Physician
Gastroenterology
Dr. George F. Longstreth, MD
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George Longstreth practices Gastroenterology. He researched medicine at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Keck School of Medicine of USC is ranked 31 in research and 72 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Fellow (AGAF)". George Longstreth is also a published doctor. He has 100 paper published. The most recent paper is: Physician specialty and treatment cost in upper GI bleeding.
Publications
- Acute colonic diverticulitis: diagnostic evidence, demographic and clinical features in three practice settings.
- Development and validation of algorithms to identify acute diverticulitis.
- Screening colonoscopy versus sigmoidoscopy: implications of a negative examination for cancer prevention and racial disparities in average-risk patients.
- Calcinosis, Varioliform Gastritis and Bleeding.
- Association between maternal inflammatory bowel Disease and adverse perinatal outcomes.
- Acute diverticulitis: demographic, clinical and laboratory features associated with computed tomography findings in 741 patients.
- Factors That Predict Relief From Upper Abdominal Pain After Cholecystectomy.
- Ischemic Colitis: important differences between kaiser and montefiore reports.
- Do the symptom-based, Rome criteria of irritable bowel Syndrome lead to better diagnosis and treatment outcomes?
- Effect of physician education and patient counseling on inpatient nonsurgical percutaneous feeding tube placement rate, indications, and outcome.
- Diseases and drugs that increase risk of acute large bowel ischemia.
- Passage of a large bowel cast after acute large-bowel ischemia.
- Epidemiology, clinical features, high-risk factors, and outcome of acute large bowel ischemia.
- Chips and rips: "chew your food well".
- Functional bowel disorders.
- Functional dyspepsia--managing the conundrum.
- Definition and classification of irritable bowel Syndrome: current consensus and controversies.
- Severe irritable bowel and functional abdominal pain Syndromes: managing the patient and health care costs.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome and surgery: a multivariable analysis.
- Chronic abdominal wall pain: clinical features, health care costs, and long-term outcome.
- Quality of life in managed care patients with irritable bowel Syndrome.
- A questionnaire for the assessment of biliary symptoms.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome, health care use, and costs: a U.S. managed care perspective.
- New developments in the diagnosis and treatment of irritable bowel Syndrome.
- Colonoscopy and lower GI bleeding.
- Ischemic Colitis and bleeding.
- Family practitioners'' attitudes and knowledge about irritable bowel Syndrome: effect of a trial of physician education.
- Avoiding unnecessary surgery in irritable bowel Syndrome.
- Results of computed tomography in family practitioners'' patients with non-acute abdominal pain.
- Diabetic thoracic polyradiculopathy.
- Impact of irritable bowel syndrome on patients'' lives: development and psychometric documentation of a Disease-specific measure for use in clinical trials.
- An irritable bowel Syndrome-specific symptom questionnaire: development and validation.
- Measurement of gastric functions during digestion of ordinary solid meals in man.
- Cimetidine suppression of nocturnal gastric secretion in active duodenal ulcer.
- Postprandial gastric, pancreatic, and biliary response to histamine H2-receptor antagonists active duodenal ulcer.
- Hemorrhage from superficial gastric carcinoma.
- Gastric secretion and emptying after ordinary meals in duodenal ulcer.
- Double congenital midesophageal webs in adults.
- Abdominal pain caused by diabetic radiculopathy.
- Metoclopramide stimulation of gastric motility and emptying in diabetic gastroparesis.
- Bronchiectasis and homozygous alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency.
- Drug-induced Malabsorption.
- The gastric response to a transpyloric duodenal tube.
- Digital examination fecal occult blood test.
- Long-term costs after gastroenterology consultation with endoscopy versus radiography in dyspepsia.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome in women having diagnostic laparoscopy or hysterectomy. Relation to gynecologic features and outcome.
- Esophageal tear caused by a tortilla chip.
- Cyclophosphamide therapy of idiopathic hepatic granulomatosis.
