Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dr. Alan M. Leichtner, MD
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Alan Leichtner practices Pediatric Gastroenterology. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical university. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "Fellow (FAAP)", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Alan Leichtner is a published doctor as well. He has 64 publications published. The latest was: Human intestinal M cells display the sialyl Lewis A antigen.
Publications
- Early-onset Crohn's Disease and autoimmunity associated with a variant in CTLA-4.
- Graduate Medical Education in Humanism and Professionalism: A Needs Assessment Survey of Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellows.
- Multicenter Study on Season of Birth and Celiac Disease: Evidence for a New Theoretical Model of Pathogenesis.
- Navigating the Gluten Free Diet in College.
- Pediatric gastroenterology fellowship: is the match working?
- Variability of histopathological changes in childhood celiac Disease.
- Clinical significance of colonic intraepithelial lymphocytosis in a pediatric population.
- Fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology in the United States: where are we going? Does one size fit all?
- Clinical effects and safety of rituximab for treatment of refractory pediatric autoimmune Diseases.
- Celiac Disease presenting with chilblains in an adolescent girl.
- Depressive symptoms and inflammatory bowel Disease in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study.
- Pediatric patients with untreated Ulcerative colitis may present initially with unusual morphologic findings.
- Elevated serum hepatocyte growth factor in children and young adults with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Elevated serum vascular endothelial growth factor in children and young adults with Crohn's Disease.
- Cerebral vascular accident during the recovery phase of hemolytic uremic syndrome.
- Medical therapies for pediatric gastrointestinal Disease. Subcommittee on Therapeutics of the Patient Care Committee North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterol...
- Gastric and esophageal intraepithelial lymphocytes in pediatric celiac Disease.
- Clinical outcome of Ulcerative proctitis in children.
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease in infants and children.
- Serum basic fibroblast growth factor in pediatric Crohn's Disease. Implications for wound healing.
- Complications following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and subsequent catheter replacement in children and young adults.
- Tacrolimus (FK-506) treatment of fulminant Colitis in a child.
- Elevation of serum interleukin-6 but not serum-soluble interleukin-2 receptor in children with Crohn's Disease.
- Treatment of pediatric autoimmune enteropathy with tacrolimus (FK506).
- Long-term hepatic regeneration and function in infants and children following liver resection.
- Aminosalicylates for the treatment of inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Allergic proctoColitis in infants: a prospective clinicopathologic biopsy study.
- Long-term nutritional and metabolic consequences of pancreaticoduodenectomy in children.
- Allergic Colitis in infants.
- Endoscopic ligation of esophageal varices in children.
- Intraoperative enteroscopy in the diagnosis of partial intestinal obstruction in infancy.
- Horizontal nonparenteral spread of hepatitis B among children.
- Addition of a mannose-6-phosphate-containing oligosaccharide alters cellular processing of low density lipoprotein by parental and LDL-receptor-defective Chinese hamst...
- Regulation of low density lipoprotein receptor function in a human hepatoma cell line.
- Chronic diarrhea associated with hypogammaglobulinemia and enteropathy in infants and children.
- Apple juice. An unappreciated cause of chronic diarrhea.
- Pseudopheochromocytoma and cardiac arrest associated with phenylpropanolamine.
- Effect of metoclopramide on prolonged intraesophageal pH testing in infants with Gastroesophageal reflux.
- Type 1 procollagen as a biochemical marker of growth in children with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Hypertension associated with unilateral hydronephrosis as a complication of Crohn's Disease.
- Carbohydrate malabsorption following fruit juice ingestion in young children.
- Relationship of type I procollagen to corticosteroid therapy in children with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Clinical and laboratory correlates of esophagitis in young children.
- Discordance for biliary atresia in two sets of monozygotic twins.
- Cyclosporine treatment of autoimmune chronic active hepatitis.
- Recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal hemorrhage in infants and children.
- Longitudinal assessment of type I procollagen in children with inflammatory bowel Disease subjected to surgery.
- Pancreatitis following scoliosis surgery in children and young adults.
- The antegrade colonogram: extending the small bowel follow through for children suspected of having colonic Disease.
- First evidence of a possible association between gastric acid suppression during pregnancy and childhood asthma: a population-based register study.
- Quality-of-life assessment after ileoanal pull-through for Ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis.
- Human intestinal M cells display the sialyl Lewis A antigen.
- Aluminum in large and small volume parenterals used in total parenteral nutrition: response to the Food and Drug Administration notice of proposed rule by the North Am...
- Gastrointestinal manifestations of vascular anomalies in childhood: varied etiologies require multiple therapeutic modalities.
- Serum leptin in children and young adults with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Vitamins A and E serum levels in children and young adults with inflammatory bowel Disease: effect of Disease activity.
- Oral tacrolimus treatment of severe Colitis in children.
- Allergic esophagitis in children: a clinicopathological entity.
- Retrospective study of hepatic enzyme elevations in children treated with olanzapine, divalproex, and their combination.
- Complementary medicine use in children and young adults with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Desquamative enteropathy and pyloric atresia without skin Disease caused by a novel intracellular beta4 integrin mutation.
- Serologic testing with ANCA, ASCA, and anti-OmpC in children and young adults with Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis: diagnostic value and correlation with diseas...
- Restorative proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis in children.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Children39s Hospital Boston
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
Conditions Treated
- Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis)
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Ulcerative Colitis
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston Magazine
- Fellow (FAAP)
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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Boston Children's Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Boston Children's Hospital -
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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