Physician

Internal Medicine

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

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• 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

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• University of Pittsburgh Main Campus

• Geo Wash University Hospital

• Walter Reed Army Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Gastroenterology
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FASAM)

Education

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• George Washington University
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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