Physician
Internal Medicine
Dr. Howard A. Heit, MD
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Howard A. Heit works in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received 1 awards: "Fellow (FASAM)". Howard Heit is a published doctor and has 45 publications published. The lastest was: 'Palliative dilation for dysphagia in esophageal carcinoma.'
Publications
- Universal Precautions: It's Not About the Molecule!
- Tackling the difficult problem of prescription opioid misuse.
- The art and science of urine drug testing.
- DSM-V and the definitions: time to get it right.
- Universal precautions revisited: managing the inherited pain patient.
- DEA: revisited.
- Buprenorphine: new tricks with an old molecule for pain management.
- Pain and addiction: managing risk through comprehensive care.
- Buprenorphine comes of age.
- Risk management is everyone's business.
- Healthcare professionals and the DEA: restoring the balance.
- Healthcare professionals and the DEA: trying to get back in balance.
- Evidence of morphine metabolism to hydromorphone in pain patients chronically treated with morphine.
- Universal precautions in pain medicine: a rational approach to the treatment of chronic pain.
- Dear DEA.
- Treatment of polysubstance abuse in the active user.
- Urine drug testing in pain medicine.
- Office-based treatment of opiate addiction.
- Definitions related to the medical use of opioids: evolution towards universal agreement.
- Addiction, physical dependence, and tolerance: precise definitions to help clinicians evaluate and treat chronic pain patients.
- Specimen validity testing in urine drug monitoring of medications and illicit drugs: Clinical implications.
- Trends in drug use from urine drug testing of addiction treatment clients.
- Liver surface characteristics as observed during laparoscopy correlated with biopsy findings.
- Palliative dilation for dysphagia in esophageal carcinoma.
- Esophageal prosthesis in cancer.
- Serosal laceration: a complication of intra-operative colonoscopy explained by transmural pressure gradients.
- Hemobilia and liver flukes in a patient from Thailand.
- Massive bleeding due to arterial-enteric fistula from an ingested toothpick.
- Iliac arterial-enteric fistulas occurring after pelvic irradiation.
- Idiopathic portal hypertension.
- Use of antidiarrheals in ulcerative colitis.
- Sigmoid colon perforation due to endometriosis not associated with pregnancy.
- The truth about pain management: the difference between a pain patient and an addicted patient.
- Endotoxin-induced changes in the interrelationship of density subpopulations of granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells.
- [Senescence in cell renewal systems (author''s transl)].
- A comparison of radiation-induced bone marrow degeneration in germfree and conventional mice.
- Bone marrow regeneration in germfree NO-2 mice after 700 rad whole body irradiation.
- Hepatitis virus B infection in an alcoholic with cirrhosis.
- Host-reactive cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors in long-lived fully allogeneic mouse bone marrow chimeras.
- Buoyant density analysis of myeloid colony-forming cells in germfree and conventional mice.
- Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in conventional mice: I. Effect of antibiotic therapy on long term survival of allogeneic chimeras.
- Universal precautions: a matter of mutual trust and responsibility.
- Clinical case discussion: chronic pain management.
- Reality and responsibility: a commentary on the treatment of pain and suffering in a drug-using society.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Geo Wash University Hospital
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Gastroenterology
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FASAM)
Education
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George Washington University -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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