-01768-9

  2. Cole, T. J., Del Pino, M., Adamo, P., & Fano, V. Pubertal growth in height, sitting height and leg length in achondroplasia. Annals of human biology, 2021; 48(1), 8–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2021.1883109

  3. del Pino, M., Fano, V., & Adamo, P. Growth in achondroplasia, from birth to adulthood, analysed by the JPA-2 model. Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM, 2020; 33(12), 1589–1595. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2020-0298

  4. del Pino, M., Fano, V., & Adamo, P. Height growth velocity during infancy and childhood in achondroplasia. American journal of medical genetics. Part A, 2019; 179(6), 1001–1009. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.61120

  5. del Pino, M., Aza-Carmona, M., Medino-Martín, D., Gomez, A., Heath, K. E., Fano, V., & Obregon, M. G. SHOX Deficiency in Argentinean Cohort: Long-Term Auxological Follow-Up and a Family's New Mutation. Journal of pediatric genetics, 2019; 8(3), 123–132. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1691788

  6. del Pino, M., Ramos Mejía, R., & Fano, V. Leg length, sitting height, and body proportions references for achondroplasia: New tools for monitoring growth. American journal of medical genetics. Part A, 2018; 176(4), 896–906. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.38633

  7. del Pino, M., Fano, V., & Adamo, P. Growth velocity and biological variables during puberty in achondroplasia. Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM, 2018; 31(4), 421–428. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2017-0471

  8. Arenas, M. A., del Pino, M., & Fano, V. FGFR3-related hypochondroplasia: longitudinal growth in 57 children with the p.Asn540Lys mutation. Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM, 2018; 31(11), 1279–1284. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2018-0046

  9. del Pino, M., Orden, A. B., Arenas, M. A., & Fano, V. Argentine references for the assessment of body proportions from birth to 17 years of age. Referencias argentinas para la evaluación de proporciones corporales desde el nacimiento hasta los 17 años. Archivos argentinos de pediatria, 2017; 115(3), 234–240. https://doi.org/10.5546/aap.2017.eng.234

  10. Lejarraga, H., del Pino, M., Fano, V., Caino, S., & Cole, T. J. Referencias de peso y estatura desde el nacimiento hasta la madurez para niñas y niños argentinos: Incorporación de datos de la OMS de 0 a 2 años, recálculo de percentilos para obtención de valores LMS [Growth references for weight and height for Argentinian girls and boys from birth to maturity: incorporation of data from the World Health Organisation from birth to 2 years and calculation of new percentiles and LMS values]. Archivos argentinos de pediatria, 2009; 107(2), 126–133. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0325-00752009000200006

Research Expertise

  • Growth and puberty in rare skeletal diseases

  • Specific growth references for rare diseases

  • Growth in populations