Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dr. Samuel Nurko, MD
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Samuel Nurko practices Pediatric Gastroenterology. He over the years received 1 awards: "Regional Top Doctor". Doctor Samuel Nurko, MD is a published doctor. He published 87 publications, including: 'Effect of anesthesia on gastroesophageal reflux in children: a study using BRAVO wireless pH study measurements.'
Publications
- Effect of anesthesia on gastroEsophageal reflux in children: a study using BRAVO wireless pH study measurements.
- Validation of a Bowel dysfunction instrument for adolescents with spina bifida.
- PedsQL Gastrointestinal Symptoms Scales and Gastrointestinal Worry Scales in Pediatric Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Comparison with Healthy Controls.
- Emergency Department Burden of Constipation in the United States from 2006 to 2011.
- Inpatient burden of childhood functional GI disorders in the USA: an analysis of national trends in the USA from 1997 to 2009.
- PedsQL⢠Gastrointestinal Symptoms Scales and Gastrointestinal Worry Scales in pediatric patients with functional and organic gastrointestinal Diseases in comparison to...
- Interpretability of the PedsQL⢠GastroIntestinal Symptoms Scales and GastroIntestinal Worry Scales in Pediatric Patients With Functional and Organic GastroIntestinal D...
- Accuracy of digital mRNA profiling of oEsophageal biopsies as a novel diagnostic approach to eosinophilic oesophagitis.
- Treating Constipation With Prucalopride: One Size Does Not Fit All.
- Health-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Patients with Functional and Organic Gastrointestinal Diseases.
- PedsQL⢠GastroIntestinal Symptoms Module: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity.
- Involvement of the iNKT Cell Pathway Is Associated With Early-Onset Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Response to Allergen Avoidance Therapy.
- The utility of endoscopy and multichannel intraluminal impedance testing in children with cough and wheezing.
- Longitudinal and Radial Characteristics of Intra-Anal Pressures in Children Using 3D High-Definition Anorectal Manometry: New Observations.
- Review of organic causes of fecal incontinence in children: evaluation and treatment.
- Elevated levels of leukotriene C4 synthase mRNA distinguish a subpopulation of eosinophilic oesophagitis patients.
- IntraEsophageal Pressure Recording Improves The Detection of Cough During Multichannel Intraluminal Impedance Testing (pH-MII) in Children.
- Safety and efficacy of cyproheptadine for treating dyspeptic symptoms in children.
- Assessment of Abdominal Pain Through Global Outcomes and Recent FDA Recommendations in Children. Are We Ready For Change?
- Relationship between postprandial metabolomics and colon motility in children with constipation.
- The Overlap of Functional Abdominal Pain in Pediatric Crohn's Disease.
- Factors associated with successful decrease and discontinuation of antegrade continence enemas (ACE) in children with defecation disorders: a study evaluating the effe...
- Internal anal sphincter relaxation associated with bisacodyl-induced colonic high amplitude propagating contractions in children with constipation: a colo-anal reflex?
- The barium enema in constipation: comparison with rectal manometry and biopsy to exclude Hirschsprung''s Disease after the neonatal period.
- Endoscopic intrapyloric injection of botulinum toxin A in the treatment of children with gastroparesis: a retrospective, open-label study.
- Extra-Esophageal symptoms: how do we treat them?
- Esophageal disease in pediatrics.
- Pediatric gastroIntestinal motility disorders: challenges and a clinical update.
- Development and validation of a standardized ELISA for the detection of soluble Fc-epsilon-RI in human serum.
- Higher rate of bronchoalveolar lavage culture positivity in children with nonacid Reflux and respiratory disorders.
- Heterogeneity of lower Esophageal sphincter function in children with achalasia.
- Defecation disorders in children after surgery for Hirschsprung Disease.
- Anorectal manometry may identify children with spinal cord lesions.
- A soluble form of the high affinity IgE receptor, Fc-epsilon-RI, circulates in human serum.
- Cisapride improves enteral tolerance in pediatric short-Bowel syndrome with dysmotility.
- Long-term follow-up of patients after antegrade continence enema procedure.
- Beliefs and attitudes of general pediatricians and pediatric gastroenterologists regarding functional gastroIntestinal disorders: a survey study.
- Does Reflux monitoring with multichannel intraluminal impedance change clinical decision making?