- Checking for "the occult" with a finger. A procedure of little value.
- Acute nonvariceal upper Gastrointestinal bleeding. Care in three different San Diego practice settings.
- Detecting colorectal neoplasms. Assessment based on hypothetical cases.
- Hemoccult screening.
- Night blindness after jejunoileal bypass surgery.
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy--technical suggestions.
- Trazodone-induced hepatotoxicity and leukonychia.
- Painful defecation as a complication of migrated wire suture fragments: report of a case.
- Clinical and immunologic features of transient cold agglutinin-hemolytic anemia.
- Para-aminosalicylic acid-induced Malabsorption.
- Extrahepatic portal hypertension caused by chronic pancreatitis.
- Determinants of the intravenous diazepam dose required for gastroscopy.
- Folate levels in inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Folate status in patients receiving maintenance doses of sulfasalazine.
- Healing of benign gastric ulcer with low-dose antacid or cimetidine. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
- Dysfunctions of the stomach with gastric ulceration.
- Psyllium therapy in the irritable bowel Syndrome. A double-blind trial.
- Evolution of symptomatic diffuse esophageal spasm to achalasia.
- Familial lower esophageal rings.
- Tyropanoate cholecystography early in the course of acute pancreatitis.
- Nurse-supervised education of patients with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome: a multibillion-dollar problem.
- Colosplenic fistula and splenic abscess complicating Crohn's Colitis.
- Hospital care of acute nonvariceal upper Gastrointestinal bleeding: 1991 versus 1981.
- Outpatient care of selected patients with acute non-variceal upper Gastrointestinal haemorrhage.
- Epidemiology of hospitalization for acute upper Gastrointestinal hemorrhage: a population-based study.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome and chronic pelvic pain.
- Megaesophagus and hereditary nervous system degeneration.
- Evaluation of the Gastrointestinal tract in patients with iron-deficiency anemia.
- Successful treatment of refractory sprue with cyclosporine.
- Irritable bowel-type symptoms in HMO examinees. Prevalence, demographics, and clinical correlates.
- Bowel patterns and anxiety. Demographic factors.
- Hysterectomy and the irritable bowel.
- Epidemiology and outcome of patients hospitalized with acute lower Gastrointestinal hemorrhage: a population-based study.
- Diabetic thoracic polyradiculopathy: ten patients with abdominal pain.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome. Diagnosis in the managed care era.
- Multiple esophageal webs: treatment and follow-up of seven patients.
- Successful outpatient management of acute upper Gastrointestinal hemorrhage: use of practice guidelines in a large patient series.
- Passage of a large bowel cast caused by acute ischemia: report of two cases.
- Teaching irritable bowel Syndrome patients to care for themselves.
- Group psychotherapy for women molested in childhood: psychological and somatic symptoms and medical visits.
- Physician specialty and treatment cost in upper GI bleeding.
- Functional bowel disorders and functional abdominal pain.
- Congenital esophageal stenosis.
- Esophageal food impaction: epidemiology and therapy. A retrospective, observational study.
- Characteristics of patients with irritable bowel Syndrome recruited from three sources: implications for clinical trials.
- Sterile cerebrospinal fluid ascites and chronic peritonitis.
- Evidence- and consensus-based practice guidelines for the diagnosis of irritable bowel Syndrome.
- Northern Baja California Indian women''s concepts of illness and healing: Implications for public health and clinical practitioners.
- Superior vena caval obstruction in histoplasmosis.
- Clinically Diagnosed Acute Diverticulitis in Outpatients: Misdiagnosis in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Schools
Keck School Of Medicine Of The Univ Of Southern California
University Calif Hospital
Mayo Grad School
Conditions Treated
- Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis)
- Dysphagia
- Gas-Bloat Syndrome
- Gastrointestinal Malabsorption
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Doctors Specialties
- Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicare MCR
Awards
- Fellow (AGAF)
Education
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Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education -
University of California San Diego -
Keck School of Medicine of USC
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