Professor in Pediatrics and Medicine-Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dr. Peter F. Whitington, MD
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Peter Whitington is an expert in the field of Pediatric Gastroenterology. He studied medicine at University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "Chicago Mag - Children's Health" and "Super Doctor". Peter Whitington is also a published physician. He has 65 paper published. The most recent paper is: Total Serum Bilirubin within 3Months of Hepatoportoenterostomy Predicts Short-Term Outcomes in Biliary Atresia.
Publications
- Total Serum Bilirubin within 3 Months of Hepatoportoenterostomy Predicts Short-Term Outcomes in Biliary Atresia.
- Gestational autoimmune Disease in newborns with an indeterminate cause of death following a complete autopsy.
- Factors Determining Delta-Bilirubin Levels in Biliary Atresia Infants.
- Total serum bilirubin predicts fat-soluble vitamin deficiency better than serum bile acids in infants with Biliary atresia.
- Bile Acid Pool Dynamics in Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis with Partial External Bile Diversion.
- Elaboration of tubules with active hedgehog drives parenchymal fibrogenesis in gestational alloimmune liver Disease.
- Use of corticosteroids after hepatoportoenterostomy for bile drainage in infants with Biliary atresia: the START randomized clinical trial.
- EEG Abnormalities Are Associated With Increased Risk of Transplant Or Poor Outcome In Children With Acute Liver Failure.
- Humoral Immune Mechanism of Liver Injury in Giant Cell Hepatitis with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia.
- Gestational alloimmune liver Disease and neonatal hemochromatosis.
- Liver transplantation followed by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for atypical mevalonic aciduria.
- Giant Cell Hepatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura - Reversal of Liver Failure with Rituximab Therapy.
- Glyceroluria- An Interesting Finding In Neonatal Hemochromatosis.
- Gestational Alloimmune Liver Disease in Cases of Fetal Death.
- Hedgehog activity, epithelial-mesenchymal transitions, and Biliary dysmorphogenesis in Biliary atresia.
- Relations of steatosis type, grade, and zonality to histological features in pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease.
- Osteopontin is induced by hedgehog pathway activation and promotes fibrosis progression in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
- Recurrent low gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase cholestasis following liver transplantation for bile salt export pump (BSEP) Disease (posttransplant recurrent BSEP Disease).
- Novel mechanism of fetal hepatocyte injury in congenital alloimmune hepatitis involves the terminal complement cascade.
- Relationship of proximal renal tubular dysgenesis and fetal liver injury in neonatal hemochromatosis.
- Growth impairment in children with extrahepatic portal vein obstruction is improved by mesenterico-left portal vein bypass.
- Treatment of neonatal hemochromatosis with exchange transfusion and intravenous immunoglobulin.
- Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in children: a multicenter clinicopathological study.
- Fortune telling in Biliary atresia: what is in the tea leaves?
- Fructose and oxidized low-density lipoprotein in pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease: a pilot study.
- Outcomes in pediatric autoimmune hepatitis.
- Survival after liver transplantation for hepatoblastoma: a 2-center experience.
- Graft histology characteristics in long-term survivors of pediatric liver transplantation.
- Cytokeratin 18, a marker of cell death, is increased in children with suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease.
- Outcome of pregnancies at risk for neonatal hemochromatosis is improved by treatment with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin.
- Severe bile salt export pump deficiency: 82 different ABCB11 mutations in 109 families.
- Regression of severe fibrotic liver Disease in 2 children with neonatal hemochromatosis.
- Neonatal hemochromatosis: a congenital alloimmune hepatitis.
- Subacute nonsuppurative cholangitis (cholangitis lenta) in pediatric liver transplant patients.
- Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species signal hepatocyte steatosis by regulating the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase cell survival pathway.
- Hepatic adenoma in an adolescent with elevated androgen levels.
- Hepatocellular carcinoma in ten children under five years of age with bile salt export pump deficiency.
- Roles of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and osteopontin in steatosis and aminotransferase release by hepatocytes treated with methionine-choline-deficient medium.
- Neonatal liver Disease.
- Correction of extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis by the mesenteric to left portal vein bypass.
- Fetal and infantile hemochromatosis.
- Surgically restoring portal blood flow to the liver in children with primary extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis improves fluid neurocognitive ability.
- Carnitine treatment inhibits increases in cerebral carnitine esters and glutamate detected by mass spectrometry after hypoxia-ischemia in newborn rats.
- Disparate clinical presentation of neonatal hemochromatosis in twins.
- Relative elevations of serum alanine and aspartate aminotransferase in muscular dystrophy.
- Intracranial vascular abnormalities in patients with Alagille syndrome.
- Steatohepatitis develops rapidly in transgenic mice overexpressing Abcb11 and fed a methionine-choline-deficient diet.
- Expression of osteopontin correlates with portal Biliary proliferation and fibrosis in Biliary atresia.
- Neonatal hemochromatosis: is it an alloimmune Disease?
- Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with refractory Crohn''s Disease.
- Presence of multiple bile ducts in the liver graft increases the incidence of Biliary complications in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Obese and diabetic db/db mice develop marked liver fibrosis in a model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: role of short-form leptin receptors and osteopontin.
- Improved neurocognitive function after radiologic closure of congenital portosystemic shunts.
- Upregulation of osteopontin expression is involved in the development of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in a dietary murine model.
- Biliary atresia is associated with CD4+ Th1 cell-mediated portal tract inflammation.
- Hepatocerebral mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome: clinical and morphologic features of a nuclear gene mutation.
- Recombinant factor VIIa improves coagulopathy caused by liver failure.
- Neonatal hemochromatosis.
- Liver transplantation in neonates.
- Surgical restoration of portal flow corrects procoagulant and anticoagulant deficiencies associated with extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis.
- Partial external Biliary diversion for intractable pruritus and xanthomas in Alagille syndrome.
- Fetal gender and cocaine exposure as determinants of cord blood gamma-glutamyl transferase activity.
- Molecular basis of neonatal cholestasis.
- Liver transplantation in children.
Schools
University Of Tennessee Health Science Center College Of Medicine
University Tenn
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Biliary Atresia
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Chicago Mag - Children's Health
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Wisconsin -
Johns Hopkins University -
University of Tennessee -
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Hospital
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Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago -
Northwestern Memorial Hospital -
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children?
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