- Esophageal impedance monitoring for gastroEsophageal reflux.
- Effect of different pH criteria on dual-sensor pH monitoring in the evaluation of supraEsophageal gastric reflux in children.
- Relationships between levels of serum IgE, cell-bound IgE, and IgE-receptors on peripheral blood cells in a pediatric population.
- Comparative analysis of Fc?RI expression patterns in patients with eosinophilic and Reflux esophagitis.
- Management of functional abdominal pain and Irritable bowel syndrome in children and adolescents.
- Lack of utility of abdominal x-rays in the evaluation of children with constipation: comparison of different scoring methods.
- Reflux events detected by pH-MII do not determine fundoplication outcome.
- The tip of the iceberg: the prevalence of functional gastrointestinal Diseases in children.
- Esophageal dysmotility in children with eosinophilic esophagitis: a study using prolonged Esophageal manometry.
- Multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of amitriptyline in children with functional gastroIntestinal disorders.
- Congenital myasthenic Syndrome with episodic apnea.
- Long-term clinical outcome after botulinum toxin injection in children with nonrelaxing internal anal sphincter.
- Preservation of Intestinal motility after the serial transverse enteroplasty procedure in a large animal model of short bowel syndrome.
- Functional abdominal pain: time to get together and move forward.
- Allogeneic transplantation successfully corrects immune defects, but not susceptibility to colitis, in a patient with nuclear factor-kappaB essential modulator deficie...
- Approach to the child who has persistent dysphagia after surgical treatment for Esophageal achalasia.
- PEG3350 in the treatment of childhood constipation: a multicenter, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.
- Opioid side effects--mechanism-based therapy.
- Role of acid and nonacid reflux in children with eosinophilic esophagitis compared with patients with gastroEsophageal reflux and control patients.
- Lipid-laden macrophage index is not an indicator of gastroEsophageal reflux-related respiratory disease in children.
- Esophageal dysmotility in patients who have eosinophilic esophagitis.
- The sensitivity of multichannel intraluminal impedance and the pH probe in the evaluation of gastroEsophageal reflux in children.
- What's the value of diagnostic tools in defecation disorders?
- Use of multi-channel intraluminal impedance (MII) in the evaluation of children with respiratory symptoms: a new phenomenon?
- The Paris Consensus on Childhood Constipation Terminology (PACCT) Group.
- Esophageal motor activity in children with gastro-Esophageal reflux disease and esophagitis.
- The importance of multichannel intraluminal impedance in the evaluation of children with persistent respiratory symptoms.
- Incidence of spinal cord lesions in patients with intractable constipation.
- Increased prevalence of constipation and fecal soiling in a population of obese children.
- Association of Schatzki ring with eosinophilic esophagitis in children.
- The importance of gut motility in the metabolic control of propionic acidemia.
- Prolonged monitoring of Esophageal motor function in healthy children.
- Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as non-neutropenic colitis in an infant.
- Internal anal sphincter Achalasia in children: clinical characteristics and treatment with Clostridium botulinum toxin.
- Impeding gastroEsophageal refluxate: a new application of an old medication.
- Stimulation with fatty meal (Lipomul) to assess gallbladder emptying in children with chronic acalculous cholecystitis.
- Rectal manometry in patients with isolated sacral agenesis.
- Abnormalities in gastrointestinal motility are associated with Diseases of oxidative phosphorylation in children.
- Trends in referral to a single encopresis clinic over 20 years.
- Isolated neonatal swallowing dysfunction: a case series and review of the literature.
- Serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP): a novel Bowel lengthening procedure.
- High-resolution EUS in children with eosinophilic "allergic" esophagitis.
- Eosinophilic esophagitis: it's not just kid's stuff.
- The infant with chronic vomiting: the value of the upper GI series.
- GastroIntestinal complications after pediatric cardiac transplantation.
- Deficient natural killer cell cytotoxicity in patients with IKK-gamma/NEMO mutations.
- Eosinophilic esophagitis in children: immunopathological analysis and response to fluticasone propionate.
- Early constipation and toilet training in children with encopresis.
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Manometry
Conditions Treated
- Esophageal Achalasia and Cardiospasm
- GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Hemorrhoids
- Intestinal Atresia
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
Education
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Boston University Medical Center -
Massachusetts General Hospital -
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Hospital
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Boston Children's Hospital -
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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